Neo-traditional tattoo on a forearm of a faceted pink gem heart topped by a crown, framed by grey scrolling filigree and shading.

Enlarged with AI from a smaller original

Pink gem heart with crown on a forearm

Neo-trad · Forearm · Mixed · Photo

A faceted, pink gemstone in the shape of a heart sits beneath a small crown, set inside an ornate grey frame. Swirling scrollwork, filigree and soft cloud-like shading fill the space around it and run down the arm. The gem is rendered in glossy colour with strong highlights, while the surrounding ornament is in black and grey with tonal shading, and the composition is shot straight on at 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

The crate has ridden in the forward hold since Lisbon, and you have counted its iron straps every watch because counting keeps a second mate from thinking about what sits inside. Pink glass, the purser swears, a Brazilian stone cut to look like a heart, though nobody aboard the Marigold Vane has seen it out of its packing. Captain Ashdown wants it on the quay at Falmouth with the paperwork still dry.

Keep reading

Off Finisterre the sea turns on the ship like a dog shaking water off its coat. You go down with the lamp, boots sliding on the wet planks, and find the crate has shifted against the bulkhead and split one corner. Inside lies a small silver crown above a frame of scrolled metal, and the stone catches your lamp and throws pink across the bilge water like a lit window. Tobias the cook comes down behind you, grumbling that it is bad luck to open anything in weather, and goes quiet when he sees it.

You reseat the stone, lash the crate with fresh rope, and say you saw nothing but the packing grass. Tobias nods too readily. At dawn the captain asks whether the seals held, and you say they did, because a deckhand who lies about cargo finds himself put ashore at the next port with only his name to his back, and because the heart looked less like a thing being guarded than a thing keeping watch over the ship.

Falmouth comes up grey and ordinary out of the haze. You carry the crate down the gangway yourself, its weight settling into your arms, and you do not look back at the water where the light was.

More like this

Neo-traditional colour tattoo of a faceted purple gemstone heart in a gold and brown ornate frame with pink beads, on an upper arm.
Faceted purple gem heart on upper arm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a heart-shaped padlock with scrollwork and an ornate key on a ball chain, across the forearm.
Heart padlock and key on a forearm
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a faceted diamond heart with a dotted border, flanked by roses and a small flower, on the thigh.
Diamond heart and roses on a thigh
Black and grey tattoo of two roses above an inverted triangle with dangling geometric drops, in dotwork and linework style, on a forearm.
Roses and inverted triangle on a forearm
Traditional style colour tattoo of a red heart inside a teal and gold framed box, with a pink flower and teal leaves, on the back of a hand.
Heart and flower on the back of a hand
Neo-trad heart locket tattoo with grey filigree scrollwork, a red gem centre and a ribbon, shown on skin.
Filigree heart locket with red gem
Colour tattoo of a pink faceted gem heart with white sparkles, set inside a black lace-like border, on the upper arm.
Pink faceted gem heart with lace border
Traditional colour tattoo of small feet held inside a heart frame, with teal flowers and red leaves on skin.
Heart frame with feet and flowers
Traditional coloured tattoo of a red heart inside a wooden coffin, surrounded by green leaves, on an upper arm.
Heart in a coffin with leaves on upper arm
Black fine line tattoo of a heart outlined with a lace-style scalloped border, placed on a forearm against a white background.
Lace-edged heart outline on a forearm
Traditional style colour tattoo of two clasped hands inside a red heart with a beaded border, on a forearm.
Clasped hands in a beaded heart on a forearm
Traditional style colour tattoo of two hands clasping a red heart with a dotted outline and yellow flowers with green leaves, on the upper arm.
Hands holding a heart with yellow flowers

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