Tattoo styles
Every style we understand, and the difference between them stated plainly. Each one says what it does on skin and what it is good for, so the word you pick in the generator means what you think it means.
TraditionalBold outlines, a flat palette, and motifs that have earned their place.Neo-traditionalTraditional's backbone with a deeper palette and real dimension.New schoolCartoon and comic work — exaggerated, saturated, in motion.JapaneseIrezumi — subject, background and body read as one composition.ChicanoFine black-and-grey, soft gradients, and a distinct iconography.BlackworkSolid black as the subject, not the outline.Fine LineThin, even lines. Nothing filled, nothing shaded.IllustrativeDrawn like a print: crisp outline, tone built from strokes.RealismPhotographic depth, no outline.MicrorealismRealism at a scale you can cover with a thumb.OrnamentalPattern, symmetry, and shapes that follow the body.DotworkTone built from stippling rather than solid fill.EngravingEtching and woodcut: tone made of hatched line.WatercolourWashes, bleeds and splatter, with little or no containing line.AbstractMarks and shapes that depict nothing at all.Trash polkaBlack and red, photographic fragments against graphic chaos.LetteringThe letterform is the tattoo.AnimeCel-shaded characters straight out of the frame.Cyber sigilismSharp, spined, biomechanical-adjacent glyphs.BiomechanicalMachinery under the skin, torn open to show it.