Tattoo Design: Making Patterns in discreet combustion: Introduct Something IÕve done on the side for a while now is design tattoo art. Usually, the design requests are organic and "arty", and I use pen and ink. When a friend asked for a design of a pattern of five sledgehammers in a ring, I decided to use a computer instead. The Paint module in combustion is the vector-based graphics tool I am most familiar with. The design was successful, and I discovered several techniques that were very helpful in creating patterns. This tutorial will help you take advantage of the sophisticated Paint tools in combustion, and cover those pattern-making techniques.