Tool Kits

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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Whether you are a professional artist, a beginner, or a master in Japanese tattooing, there's something for everyone in The Koi Kit. These high-resolution, stencil-ready designs will withstand the test of time so you can create your own koi designs over and over again.

So why wait? Add The Koi Kit to your library today and start creating your own Japanese koi designs. Leveraging decades of Bill Canales' wisdom and craftsmanship, you can unleash your creativity. Don't miss out on this amazing opportunity to take your art to the next level!

Blind Date features selections from:

A Lotta Mandala

Animal Crackers

Astral Dream

Body Shots

Bottle Service

Build Your Own Wolpertinger

Coastlines

Crazy Plant Lady

Cyberfluidics Volume 2

Delicada

Drop Dead

Enchanted Forest

Family Jewels

Go Baroque

Gothic Tracery

Model Humans - Megan

Neo-Trad Bag

Portals

Protoplast

Radials

Snake Bites

The Dragon Kit

The Needle Set

The Snake Kit

The Spitshade Set

Trail Mix

Truiano Neo-Trad

Words to the Wise

Watching Bill Canales draw dragons is a direct experience of the phrase "seeing a master at work." After spending his 30-year tattoo career mastering their placement, form, and flow, Bill expertly draws each dragon on his clients' bodies,  as though he is channeling the wisdom attributed to the mythical creatures themselves.

The Dragon Kit by Bill Canales is both an immediately useful toolkit for creating Japanese dragon tattoos, as well as an education in dragon composition. You can use the complete dragon designs as study material to learn the compositional guidelines and possibilities Bill has explored, and as expert reference and flash designs for your own tattoo projects.

This Procreate brush set also includes enough head, front, mid, and tail segments to be combined in nearly endless ways. Bill also included cloud brush stamps to use as additional elements in your designs. Experiment with different possibilities and choose the best for nearly any tattoo design scenario, knowing that your toolkit is expertly created and vetted.

Whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting out, this kit is sure to give your work a boost. So don't wait – get The Dragon Kit today!

Don't get rattled by your next snake tattoo request!

Snake Bites by Lorenzo Gentil is a complete build-a-snake toolkit that comes with everything you need to create your own slithering masterpiece, including head, bodies, tails, and complete snakes - all with AND without scales. Choose which snake parts you'd like to combine to fit your client's body, other design elements, or the overall composition shape.

Ussssseful for any size tattoo, Snake Bites gives you so much variation to experiment and discover new bending and twisting shapes for this popular tattoo subject! Each flash stamp has an identical "template" version as well, with cylinder lines instead of scales. Use these to easily map the direction and orientation of the scales as you combine heads, bodies, and tails or wrap your serpents around other design elements.

Don't get bitten on the asp when you're drawing this sneaky creature - give Snake Bites a try today!

Wolpertinger (noun, German): an composite animal with the horns, head, body, legs, and tail of different animalsFrom the mind of Sam Rulz comes the Build Your Own Wolpertinger brush set for Procreate. Inspired by the Exquisite Corpse assemblage drawing technique, Sam's Wolpertinger set allows you to create thousands of combinations of animals that can only be found in dreams, or perhaps nightmares.To make this toolkit as digitally accessible as possible, Sam has combined both volumes of her Wolpertinger flash book into a flash stamp set that you can access directly in your iPad. Each of her 13 creatures or subjects in the set are split into 3 parts - choose a head of one, the torso of another, and the legs (or tail!) of a third. If you are keeping count, that is 2,197 different combinations you can make!You can use this toolkit for any illustrative or neo-traditional tattoo design. The components are aligned to quickly mix and match designs to show clients, and to try out the weirdest options you can think of. Wolpertingers are creatures of legends, and we are excited to see what legendary tattoos you make with Build Your Own Wolpertinger!

From the ornate to the more aesthetically simple, Get Lit, the newest toolkit presented by Tattoo Smart, features 100 individual elements, and 5 complete flash designs, to compose thousands of variations of lanterns, torches, candelabras, and more! You can use this toolkit for nearly limitless options to include in any illustrative or neo-traditional tattoo design.

Each component of a torch or lantern is included separately, allowing you to select the option that best fits your style and the tattoo design. By trying different combinations of the pedestals or torch handles, bowls, lantern shades and chimneys, and flames, you can create designs that differ dramatically in style. Collectively, the elements in Get Lit encompass everything from Greek and Roman ornamentation, Gothic designs, and Art Nouveau/Art Deco styles.

Melting candles, flames, kerosene burners, and 5 linework flash designs are also included in this set.

Inspired by torch and lantern metalworking and representation in art, then curated with a sensibility for what works best in tattoo design, Get Lit is a complete toolkit that gives you the options to experiment with different combinations and choose the best for your own designs!

Tattoo Smart is proud to bring you Waves, developed by Grime and Luke Stewart, two people who have spent combined decades learning, perfecting, and stylizing the illustration of Japanese finger waves in tattoo designs.

Waves is a masterclass in visual information, from the individual components to complete designs on templates, that you can use to absorb the compositional guidelines and details that make well-illustrated finger waves immediately recognizable. The brush set includes water flow templates to map your wave directions, as well as line work and rendered designs showing how Luke and Grime would use the water flow and wave templates to work with the body's anatomical shapes.

As Japanese tattoo design became increasingly stylized, the wave designs took on variations that Luke and Grime included in this set to enable you to select the best option for your tattoo design. Traditional waves, with simplified and rounded shapes, and two variations of more complex hybrid waves, with both round and sharp points, can all be used with the water flow templates and any other subjects or elements in your designs.

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!

Following the overwhelming feedback for the first volume of her Girl Head Vol. 1 flash set, Holly Ellis developed a second volume to give tattooers even More Girl Head. These flash stamps for Procreate give you dozens of options for facial expressions and hair styles, and can be used seamlessly between both volumes of the set. Holly also included posed hands, hair, jewelry, and clothing accessories to combine for added elements and stylized designs.

Holly Ellis, a master of portraiture from traditional to more realistic, has developed a deep catalog of flash for one of the most classic tattoo subjects. By trying different combinations, you can create tattoo designs that perfectly articulate aesthetic choices that best suit your design.

Each face and hairstyle option is provided in front-facing, 3/4, and profile perspectives. To give you more choices for your lady head tattoos, Holly added more accessory elements like halo crowns, collars, flower clusters, and glasses in the set.

The ladies in the Girl Head sets beautifully celebrate their real life counterparts, conveying the emotion, style, attitude, and diversity of women themselves, and reflecting why these tattoos remain iconic throughout the decades.

Andrew Borisyuk, encouraged by the tremendous feedback on The Rose Kit and inspired by the natural forms of another incredibly popular floral tattoo subject, created The Peony Kit Vol. 1 for Procreate. Featuring complete peony designs, buds, and leaves, this set is not only a versatile tool for modeling and composing realism, illustrative, neo-traditional, or blackwork peony tattoos in limitless arrangements, but it is also a study in botany itself.

Rooted in a study of natural peonies, Andrew created The Peony Kit to make translating their complicated 3D shapes and forms into 2D designs on your iPad more efficient. Capturing how each petal is shaped, modeling the entire form from a variety of angles, and presenting these flowers in a range of bloomed shapes, Andrew developed an illustrative flash set that is both incredibly useful and versatile. You can use the flash stamps to try different layouts of these flowers, stems, and buds, or add them to larger compositions, understanding how each flower’s placement and perspective adds depth and interest to your tattoo.

With 100 flower components, The Peony Kit is a great toolkit for creating tattoo designs and learning how to draw and compose this iconic tattoo subject!

Over the course of her 17-year tattoo career, Gia Rose has developed an immediately recognizable illustrative style influenced by Art Nouveau and Art Deco imagery, neo-traditional tattoo designs, and ornamental motifs. Her lady head tattoos, reflecting her stylized interpretation of those influences, formed the foundation for her Paper Dolls and Deco Elements flash stamp toolkits for Procreate.

When Gia set out to create these flash elements for the Tattoo Smart community, she thoughtfully considered the way she felt illustration and tattoo learning best happens: beginning with a solid foundation or “formula,” understanding why elements are drawn the way they are, and simple repetition. Like childhood paper dolls, this toolkit provides endless combinations of facial features and accessory elements, creating that foundational template to learn from with practice over time.

Inspired by the naturalistic elements in stylized forms that dominated the Art Nouveau movement, the symmetry and both line work celebrated by Art Deco, and other decorative arts like jewelry making and fabric design, Paper Dolls and Deco Elements combine to make lady head tattoo designs that are decidedly feminine but express strong features and emotions. Paper Dolls includes front and 3/4 facing perspectives, with eye, nose, lip, and hair options. Gia also provided 27 different hand pose stamps, all drawn in her particular aesthetic and immediately useful with this set, other Tattoo Smart flash stamp sets, or as elements of other designs. Deco Elements, as the name suggests, contains beautifully drawn ornamentation, including floral-inspired and deco elements, as well as notoriously difficult to design draped fabrics.

Using the face frames and features, hair, hand poses, fabrics, and ornamental elements, Paper Dolls and Deco Elements Vol. 1 gives you the flash tools to create an incredible depth of lady head tattoo designs and elements to incorporate into many other tattoo subjects and styles!

After its original release in 2019, Watch & Compass quickly became one of the most popular Procreate toolkits on Tattoo Smart, saving tattooers thousands of hours endlessly designing one of the most requested tattoo themes in recent years. Matt updated this set in 2020 to optimize it for the latest Procreate settings, added another compass rose face, and included the Scout and Navigator compasses with that compass rose inlaid. After hearing the feedback from Procreate users about challenges using the chain repeater brushes and the “stepped” effect that can occur, Matt also created 5 stamped options for each chain style. The stamped chains give you smoother options to use when you need a short section of chain or to layer with other elements.Matt Brumelow created Watch & Compass to make your design process faster and save you from drawing endless concentric circles and ovals, while giving you enough flexibility to customize each tattoo for your client. To help you get started, he included stamps to create both flat and angled perspective designs. Select a pocket watch frame, then add a watch face, numerals, hands, topper, chain and clasp to quickly create thousands of variations of watches. Matt included both modern and vintage design elements to fit the style of pocket watch your client requests.Client changed their mind and wants a compass now? Matt’s created scout and navigator compass stamps, each with angled variations on perspective, as well as compass roses, to quickly compose smaller tattoos or draft elements of larger compositions.The Watch & Compass set includes extra related brushes, like a stop watch register to use with the pocket watch frame, individual and complete watch gears, and hour glasses in illustrative, realism, and neo-traditional styles.

Tattoo Smart is excited to introduce the newest toolkit in our Procreate collection: The Rose Kit by Andrew Borisyuk. Featuring complete rose designs, as well as hundreds of component options, The Rose Kit is the stamp set you’ll come back to again and again to create limitless variations on the most popular flower tattoo imagery.

From individual petals to complete stamp designs, The Rose Kit is unique to any Procreate set available, used for rose design scenarios from completely custom to flash stamps. For a fully custom rose built from the center outward, begin with one of the 30 rose bases. Given the variety of center options, you can select the base angled in the direction you want to build your rose in small or large tattoo compositions. Decide how full of a rose bloom you want to create by adding just a few front or side petals for a more closed rose or numerous petals for a more open appearance. You can chose from a range of side petals, from pointed and angular to softer and rounded, to develop aesthetically different roses each time.

Stop there to include just the flower in your design, or add individual leaves, leaf clusters, full or spare stems, for additional elements as the design scenario requires. For drafting or walk-in requests, the full rose stamps are stencil-ready for quick use. Customize them by modifying the stamps by switching out a petal or two, adding an extra leaf grouping, or substituting a banner with a stem.

With hundreds of individual components, The Rose Kit is the ultimate collection for creating realism, illustrative, neo-traditional, or blackwork tattoo designs of this iconic tattoo subject!

Whether enigmatic, strong willed, seductive, a symbol of luck, or an ideal of feminine beauty, women portrayed in girl head tattoos are as iconic and versatile as any tattoo subject throughout the decades. Holly Ellis, a master of portraiture from traditional to more realistic, and second-to-none in her ability to convey a depth of emotion in her tattoo’s expressions, created the Girl Head stamp set for Procreate exclusively available on Tattoo Smart.

USING THE GIRL HEAD TOOLKIT, HOLLY PUTS THE COMPONENTS FOR A VAST ARRAY OF DESIGNS IN YOUR HANDS.

By trying different combinations of the hair styles, faces, jewelry, hair accessories, and other stamps, you can create lady head tattoo designs that differ drastically with hair or accessories, or subtly with a slight difference in eye, nose, or mouth shape. For a more dramatic expression, Holly also included crying, angry, suspicious, shocked, and evil eyes.

Each hair and face option is also provided in front-facing, 3/4, and profile perspectives, allowing you to choose the option that best suits the design. Create gypsy girls in profile that stare into an uncertain future, classic pin-ups from a bygone era, beautifully sad nurses with tears running down their faces, or evil temptresses that seduce with just a glance. Using the accessories Holly included in the stamp set, you have even more options to select the perfect elements to accompany the style, motif, or symbols you want to include in your tattoo design.

Celebrate the imagery and variety of the women you can create with Girl Head by Holly Ellis!

Protoplast (noun, Greek): prototype, a thing that is the first of its kind

With Protoplast: Vol. 1, you can experiment with design placement like never before. We created realistic renderings of human body parts, then turned them into 2D Procreate brush stamps.

It's not always easy to show clients different placement options or experiment with compositions and layouts on a human body. This compilation of 252 full body and body part mannequins comes in 4 different body types, so you can get a realistic sense of how your designs will look on your clients. Plus, the full body canvases come in 4 different poses, each from 5 viewpoints, so you can find the perfect angle or pose for your concept. Whether you're a beginner or a pro, Protoplast is essential for any designer's toolkit.

To help you choose the most realistic canvas for each client’s design, Protoplast also includes a 30-color skin tone Procreate swatch file. You can use the default true black color for a neutral skin tone that includes the widest range of values, or select one that more closely matches your client’s skin color to display the final tattoo more realistically.

This toolkit includes 140 patterns, all included in a stamp set for Procreate and Clip Studio Paint as well as a reference eBook. Creating perfectly repeating, highly detailed pattern bands in Procreate or Clip Studio Paint has always been a challenge. Influenced by henna, blackwork, sharp-line geometric, and Berber-esque patterns, Cory designed these stencil-ready bands in a wide variation of styles to complement any geometric tattoo designs. These bands, together with the fade patterns, full-page patterns, and custom repeater brushes, give you an immense toolkit for nearly infinite variations on geometric tattoo designs.Complete your geometric design toolkit with:Geometric by Cory FergusonEncyclopedia Geometrica Volume 1
Encyclopedia Geometrica Volume 2

From its inception, the Octopus by Kari Barba brush set project has been unlike any Tattoo Smart has developed or curated to date. Tattoo Smart has the ambition to provide the most modern, highest quality digital tools to the tattoo community. In order to provide the best tools, we go above and beyond to work with the best. In this case, tattooing icon Kari Barba.In late 2018, Russ Abbott reached out to Kari Barba to discuss developing a new kind of brush set together. Kari, long known as the originator and constantly on the vanguard of designing and tattooing realistic yet illustrated octopus imagery, was enthusiastic about the new brush creation process Russ developed in Clip Studio Paint. Throughout the last year, Kari meticulously rendered a selection of octopus tentacles and other assorted elements. Our team used a specialized proprietary process to turn those drawings into a new type of Clip Studio Paint brushes and a library of Procreate digital stamp brushes. Tattoo Smart is proud to be working with such an iconic artist and contributor.Kari Barba has spent years studying the structure, color, and texture of octopuses from life and photos, and translating those studies to tattoo designs. Working with Tattoo Smart, she now contributes that expertise to the tattoo community with this complete tool kit to build custom realistic octopus designs. You will no longer need to spend time searching for photos of tentacles in the exact position to suit your design. Browse the extensive library of assorted tentacle options and shapes and choose what fits perfectly for your specific need or application.While the tentacle stamps included offer an incredible amount of variation to the point that no two octopus creations will be identical, we’ve also included 3 assorted octopus heads and a small collection of water and bubble background elements to get you started using this tool kit right away. Our hope is that you will use these tools to to speed up your composition and design workflow and spark new creative ideas as you continue to push your own artistic understanding of octopuses to deeper depths.

103 Procreate and Clip Studio Paint repeater brushes with outline and fill options, featuring traditional and modern Polynesian tattoo pattern

Build anything. Build EVERYTHING.

Killian Moon created this set of 75 design construction brushes and stamp elements to help you precisely layout and draft nearly any digital design. The Essentials set is infinitely versatile, featuring 3-D wireframe stamps, symmetry grids, and parallel line brushes. Use the light source/horizon grids, 1-point and 3-point perspective grids, and Rule of Thirds/Golden Spiral stamps to create complex digital designs with correct perspective and proportion. Killian has also included several of his favorite liner, sketch, and dotwork brush variations to give you a foundational digital toolkit for a wide range of design applications.Included in the set are several gems, like the 3-D wireframe sphere and polygon stamps, and cylinder brushes, that form the essential structure of nearly all objects. You can use the parallel line brushes to align script, make stems for flowers, or make stencils for architectural designs. Rounding out the set are several 2-D and 3-D shape stamps.Make sure you check out Killian's other construction set, Great Head, which features male and female facial proportion and skull stamps.

Adding to his collection of Tattoo Smart geometric tattoo tools, Cory created the Encyclopedia Geometrica Volume 2: Pattern Fades. Cory designed these patterns, and created both an eBook and stamp set, to solve the challenge of creating perfect geometric fades in Procreate and Clip Studio Paint. The 100+ patterns transition smoothly in density from negative to positive space in both the eBook and stamps. The designs are all stencil-ready and include a wide variation of patterns, featuring popular geometric themes and new imagery to include in your tattoos.

Inspired by the calligraphy of the past and a decades-long career creating hand-lettered designs and tattoos, BJ Betts partnered with Tattoo Smart to bring you the Penmanship brush sets. Each of the 414 brushes in the Penmanship set were painstakingly crafted and perfected to enable you to create the most versatile lettering tattoos and to find your own hand lettered design style digitally. The natural media brushes in the Penmanship set replicate vintage ink and brush pens in a digital format. BJ also provided 7 different lettering grid stamps and repeater brushes to help you lay out your digital lettering designs on their own, or add lettering to other tattoo designs. These guides are also invaluable tools to help you practice the shape and structure of your letter compositions.In addition to the natural media brushes in the Penmanship set, BJ also included 5 stamp alphabets to provide a visual reference to how the Penmanship brushes can be used to create different letter options, to layout different tattoo design options, and to provide a template for practicing letter composition. The Script letter stamps are drawn in BJ Betts’ classic script style, with more and less ornate individual letter options, perfect for any script tattoo design. Drawing with the round tip brushes in the brush set, the Round letter stamps are a less formal Script style while still maintaining the hand-drawn look of lettering tattoos. As the name suggests, the Aggro letter stamps are more aggressively drawn using sharp angles and a scratchier style. The Oval letter stamps provide an excellent simple letter design with minimal flourish. Finally, the Chisel stamps combine a slightly more ornate style with a chisel-tip pen look.

Henry Lewis, known for his illustrative and Neo-Japanese tattoo designs, created this set of skeleton and Grim Reaper stamps for Procreate and Clip Studio Paint. Henry’s set features both complete grim reaper designs, as well as the separate skeleton components to quickly draft your own. This incredibly versatile stamp set can be used for reapers, skeleton designs, or as the underlying structure for tattoo designs of the human body. Reapers also includes 9 left/right hand and 5 left/right feet to make drafting notoriously difficult hand and foot positioning more intuitive.

Henry also included a digital layered file with the downloads that illustrates how to use the brush set to lay out a Grim Reaper design and his drafting process to establish the flow of the robe fabric. Get Reapers today and begin exploring the amazing possibilities this set has to offer!