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AI Tattoo Generator

Describe the piece — a snake through lavender, a swallow, your grandmother's handwriting — and get flash-sheet designs or the ink rendered on skin. The expensive mistake this prevents is permanent.

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AI Tattoo Generator

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Cost 2 credits0 credits remaining
Image preview
Before — Example image
Before
After — Example image
After

A real edit made with this tool — drag your own photo in on the left, the prompt is already written, then press Generate.

Before / after

The same arm, before and after the ink

A real in-place edit from our own run: we photographed a bare forearm on a table, then asked for a fine-line snake-and-lavender tattoo added — and nothing else touched. Drag the divider: the mug, the plant, the light and the arm hold still while the ink appears. Every output is AI-generated; your design and your arm will make a different pair.

AI tattoo generator — the ink added in place
After — ink settled in
AI tattoo generator — the bare forearm before the ink
Before — bare arm

Drag to compare before and after

AI image tool

What does an AI tattoo designer do?

It is a design tool for the months between wanting a tattoo and booking one: it turns a written idea into tattoo designs — flash-sheet style on paper, or rendered as ink on a photographed arm — so you can react to something concrete instead of describing a vibe to an artist from nothing.

Image tool

Who actually searches this: people in the deliberation stage, which for tattoos famously lasts between three months and nine years. They are not looking for an artist yet — they are trying to find out what the idea in their head looks like, whether it works at forearm scale, and whether they will still like it after fifty variations. That is exactly the loop a generator is good at and a consultation is too expensive for.

Both examples on this page are our own runs: a flash sheet generated from a four-design brief, and the before/after pair — one photographed bare forearm, the snake-and-lavender piece added in place with the table, mug and light untouched. Bring either to a real artist as a reference and the conversation starts three steps ahead — every artist prefers reacting to a direction over divining one.

The honest limit: 'add ink to my photo' is the hardest kind of AI edit, and in our own testing some runs re-imagined the scene — a beautiful preview on an arm that was not quite the one uploaded — before one held the base perfectly. Expect to rerun once or twice for an exact-arm preview, and treat the output as a look preview, never as placement or sizing advice; that judgement belongs to the artist holding the needle.

Creative engine

How a design run works

Describe the piece and the style, generate, and refine the sentence until the sheet looks like your idea.

An idea, or your arm
You name it
Designs or on-skin ink

Flash-sheet mode

Four designs on one page from a single brief — the format artists actually sketch options in, ready to react to.

On-skin preview

The same design rendered as settled ink on a photographed arm, which is how you learn whether fine lines survive at forearm scale.

How to use

Design a tattoo in three decisions

Style words do most of the work — borrow the vocabulary tattoo artists use.

  1. Name the subject and style

    "Fine-line snake wrapped around lavender" — subject plus style is the minimum viable brief. "Fine line", "american traditional", "blackwork" and "single needle" all steer hard.

  2. Choose paper or skin

    Ask for a flash sheet when you are still choosing between ideas; upload an arm photo and ask for the ink added when you are testing one idea at real scale.

  3. Vary one thing per rerun

    Thinner lines. Smaller. More negative space. Changing one variable per run tells you what actually improved it — the same discipline a good artist applies.

Who it's for

Who runs tattoo ideas through it

Different stages of the same permanent decision.

The long deliberators

Years of "someday" turn into a folder of concrete designs. Watching fifty variations teaches you what you actually like — usually simpler than where you started, the same way the muscle generator preview usually ends humbler than the first ask.

People booking a consult

Walking in with three generated directions beats walking in with adjectives. The artist redraws it properly — that is their craft — but the brief is now visual.

The matching-tattoo committee

Couples and friend groups arguing about a shared design finally have something to vote on. Generate the candidates, put them in the chat, count the reactions.

Answers

Ink preview FAQ

Asked before the needle, as it should be.

Yes — upload a clear photo of the placement area and ask for the design added as settled ink. One honest caveat from our own testing: add-to-photo edits sometimes re-imagine the scene rather than editing in place, so check that the arm in the result is actually yours and rerun if it drifted. The free rerun costs seconds; a mis-scaled real tattoo costs a laser.

As a reference, yes — and most prefer it to a verbal description. Hand over the generated design as the direction, not a stencil: a working artist will redraw it for your anatomy, adjust line weights for how ink ages, and fix what the model does not know about skin. The generator replaces the awkward describing phase, not the artist.

Anything you can name: fine line, blackwork, american traditional, neo-traditional, dotwork, minimalist, script. Naming a style is the single highest-leverage word in the brief — leave it out and you get a generic middle ground no one would actually wear.

Design runs use credits and new accounts start with a free grant — enough to explore a concept properly before spending anything. The cost estimate is visible in the generator before each run.

Outputs are yours to use, including bringing them to a studio. Two cautions: AI-generated designs are not copyright-registrable in most places, so a hugely distinctive piece could in principle appear on someone else too — and if a design closely mimics a specific artist's published work, commissioning that artist is the right move, not generating around them.

Uploaded over HTTPS for the run, stored in your history so you can revisit, never used to advertise. Delete it and it is gone. Every output is AI-generated.

Kavel pricing — pay only for what you generate

One credit pool covers Nano Banana images and Seedance and Veo video. The cost shows before every run, and failed jobs are not charged. Use a subscription for ongoing work, or a one-time pack when you just need to top up.

Starter

A year of Starter credits for ongoing Kavel work.
Incl. tax
$20.67 / mo($248 / year)
Yearly credits are granted upfront
Quantity1x · $248
Total: 33,500 credits

What's included

  • 33,500 credits per year
  • Works with Nano Banana images and Seedance and Veo video
  • Cost preview before you generate
  • Generation history

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Creator

A full year of Creator credits for ongoing Kavel work.
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$47.92 / mo($575 / year)
Yearly credits are granted upfront
The lowest effective cost per credit for regular use.
Quantity1x · $575
Total: 89,700 credits

What's included

  • 89,700 credits per year
  • Access to Seedance 2.0, Fast, and Mini
  • Nano Banana 2 generation and editing
  • Priority credit top-ups

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Yearly scale

Studio

A full year of Studio credits for ongoing Kavel video and image work.
Incl. tax
$79.92 / mo($959 / year)
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The lowest effective cost per credit for ongoing production.
Quantity1x · $959
Total: 166,800 credits

What's included

  • 166,800 credits per year
  • Built for high-volume Kavel generation
  • Plenty of room for 4K rendering
  • Available across the supported models

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Credit packs

One-time top-ups — buy extra credits any time you run low.

Credit Pack 1500

A small top-up for quick tests and short drafts.
$19.90
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Total: 1,500 credits

What's included

  • 1,500 credits
  • No ongoing subscription
  • Available across the supported models

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Flexible

Credit Pack 3600

A larger top-up that covers several Kavel video runs.
$39.90
Quantity1x · $39.90
Total: 3,600 credits

What's included

  • 3,600 credits
  • No ongoing subscription
  • Available across the supported models
  • Use for both video and image generation

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Batch

Credit Pack 9000

A production-scale top-up for large prompt batches.
$79.90
Quantity1x · $79.90
Total: 9,000 credits

What's included

  • 9,000 credits
  • No ongoing subscription
  • Handy for Seedance 2.0 final renders
  • Valid for 365 days

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One credit balance for every Kavel image and video model

Use one balance across the supported image and video models (Nano Banana 2 / Nano Banana Pro / Seedance 2 / Veo 3.1), and check the credit cost before each request.

Video models

Seedance 2.0Seedance 2 Fast / MiniVeo 3.1 (Lite / Fast)Text-to-video and image-to-video workflowsCost preview before you generate

Image models

Nano Banana 2Nano Banana ProNano Banana 2 LiteText-to-image and image-editing workflowsOne shared credit balance

Model credit guide

What each model costs in credits

You're only charged for successful generations. The exact estimate in the generator varies by model, length, resolution, audio, and number of images.

TypeModelCredit cost
VideoSeedance 2.05s 720p image-to-video ≈ 188 credits; text-to-video ≈ 308 credits. Scales with resolution and length.
VideoSeedance 2 FastFaster and lower cost. 5s 720p text-to-video ≈ 248 credits. Mini is cheaper still.
VideoVeo 3.1Billed per video (Lite). About 34 credits at 1080p, about 23 at 720p.
ImageNano Banana 2Generate or edit from text and images. About 8 credits per 1K image, 12 at 2K, 18 at 4K.
ImageNano Banana ProConsistent run times across generations. About 12 credits per 1K or 2K image, 21 at 4K.
ImageNano Banana 2 LiteFaster, simpler variant. About 8 credits per image. Start here to test.

Find out before the needle does

Describe the piece, watch it take shape, and walk into the consult with a direction — or warm up with something reversible like [a new hairstyle](/image/ai-hairstyle-changer) or [the after-gym preview](/image/ai-muscle-generator).