A colour tattoo of a stylised lion head in orange, red and yellow, set against swirling blue waves with stars, on the inside of a forearm.

Enlarged with AI from a smaller original

Geometric lion on a forearm

Geometric · Forearm · Colour · Photo

A stylised lion head faces forward, built from angular orange, red and yellow shapes with dark outlines. Behind it, blue swirling waves and small star-like marks fill a rounded area. The solid, flat colour fills and the bold geometric shapes give the piece a graphic look, and the circular design sits neatly in the middle of the forearm.

Find an artist for this

Take it to an artist as a reference. A good artist will make it yours rather than copy someone else's tattoo.

A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Tomas,

Keep reading

The rain has come in sideways again, so the Saturday market at Harbour Yard is mostly puddles and people hurrying past my stall without looking up. Mum sends her love and says you are to wear the wool hat I posted. I have sold four lanterns this week, all tin, all painted by old Mr Deacon before his hands went. The one he kept back for himself sits on the shelf above the till: a lion, orange as a dropped marigold, its face cut into hard flat shapes like a folded paper crown, and behind its mane a whorl of blue water with little white stars caught in the swell.

A woman bought it on Thursday, the one with the green umbrella who always asks the price twice. She said she had seen the same lion on a ship's bell in Porto and wanted to know who had painted it. I told her I had no idea, which is true. Mr Deacon never signed anything. He said a lion has no need to know whose name is on it.

She stood there in the drip a long time, turning the lantern so the light caught the waves. Then she said she would take it, but only if I let her pay with the coins her father had brought back from Lisbon, because the lion had looked at her, and she could not walk past a thing that looked back.

I gave her the change in the wrong coins. She did not notice, and I have decided not to mention it to her.

Love, Ada

More like this

Geometric big cat face tattoo in orange, red and black with grey-green shading on the forearm.
Geometric big cat face on a forearm
Watercolour-style tattoo of a tabby cat in orange and red washes with black linework on the forearm.
Tabby cat on a forearm
Colourful neo-traditional tattoo of a cat's head with a flame-like sunburst above it, on the calf.
Cat head with sunburst halo on a leg
Colour Japanese style tattoo of a red koi and a pale koi swimming over dark blue waves, on the inner forearm.
Red and white koi fish in waves on a forearm
Colourful giraffe head tattoo on the inner forearm, drawn in purple, pink, blue and teal with a soft watercolour look.
Watercolour giraffe head on forearm
Colourful seated lion tattoo on the inner forearm, drawn in a bold stylised neo-trad style with orange, red and yellow tones.
Seated lion on a forearm
Colourful neo-traditional nautilus shell tattoo with heavy black outlines and flowing feather-like shapes on the forearm.
Nautilus spiral tattoo on a forearm
Watercolour-style tiger head tattoo in orange, blue and black with small script beneath it, on the side of a torso over the ribs.
Watercolour tiger head with script on ribs
Colour tattoo of a rabbit with loose red and blue brush strokes swirling around it, on the upper arm.
Rabbit with red brush strokes on an upper arm
Neo-traditional colour tattoo of a lion head with a flowing orange, yellow and blue mane on a calf, against a red brick wall.
Colourful lion head on a calf
Watercolour-style owl tattoo with black linework and splashes of purple, orange, pink and blue on the outer thigh.
Watercolour owl on a thigh
Colour tattoo of a pink koi and a white cat with blue Japanese wave patterns across a forearm.
Koi and wave cat on a forearm

From the plentytattoo archive, uploaded by a user. Is this your work? Ask for credit or removal.