A website for tattoo artists, built on healed work
People choose a tattoo artist by style, and then by how the work looks once it has healed. Before writing, they also want to know how you book, what you take on and roughly what it costs.
Studio gives your work a room of its own: three to eight pieces hung one at a time, each with its label — the placement, the style, the year, a line. Flash can hang too, as a sheet people can ask for by name.
Then come your styles, the artists in the studio and a request form with your price bands, with a button to book a consultation if you use a booking page. It’s a site at your own address, not a booking system.
What your site shows
The studio at the door
Your studio’s name opens the page with a sentence on your styles and where you are — “Fine line and blackwork in Gràcia, by appointment”. The button at the top can say “Request a tattoo” instead of the demo’s words.
One piece at a time
Each piece hangs on its own — a forearm, a back piece, a flash sheet — and the walk pauses at every one, so nothing gets scrolled past on the way to the next.
The label
Beside each piece: its title, the style and placement (“Blackwork · Forearm”), the year, the artist in the client’s place if the studio has several, and a line — healed for a year, a cover-up, a guest spot.
Styles and artists
Your styles pass as single words — Fine line, Blackwork, Lettering, Cover-ups — with a sentence on what you take on in each. Then the studio: a paragraph, and every artist with their role.
The request
A client describes the idea — placement, size, references — and picks a price band. The line above the form holds your rules: your minimum, deposits, what you don’t tattoo.
Have this ready
- Photos of three to eight healed pieces or flash sheets, as JPG or PNG.
- For each: a title, the style and placement, the year, the artist and a line.
- Your styles or services, two to six of them, each a word you’d put on the door, plus a sentence.
- The artists in the studio with their roles or styles, and a paragraph about the place.
- Price bands for requests, and your booking rules in two or three sentences.
- A Web3Forms key for requests, and a Cal.com link if you book consultations.
Worth knowing
Show it healed
A fresh tattoo is red, swollen and shiny; what a client wants to judge is how the lines and the colour settle. Photograph healed work in soft daylight, and say in the line how long it has had.
Ask before it hangs
A tattoo is on someone’s body. Ask before their piece goes on your walls, keep faces and anything that identifies them out of the picture unless they agree, and leave their name off the label unless they want it there.
Write the rules above the form
The line under the contact heading sits right above the form. Put there what saves the most messages: your minimum, whether you take a deposit, how far ahead you book, and what you won’t do.
Say which flash repeats
A flash sheet on the walls is an offer. Hang the designs you’re glad to tattoo again, and say in its line whether each can be repeated or goes to one client only.
Questions
- Can clients pay a deposit through the site?
- Not through the site: it takes no payments. If you book consultations with Cal.com, its Stripe app can charge a deposit or the full amount when the slot is booked, and the site’s “Book a call” button leads there.
- We’re three artists. Does each get a portfolio?
- The studio has one gallery, three to eight pieces in all. Name the artist on each label and give each person a line in the team with their style; their own Instagram accounts can be listed in the footer, six links at most.
- Can people send a reference image with the form?
- The form sends text: a name, an email, a price band and the message. Ask in the line above it for references by email, so the first reply can already talk about the design.
- Does the site replace my Instagram?
- No, and it isn’t meant to: new work still goes up there. The site is the fixed address behind it, with your styles, your rules and the request form, and your profile can link to it.
- Will people find it on Google when they search my city?
- The site comes ready for Google — a title and a description from your answers, a sitemap, and the guide to submit it. Where it ranks is up to Google; naming your city in the first sentence tells it where you work.