Southern Draw Skin Art Studio

While vacationing in Tennessee, we stopped by on 7/20 looking to get 4 tats done. It would be the first time getting tats for 3 of us. From the moment we stepped in we were greeted and welcomed. All four tats were done by Jesse. His work was freakin' amazing. With it being my first tat, Jesse made sure I was comfortable the whole time. While he was working on my husband,he couldn't stop smiling because it was looking so awesome Jesse you are phenomenal!!! We look forward to coming back on our next trip to Tennessee to get more done.

Absolutely my favorite spot in Tennessee me and my husband got last minute tattoos in memorial to the one year passing of my great aunt and we couldn’t have asked for a better shop and group of people. Jon was my artist and Rhonda the owner was my husbands.

Highly recommend!!!! Great service and super friendly and accommodating staff! My partner and I went in for small, simple wrist tattoo and a nose piercing about an hour and a half before closing while most of the staff were finishing up with other clients and we did not feel rushed at all, on the contrary, we received excellent service from both the piercer and tattoo artist! If you’re looking to get a spontaneous piercing or tattoo while on vacation, definitely visit them!

JD!!!! That dude was amazing! Such a skilled artist. My husband and I came in for honeymoon tattoos, we gave JD a hard task. The Sagittarius constellation with intricate straight lines and small ( I mean really small) stars. We were so happy that we actually made another appointment for two days later and went back to see him. The shop is super clean and everyone that we met greeted us with smiles on their faces. Rhonda the owner was referred to us by a local down the street at the Ax throwing bar (go figure) hahahaha. She has a great place with great artist what more could you ask for? 5 stars all day.

Jon was amazing! He welcomed us as soon as we entered. He was very friendly and informative. I trusted him with advice on my tattoo and size. Very professional and clean. I’m from Georgia, about 7 hours from pigeon forge, but I would come back here for another tattoo in the future. Thanks for everything.

They are really sweet and caring and make sure that you’re comfortable before you get anything done. The price was a little high but I’m very glad I went there and got my lip pierced. And it’s very clean and comfortable and relaxing all in all.

Highly recommend this place. My bestie and I went in for matching tattoos, and the artists were very personable. This place is the cleanest studio I've ever been in. They take walk ins, and that's a big perk. Especially being in a highly populated tourist area.

Got a arm band tattoo done here today. I schedule an appointment days before and the artist did not show up, but the artist Josh stepped in a did an amazing job! Very nice guy and good environment in the store.

Came into Gatlinburg with family and chose this studio to get our work done! I got in touch with them beforehand and was able to have great communication through their Facebook messenger, booking 4 tattoos all at the same time together.
The atmosphere of the studio is bright and fun, everyone laughing and cracking jokes. You feel very welcome when you come in and wait! Our tattoos turned out exactly like we all wanted them; they were all amazing!!
The artists even added us a few creative touches to make them even more special!

The only bad thing I can say is that we left a relative in the car watching my one year-old until I could get finished because my tattoo was fairly small and only took about 20 or 30 minutes… But my artist didn’t even get to the shop until an hour after my appointment time, without anything sketched up yet, so we ended up having to wait a while and leave her out in the vehicle for that long.
We all ended up finished with our tattoos at almost the exact same time though, so it worked out well that way at least.

10/10 would recommend to anyone and will be back!!

We came in back in July for two tattoos for myself and two for my husband. The pics of the yin and yang on both of us became infected, we were later told this happened because she stayed on the black too long and kept coloring it over and over, they have since scarred. The skull tattoos are not the colors he said he was doing. He never mentioned orange leaves on mine and my husband's red skull turned out pink. We reached out to the owner who said she would at least reimburse us, we have this in a message and she never followed through.