Tattoo · AI prompt guide
Dotwork AI image prompts
A tattoo technique that builds shading and tone entirely from thousands of individual black dots, creating soft gradients and luminous geometric patterns. Use the prompts below in Midjourney, DALL·E, or Stable Diffusion — or build your own from the Dotwork vocabulary.
Copy-ready prompts
Midjourney
a Dotwork tattoo design, dotwork, stippling, pointillism, dot shading, dot gradient, stippled texture, engraving look, dense dots, stippled, tonal gradient, grainy, precise, highly detailed --ar 3:2 --no text, watermark
DALL·E / ChatGPT
A Dotwork tattoo design. Emphasize dotwork, stippling, pointillism, dot shading, dot gradient, stippled texture, engraving look, dense dots. The mood is stippled, tonal gradient, grainy, precise. Highly detailed, no text or watermark, 3:2 landscape composition.
Stable Diffusion
a Dotwork tattoo design, dotwork, stippling, pointillism, dot shading, dot gradient, stippled texture, engraving look, dense dots, stippled, tonal gradient, grainy, precise, highly detailed, sharp focus Negative prompt: text, watermark, signature, blurry, low quality, deformed
Dotwork keyword vocabulary
Tap a keyword to collect it in the Designdeas prompt builder, then mix in your own subject.
Prompts for related styles
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