Design library · Style

Illustrative tattoo designs

Drawn rather than photographed: fine hatching, engraving marks and storybook line weight. Illustrative sits between fine-line and black and grey in both detail and durability.

Every motif in Illustrative

111 motifs, each drawn once in this style. Open a design to see it large, or follow the motif through all twenty-three styles.

What Illustrative does to a motif

Storybook or engraving feel, fine hatching, drawn rather than photographed. Sits between fine-line and black & grey in both detail and durability.

The other styles

Every motif in this library is drawn in all twenty-three. Compare the same subject across them.

Make your own illustrative design

These are reference designs. In the AI Tattoos app you can generate your own version of this motif, restyle it with one tap, and see it on a photo of your own skin with the depth-aware Studio before you book anything.

About these designs

This is a reference library, not a shop. Nothing here is for sale and no tattoo can be ordered from this page. Take a design to a professional tattoo artist, who will adapt it to your body, your placement and their own hand. Meanings attached to motifs are cultural and vary between traditions; where a motif belongs to a living tradition, read about it before wearing it.