It draws tattoo designs from a description: a fine-line sprig, a blackwork moth, a flash sheet of traditional pieces. You name the style, the line weight and the shading, and get the design on paper to take to an artist. On Nano Banana 2.1 a design costs 10 credits. You can start for free.
What makes the look
Ink spreads and skin moves, so a design that works has clear lines, few shading methods and room to breathe.
Fine-line work uses one thin needle. Traditional uses a bold, even outline. Neo-traditional mixes thick and thin lines.
Stippling and dotwork, whip shading in black and grey, or solid black fills. Name one or two so the design stays readable.
Black only for fine-line and blackwork. Red, yellow, green and black for traditional flash. Deep jewel tones for neo-traditional.
Ask for the design on paper with empty space around it. A stencil version beside it shows the outline the artist will transfer.
Attach a photo of yourself and ask for tattoo flash.
Each card shows the prompt, the model and what the design costs. Copy a prompt and swap in your own subject.
A fine-line tattoo design drawn on cream paper: a slender sprig of lavender crossed with two chamomile flowers and a small sprig of olive leaves, single-needle black lines, delicate stippled shading on the petals, generous empty space around it. Flat scan of the paper, even daylight, no skin, no lettering.
A traditional tattoo flash sheet on aged off-white paper: nine separate designs in a loose grid, a swallow in flight, a dagger through a rose, an anchor wrapped in rope, a panther head, a ship in a bottle, a heart with wings, a skull with a flower, a horseshoe and a lighthouse. Bold even black outlines, flat red, yellow, green and black fills, solid black shadows. Flat overhead scan, no lettering, no banners with words.
A blackwork tattoo design on bright white paper: a symmetrical moth with wings built from geometric shapes, solid black fills, a mandala pattern inside each wing, dotwork gradients on the body and a thin circle behind it with small dots on its edge. Pure black ink only, crisp edges, centered, flat scan of the paper, no skin, no lettering.
A botanical tattoo design on cream sketchbook paper: a long vertical spray of eucalyptus, fern fronds and a single open peony, drawn for a forearm placement. Fine black linework with soft black-and-grey whip shading, a few leaves left as pure outline. A plain unpainted wooden pencil with no printing on it and a kneaded eraser lie at the edge of the page. Soft daylight from the left, no skin, no lettering anywhere.
A sheet of tiny fine-line tattoo designs on white paper, twelve small motifs spaced evenly in rows: a paper plane, a coffee cup with steam, a sleeping cat, a crescent moon, a mountain range, a bonsai tree, a cursor arrow, a pair of headphones, a cactus, a wave, a lightbulb and a bicycle. Thin single-needle black lines, no shading, each about the size of a thumbnail. Flat overhead scan, no lettering.
A neo-traditional tattoo design painted on heavy watercolor paper: a fox head framed by two peonies and a crescent moon, thick and thin black outlines, rich jewel-tone color in deep teal, burnt orange, plum and gold, smooth color blends inside the outlines and bright white highlights. Next to it on the same sheet, the same design as a purple stencil line drawing. Flat overhead shot, no skin, no lettering.
Say fine-line, blackwork, botanical, traditional or neo-traditional, then the subject. A single flower or animal reads better than a crowded scene.
Give the line weight, one or two shading methods and the colors. Ask for no lettering, since the model can misspell words.
Ask for the design on plain paper, or a full flash sheet of small pieces. Your artist redraws it as a stencil sized to your body.
Use it as the brief, not the stencil. A tattoo artist redraws the design to fit your body, sets the size and adjusts lines that would blur as ink spreads over the years.
The model adds detail unless you limit it. Name one line weight, one or two shading methods and a single subject, and ask for empty space around it.
These examples stay on paper. To try a placement, attach a photo of the spot as a reference and describe where the design sits. Show the result to your artist as a rough guide only.
You can, but check every letter. Models misspell words, and a tattoo is hard to fix. Many artists prefer to letter a name by hand.
10 credits on Nano Banana 2.1 at 1K. 2K costs 15 credits and 4K costs 23 credits. A flash sheet of nine designs is one image. You can start for free.
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