Design the tattoo
you have in mind.
Describe your idea. Explore different designs, see your favourite on your body and refine it before your artist appointment.
Start with 3 image credits for $12, or choose Complete: 8 for $29. One-time payment. Use credits for designs, previews or refinements.
Explore design examples ↓
From “I have an idea”
to “this is the direction”.
Create several tattoo directions, try your favourite on your body, refine the details and prepare a visual brief for your artist.
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- Explore the designGenerate concepts from your idea and preferred style.
- Picture the placementUse your design and body photo to explore how it could sit.
- Refine and take it to your artistAdjust your favourite, download the artwork and print your brief.
8 image credits shared across concepts, AI previews and refinements, plus 15 AI checks. Each generated image or edit uses one credit. For example: 3 concepts + 2 previews + 3 refinements. AI images require a paid pack.
Explore possible
design directions.
Browse illustrative styles, compositions and ink treatments. Use them to describe what you like, then generate your own concept in the studio. Your results will vary with your idea and refinements.
Living, in brushstrokes.
A bare dictionary-form verb. Worth checking whether the phrase reads as a statement or as a heading, and whether every stroke count is right before the stencil.
One flowing line.
A continuous line with no obvious word break. Ask a fluent reader to identify the exact lettering and reading direction before you commit to it.
Growth and resilience.
Detail this fine needs room. Below roughly 8 cm the petal separation closes up and the small stars disappear entirely.
Beauty and renewal.
Black & grey lives or dies on the shading. Ask to see a healed piece from the same artist, not a fresh one — the contrast drops as it settles.
Change and possibility.
Colour settles differently on different skin tones. Ask your artist how this palette will read on yours in five years, not on the day.
A place you keep.
Coordinates are unforgiving — one wrong digit is permanent, and the numbers are easy to misread at stencil size. Read them back character by character.
Words in your own hand.
Cursive thins exactly where the letters join, which is where a stencil loses the most. Approve the lettering at real size, not on a screen.
Illustrative finished concepts, not customer work. The Japanese and Arabic pieces are script studies, not verified translations — the wording in any real project still needs a fluent speaker and your artist to confirm the final stencil.
Design my tattooA clearer design to discuss with your artist.
You create and download AI concept artwork, explore placement and prepare a printable brief. Results vary, and each image or edit uses one credit. These are design references: your tattoo artist adapts the artwork and confirms the final size and stencil.
Body photos stay in your browser unless you choose to save them or consent to AI processing. Wording checks are AI guidance; human language review requires confirmed language support.
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