Why   this   exists.

Every week, another email.

Every week some platform emails me. Pay to be featured. Pay to be seen. Pay for leads, no guarantees.

Read that last part again. No guarantees. They're not selling me clients. They're selling me my own visibility back to me, at a monthly rate, and if nothing comes of it that was always the deal.

I tattoo for a living. I know what a slow month feels like, and I know what it feels like to open an email telling me the fix is a subscription.

What this is instead.

You get a page. No tier, no trial, no card on file. It's yours, and you can take everything on it and walk whenever you want.

You get a booking link that sends the client to your inbox. Not to mine, not to a desk, not to somebody sitting in the middle reading it first. I take no cut of it.

Nothing on this site is for sale to artists. Not placement, not features, not leads. There is no version of this in a drawer where it turns into the emails I get every week.

Who put these artists here.

Every artist on this site was put here by a working tattooer who looked at their published work and judged that it fits a style. That is a look at the work, not a license check, an insurance check or a background check, and stabme.ink runs none of those on anybody.

Right now that tattooer is me. The plan is that it becomes other working artists, watching their own cities, because they're the only ones who can tell good work from a good camera.