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With BJ’s guides and some practice, you’ll learn the fundamentals of lettering designs, like spacing, consistent weight and shading, and how to develop a sense of what works and what doesn’t.Special offer: Save 20% when you bundle all 3 Lettering Guides!

• Lettering Guide 1: Lettering 101, with info on basic layout and shading techniques to create a coherent composition. Also includes upper and lower case traditional tattoo, script, and Old English alphabets and sample designs.
• Lettering Guide 2: Learn about BJ’s approach to lettering design, how to draft layouts, how to add variation to each design while maintaining consistency. Includes old school tattoo fonts with multiple variations for each letter, classic calligraphy styles and flourishes with sample illustrations.
• Lettering Guide 3: Lettering rules in action, with more developed design drafts, as well as loose sketches, ideas for how to add depth to designs with shading and drop shadow, and a variety of hand-drawn letter variations.

Make sure you check out BJ Betts' Lettering Guides 4 and 5 on Tattoo Smart!

Mark My Words Vol 2 is an 86 page guide to drawing lettering tattoos. Building on the foundations provided in Volume 1, Tucker provides detailed tutorials on sketching and early drafts, how to develop your personal lettering style, and how to apply the fundamentals of composition to create the most well-designed layouts for every lettering tattoo scenario. The eBook also features 20 alphabets, 6 number sets, and dozens of sample designs to inspire you.

Just like inMark My Words Vol 1, Tucker has also included 5 new .ttf fonts FREE with this eBook, perfect for use in Adobe Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint. Simply install the fonts on your computer or iPad and they work just like any other fonts you already use. 

As an additional bonus, you'll also receive a short streaming video showing Josh Tucker's design process using Procreate on the iPad Pro. 

Special Offer:Bundle and save 20% on Josh Tucker's Procreate Brush Set.

Offer Details: Mark My Words Vol 2 is the perfect companion to Tucker’s Hand Styles and Lettering Procreate brush set. In the eBook, he details how to develop a hand lettered look to your tattoo designs on digital design apps. Using Tucker's brushes, you can apply the concepts in Mark My Words Vol 2 to quickly and easily try variations on layouts and letter styles. Simply choose the option for eBook plus Brush Set before you click "Add to Cart". 

Roses in the Void by Will Gee features more than 120 beautifully photographed rose and leaf images. Unlike most reference photos of roses, Will photographed these flowers specifically with tattoo design in mind. The eBook includes rose photos from varying angles with different light source directions, so you can find the perfect rose for your composition.

Will also included a design tutorial in this eBook to show you how to modify the rose photos to suit nearly any tattoo design scenario. Step-by-step, Will shows you how to adjust the hue, value, light source, and other color settings in Procreate or Photoshop to customize each photo.

This flash stamp set reflects months of America’s work, researching, drawing, and endlessly re-drawing these simple tattoo designs until they made a clean, cohesive set. Before they were Instagram-famous and Pinterest-popular, small designs were often a client’s introduction to tattoos. We have seen them become marginalized, an inside joke of sorts, and we occasionally lose sight of the appeal of a small tattoo. With this set, you can cater to your walk-in clientele with their requests immediately on hand. Better than the designs they’re coming in with on their cell phones, this set includes stencil-ready images that can be customized for each client.

Update: Dave recently completed the highly anticipated Battle Damage Volume 2 brush set. The second volume includes the new texture shaders, spray can splatter and brushes, and fur textures Dave created to complement his workflow and allow for an incredibly wide range of fully rendered digital designs. The two sets together, Battle Damage Volumes 1 and 2, represent the full set of natural media brushes Dave believes to be the foundation of any digital artist's toolkit.Dave Tevenal is widely-known as an incredibly prolific artist, possessing an unending work ethic and a tenacity to seek out the highest quality tools for his craft. In addition to tattooing, Dave has mastered a wide range of physical media, from paint to marker to digital design. It is from that mastery and experience that he crafted this set of Procreate brushes for Tattoo Smart, and we are proud to have collaborated with him to bring you these tools.

In his early forays into digital media, Dave tested stock and custom brushes for Procreate and found them fundamentally lacking. Not surprisingly given his obsessive pursuit of quality, he chose to develop his own Battle Damage brush sets.

Battle Damage 1 and 2 by Dave Tevenal are designed to make your digital designs look fully hand-rendered. Dave meticulously created these natural media brushes from the ground up, starting with high-quality scans and photos of fine art paper and physical brush, marker, pen strokes, and spray can splatter. He designed custom grain source and nib images, experimenting and perfecting each brush. The result is an incredibly flexible set of tools for Procreate that mimic the small paper bleeds and grain texture of physical media, and produce designs suitable for a wide variety of applications, from art prints to tattoo designs.

Covering a wide range of lettering styles, these brushes will immediately improve your free-hand lettering technique. Josh Tucker has included his favorite tapered liner brushes for quick drafting, as well as an oval liner that mimics a sign painted look. The calligraphy brushes in this set include texture and angle variations that are not pressure sensitive for a smooth consistent shape to your letters. Use the two- and three-line brushes, as well as the angle grid brush, to keep your letter shapes and sizes precise. The marker brushes in the set recreate your favorite chisel and permanent markers in digital format. Reflecting his preference for darker styles, Tucker designed gothic, jitter, whip shade, and black metal brushes with maximum texture and sharp tapering, allowing you to build up the design as the brush does the tedious work for you.Tucker also created 9 variations on filigree stamp brushes to include in your lettering designs. These stencil-ready stamps can be used as-is, stretching or skewing them to fit your design, or as a template for your own filigree ornament drawing.Quickly draft freehand designs for your client, build texture and experiment with lettering styles, and create clean, consistent digital lettering designs with the Hand Styles and Lettering brush set by Josh Tucker.

Encyclopedia Geometrica Vol 1 contains 111 full page geometric patterns in a range of styles and varying from light to dark. These unique designs are all brand new, yet timeless, ideal for modern day tattooing. Each and every pattern has been tiled for you, meaning right and left borders match up to each other as do the top and bottom ones. Lining these designs up to extend them is quick and easy whether you're working digitally, printed out on paper, and even when stenciling on the body.

Complete your geometric design toolkit with:

Geometric by Cory FergusonEncyclopedia Geometrica Volume 2
Encyclopedia Geometrica Volume 3

Kimono Patterns features 90 pages of modern designs based on classic Japanese kimono textile patterns. Cassady Bell, well known for his geometric tattoo designs, developed these patterns using traditional bishamon kikko, sayagata, and floral motifs to use in a wide range of tattoo design applications. All designs have several variations that are ready to tattoo as-is or can be incorporated into multi-layer designs.

For more similar imagery, don't miss our ebook series Geometric Patterns by Cassady Bell.

Mark My Words Vol 1 is a 62 page guide to drawing popular hand-lettering styles for tattooing. The eBook contains a section of complete alphabets, tutorials on layout and flow, and a section of completed phrases to give you and your clients inspiration. 

Using this book alone, you will seriously improve your hand lettering game. Imagine being confident enough to draw up a customer's request in mere minutes without having to resort to standard computer fonts. 

Speaking of fonts, Josh Tucker went ahead and made a few of those too. 5 Fonts in .ttf  format are included FREE with this eBook. We tested them in Adobe Photoshop and they work awesome!

Paper Trail V1 was released by tattooer Jeff Miller in early 2017. This eBook contains 76 pages of sketches and line drawings of original neo-traditional style tattoo designs. The artist asks that you DO NOT duplicate these designs as tattoos but feel free to use them as inspiration for your own original designs.

A great addition to your traditional tattoo design library!

Now available: tatTOONS Vol. 1 by Frank La Natra stamp set + eBook! Implement Frank's lessons right away with his character design stamp set for Procreate and Clip Studio Paint. 

Frank La Natra is one of those rare talents that could've easily been scooped up by Disney or Pixar to help make the next Toy Story. Instead, he chose to focus his energy on the craft of tattooing, and we're lucky he did. Every single one of Frank's animation-influenced character designs are a study in conveying emotion, depth, and story. In an effort to share his knowledge with his peers in the tattoo community, Frank La Natra is now offering a LIVE seminar at various conventions across the USA and beyond. During this 4 hour class he details the fundamental building blocks for designing great characters.

This eBook is the visual companion to Frank's Fundamentals of Character Design workshop.  It contains most of the images and graphics that support the discussion during the LIVE class.

If you were fortunate enough to be present for one of Frank's LIVE workshops, you would be able to hear all of the great detail that a verbal discussion with Frank provides. Some day, we hope to bring you a video recording of one of those LIVE workshops so you can get the full picture that Frank is trying to convey. 

However, when we saw the fantastic illustrations that Frank had created for his Character Design seminar, we knew we had to compile them into an eBook and make it available on its own through Tattoo Smart.

Overview of eBook Content

• Using basic shapes in 3 dimensional space
• Sketching and gesture drawing
• Characterizing animals from reference
• Head studies including facial features, expressions and defining characteristics
• Lines of action and motion
• Strong Silhouettes
• Giving life to your creations

This brush set was created with the intention of having everything you need to render a henna or lace style design from start to finish. It’s great for drafting up quick ideas and concepts for your clients in minutes. With a little practice, you could easily create a stencil-ready line drawing with these brushes alone. This set includes a single and a double liner, template stamps of some common henna shapes that will get your design started including a paisley, some leaf shaped center pieces, and some mandala-esque flower stamps. From there, you get into the repetitive, linear pattern work that the eye instantly recognizes as the henna aesthetic. There is a multitude of these that make up the bulk of the set, largely inspired by nature, these patterns mimic various leaves, petals, ferns, peacock feathers etc. Ornamental, jewelry and chandelier inspired imagery are also included. There is even a brush that rapidly creates the “hanging beads” you often see at the bottom of underboob tattoos. Finally, there are several filler pattern brushes for blocking in larger areas, perfect for the “fishnet” areas in lace designs as well as henna.All of the brushes in this set make great use of Procreate's snap to line feature (holding your Apple Pencil to the screen for a couple of seconds after the line is done snaps it perfectly straight).  That feature combines with these brushes to accurately recreate the “stacked rows of patterns” look that henna designs often contain, and the brushes all work well on curves too.

"I designed these body part layouts after taking a sculpting course and studying the planes of the body and écorché* model. After years of laying out tattoos for 3-dimensional human bodies on 2-dimensional surfaces, it occurred to me, that the true surface of the varying shapes of the body were not being taken in to account. The future of tattooing will be designing tattoos on 3D turnarounds. These sheets in this book were designed as the beginning process of that evolution.

To aid in the tattoo design process, I’ve included multiple views of the human body, unwrapped and flattened out as it would be in a tattoo illustration. Prominent skeletal and muscular landmarks are indicated to assist the tattooist in considering the flow and fit of their designs. I recommend you start by producing a few quick thumbnail sketches on the smaller body plane diagrams and then proceed to a more detailed rendering once a plan has been established." -Gunnar Gaylord

The perfect reference for light rays!

Our Radial Lines eBook contains 40 pages of explosive line designs.

We created these designs to serve as an eye-catching backdrop for subjects like lanterns, torches, and religious figures. Use them as line work or as a road map for subtle shading and light rays.

For more similar imagery, don't miss Radial Arcs.

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We made this digital flash set for the street shop artists. If your days are filled with one Pinterest tattoo after another, you're going to absolutely love this set!

Myke Chambers is a world-renowned tattooer from Philadelphia, PA. For the past decade, Myke has released regular volumes of his tattoo designs to allow fans and tattooers alike to get a look into his process.

Eternally Bound Volume 4 features 92 pages of Myke's take on classic images such as the skull, eagle, ship, rose, wolf, bear, dagger, and much more! The artist asks that you do not copy the images verbatim, but rather use them as inspiration for your own artwork and tattoos.

Designing lettering tattoos has never been more fun!

This Procreate brush set features 29 brushes with an assortment of nib shapes and pressure settings that are finely-tuned to lettering design. You will find it very enjoyable and frankly, quite simple to draw many different styles of lettering with this brush set. 

Volume 1

• Asanoha
• Flower of Life
• Isometric 
• Honeycomb (hexagon)
• Sayagata

Volume 2

• Bishamon Kikko V2
• Connected Honeycomb
• Hexagon Star V2
• Honeycomb Isometric
• Sayagata V2

Volume 3

• Bishamon Kikko 
• Connected Grid
• Hexagon Star 
• Rhombi
• Square Grid

Radial Arcs are essentially circles and ovals stacked on top of one another to create interesting patterns. As the number of overlapping shapes increases, we see complex mandala-esque designs emerge.

This ebook features 52 pages of line work based designs that can be utilized in a wide range of tattoo styles. Try them out with full color gradients for an ethereal background or stipple them in for a geometric blackwork piece. The possibilities are endless. 

In addition to the PDF eBook format, all images are supplied in .png format for easy import into graphics software.

For more similar imagery, don't miss Radial Lines.

Want to learn more about color theory for tattooers and read all the juicy details of the original Abbott Color Wheel? Check out OUR BLOG POST!

You can also watch That Tattoo Show's tutorial using Russ's Colory Theory eBook HERE. Thanks, guys!

Russ Abbott has spent much of the past decade helping tattooers with their understanding of color theory. Through his seminar "The Tattooist's Palette", the Abbott Color Wheel, and most recently, the formulation of Digital Palettes for a wide range of ink brands, Abbott has helped thousands of tattooers reach new heights in their work. In that spirit, Russ has decided to release a FREE Color Theory eBook to supplement his already diverse educational offerings.

This digital download includes a PDF poster of the Abbott Color Wheel, along with a smaller .jpg image that can be useful as a digital version to select Eternal Ink colors for use in Adobe Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint. You are free to view these files on any device, or print them out at home or in your local fine-art print shop. The PDF is sized to 16" X 20" which is the recommended size for printing and framing.