{
"subject": "A single sheet of paper, rectangular and upright, resting on a table, with a tattoo design ready to take to the artist. What the image delivers is THE DRAWING ON THE PAPER, not a tattoo applied to skin: there is no person, no arm and no body anywhere in the scene.",
"action": "The sheet lies on the table, turned slightly anticlockwise, and is photographed from above. One bottom corner has a faint crease, like paper that has been handled.",
"scene": "A light wood table top, with a long parallel grain, filling the whole frame behind and around the paper and falling out of focus. Nothing else on the table: no pen, no ruler, no props.",
"composition": "A vertical portrait in 3:4. The paper fills almost the entire frame, with a narrow band of wood showing along all four edges. The drawing sits centred on the paper, taking up about a third of the height of the sheet, with plenty of white space around it and touching none of the edges.",
"camera": "Seen from directly above, at ninety degrees to the table top, with no tilt and no perspective distortion. Short distance, a normal lens, depth of field deep enough for the whole sheet to come out sharp while the wood around it goes slightly soft.",
"lighting": "Soft, broad studio light from above and slightly to the left. A soft short shadow of the paper cast onto the wood, most visible along the right and bottom edges. No specular glare, no reflection and no blown out highlight on the paper.",
"color_palette": "Only three colours: the black of the line, the slightly cream white of the paper and the light brown blur of the wood. No accent colour.",
"style": "A minimalist fine line tattoo design, photographed like a studio portfolio shot. Black ink line, thin and of constant weight, with no shading, no grey fill, no hatching and no gradient. A clean outline, a continuous and confident line.",
"materials": "Heavy weight paper, with the fibre texture clearly visible in the raking light and a slightly irregular edge. Light matte wood, with no glossy varnish.",
"details": "The drawn composition is a crescent moon in a single continuous line, crossed diagonally by a slender branch with elongated outlined leaves, plus two solid dots of different sizes sitting loose to the right. The leaves are drawn in outline only, never filled. The line weight is the same from beginning to end, because that is what decides whether the design is tattooable at the size requested.",
"negative_prompt": "AI artefacts, tattoo on skin, arm, leg, body, person, text, letters, names, dates, roman numerals, signature, watermark, shading, grey fill, watercolour, colour, shaky line, line of varying weight, frame, plain white studio background, a character from a known franchise"
}
How to use
Turning up at the studio with a reference saved off the internet is turning up with somebody else's tattoo. This prompt draws YOURS, on paper, with a clean line and in the form the artist needs to see. It works in ChatGPT, Gemini and NanoBanana.
1. Rewrite the details field with your own elements and say how they cross. It is the only one that changes the drawing: the others look after the photo of the paper.
2. Leave the style field as it is: a line of constant weight with no shading is what lets the artist shrink the design without it turning to mush.
3. Leave the negative_prompt intact: it is what stops the AI writing a name or a date in the middle of the art.
4. Ask for three variations before choosing. It costs three generations and saves you the tattoo you cannot undo.
5. Take the file and the size in centimetres. The drawing is a starting point: the one who decides what works on skin is the artist.
Tip: a very fine line ages badly. Ask about that before you fall in love with the linework.
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