Banner tattoo ideas

1,537 photos and flash · 65% Traditional, 18% Neo-trad · Forearm most common

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Navy line drawing of a pocket watch, rose, leaves and beads with a banner reading TIME HEALS ALL WOUNDS, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Pocket watch, rose and banner design
Traditional-style flash design of a lantern with a gold flame, three moths and banners reading LIGHTS, WILL, GUIDE and YOU HOME, with no body placement shown.
Lantern with moths and banner lettering
Black and grey traditional flash sheet on a wooden table, showing video game themed designs including a castle, bomb, ghost, shy guy, tombstone reading GAME OVER and a pin-up figure.
Video game themed flash sheet in black and grey
Neo-traditional flash design of a red-haired mermaid with teal tail, fish and a banner reading SIREN, with an anchor and wave tattoo on her arm.
Mermaid with banner reading Siren
Purple and teal illustration of a skull and crossbones filled with traditional tattoo flash motifs such as roses, swallows, stars and banners.
Skull and crossbones with traditional flash motifs
Neo-trad colour tattoo of a skull in a military helmet with crossed guns and an OVERKILL banner on a forearm, shown beside its printed design.
Skull helmet and crossed guns on a forearm
Pencil drawing of a cross wrapped in ribbon banners reading Your Pain, Is A and Gift, drawn in black and grey shading as a tattoo design.
Cross with ribbon banners, pencil design
Traditional style colour tattoo of a snow globe showing a city skyline, framed by red flowers and green leaves, with the words WILD PROMISE on a banner on the forearm.
Snow globe with city skyline and flowers
Black hand-lettered tattoo reading 'Not all those who wander are lost' with a ribbon banner behind 'who' across the top of a foot.
Lettered quote across the top of a foot
Fine line black tattoo of a crescent moon, five stars and a ribbon banner reading to the moon and back, on the upper back.
Crescent moon and stars with script banner
Traditional style tattoo of two red roses with green leaves and a scroll banner reading MOM and DAD, on the upper arm.
Red roses and banner with MOM and DAD
Colourful traditional tattoos of pin-up women, cartoon characters and stars cover a man's forearms, upper arms and chest.
Traditional cartoon and pin-up sleeves on arms
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a crossed hammer and adjustable wrench with a Dad banner on the upper arm.
Crossed hammer and wrench with Dad banner
Colour neo-trad tattoo of a cat in a flying helmet and goggles beside a red biplane, with the words Come Fly With Me on a banner, on the calf.
Cat pilot and biplane on a calf
Colour tattoo of a meerkat in a gilded oval frame with a meerkat sculpture on top and a Simples banner, on the thigh, in a neo-traditional style.
Meerkat portrait in a gilded frame on a thigh
Close-up of a colourful traditional style tattoo of an open pearl clam with a pink pearl and bubbles, beside a purple candy heart, on an upper arm.
Pearl clam and candy heart on an arm
Colour traditional tattoo of a grey tooth with an orange filling and a FILLER banner, placed on the arm near the elbow.
Tooth with filling and FILLER banner
Neo-traditional flash design of a green zombie hand gripping a red rose, with two curled banners and a small skull at the lower left.
Zombie hand holding a red rose with banners
Black line drawing of a mermaid with scaled tail beside a sailing ship and a large sea creature, a tattoo design sketch with no body part shown.
Mermaid and ship sea monster design
Colour neo-trad tattoo on a calf showing Maude Flanders from The Simpsons in the pose of Our Lady of Guadalupe, with the banner text ONLY MAUDE CAN JUDGE ME.
Maude Flanders as Our Lady of Guadalupe
Black and grey tattoo of a scroll banner reading Mischief Managed, with footprints and smoke wisps, on skin.
Mischief Managed banner with footprints
Black and grey realism tattoo sleeve on an upper arm showing a Roman numeral pocket watch, a scrolled banner with script lettering, leaves and stars.
Pocket watch and script sleeve on upper arm
Traditional-style flash drawing of a striped hot air balloon with a banner reading Enjoy Your Journey, a woven basket and small stars, in red, brown and black ink on kraft paper.
Hot air balloon with Enjoy Your Journey banner
Traditional style tattoo of a stack of books with an eye on the cover and a yellow banner reading NERD LIFE, on the upper arm.
Stacked books with an eye and NERD LIFE banner
Traditional style colour tattoo of a blue cross wrapped in green vines and a grey banner reading Mom and Dad, on a limb.
Blue cross with Mom and Dad banner
Neo-traditional style flash design of a pale, stitched-face woman with red curls inside an oval frame, above a banner reading FOREVER.
Stitched portrait with FOREVER banner
Black ink line drawing of a compass inside a tree branch ring, with banners reading Not all who wander are lost and an anchor below, styled as a tattoo design.
Compass and tree design with banner text
Traditional style colour tattoo of an astronaut giving a thumbs up above a banner reading Your Demons, with Fight Off above, on the upper arm.
Astronaut with Fight Off Your Demons banner
Traditional style colour tattoo of an anatomical heart with flames, a pocket watch and a banner on the forearm.
Anatomical heart and pocket watch on a forearm
Traditional style flash sheet of many small coloured tattoo designs, including hearts, roses, daggers, pin-ups and animals, all lettered with True Love and framed by TATTOO at the top and bottom.
True Love traditional flash sheet
Coloured flash design of a white skull wearing a red fez and bow tie, with a tattoo machine and the word Geronimo on a gold banner, on a pale blue background.
Skull with fez, bow tie and tattoo machine
Black and grey flash sheet of ornate script and blackletter lettering designs, including words, numbers and month names, with no body placement shown.
Lettering flash sheet in black and grey
Pencil drawing of a tattoo lettering design with ribbon banners, French script, a heart, a pocket watch and a script word, shown without any body placement.
Pencil lettering banner with French script
Four-panel photo of a black and grey full sleeve tattoo on an arm, with a skull, roses, a clock, a microphone and text banners, running from shoulder to wrist.
Black and grey skull full sleeve
Colour traditional tattoo of a sunflower with a stem, leaves and a banner reading SPARK, on the upper arm near the elbow.
Sunflower and SPARK banner on an upper arm
Close photo of a red heart with a white banner and black swirl details, a traditional style tattoo on the upper arm.
Red heart with banner and swirls on an upper arm
Traditional style compass with a star, yellow flowers and pink ribbon banners wrapping around a forearm.
Compass and flowers on a forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a pocket watch with Roman numerals, roses, butterflies and a banner reading Ashana on an upper arm and shoulder.
Pocket watch, roses and butterflies on upper arm
Neo-trad style flash design of a red-haired cartoon girl surfing a turquoise wave beneath pink flowers and a ribbon banner with lettering, with no body placement shown.
Surfing girl with wave and flowers
Seamless black and white line pattern of traditional flash motifs, including hearts with banners, daggers, a skull, an eye, a diamond, an anchor and an eight ball.
Traditional flash pattern of hearts, daggers and skulls
Two hands pressed together, each with a matching traditional-style dagger tattoo with an eye on the hilt and a banner ribbon on the back of the hand.
Matching dagger tattoos on two hands
Traditional-style flash drawing of a red heart with flames, a script Harley-Davidson banner, a blue rose and orange flowers on a black background, with a Harley-Davidson Motor Cycles shield logo
Heart, rose and banner flash design
Traditional-style tattoos cover the back of a hand, including a shield and an eight ball, while the hand holds a small ginger kitten.
Traditional hand tattoos holding a kitten
Black ink flash design of a hand-drawn banner ribbon reading Warrior not Worrier, in lettering style.
Warrior not Worrier banner design
Upper arm sleeve tattoo in black and grey shading with a ship wheel, waves and a banner reading of the Sea, with pink flowers and a compass star.
Ship wheel sleeve with banner and flowers
Traditional style tattoo on an upper arm of a pink sprinkled donut wrapped in brown banners reading AS THROUGH THIS LIFE WE ROLL, with green leaves and red berries.
Sprinkled donut with banner on upper arm
Person in a car driving with a traditional-style arm sleeve featuring swallows and banners, with a geometric tattoo on a passenger's thigh in the foreground.
Traditional sleeve and thigh tattoos in a car
Black and grey botanical tattoo of leaves on a hip and roses, feathers and flowers on a thigh, with a banner reading LIGHT OF MY LIFE on the lower leg.
Botanical hip and rose thigh tattoos