Bat tattoo ideas

201 photos and flash · 20% Neo-trad, 14% Traditional · Forearm most common

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Black and white ink drawing of a bat with outstretched wings, surrounded by rose stems, buds and leaves, shown as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
Bat with wings spread among roses
Solid black tribal bat design with spiked, swirling wings and a pointed lower tail, shown on a plain white background.
Tribal bat design
Grey stippled bat with spread wings above a cluster of red, pink and yellow flowers and green leaves, drawn as a botanical tattoo design on cream paper.
Bat with red and pink flowers
Neo-traditional flash design of a green pin-up bride of Frankenstein wrapped in bandages, with a skull, roses and a heart, drawn for a tattoo.
Bride of Frankenstein pin-up flash
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design in neo-traditional style showing a woman with tear-streaked cheeks, surrounded by roses, a cameo, a bat wing and a spider.
Woman portrait with roses and bat wings sketch
Black ink lettering design reading too weird to live, too rare to die, with three bats flying above the words on a white background.
Too weird to live, too rare to die lettering with bats
Black and grey drawing of a skull with bat wings and a small bat at its jaw, shown as a neo-traditional tattoo design on white paper.
Winged skull with bat design
Black and grey ink drawing of a spread-winged creature built from stippled dotwork, shown as a tattoo flash design on white paper.
Stippled winged creature design in black ink
Black and white line drawing design of Jack Skellington's head and body set against a spider web with two bats, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Jack Skellington with spider web and bats
Pencil sketch of a large-eyed cartoon bat with fluffy fur, surrounded by curling vines and leaves, drawn as a tattoo design in a sketchbook.
Cartoon bat with vine flourishes
Black ink traditional flash sheet showing a skull, a sun, a bat, a spider web, an eagle and a snail, drawn in a bold outline style with shading.
Traditional flash sheet of skulls and symbols
Traditional-style Halloween flash sheet in bold black outlines and bright flat colour, showing a pin-up witch, ghost, bats, skull, pumpkin and coffin designs.
Halloween flash sheet with witch and bats
Black and white flash design of a crescent of swirling lines with black cats, a gothic castle, a skull with wings, a star and a seated girl.
Black cats, castle and crescent swirl flash
Traditional style flash design of three cartoon characters, a vampire, a grinning skeleton and a witch, above a banner reading Three of a Kind and a red rose.
Three of a Kind witches and skeleton flash
Black ink flash design reading HAPPY HALLOWEEN with a bat above, ornate swirls, a spiderweb and two spiders below.
Happy Halloween lettering with bat and spiderweb
Black ink traditional flash sheet on cream paper showing a raven, bat, black cat, pumpkin, coffin, broomstick, spiders and spider webs, with a £31 price marked in the centre.
Halloween flash sheet with bats, cats and spiders
Black ink line drawing of a bat with spread wings and claws curled in front of an outlined heart, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Bat with outstretched wings and a heart
Four flash designs on black in orange and yellow: a black cat, a skull with diamonds, a bat beneath a spiderweb and an owl in front of a moon, drawn in a bold vintage style.
Halloween flash sheet: cat, skull, bat and owl
Black ink line drawing of a woman with flowing hair and a third eye, holding a skull, with two bats above, shown as a neo-traditional tattoo flash design on paper.
Woman with skull and bats design
Four solid black bat silhouette designs stacked vertically on a white background, each with distressed, cracked white speckling across the wings.
Four bat silhouette designs
Black ink line drawing of a round, smiling cartoon bat with its wings wrapped around its body, shown as a tattoo design.
Chubby bat with wrapped wings
Sketchbook page of hand-drawn tattoo flash in red and blue pencil, including a spider, umbrella, eye, apple, dagger and chainsaw, with no body placement shown.
Sketchbook page of spider, umbrella and chainsaw flash
Traditional style flash design of Jack Skellington's grinning face above a banner reading The Nightmare Before Christmas, framed by red roses, a bat and spider web linework.
Jack Skellington with roses and banner
Pencil and ink line drawing of a bat with spread wings curling around an outlined heart, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Bat wrapped around a heart line drawing
Traditional flash drawing of a woman with bats swirling through her hair and bold red-rimmed eyes, with lettering reading Bat Shit Crazy beneath her.
Woman with bats in her hair, traditional flash
Pink flash sheet of black and pink gothic designs including a skull, werewolf head, skeleton, coffin, raven and eyes.
Gothic flash sheet with skulls, skeleton and creature
Hand-lettered black text reading too weird to live, too rare to die, with a flock of black bats, on a yellow background; a lettering design that could be used as a tattoo.
Lettering design with bats on yellow
Flash sheet of horror tattoo designs in black and pink, including a skull, werewolf head, open mouth with fangs, skeleton, coffin, raven and creature head on a pink background.
Horror flash sheet with skulls, skeleton and coffin
Black ink flash sheet of traditional-style designs including skulls, a cat, a rose, a dagger, an owl and a rabbit, many marked with the number 13, shown as drawings with no body placement.
Hand-drawn flash sheet with 13 motifs
Black and grey pencil flash sheet of gothic designs including a girl with braids, a black cat in a bat-winged frame, a cat on a crescent moon, and a heart-framed pair of monster-style profiles.
Gothic flash sheet with cats, moon and portraits
Pastel illustration of a fluffy-headed bat hanging upside down, with a blue ribbon reading EVERYTHING and WILL BE OKAY, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Upside-down bat with Everything will be okay ribbon
Flash sheet of six cartoon tattoo designs in a bold neo-traditional style, each with a slogan banner, including a lemon, a game console and a flame figure.
Six cartoon character tattoo designs on banners
Pink flash sheet of black and pink horror designs including a skeleton, werewolf head, coffin, raven, snake, bats, eyes and a severed hand.
Horror flash sheet with skeleton and werewolf
Black ink drawing of a skull with two bats and draped pearl chains set with dark gems, shown as a tattoo design on grey paper.
Skull with bats and pearl chains
Black linework flash design of a vertical sleeve layout with a skeleton face, butterfly, voodoo doll with pins, bat-winged figure, Alice-style girl and teacups.
Tim Burton style character sleeve design
Black line drawing flash design of a winged bat over a ribbon banner reading Children of the Night, What Music They Make, with a castle and roses below.
Bat, castle and roses banner design
Black and white flash sheet of three stylised bat head designs stacked vertically, with engraved wings and stippled shading.
Three stacked bat head designs in black ink
Tattoo flash drawing of a tall Halloween sleeve design with a full moon, bats, jack-o'-lanterns, ghosts, a skull and crossbones and a green figure, shown on a white background rather than on skin.
Halloween sleeve design with pumpkins and ghosts
Black and grey flash design of a shaded feather with a flock of bats flying up from its tip on a white background.
Bats flying from a feather
Tall black and white design drawing for a full sleeve, showing cats, bats, waves and a geisha-style figure in a Japanese-influenced style.
Black ink sleeve design with cats, bats and geisha
Black silhouette design of six bats flying in a diagonal line on a white background, decreasing in size towards the bottom.
Six bats in a descending flight line
Character map sheet of black tribal tattoo-style designs, including butterflies, hearts, dragons, suns and scorpions, arranged in a grid of labelled cells.
Tribal tattoo design font specimen sheet
Black and grey flash design of Jack Skellington and Sally in a sugar skull style, with roses, pumpkins and blackletter lettering, with no body placement shown.
Jack and Sally blackletter design
Black and grey flash sheet of vintage Halloween designs including witches, bats, a skeleton, a black cat, apothecary bottles and a haunted house.
Vintage Halloween flash sheet