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Deep in the Tattoo Smart archives, we encounter the birds of The Lost Aviary. A companion to the first Aviary set, these familiar fowl could not be caged, and this flash set presents the birds from different perspectives and new angles. Each  stamp was drawn to represent the most interesting angles of the bird, whether flying or perched, trying to capture a wide-range of species that are typically interesting for clients.

Each stamp design includes highly detailed feather lines that can be customized depending on the style of your tattoo design. Unlike direct reference images, these designs have been thoughtfully edited and composed to include the visual information specific to a tattoo.

Use the stamps as-is for realism or illustrative designs that require a high level of detail in your stencil. You can easily redraw the linework for neo-traditional tattoos. These standard designs could be used as flash, as elements in a larger composition with other Tattoo Smart elements for rapid prototyping, or as stand-ins for birds you that would require your further research and refinement. As part of your digital toolkit, The Aviary images represent a useful collection that you will want to have accessible quickly based on your clients’ interests.

When Tattoo Smart launched the original Liners & Mags brush set in 2016, we created a bridge between the physical craft of tattooing and the digital art tools that tattooers were learning to love.

The Needle Set by Russ Abbott is the next evolution of that bridge, introducing new options within the set based on the feedback from thousands of tattooers in our community, and refining the functionality to utilize advancements in Procreate.

In short, we're revolutionizing the foundational digital tattoo design toolkit. Again.

When you open The Needle Set on your iPad, it might seem overly simple at first. We designed it that way on purpose - so it feels as intuitive and natural to use as your favorite machine. Your familiar tattoo process - lining, shading, then coloring - is how you'll use this set, and Russ has precisely created each brush to mimic the liner, shader, or magnum needles you use everyday. Even the color settings of each brush are finely tuned to perform how actual tattoo pigment works, with darker colors covering light but not vice versa.

Each digital liner brush has a smooth taper in and out, simulating the solid consistency of your best linework. The mag brushes respond to pressure and movement precisely, allowing you to render your designs exactly as you'll want to tattoo them. Use them to quickly pack color in your design, or create a long taper to whip or feather an edge. The round shaders are perfect for creating a soft finish or for touching up areas of shading using a mag brush, just like in real life. New to this set,  the stipple brushes are the closest digital brushes you'll find for recreating stippling in tattooing, or as a cool texture for any digital art.

Who is The Needle Set designed for? Well, everyone. But more specifically, tattooers who are continually learning and honing their craft and their design skills will find this set to have everything they need to push themselves and their process to each next level. Tattooers who are new to iPads and Procreate will be able to quickly apply their tattoo process to a digital medium. Apprentices and new tattooers will be able to practice the physical strokes and design process they'll need as they learn to tattoo.

Tattoo Smart's goal is to constantly expand the capabilities of what tattooers can do with technology, and we are proud to present the most advanced, intuitive, multi-functional digital needle toolkit for the tattoo community.

The Oracles by Rockin' Rabbit is a collection of 50 powerful female archetypes. These flash stamps for Procreate are sure to inspire your inner design wisdom with women from across the globe and throughout history. Rockin' Rabbit uses her unique style to breathe new life into these ancient and modern women, from Aphrodite and Persephone to Kali and Green Tara. The Oracles are beautiful as blackwork or with color - the choice is yours.

The Realism Cheat Code is the ultimate tool for anyone using a reference for shading and color rendering. Your designs will never look "off" again. Make the right decisions, the first time.

The Realism Cheat Code is a .procreate file that allows you to visualize and distinguish between different value layers within a reference image. Isolate precise areas of each shade. Understand the complexity and value range while you design.

Here's what others have to say about The Realism Cheat Code:

I'm currently working on a tiger tattoo design, and the Realism Cheat Code has been a game-changer. I was able to see areas where I needed to make tweaks to the value levels of my reference image. It's been incredibly helpful in identifying areas where the face of the tiger isn't dark enough, for example. - Robert, LAUNCHPAD member

I think the most useful part is setting the effect of the contrast. I feel like I see a lot of black and gray tattoos that are really good, but are lacking contrast. There's not enough black and there's not enough skin. So I feel like this is a really easy way to just see it in, black and white. - Brooke, LAUNCHPAD member

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Tattoo Smart is thrilled to bring you The Snake Kit by Andrew Borisyuk, a toolkit in our Procreate collection. Unlike flash sets, this complex brush set allows you to apply your foundational knowledge of snake form and movement, saving you time and allowing you to expand the complexity of your designs.

Featuring scale repeater brushes for top-down snakes, belly composition brushes for more coiled layouts, snake heads, and more, this kit will allow you to take the deceptively simple 3D shape of a snake and translate it to a tattoo design in a nearly limitless array of styles and options.

Snakes are a timeless tattoo subject, representing different themes in nearly every major artistic and tattoo style. They can be used as a bold, dramatic element, whether on their own as a minimalist blackwork tattoo or as the main subject of a bodysuit design. Drawing snakes, however, can prove challenging, and their form and movement require advanced compositional knowledge to accurately translate into 2D.

The Snake Kit includes both repeater brushes and stamp brushes to enable you to create Procreate designs of snakes, from traditional to realistic. Using the body composer brushes, you can draw top-down views of snakes with patterns that could also be used for koi fish, dragons, or other serpents. Follow the tutorial for step-by-step instructions.

While they are seemingly simple - an elongated tube that tapers on one end - snakes present a design challenge in that they have a top and a bottom, and a variable width. Using the belly composer brushes, you can visualize how the snake curves in 3D space, keeping its back and belly visually accurate, and creating dimension and foreshortening to make your composition dynamic. Where the Procreate repeater brush capability stops, Andrew has enabled you to add more dynamic coils and twists to your snake bodies with a series of segment stamps. Use them as a foundation to the design or to wrap the serpent around other elements.

To finish your snake design, the kit comes complete with dozens of snake and cobra head stamps, reflecting a range of "emotion" and actions. The faces' angles and perspectives make them easily adaptable to almost any snake drawing, again in a variety of styles.

With dozens of individual components, The Snake Kit Vol. 1 is the ultimate collection for creating realism, illustrative, neo-traditional, or blackwork tattoo designs of this iconic tattoo subject!

The Spitshade Set by Russ Abbott contains a variety of natural media brushes for Procreate, meticulously created, tested, and refined. When combined with our hand-stained watercolor digital paper files, these tools allow you realistically replicate traditional tattoo-style spit shade painting.Spitshading has been a mainstay of traditional tattoo flash painting since the early days. Like traditional tattooing, the spit shade technique begins with a black outline using dip pens and permanent markers, followed by black shading in short blends, and finally a simple application of color. Over the years, a clear preference for specialized watercolor paper has emerged, with a tea or coffee stain treatment sometimes applied before painting.

The Spitshade Set is the ultimate toolkit for digital watercolor. The papers in this set feature unique textures and staining application that can only be achieved with analog methods.  Russ hand stained each paper himself then used advanced photography techniques to create consistent lighting and texture for the entire canvas. With 33 papers to choose from, you can experiment with different stain intensities and patterns until you find the perfect look for your final design.

Russ created the brushes in the Spitshade Set with the same care and scrutiny as the paper texture canvases. By employing the latest settings in Procreate, Russ was able to develop a set of extremely flexible brushes that utilize the full extent of the brush engines in your favorite design software. Experiment with the opacity, pressure, and angle of your Apple Pencil to fully realize the potential for expressive mark making with these brushes. The brushes and canvases in the Spitshade Set enable you to recreate your spitshading workflow, design style, and final product, regardless of your analog technique.

Magic Spitshader - A happy discovery during the creation of The Spitshade Set, this brush provides a single, versatile tool for applying AND blending black and colors with that authentic “spitshade” edge quality. For a subtle, smoother variation, try “Spittin' Image.”

Get the most authentic spitshade painting aesthetic utilizing the versatility and functionality of digital design tools with the Spitshade Set!

The "How to Look Cooler" Starter Pack

Featuring 100 of the most popular flash designs from When Tattoos Looked Like Tattoos, Tattoo Smart is proud to bring you Trad Bag by Marshall Rathburn. Within the Procreate set, you will find 100 designs of the most common tattoo requests, ranging in size from small gap-fillers to more complex neo-traditional designs to use as the foundation for your custom tattoo design projects.

What was once printed on individual sheets and distributed through mail order can now be accessed instantly on your iPad. While the originators of tattoo flash may not have envisioned the technology that would one day revolutionize tattoo design, they nevertheless would have supported the effort to keep up with the growing demand for tattoos of all styles, and the collective effort of the tattoo community to make the process more efficient. Using Trad Bag, you'll have the opportunity to do the same - work quickly and efficiently, and customize the designs to both your client's requests and your take on traditional tattoo style.

Also check out Neo-Trad Bag by Dingo Foley!

Grab your Birks and hit the open road with Trail Mix!

Tattoo Smart is proud to bring you 100 road-trip themed flash stamps for Procreate. We've gathered a mix of bounding shapes including diamonds, ovals, triangles, and shields, along with nature silhouettes like birds, beasts, and plants, and filled them with beautiful outdoor landscapes.

Use the designs as-is, or get creative and render colorful mementos of time spent on Route 66. Living that digital nomad life from sunrise to sunset, Trail Mix is just what you need to keep on truckin'.

Chill forever. Worry Never.

Capturing the endless summer vibes, with plenty of salt water, palm trees, sunsets, and surfing, the Tropistyle by Mark Longenecker flash set has everything you need to bring the island aesthetic to your tattoos, minus the sunburnt tourists.

As his early artistic pursuits took him south to the Florida Keys, Mark was heavily inspired by the art and tattoos that reflected the beach culture around him, and tattooing's roots in those communities. Tropistyle is a celebration of tropical-style tattoos, and Mark designed this incredible set of flash to use and be inspired by.

Tropistyle for Procreate includes two Mark Longenecker signature elements - the tropical skelly dudes enjoying the beach and surfing, as well as 4 background templates you can use to quickly draft sleeve or back piece concepts and try different arrangements of elements.

The flash set comes with dozens of large and small sea creatures, fish, predators, and coral to create complex underwater scenes or use in simple walk-in requests. Using the foliage and scenery elements gives you more options for combinations of subjects to suit your clients' requests. You can finish your designs with rope frames, compasses, or the sun and clouds, depending on the vibe you're going for. You'll come back to this set all year long because even though the tan lines fade, the tattoos last forever.

Named after its NYC creator, Truiano Neo-Trad includes 50 Procreate neo-traditional designs by none other than Matt Truiano.

This collection of tattoo flash stamps for the iPad ranges from animals and flowers to coffins and lady figures. Matt displays his signature style throughout the designs, adding thoughtful secondary elements to frame and help up-level each tattoo.