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
Fine line black tattoos on the fingers of a hand, showing a bat outline, four moon phases and a small cat face with whiskers.
Bat, moon phases and cat face on fingers
Black and grey realism style tattoo of a haunted Victorian house under a full moon with bats and bare trees, on the side of the torso.
Haunted house and full moon on the side
Colour tattoo of a decayed zombie cat character with a pink bow and two bats on the upper arm, in a neo-traditional style.
Zombie cat with bats on upper arm
Black cat with an arched back and red accents, two bats and crossed bones above the word LUCKY, tattooed on an ankle.
Black cat and LUCKY lettering on ankle
Colour tattoo of a pumpkin-headed figure in a ruffled collar and striped body, holding a ghost with a candy bowl, with a small bat above, on the thigh.
Pumpkin-headed figure with a bat on thigh
Black and grey botanical sleeve tattoo on an upper arm and shoulder, showing a bat, irises, foxglove-style flowers and leaves in fine engraved-style linework.
Bat and iris sleeve on upper arm
Four solid black bat silhouettes in a blackwork style across the top of a foot, one larger bat at the centre with three smaller ones trailing to the right.
Bat silhouettes across a foot
Colour leg sleeve tattoo on a calf showing a skeleton character, jack-o'-lanterns, ghosts and a full moon in a neo-traditional style.
Nightmare Before Christmas leg sleeve
Colour and grey tattoo of a haunted Victorian house, bare trees and bats on a upper arm in a neo-trad style.
Haunted house and bare tree on upper arm
Black ink tattoo of four bats with spiderweb-patterned wings in a diagonal row across the top of a foot.
Four bats in flight across a foot
Black hand-lettered tattoo reading TOO WEIRD TO LIVE TOO RARE TO DIE with a small bat above it, on the side of the ribs.
Lettering quote with a bat on the side ribs
Black and grey full sleeve tattoo of a haunted house, bats, a full moon and skeletal figures across the shoulder and arm, shown from three angles.
Haunted house and graveyard full sleeve
Solid black tribal bat design with spiked, swirling wings and a pointed lower tail, shown on a plain white background.
Tribal bat design
Black and grey botanical tattoo of an upside-down bat with a magnolia branch, a small flower and a moth, on a person's forearm.
Bat and magnolia on a forearm
Black and grey tattoo across a woman's shoulder and upper back showing a haunted mansion, bare tree, crosses, bats and a moon.
Gothic mansion and graveyard on a shoulder
Black and grey botanical tattoo on the forearm showing an upside-down bat inside a solid black circle, with a trailing branch of leaves and daisies below.
Upside-down bat and daisy branch on a forearm
Colour tattoo sleeve on an upper arm showing a haunted house, a white cat ghost with a green bow, a dark cat figure with a red bow, a bat and a tombstone against a blue sky.
Haunted house and cat characters on an upper arm
Colourful neo-traditional tattoo of a stitched zombie pony with a rainbow mane, framed in a beaded oval with bats, on the forearm.
Zombie pony in a bat-filled frame
Colour tattoo of a yellow Minion dressed as Scooby-Doo in front of a dark haunted house and bats, on the calf.
Minion dressed as Scooby-Doo on a calf
Black lettering tattoos reading 'Too weird to live' and 'Too rare to die', with small bat outlines, on the backs of two thighs above denim cut-off shorts.
Quote lettering across both thighs
Close-up of three solid black bat silhouette tattoos on the side of a woman's neck, below the ear.
Three bat silhouettes on the neck
Black and grey traditional bat head tattoo with open fanged mouth and white eyes, placed on the thigh.
Bat head on the thigh
Black and grey tattoo of a full moon with wispy clouds and a flock of black bats on the upper arm, in a blackwork style.
Bats flying past a moon on the upper arm
Colour neo-traditional tattoo on a thigh of a green zombie pony with pink mane, a skull on its head, bats, a moon and a gravestone.
Zombie pony with skull and gravestone on thigh
Colour tattoo on an arm of a cartoon dog lying on a jack-o'-lantern beneath a bird in a witch's hat flying a broomstick past a full moon, with a bat and stars.
Halloween night scene on an arm
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
Black and grey realism tattoo of a bat peeking out from its wing, placed on a forearm against a textured white wall.
Realistic bat wrapped in its wing on a forearm
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
Traditional style tattoo of a smiling ghost beside an orange moon and two bats, with Forever Halloween lettering below, on the lower leg.
Ghost and moon with Forever Halloween lettering
Small black and grey tattoos of a star, a bat and a skull and crossbones on the fingers of a hand resting on a keyboard.
Star, bat and skull tattoos on fingers
Black and grey Batman mask tattoo on a forearm, with bats, a bat logo and the typed quote Why do we fall sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.
Batman mask and quote on a forearm
Black and grey full back tattoo of illustrated women, peacock feathers and cherubs in a detailed Art Nouveau style, shown across the upper and middle back.
Full back tattoo of figures and peacock feathers
Traditional style colour tattoo of a grinning jack-o'-lantern pumpkin with vines, leaves, black bats and a grey banner reading 10.31.
Jack-o'-lantern pumpkin with bats
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 blackwork tattoo of four bats in flight across the top of a foot, with stippled wing detail, above red painted toenails.
Four bats in flight on a foot
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
Colour tattoo of a round-headed skeleton figure in a long dark coat, set in a black ornate oval frame with a purple and yellow moon, bats and a swirl hill, on the thigh.
Skeleton figure in an ornate oval frame on a thigh
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of a haunted house under a purple sky with bats and bare trees, covering the upper arm and shoulder.
Haunted house and bats on upper arm
Large black and grey bat symbol tattoo with a cracked, textured finish across the upper back.
Bat symbol across upper back
Black and grey realism tattoo on an upper arm showing a Superman shield, a spider emblem and bats flying against clouds.
Superhero emblems and bats on upper arm
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
Black and grey realism full sleeve on an arm, showing classic horror film style portraits of a slicked-back vampire, a woman, and monster faces with skulls and bats, photographed from three angles.
Classic horror monster full sleeve in black and grey
Colour full sleeve tattoo on an upper arm and forearm showing Nightmare Before Christmas characters, jack-o'-lanterns and a haunted moonlit scene, in a neo-traditional style.
Nightmare Before Christmas full sleeve