Are these drawn on a hand?

No. Each design is a flat drawing on a white sheet, with no skin or hand in the picture.

What is the difference between the three styles?

Fine line is one thin, even stroke with no shading. Bold line has thick black outlines and solid black fills. Dotwork is a thin outline with shading built from dots.

Can I ask for a different subject?

Yes. Type the subject you want, such as a skull, and the design keeps the hand-sized shape and the same three styles.

How big should the design be?

These are drawings on a sheet with no scale on a body. Your tattoo artist sizes the piece to your hand.

Are the designs in colour?

No. Every design is black ink on white paper.

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Hand tattoo designs: lotus mandala, rose, swallow

Hand tattoos — a round lotus mandala of layered petals and dotwork rings, with a short line of dots running toward the middle finger, single-needle fine line work of one even thin weight, the shapes left open and no shading at all

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Reading 1Lotus mandala

Reading 2Rose

Reading 3Swallow

Designs for the back of the hand, the most visible place for a tattoo, where the picture fills the space and stops at the knuckles and wrist. Three subjects, each in three styles: a round lotus mandala, a single rose with leaves fanning toward the fingers, and a small swallow in flight shaped to sit between thumb and forefinger. Each is a flat drawing on a square white sheet. Type a different subject and the same styles carry it.

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Frequently asked questions

Are these drawn on a hand?: No. Each design is a flat drawing on a white sheet, with no skin or hand in the picture.
What is the difference between the three styles?: Fine line is one thin, even stroke with no shading. Bold line has thick black outlines and solid black fills. Dotwork is a thin outline with shading built from dots.
Can I ask for a different subject?: Yes. Type the subject you want, such as a skull, and the design keeps the hand-sized shape and the same three styles.
How big should the design be?: These are drawings on a sheet with no scale on a body. Your tattoo artist sizes the piece to your hand.
Are the designs in colour?: No. Every design is black ink on white paper.

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This page is a showcase and a starting point: nine samples already rendered, three readings of the pack crossed with three styles, each shown at the size and ratio it was made for. Take any of them further on the wall with a few words, or ask for all nine again under your own direction; a sign-in keeps what you make, and it is free while Toile is new. 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.