AI Tattoo Lab for tattoo artists

What the Studio plan includes

Studio is $29 a month. It covers 2000 designs, 3 artist seats, client consult mode, a commercial license for flash, and your shop branding on the share links you send clients. If you work alone and only need the generator and stencils, Pro at $9 a month gives you 500 designs, unlimited edits, private designs, 300 DPI stencil export as PDF and SVG, and an artist share link.

Consult mode on a shared screen

Consult mode is built for the moment a client is sitting next to you and cannot describe what they want. You type what they say, pick the style and placement, set the height in centimetres, and four options come back. They point at the one that is closest. You adjust the prompt and go again.

The value is not the art. It is that the client leaves the consult having agreed to a composition, a crop and a size, instead of agreeing to a vague idea and being surprised at the stencil stage. Fewer reschedules, fewer redraws that were never paid for, and a much shorter argument about scale.

Flash sheets and the commercial license

Studio includes a commercial license for flash, so you can build sheets from generated designs, redraw them in your own hand and tattoo them on paying clients. Most artists use the output as a layout pass: it fills a sheet with composition options quickly, then the actual line work gets drawn properly before anything touches skin.

Two practical rules. Do not prompt for a named living artist’s style and then sell the result as flash. And check anything that leans on a logo, a character or a brand mark, because a model will happily draw a trademark that you should not be putting on a client.

Cover up and rework mockups

For cover ups, the generator is useful for shape hunting. You can test which subjects have enough mass and dark area to sit over the old piece, and how a design has to grow to swallow it. It is a conversation aid, not an assessment.

Whether a cover up will actually work is your call, and it depends on saturation, ink colour, scar tissue, laser history and how the old piece sits on the muscle. The tool cannot see any of that. Use it to show the client three directions, then tell them what is honestly possible.

Stencil prep and true to size export

Every design carries the height you set in centimetres through to export. Pro and Studio export stencils at 300 DPI as PDF and SVG, so a 14 cm design prints at 14 cm and the vector file can be cleaned up, thickened or split before it goes to the thermal printer.

Expect to do line work on it. Generated lines are often too fine to hold, spacing can be tighter than skin will forgive, and small text is usually a rebuild. Treat the export as a well proportioned layout with accurate sizing, not as a finished stencil.

A consult, start to finish

A short version of how artists tend to run it, so you can judge whether it fits your booking flow.

• Client describes the idea. You type it as a prompt and pick style, placement and height.
• Four designs come back. The client narrows to one direction, usually in two or three rounds.
• You export the stencil at true size and mark up what has to change for the body.
• You redraw the piece in your own line weight and send the artist share link with your shop branding.
• The client approves a composition and a size before the appointment, not on the day.

The fair objection: does this threaten artists

It is a reasonable thing to be angry about. Image models were trained on enormous amounts of art, artists were not asked, and plenty of tools in this category are sold with the implication that you are now optional. We are not going to pretend that history is fine or that the worry is irrational.

What we can say is what this tool actually does. It produces references and stencils. It cannot judge how a line will spread in three years, cannot read skin tone and scar tissue in a room, cannot stretch a composition around a deltoid, and cannot hold a machine. The drawing that matters, the body adaptation and the tattoo itself stay with you. We would rather build the thing that makes a consult faster than the thing that pretends to do your job.

What the tool does not do

Being specific about the limits is more useful than reassurance.

• It does not assess cover up feasibility, skin condition or healing.
• It does not produce line weights that are ready to tattoo without a redraw.
• It does not know your client’s existing work, scars or how their skin takes ink.
• It does not clear copyright or trademark for you. That check is still yours.
• It does not tattoo, and nothing in it is a substitute for a licensed artist.

Seats, billing and getting set up

Studio gives you 3 artist seats on one subscription, so each artist keeps their own designs and share links while the shop branding stays consistent. Plans are billed monthly and you can move between Free, Pro and Studio.

If you want to try it in a real consult before paying, start on the free plan and run one client through it. For seat questions, shop branding, licensing detail or anything about how the output can be used commercially, email hello@aitattoolab.com and ask directly.