Fine line black outline tattoo of Totoro, the forest spirit from My Neighbour Totoro, on the inner ankle.

Enlarged with AI from a smaller original

Totoro outline on an ankle

Fine line · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A single-line outline of the character Totoro, showing the rounded body, pointed ears, whiskers and small feet, drawn in thin black linework. The design sits on the side of the ankle and leg, shown in a close photograph against a dark sparkly background. The tattoo is uncoloured and the lines are even and clean.

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

Sit yourself down on the wall, love, mind the cold coming up through the stones. You'll want to hear this before the light goes off the runner beans. My grandad kept the far allotment behind the chapel, and every March the rhubarb came up under the hedge with that wet green smell, and every March something had been sleeping in it.

Keep reading

He never saw it proper. He saw the mud pressed flat where something big had lain, and two pointed hollows in the frost where ears had been, and once a trail of small prints leading from the compost heap to the gate and stopping dead, as if whatever made them had simply decided to be somewhere else. Grandad was a practical man. He put a bowl of wet bran and a jar of honey by the hedge and told nobody.

Then my mother, who was seven and had a pencil she was not supposed to have, lay on her belly in the wet and drew it on the back of a seed packet. She drew it in one line, the way Grandad had told her a creature like that would only sit for. Round back, two peaked ears, a face with whiskers like a fistful of grass, a belly that touched the ground. She never lifted the pencil, and the line never broke.

The bran was gone the next morning. The seed packet was not. And pressed into the mud at the foot of the gate was one small print the size of a thumb, heading back towards the hedge.

More like this

Black and grey fine line tattoo of a small sitting rabbit seen from behind and to the side, placed on the outer ankle.
Small sitting rabbit on an ankle
Black line tattoo of a simple cartoon cat with dot eyes, whiskers and a curled tail, placed on the top of a foot beside the big toe.
Simple cat outline on the top of a foot
Black fine line outline tattoo of a small dog with large upright ears on the top of a foot, in black and grey.
Outline of a chihuahua on a foot
Black fine line tattoo of a profile face with a curved line beside it, placed on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Fine line profile tattoo on the wrist
Fine black outline tattoo of a seated cat seen from behind, with whiskers and a curled tail, on the inside of an ankle.
Cat outline on an ankle
Black outlined tattoo of a white cartoon cat with a pink bow and blue eyes, placed on the top of a foot.
Cartoon cat with pink bow on foot
Fine line black ink tattoo of a seated cat holding a wine glass, on the outside of an ankle above a grey sock.
Cat holding a wine glass on an ankle
Small black fine line tattoo of a winged unicorn outline on the forearm.
Small unicorn outline on a forearm
Small black fine line tattoo of a baby elephant with its trunk raised, on the outer ankle of a person lying on white bedding.
Baby elephant on an ankle
Small black fine line tattoo of a sitting cat with a curled tail, placed on the ankle.
Sitting cat tattoo on an ankle
Fine line black tattoo of a small elephant raising its trunk towards three solid hearts, placed on the lower leg above the ankle.
Elephant and hearts near the ankle
Fine line black tattoo of a stretching cat with closed eyes and whiskers, on a area of skin.
Stretching cat outline on skin

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