Black and grey linework tattoo on a forearm showing a standing cat in a striped jumper and shorts, with Cyrillic lettering beneath it.

Standing cat in striped jumper on forearm

Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A standing cat in a horizontally striped jumper and shorts is drawn in fine black linework with shaded fur. Cyrillic lettering sits below the figure in the same black ink. The design is shown in close view on a pale forearm, with partial edges of other tattoos visible at the frame's margins.

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 trawler Lyudmila Ivanovna had a cat aboard before anyone had a name for him. Grigory swore the tom came up the gangway at Murmansk with a fish head in his mouth and the look of a man who had paid his passage. By the second week nobody remembered him as anything but crew. He ate from the galley bowl, slept on the coil of spare rope, and would not go below when the hold was being salted, which the men took as a sign of good judgement.

Keep reading

Mostly he watched. He sat on the rail in a knitted jumper with navy and white bands, made by Galina from the leftover wool of her own winter hat, and he would not take it off even in dry weather. The shorts came later, after the bosun bet a bottle of vodka that no cat could stand upright for a whole watch. The cat stood upright for eleven hours, then fell asleep on his feet against the winch. The bosun paid up, and Galina sewed the shorts that same night.

When the ice came in off the Kola coast and the radio went to static, the captain began calling him Morskoy Kotik, sea kitten, half as a joke and half as a rank. Men who had been frightened for days started talking to him at the rail. Grigory said it was the jumper that did it. Nobody argued.

We docked with a full hold and every man aboard. The cat went down the gangway first, stiff-backed, stripes straight, and did not look round at the harbour once. Nobody had to tell him where the quay was.

More like this

Black and grey dotwork tattoo of an anthropomorphic cat in a striped jumper and shorts on the forearm, with Cyrillic lettering below.
Cat in striped jumper with Cyrillic lettering
Black and grey traditional tattoo on a forearm showing Anubis seated between hanging scales, with a winged Eye of Horus above and a pyramid and sun below.
Anubis and Eye of Horus on a forearm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a wolf's head emerging from a torn shape, with pale hands gripping it, on the forearm.
Wolf head held by hands on a forearm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a cat in a space helmet with a jetpack and stars, on a calf.
Astronaut cat with jetpack on a calf
Cartoon grey cat in a teal striped top, outlined in black, tattooed on an ankle above a red patent shoe strap.
Cartoon cat in striped top on ankle
Realism tattoo of a brown owl with orange eyes above a clock face with Roman numerals on a forearm, with the word Wisdom and red hexagons above.
Owl and clock on a forearm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a cat in a striped jumper fishing from a rowboat under a dotted crescent moon, on the upper back.
Cat fishing from a rowboat on the upper back
Black tattoo of a film strip with a dark silhouette and ink drips on a leg, surrounded by other black linework tattoos of a ship, birds and high heeled legs.
Film strip with ink splash on a calf
Black and grey blackwork and dotwork tattoo on a calf showing a raised hand with two fingers beside a dark silhouette of a horned profile.
Hand and horned silhouette on a calf
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a desert scene with saguaro cacti, mountains and a moon, set inside a circle on the lower leg.
Desert landscape in a circle on the lower leg
Black and grey dotwork and blackwork tattoo on a forearm, showing a stag silhouette against a moon, flying birds, pine trees and a deer, framed by solid black bands.
Stag and forest band on a forearm
Black and grey tattoo of a caterpillar smoking a hookah on a mushroom, inside a circular frame with a landscape behind it, on a calf.
Caterpillar with hookah on a calf

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