Blood tattoo ideas

139 photos and flash · 40% Realism, 22% Neo-trad · Forearm most common

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Sheet of twelve dark red Chinese character designs on white, each labelled in English with words such as Music, Peace, Mother and Father.
Chinese character tattoo flash sheet
Neo-traditional style flash drawing of a deer head with antlers, leaves and two red arrows piercing the neck, on a splattered parchment background.
Deer head with arrows and antlers
Colour neo-trad tattoo of a green-skinned zombie pin-up woman in a red dress, seated on a chair, on the calf.
Zombie pin-up in a red dress on a calf
Close-up of a tattoo machine needle tip working on skin beside dark outlines of a large fresh tattoo, with small spots of blood visible.
Tattoo needle working on fresh linework
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
Colour realism tattoo of a stitched doll face with blue and yellow eyes and a toothy grin, appearing to tear through skin on the forearm.
Stitched doll face tearing through a forearm
Flash drawing of a zombie princess with red blood detail, roses and thorns inside an ornate oval frame, in a neo-traditional style for a tattoo.
Zombie princess in a thorned oval frame
Black and white ink drawing of two hands clasped in a handshake, with a snake with dripping fangs coiled over the joined hands, in a flash style.
Snake biting a handshake
Pencil-shaded rose design with red ink dripping down the petals, shown as a tattoo flash drawing on a plain white background.
Bleeding rose design
Colour realism tattoo of a decaying zombie woman's face with an open, bloodied mouth, set on the thigh against a red splatter background.
Zombie woman face on a thigh
Photorealistic black, grey and red tattoo of a horror character in a wide-brimmed hat and bladed glove, on the side of the ribs.
Realistic horror character portrait on ribs
Pen and wash drawing of an anatomical heart with red drips on a cupcake, with a banner reading Sweet Heart beneath, designed as a tattoo flash.
Anatomical heart on a cupcake with banner
Black and grey realism style tattoo of vampire fangs with blood drops on the ankle, with a train tattoo above on the lower leg.
Vampire fangs on an ankle
Colour tattoo of a zombie LEGO minifigure in a blue jacket with bloody exposed ribs, on the lower leg.
Zombie LEGO minifigure on a calf
Neo-traditional flash design of a hand holding a black feather quill dripping with blood, with a rose tattooed on the back of the hand and a lace cuff at the wrist.
Hand holding a bloodied quill with rose
Traditional style flash drawing of a pale hand with pink fingertips, wrapped in three yellow banners reading COLD HANDS, COLDER and HEART, with dripping red and white details at the wrist.
Hand with COLD HANDS, COLDER, HEART banners
Realistic colour tattoo of an open mouth with fangs and blood on the inner forearm.
Vampire mouth with fangs on a forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a large eye with dripping tears and skulls across a shoulder and upper back.
Realistic eye and skulls across back and shoulder
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 of a red dragon breathing a fireball in a neo-traditional style, running down the side of a torso over the ribs.
Red dragon breathing fire on ribs
Black and grey lettering tattoo on a forearm reading Blood makes you related and Loyalty makes you family, with smoke-like shading above the text.
Lettering quote on a forearm
Large traditional-style back tattoo of a hooded grim reaper holding a rifle, with arched Sons of Anarchy lettering above and California below, placed across the upper and middle back.
Grim reaper lettering across a back piece
Colour realism tattoo of a yellow pencil appearing to pierce the side of a bald head above the ear, with red blood detail, and floral tattoos on the neck.
Pencil piercing the side of a head
Neo-traditional tattoo of a snarling hyena head with bared teeth and dripping blood, shaded in grey and brown with touches of red, on the side of a limb.
Snarling hyena head with blood on an arm
Close-up photo of a tattoo on the upper back made to look like a bloody wound, with red and brown splatter, dripping lines and a dark ring in the centre.
Bloody wound effect tattoo on upper back
Colour tattoo of a pale, wide-eyed girl with black hair, a red rose in her hair and red tears, framed in an oval on a forearm.
Pale-faced girl portrait with red rose
Realism portrait tattoo on the upper arm showing a man in a suit and tie, with a red, blood-spattered effect across one side of his face.
Realistic portrait tattoo of a man with blood effect
Realistic neo-traditional tattoo of a grey skull shaped like a cupcake with red blood dripping down, placed on the upper arm, shown in a two-panel photo.
Skull cupcake with blood drip on upper arm
Traditional style tattoo on an arm of a tarot card numbered III, showing three daggers piercing a red heart with drops of blood, in black linework and red and grey shading.
Tarot card with three daggers and a bleeding heart
Colour tattoo of a green zombie cartoon cat with a bow, red dress and blood, with a spider web and flies, on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Zombie cartoon cat on the wrist
Realistic colour tattoo of a bladed metal glove with long curved fingers and dripping blood, on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Bladed glove tattoo on upper back
Realism colour tattoo of a hooded woman wearing a blood-stained respirator above a graveyard scene, placed on the calf.
Hooded woman in a bloodied mask on a calf
Traditional style tattoo of an hourglass with a red blood drip, the words TO GET YOU OFF MY MIND and a blue flower below, on the forearm.
Hourglass with blood drip and blue flower
Black and grey tattoo of a stitched rag doll with button eyes and a pin in its dress, shown on the upper arm.
Button-eyed rag doll on upper arm
Back of a person's head and neck with a realistic tattoo of torn, bloody flesh with exposed tissue and dripping blood, above a smaller tribal-style tattoo on the neck.
Torn flesh wound tattoo on the back of the head
Realistic colour tattoo of a crucified figure with a crown of thorns, a cross and an orange sun halo across the forearm.
Crucifixion scene on a forearm
Traditional style flash design of a woman with curled hair, two blue roses, an eyeball and a banner reading I only have eyes for you.
Pin-up woman with roses and eyeball banner
Realism tattoo of three grey nails driven into the skin with red blood drips and dark shadows, on a man's shoulder and upper chest.
Three nails with blood drips on shoulder
Traditional style flash drawing of a cluster of red roses with dark leaves, held by a grey hand with red drops of blood on the stem.
Traditional rose and gripped stem flash
Back of a shaved head with a realistic red tattoo of torn skin, exposed flesh and dripping blood on the nape of the neck, in realism style.
Torn skin and exposed flesh on the nape
Pen and ink flash design of an anatomical heart with dripping red blood on a cupcake, with a banner reading Sweet Heart beneath.
Anatomical heart cupcake with banner
Two matching black lettering tattoos on the inner forearms, one reading 'you are the smell before rain' and the other 'you are the blood in my veins', in a typewriter-style font.
Matching quote tattoos on two forearms
Traditional style tattoo of a red chainsaw with red blood splatter and the word GROOVY in black lettering on a forearm.
Chainsaw and blood splatter with Groovy lettering
Neo-traditional colour tattoo of a grey-green fish with a dagger through it, set inside a red rope ring on the lower leg.
Fish and dagger within a rope ring on a calf
Red biohazard symbol with blue-fletched arrows crossing it and black lettering reading Fight the dead and Fear the living, tattooed on the side of the torso.
Biohazard and crossed arrows slogan tattoo
Neo-traditional colour tattoo of a snarling wolf head merged with a bloodied sheep head on a calf.
Wolf and sheep head on a calf
Neo-traditional tattoo of a snarling grey wolf with a third eye and a gold-hilted dagger on an upper arm, with blue water swirls.
Wolf head and dagger on an upper arm
Colour tattoo of a green zombie-style Hello Kitty character with red dripping blood, a purple dress and a spiderweb, with black bats, on a leg.
Zombie Hello Kitty tattoo on a leg