Not sure what to choose? These references will clarify your taste, enhance your ideas, and help you find a design that truly represents you.

“How Do I Think Outside the Box?” explores practical strategies to unlock creativity and push past unseen limits — especially in tattoo artistry. From changing perspective and challenging assumptions to using powerful exercises, this post offers tools for developing bold, original tattoo ideas. Written from the perspective of Apz, a tattoo artist based in Manhattan, New York City, with experience working in Dubai, UAE, and Copenhagen, Denmark, etc.