Anatomy tattoo ideas

68 photos and flash · 34% Realism, 18% Dotwork · Forearm most common

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Black and red anatomical heart tattoo in a vintage engraving style, with diagram labels and Fig 37 lettering, on a area of torso skin.
Anatomical heart tattoo in engraving style
Flash design of a grey stippled skeletal ribcage, spine and pelvis filled with red, orange and yellow roses and green leaves, on a white background, in a botanical realism style.
Skeleton ribcage and pelvis with red and yellow roses
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a brain, an eye and an anatomical heart stacked down the inside of a forearm.
Brain, eye and heart on a forearm
Realistic black and grey tattoo across the top of a foot, showing peeled-back skin, muscle and toe bones in a realism style.
Anatomical foot tattoo with exposed muscle
Sepia pencil drawing of a pair of lungs made from branching twigs, with three small birds perched within, shown as a design rather than on skin.
Lungs formed of branches with three birds
Two black and grey tattoos on a person's inner forearms, one showing a female profile with anatomical lines and the other a crowned Egyptian-style bust profile.
Two profile tattoos on the forearms
Black and grey anatomical heart tattoo on the forearm, set over a pale blue dotted background with printed book text.
Anatomical heart on a forearm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a kidney with its blood vessels and the Greek words for one life, on the side of a torso.
Kidney with Greek text on the ribs
Black line tattoo of two lungs and a windpipe on a person's side ribs, with hatched dotwork on the left lung and geometric triangles on the right.
Anatomical lungs on the ribs
Black ink drawing of a ribcage, spine and pelvis with a peony, rose stems and a moth wing, shown as a tattoo design on white paper.
Ribcage, pelvis and moth with peony
Colourful geometric brain tattoo with bold black outlines and blue, green, yellow and pink watercolour-style shading on a person's upper limb.
Geometric brain with watercolour fill
Black and grey engraved-style anatomical heart tattoo with arteries on the upper arm.
Anatomical heart on an arm
Black and grey traditional flash sheet of skulls, an eagle, a reaper, a pigeon, a deer head, a sun, and two feathered headdresses, with no placement shown.
Traditional flash sheet in black and grey
Black and grey dotwork drawing of a human ribcage with spine and shoulder blades, set within a circle of ornamental floral swirls.
Ribcage and floral dotwork design
Black and grey photograph of a man's back and raised arms covered in skeletal anatomy tattoos, including a skull, ribcage, spine and spiders.
Skeletal back and arms tattoo, black and grey
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a heart split diagonally, with an anatomical heart above and a brain below, placed on the chest.
Split anatomical heart and brain on the chest
Black and grey tattoo of a cat skull with anatomical labels, drawn in an engraved illustration style, on the outer thigh.
Labelled cat skull on a thigh
Black ink drawing of an anatomical heart with a gramophone horn rising from its top and a hand crank on its right side, shaded with fine hatching on a white background.
Anatomical heart fused with a gramophone horn
Pen sketch of a spine and pelvis in shaded ink on white, with the handwritten caption "that's hip." beneath it.
Spine and pelvis sketch with hip pun
Black and grey tattoo of an anatomical heart beneath a radiating all-seeing eye, with botanical sprigs, placed on the upper back.
Anatomical heart with eye and botanical sprigs on a back
Black and grey realism tattoo of a hand holding strings attached to an anatomical heart, on the forearm.
Marionette hand and anatomical heart on a forearm
Neo-trad style tattoo of an anatomical face in black and grey hatching with a green, yellow and red band across the jaw, on the forearm.
Anatomical face with colour band on forearm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a brain with branching root lines running down the upper arm, shown in a close greyscale photo.
Brain with roots on an upper arm
Realistic full arm tattoo of red muscle fibres and tendons, shaded in dark tones, running from the forearm up to the upper arm.
Muscle anatomy sleeve on a forearm and upper arm
Pen and ink tattoo design of a rose, ribcage, spine and pelvis with a blue insect wing, drawn in a botanical anatomical style.
Rose, ribcage and blue wing anatomy design
Black and grey realism tattoo of stacked vertebrae running down the back of a person's neck, seen from behind.
Vertebrae tattoo on the back of the neck
Black and white engraved drawing of an anatomical heart with dense hatched linework, presented as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Anatomical heart engraving line drawing
Small black and grey anatomical heart tattoo with stippled shading and fine linework on the inner wrist and forearm.
Small anatomical heart on the wrist
Watercolour-style tattoo of a rib cage with a pink and red central form and black linework, on the inner forearm.
Watercolour rib cage on forearm
Black and grey tattoos cover a person's back, arms and hands, with skull, ribcage and spine imagery against a dark background.
Full back and arms covered in skeletal tattoos
Realism tattoo across the top of a foot showing shaded muscle fibres, tendons and bone-like forms in black and grey ink, with the toes visible above.
Anatomical muscle and bone tattoo on a foot
Pen drawing of a ribcage arranged in the shape of a heart, shaded with black hatching on white paper beside a black Sharpie pen.
Heart-shaped ribcage drawing in black ink
Black and grey tattoo on the inner forearm showing a half ribcage with spine, a stippled flower and a moth, in a dotwork style.
Ribcage, flower and moth on a forearm
Black linework tattoo on a forearm showing a stacked armour plate, ribcage, lungs and heart, in a blackwork style.
Armour, ribcage, lungs and heart on a forearm
Black and grey linework tattoo of a skeletal spine, ribcage and antlers running along the forearm, with part of another bird tattoo visible at the top edge.
Skeletal spine and antlers on a forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo on the top of a foot, showing muscle, tendons and bone as if the skin has peeled back over the toes.
Anatomical muscle and bone tattoo on a foot
Two geometric tattoos on a leg: an anatomical heart shaded in red and orange watercolour tones beside a brain in blue and green, both outlined in black.
Geometric heart and brain on a calf
Realism style tattoo on a calf showing a half-head profile, with a black and grey ear and hair on one side and coloured anatomy and a starry galaxy on the other.
Split head anatomy and galaxy on a calf
Black and grey anatomical heart tattoo in an engraved style on the centre of a person's upper chest, with small labelled text beside it.
Anatomical heart tattoo on the chest
Close-up of a black and green traditional style tattoo on an upper arm, showing an engraved uterus with fallopian tubes wrapped in leaves and vines.
Uterus and leafy vine on an upper arm
Black and grey anatomical heart tattoo with shaded detail on the forearm near the wrist, in a greyscale photo.
Anatomical heart on the wrist
Black and grey tattoo of two crossed bones with small Fig. 22 lettering on the inner upper arm, shaded in dotwork against a dark textured wall.
Crossed bones with Fig. 22 on the upper arm
Black ink drawing of an anatomical heart wrapped in octopus tentacles with suckers, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Anatomical heart with octopus tentacles
Black and grey tattoo of thigh and calf muscle anatomy in fine hatched linework, running down the outside of a woman's leg.
Muscle anatomy tattoo down a thigh and leg
Black and grey realism style tattoo across a person's back showing a man in a suit walking a tightrope, with a heart hanging on one side and a brain on the other.
Tightrope walker balancing heart and brain on a back
Black and grey dotwork style tattoos of a brain, an eye and a human heart stacked down the inner forearm.
Brain, eye and heart on a forearm
Black and grey dotwork tattoos of a brain on the left inner forearm and an anatomical heart on the right inner forearm.
Brain and heart tattoos on two forearms
Colour fine line tattoo of a nerve cell with branching dendrites and an orange axon, placed on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Neuron tattoo on upper back