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New School tattoo designs

Exaggerated cartoon proportion, thick outlines and saturated colour. New school is loud on purpose, and it stays legible at sizes where other styles turn to mush.

What New School does to a motif

Exaggerated cartoon proportions and thick outlines. Loud on purpose, and very legible at small sizes.

The other styles

Every motif in this library is drawn in all fourteen. Compare the same subject across them.

Make your own new school 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.