Small black spider tattoo with fine legs and a shaded body, placed on the side of the neck behind the ear.

Enlarged with AI from a smaller original

Small spider on the neck behind the ear

Fine line · Neck · Black and grey · Photo

A small spider sits on the side of the neck, just below and behind the ear, shown in profile. The spider has a rounded, shaded abdomen and thin, sketchy legs drawn in black ink. The pale skin and dark hair give a simple, high-contrast composition.

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 on the fourteenth floor of Lark House remembered when the spider first arrived, only that the lift stopped working the same winter. She lived in the gap behind the bin chute, a black bead of a thing with legs as thin as cotton, and she spun her webs in the corners where the stairwell light never reached.

Keep reading

Old Mrs Pryce said the spider kept an account. Whatever fell down the chute, a key, a button, a child's mitten, she caught on a thread and sent back up on the draught, so that by spring every door had its key again. Nobody paid her for this. People left sugar lumps on the windowsill and told her to mind her own business.

When the council men came with their clipboards and their talk of demolition, Dev Kaur, who was nine and stubborn, sat on the landing with a jam jar and a biscuit tin. "She's coming with us," he said. "Where's she going to go?" asked the man with the clipboard. Dev shrugged. The spider was already moving, a single line of silk running from the bin chute to the handrail, then down the lift shaft into the dark.

They moved everyone out in March, and the tower came down on a Tuesday in a grey cloud that hung over the ring road for an hour. Weeks later, on the new estate across the road, a boy found a black spider in his wellies and carried it out on a leaf. Her thread was already strung between the lamp post and the fence, and caught in it, glinting, was a small brass key that had dropped from somebody's pocket.

More like this

Realistic black widow spider tattoo in black and grey with a small red hourglass marking, on the upper back.
Black widow spider on upper back
A realistic black widow spider tattoo with red markings on the top of a person's shoulder, with a black strap visible at the top of the frame.
Black widow spider on a shoulder
Black widow spider tattoo with a red hourglass marking on the side of a woman's neck, with blonde hair pulled back.
Black widow spider on the neck
Small black silhouette of a fairy with wings tattooed on the outer ankle, photographed against a blurred purple background.
Fairy silhouette on an ankle
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a bee with outstretched wings on the inner forearm of a person wearing a lace top.
Small bee tattoo on a forearm
Black and grey realistic spider tattoo on skin, shaded to look three-dimensional, with its legs spread across the frame.
Realistic black and grey spider tattoo
Black fine line tattoo of three star shapes joined by a dotted line, running from the collarbone up towards the shoulder.
Three star motifs with dotted line on shoulder
Black and grey fine line poppy tattoo on the upper shoulder and chest of a person wearing a black off-shoulder top.
Poppy flower tattoo on the shoulder
Fine line tattoo of two hands linking little fingers, placed on the upper back just below the neck.
Pinky promise hands on upper back
Black ink tattoo of three star shapes linked by a dotted line, running from the collarbone up towards the shoulder.
Three stars across collarbone and shoulder
Realistic black widow spider tattoo with red hourglass markings and shaded legs, placed on a shoulder.
Black widow spider on a shoulder
Realistic brown and red swallow tattoo in flight on a woman's upper chest, near the collarbone and shoulder.
Swallow in flight on upper chest

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