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A tattooed artist bent over a drawing desk in window light

Custom tattoo studio · Hamburg

Drawn once, worn forever.

Ember Ink takes no walk-ins and sells nothing off a wall. Every piece is drawn for the body it will live on — one artist, one drawing, one owner.

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The craft

Paper first. Always paper first.

A tattoo is a drawing that has to survive skin, sun and thirty years of your life — so the drawing gets the time. Two weeks, usually. You'll see it once for revisions, then never again until it's stencilled on and you're looking at it in the mirror.

We've turned down good money to copy other people's pieces, and we'll keep doing it. Your reference photos are a direction, not a destination.

Black-gloved hands guiding a tattoo machine through a colour piece

From idea to ink

Four steps. No shortcuts sold.

The process is the quality control. Every piece walks the same road.

  1. The consult

    Half an hour, free, no obligation. Bring references, scars, doubts. We mostly listen — the best pieces start as a story, not a picture.

  2. The drawing

    Two weeks at the desk. One revision round is built in; the second costs a beer and an honest conversation about what you actually want.

  3. The session

    Booked by the half or full day, never by the piece — rushing lines to fit a price is how regret gets made. Breaks whenever you need them.

  4. The heal

    Aftercare that fits on a card, a check-in at two weeks, and a free touch-up at six — because the healed tattoo is the real deliverable.

The artists

Three hands, three languages.

Book the artist whose work you'd wear even if it weren't yours.

Rieke Brandt

Fine line & botanical

Draws like an engraver, tattoos like a watchmaker. Waitlist is real; the work explains it.

Marco Steiner

Traditional & bold

Thick lines, four colours, built to age like the sailors intended. Will talk you out of tiny script on a forearm, kindly, once.

Yuki Tanaka

Blackwork & geometry

Patterns that follow the muscle instead of fighting it. Measures your arm three times before the first line.

Studio rule
Skin is the one gallery you can't rehang. We draw accordingly.
Above the drawing desk

Sessions

Priced by time, not by panic.

The deposit is €100, comes off your final session, and moves with you if you reschedule with 48 hours' notice. That's the whole fine print.

The Consult

€0 30 minutes

The idea, the placement, the honest talk about size. No obligation follows.

  • Bring anything
  • Leave with a plan
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Most popular

Half Day

€420 up to 4 hours

Most single pieces live here — drawn, stencilled and inked in one sitting.

  • One artist, no clock-watching
  • Breaks included, obviously
Book a half day

Full Day

€780 up to 7 hours

Sleeves, back pieces and the projects that deserve a whole date on the calendar.

  • Lunch on the studio
  • Touch-up at six weeks, free
Book a full day

Healed & quoted

Worn by

Rieke redrew my idea three times and the final looks nothing like my reference. It looks like me. That's the difference I was paying for.
Lena VogtBotanical half-sleeve
Marco told me my first idea would look like a bruise in ten years. Rude, correct, and the reason I trust him with my whole arm now.
Jonas K.Traditional, ongoing
The six-week touch-up took eleven minutes and they still checked the healing like it was day one. Studios show you who they are after they've been paid.
Aylin DemirBlackwork spine piece

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Start with the consult.

Consults are free and Tuesday to Saturday. Sessions are booked after the drawing is approved — the calendar respects the craft's order.

Visitors pick a artist, a date and a time here, then leave their details.

Artist
Rieke — fine line & botanical · Marco — traditional & bold · Yuki — blackwork & geometry
Open
Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
Hours
11:00–19:00
Slots
11:00 · 11:30 · 12:00 · 12:30 · 13:00 · 13:30 …

The studio

Second floor, above the record shop.

Schanzenstraße — buzz 'INK' and take the stairs. If you hear the machines, you're in the right stairwell.

Email
studio@example.com
Phone
+49 40 555 01 88
Address
Hamburg
Hours
Tue–Sat 11–19 Consults free, always booked