A Cat Tattoo for All Three, Drawn from Their Real Habits

Soft colour tattoo of three cats with a floating food bowl, dotted trails, sparkles and an orange moon, on an upper arm

This piece started the usual way: a message with photos of the three cats of the house, and a wish to have the whole gang together on one arm.

The fun part is that these three have completely different personalities. One sits upright and proper like a small statue. One curls into a comma. And one lives by a single rule: if a bag exists, a cat must be inside it. 🐈

Every cat has a signature move

When we turn a real cat into a drawing, we do not start from the face. We start from the habits. We go through the photos asking one question: which pose makes you know instantly that this is this cat? The answer is different for every cat, and that is the thing worth putting on skin, far more than getting the exact count of spots right.

The real three cats: a tuxedo cat, a calico in a floral bandana, and a dark brown cat

Here are the actual three. Matching each cat to its drawing should not take long.

Arranging three cats without making it a lineup

The challenge with multi-pet pieces is keeping them from becoming a school photo lineup. So this one is arranged like a little constellation instead: three cats floating in their own corners, dotted trails in two colours running between them like the paths of a chase, and the food bowl hovering at the top like a mothership, because food is the centre of every cat's universe. A few sparkles and one small orange moon close the scene.

Soft colour or black line

Close up of the tattoo showing the calico sitting inside a plastic bag and the orange moon

Pet portraits work in two main directions: pure black line, quiet and classic, or soft colour like this piece, which lets each cat keep the real colour of its coat. Both are right; it only depends on the mood you want.

We recently told the black-line side of this story with three dogs from another home. Open the two side by side and you will see: same idea, three animals, entirely different mood. And if you simply love cats, the flash catalogue has a whole cat section ready to go.

How to send photos so we can draw the personality

If you want us to catch your cat's personality, send plenty of photos, and not just the pretty ones. We want the real ones: inside the bag, sitting in the bowl, asleep in an impossible position. Those are the best raw material there is. We pick the pose that is most them and sketch it for you first.

Cat people, message us any time

If your house also has a four-legged boss you would like to carry with you, one cat or the whole gang, send a DM to @naive.flora.tattoo.

The studio is on Phahonyothin 32/1 in Sena Nikhom, Chatuchak, open daily 10:00 to 20:00, from ฿1,500. Thank you for bringing all three to live together on one arm. 🧡