Cover up tattoo designs: a heavy peony, a raven and a mandala in three finishes

A cover-up has to be dense enough to swallow old ink, the darkest mass planned where the old piece sits. These nine are a full-bloom peony, a spread-wing raven and a dark-cored mandala, each drawn as solid blackwork, black-and-grey, and neo-traditional color. Ask for a different motif in the same three finishes, sized for the area being covered.

• a reference sheet for a cover-up consultation
• a design to compare against an old piece's size
• a print for planning coverage placement
• a starting point for a forearm-sized cover-up

Frequently asked questions

What size do these print at?

Portrait A4 proportions with a white margin; scale and placement are things to work out with the artist covering the specific old piece.

Will this definitely cover my old tattoo?

It's a design reference, not a guarantee — an artist needs to see the old piece to confirm size, ink color and placement before any design can reliably cover it.

Can I get a bigger version for a forearm?

Yes — that's what the direction field is for. Ask for it sized bigger and the design redraws with denser coverage.

What makes a design work as a cover-up?

Dense dark mass placed exactly where the old ink sits — these three finishes (blackwork, black-and-grey, neo-traditional color) are three ways shops build that coverage.

About toile

This page is a showcase: nine samples already rendered, three readings of the pack crossed with three styles, each one shown at the size and ratio it was made for. Toile has no generation wired to this page yet — nothing here is made to order, and there is no account, no upload, nothing to buy. What you see is what exists. The recipe behind each sample — the subject, the style, the palette, the framing — travels with the image rather than staying private to the render: it is in the alt text of every sample and in the page's own structured data, so a search engine reads the same handles a person would.