Fine line tattoo of a thin arrow pointing left across the inner wrist and forearm.

Enlarged with AI from a smaller original

Single line arrow on a wrist

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A close photograph of a thin, single-line arrow tattooed horizontally across the inner wrist, with the arrowhead pointing left and the fletching on the right. The line is even and delicate, in dark ink that reads as blue-black. The skin fills most of the frame against a soft, blurred background.

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

Nobody in Wrenmouth could find the old cut under the streets after the fog came off the river, so the lamplighters sent for Nell Harrow, who could hear water through stone. She came down Chandler's Steps at half eleven with a length of ash across her back and a strip of tin in her pocket, and she did not bring a lamp.

Keep reading

"Follow the head," she told the watch at the sluice gate, "not the feathers. The feathers only show you where the river has been." She pinned the tin to the iron rail, its thin dark line pointing west toward the cut. The men took it for a joke until the water on the steps began to draw back from the wall, slow as a tide that had forgotten its own time.

Her grandmother had taught her the trick on the Tanners' Reach in the year the bargemen drowned. You draw the line from the place you want to reach back to the place you stand, and the water remembers the shape. Nell had never quite believed it until Tobias Quill, who ran messages for the chandlers, climbed down the wet ladder with a coil of rope and came up an hour later carrying a brass bell that had been lost since the flood.

At dawn the bell rang beneath the chandlers' yard. Nell walked home over Low Bridge without looking back, because she knew the arrow was still pointing the way she had come. At noon the tin was on the rail, its point turned toward the cut, and nobody in Wrenmouth had the heart to take it down.

More like this

Small black tattoo of three dots in a horizontal row on a wrist, photographed against a pale grey background.
Three small dots on a wrist
Small black dotwork tattoo of five dots in a vertical line on the inner forearm, above the wrist.
Five dots in a line on a forearm
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a small bird in flight with curved wing strokes, placed on the inner wrist and forearm.
Fine line bird in flight on the wrist
Close photo of a small solid black semicolon tattoo on the inner forearm, with a patterned wall in the background.
Semicolon tattoo on inner forearm
Fine line cross tattoo on the inner wrist, with the hand curled above it against a red background.
Small cross on a wrist
Fine line tattoo of three thin black parallel lines encircling a wrist, sitting on the forearm near the hand.
Three fine lines wrapped around a wrist
Small fine-line black tattoo of an open book on the inner wrist of a raised hand, against a red background.
Open book on a wrist
Small black fine line Om symbol tattoo on the inner wrist, with a hand above it painted with coral nail varnish.
Small Om symbol on the inner wrist
Fine line tattoo of a row of small black crosses encircling the inside of a wrist, with the hand raised against a plain brown background.
Row of small crosses around a wrist
Fine line black tattoo of an infinity symbol with a small cross above its left loop, on the inner wrist.
Infinity symbol with a cross on the wrist
Fine line black tattoo of a small plus sign between two angle brackets on the inner forearm, with the arm raised against a plain wall.
Small angle bracket symbol on a forearm
Close photo of a fine line tally mark tattoo in black ink on the pale inner forearm, with four upright strokes crossed by a fifth and two further strokes.
Tally marks on the forearm

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