Anchor tattoo ideas

974 photos and flash · 35% Traditional, 23% Fine line · Forearm most common

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Flash sheet of twenty-four black and white anchor designs, many with crosses, shields, rope and an octopus, in traditional and line-art styles.
Anchor and cross flash sheet
Black and grey flash sheet of four cross-stitch style tattoo designs: lettering reading thug life, an ornate scroll, a heart with the word mom, and an anchor.
Cross-stitch style flash sheet of four designs
Fine line black tattoo of a heart outline with the word love in cursive script and a small anchor hanging from its base, on the upper back.
Love script heart with anchor on the back
Colourful watercolour-style anchor tattoo with a rope detail and paint splashes on the top of a foot.
Watercolour anchor on a foot
A held-up paper form titled Typical girl tattoo form, with black line drawings of an anchor, an infinity symbol with the word Word, a dreamcatcher, a feather and a flock of birds.
Tattoo design sheet with anchor and dreamcatcher
Black line drawing of a mermaid wrapped around an anchor with a rope, in a traditional flash style, on a sheet of paper.
Mermaid wrapped around an anchor flash
Hand-drawn colour pencil design for a full arm sleeve showing a compass rose, clouds, swallows, a sailing ship, waves, jellyfish, manta rays, an anchor and a treasure chest.
Nautical sleeve design with compass and ship
Traditional-style colour tattoo of an anchor, red heart, ribbon and stars on the top of a foot, with a matching design drawing shown below.
Anchor and heart on a foot
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of a red-haired mermaid in a shell top, with an anchor earring and rope, across the outer thigh.
Mermaid with shell top on thigh
Black and grey realism sleeve tattoo on a man's arm, showing a sailing ship, a compass rose and an anchor, with the words Love, friends and Family.
Ship, compass and anchor sleeve
Small solid black anchor tattoo on an ankle, shown in a black and white close-up photograph.
Small anchor tattoo on an ankle
Black and grey traditional flash design of a swallow perched on an ornate anchor wrapped in rope, with a ship's wheel hanging below.
Swallow perched on an anchor with ship's wheel
Black and grey traditional style tattoo on an upper arm showing a classic cartoon mouse at a ship's wheel, framed by rope, a lamp and an anchor.
Cartoon mouse at ship's wheel with anchor and rope
Flash drawing of a bearded skull in a peaked cap with an anchor emblem, gripping a dark bottle, in black and red ink on parchment.
Skull in peaked cap holding a bottle