Only the styles the studio actually works are listed here. Each card carries the placements it suits, a realistic session length, and how technically demanding it is to execute well.
The house speciality
Photographic depth built entirely from ink density — no outlines, no shortcuts. Skin tone becomes the highlight, and every value between it and solid black is packed by hand. This is the work the studio is known for, and it is where the most time goes.
Likeness or nothing
A portrait either looks like the person or it does not. Reference is discussed before a needle is loaded, the stencil is set against the muscle it will live on, and the face is rendered soft-to-hard so it still reads across a room in ten years.
One pigment, infinite range
Black ink, thinned and layered into a full greyscale. Smoke, fabric, petals, metal — all of it carried by contrast alone. It ages more gracefully than colour and is the backbone of nearly every large piece that leaves this room.
Graphic, carved, deliberate
Heavy black, engraved texture and dotwork shading, drawn like a woodcut rather than a photograph. Strong silhouettes that hold their shape at distance — mythology, statuary and ornament sit naturally here.
Read it from across the room
Blackletter, serif and fine script, spaced and weighted by hand so the line reads cleanly on a curved limb. Scripture, verse and single words — laid out on the body first, inked second.
Scrollwork, banners, symbols
Soft black and grey wrapped in filigree, banners and hard-edged symbolism — dice, cards, roses, script. Built to flow around the arm rather than sit flat on it, so the ornament does the work of joining pieces together.
Bring the old one in
An old tattoo is a constraint, not a dead end. The new design is drawn around what is already there — using its darkest areas as the new shadow — so the result is a piece in its own right rather than a patch.
Used sparingly, on purpose
Colour appears here as an accent rather than a whole style — a butterfly against greyscale, a warm note in an otherwise black and grey composition. Saturated packing that stays readable as it settles.
08 — Next step
Send the idea, a rough size and where it is going. You will get a straight answer about whether it works, what it needs, and when the chair is free.