Be sure what goeson your skin.

DOTSED is the tattoo planner app from DOTS.

Why you need DOTSED

Pictures are not a plan.

You save from everywhere, then doubt everything. At the consult, months of thinking become “I saved some stuff.”

DOTSED is the workspace for that gap: a project on a place on you, the references that stay, and why they stay.

Until you can hand your artist a brief they can actually use.

I want a quiet full-back piece — thin linework, almost like a field sketch. Something I won’t have to explain.

Now, just share the idea.

Project created!Now you can enrich it.

Every project starts with a place.

Ribs

Forearm

Shoulder

Hand

Full leg

Neck

Ankle

Chest

Full back

Through a voice note

Speak any thought. We transcribe it and keep it in the project.

Through references

Add photos. Like them, skip them, or talk over them into context.

Through artists

Add the artists you love. Keep them with this project.

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Inspiration

Each day, a small pack of references matched to this project — the placement, the tone you’ve already kept. Save what belongs. Skip the rest. It is not a feed, and nothing you have already seen comes back.

Tattoo Artist Questions

The questions experienced tattoo artists actually ask — colour, scale, what must never appear. Answer one out loud, or attach a reference. Each answer rewrites the brief, so you walk in already knowing what you mean.

What colors do you want this tattoo in?

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How big should this piece sit across your back?

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Should the mountain ornament stay exact, or loosen?

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Tattoo artist brief

Placement

Full back

Color

Black and white

Size

Large, full back

Key themes

Quiet · Field sketch · Mountains · Black and white

Summary

I want a piece that can sit on the back without becoming a conversation. Quiet linework, like a field sketch of mountains — accurate, not stylized. The spine left empty. Something I will not have to explain.

Intent: A large, quiet full-back piece. Keep the center calm.
Style: Black and white. Accurate mountain ornament. Spine left empty.
Avoid: Heavy fill, loud motifs, anything that needs explaining.

Liked references

What I’m drawn to, in my own notes.

The mountain ornament. Keep it accurate, not stylized.

This line weight. Almost a field sketch.

Disliked references

Directions to avoid.

Artists

Tattoo artists I saved.

Mira Solis@mirasolis
Kenzo Hale@kenzohale