*here are all of my tattoo flash designs, the collection is constantly being added to and amended as i go, all designs/variations of designs are available to be tattooed. Flash is separated below into sets of imagery-based designs and full sheets, solely writing-based designs, and some digital placement concepts. Click on them to browse. If you have any queries that you'd like to ask before booking, that's absolutely fine, you can drop me an email from the bottom of this page.
*to claim and book for flash, a placement concept, or a variation of either, screenshot your desired design/s and attach them to your booking form during the booking checkout, follow links below or browse the booking page to lock in an appointment.
*'palm-sized' - up to 5/6 inches.
*'massive' - 10 inches and over.
*because of the size and time required to create a placement concept, a full day must be booked for them, if the particular concept will take less time/cost less, i will let you know in our correspondence after the booking is made.
*flash and freehand is always priced a little cheaper than custom, due to the designs already being drawn up and prepped, including variations. I offer a discounted full day rate for anyone booking solely for flash, placement concepts and freehand.
*if you wanna enquire about a custom tattoo instead, but in a similar style to a particular flash design, screenshot it and upload it as reference material on your booking enquiry.
*i also offer a free filler-sized flash piece to anyone booking for any of my own designs, check out the options here.
*what tattoo flash is, and why mine looks like this.
*'flash' is a term that's been used by artists since the 1800's at least, to describe the approach of creating visual appeal at shows, circuses etc, and later on in street-level shops and studios. Artists would hang individual designs in front of their booths for folk to choose from there and then. Eventually it seems the individual designs themselves became referred to as 'flash'. *A part of the culture that helped define the US traditional genre was that more skilled artists would sell sheets of flash designs to other tattooers with a desire for more pro-looking paintings and drawings, to entice more customers, to use as reference for their own craft, or just to save other artists time and meet increasing demand, these sheets would then do the rounds. A lot of this imagery is still recognisable, constantly in rotation, very popular and truly great today, original flash paintings and drawings are historical fine art, regardless of whether that design became one tattoo, ten million tattoos, or no tattoo. *there have been moments where flash has been less prolific in genre too - the rise in Japanese and Polynesian styles brought more focus to customised, large, body-based tattoos, a movement away from the kinda simple, singular, palm-sized set flash designs, into things like full body suits, arm sleeves, concept pieces, huge wraparound work etc. Over time came a bunch of wild new progressions in a similar manner, like realism, blackwork, abstract, watercolour, fine-line, neo-trad, biomechanical, ignorant, naive, freehand etc. *terminology pops up and seems to take up new definitions all the time in tattooing for some reason, maybe because we are currently going through a transition, the whole "industry" largely moving away from an underground, niche, traditionally rooted thing to a more mainstream, kinda corporate and very stylistically open thing, solely due to popularity and heightened social acceptance. With this may come a lot of different viewpoints, opinions, influences, inspiration, understandings, experimentation, divergences etc. *most of the exposure i had to the craft before it started heading in directions away from traditional tattooing, i was under 18 and couldn't find a lot of information on the whole thing other than all those kinda celebrity aspects in TV and magazines that rose up as i was a kid, which just wasn't my thing. I have grew up with and subsequently entered the craft mostly noticing, absorbing and following the more modern changes in real time, i think a lot of it is incredible, very original, super fresh, experimental and courageous in a world with such traditional and deeply-felt roots. It gives me life in the same way early punk rock, abstract art or graphic design would. I think it's cool to take hundreds of years of tattoo history, alongside other mediums of art/design and use those understandings, inspirations and techniques with modern technology, changing societal/creative understandings and a desire to try new things, to create new presentations of art on skin in general. I like that, there is no strict definition for what a tattoo 'should look like' right now and in my own opinion, that's not a terrible thing. *tattooing as a general thing is clearly understood pretty differently right now than it has been in the past, i hear older artists talk about it a lot and i love to see others' positions on it all, ultimately though i don't think there's loads of middle ground between "old-school" and "new school" right now, i don't think anyone really knows exactly what the future looks like, just that right now it's opening up a lot more. *this is probably the best foreword i can give for my flash, like a lot of modern artists - i have love for loads of styles and origins of tattoo, as well as other arts too, i'm just doing my own thing with the influence of all of it, building an aesthetic, learning, growing and working in a way that feels right to me, definitely inspired by but not conditional of a particular genre or style or whatever. I know it isn't for everyone, and that's ok, i hope you can enjoy something about it, thanks a bunch for checking it out.