Tattoo stencils you can print and take to your artist
Every design here is clean black linework on a transparent background, which is what a stencil has to be. Pick one, print it at true scale, and bring it in.
Beginner stencils
Beginner tattoo stencils are the ones with few lines, wide gaps and no interior detail, whether a beginner is wearing them or tattooing them.
Stencil designs
Tattoo stencil designs are the line drawing an artist presses onto your skin before the first needle pass, so they can only hold lines a needle can lay.
Tattoo drawings
Tattoo drawing is the stage where a design is still negotiable, and almost every problem that shows up in a stencil was already there in the sketch.
Tattoo flash
Tattoo flash is a pre drawn design an artist is willing to tattoo again, which is what separates it from a custom piece drawn for one person.
Stencils for women
Tattoo stencils for women come down to placement, so this page is about the body areas people ask for most and the proportions each one gives a stencil.
Hand stencils
Hand tattoo stencils are the hardest in tattooing to place and the fastest to lose a line, so the design has to be built for flex and for fading.
Outlines
A tattoo outline is the first and most permanent pass of the whole tattoo, because shading can be reworked later and a line can never be made thinner.
Printable stencils
Printable tattoo stencils only work if they come out of the printer at the exact size you drew them, and most printers quietly shrink them.
Small stencils
Small tattoo stencils have to lose detail on purpose, because at 3 cm the needle decides what survives and it is less than most people expect.