Cat tattoo ideas

1,806 photos and flash · 22% Fine line, 16% Neo-trad · Forearm most common

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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
A sheet of colourful temporary tattoo designs on a white card, including a cat face with a bow, an origami crane, a unicorn, stars and an orange slice.
Kawaii temporary tattoo sheet with cat and unicorn
Hand-coloured flash sheet of kawaii sweets, including cupcakes, an ice cream cone, candies, a lipstick and cat designs, drawn in marker on white paper.
Kawaii sweets flash sheet in marker
Flash design of a black skeleton cat holding up a blue butterfly, beside a red and gold rose and green leaves, in a traditional style.
Skeleton cat with rose and butterfly
Black and grey neo-traditional style design of a cat wearing a top hat, feather, monocle and bow tie, shown as a standalone drawing with no body part visible.
Cat in top hat with monocle
Black ink line drawing of a sitting cat looking upwards, with whisker strokes and a curled tail, in a minimal brush style.
Sitting cat line drawing
Black and grey temporary tattoo of a plump cat lying on its back, shown on its white backing inside a clear plastic sleeve with a green card reading Temporary Tattoo.
Plump cat temporary tattoo in packet
Black line drawing of a cat wearing a mask and pearl necklace, with roses above and below and a lace ruff behind, in neo-traditional style.
Masked cat with roses and pearls design
Line drawing of the Cheshire Cat with a wide toothy grin, green eyes and a striped curling tail, shown as a design on plain white.
Cheshire Cat grin design
Black ink flash design of a cat face built from tribal-style swirls, dots and small cat motifs, with no body placement shown.
Ornamental cat face tattoo design
Black ink line drawing of an ornamental cat with a butterfly beside it, filled with intricate patterns, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Ornamental cat and butterfly line design
Dotwork and line drawing of a cat with a third eye, a flower and a mandala behind its head, with faint red wash on the left.
Cat with third eye and mandala design
White outline drawing of a black cartoon cat with a bow on its head, whiskers and a small round mouth, on a dark textured background.
Black cartoon cat with a bow outline
Ink and colour drawing of a three-headed black cat with yellow eyes, seated beneath a hatched crescent moon and a small cross.
Three-headed black cat under a crescent moon
Black single-line drawing of a sitting cat in profile, looking left, with a curled tail, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Minimalist sitting cat line drawing
Coloured flash drawing of a sugar skull cat face with a red rose on its forehead, a red bow and a red rose below, framed by vines on a yellow background.
Sugar skull cat with rose and bow
Four purple ink sketches of cats with octopus tentacles for bodies, arranged in a grid on white paper.
Cat and octopus hybrid sketches
Black ink drawing of a cat face with three eyes and dense hatched fur, shown as a flash design on white paper rather than on skin.
Three-eyed cat face drawing
Black and grey flash sheet of gothic tattoo designs including a moth, owl, ghost, coffin, dagger, cat and crossed bones, drawn in dotwork and bold outlines.
Black and grey gothic flash sheet
Black and white flash sheet of six tattoo designs: paw prints, a cat silhouette, a handprint with a paw, a yin yang with a hand and paw, and a spiral paw.
Paw print and pet flash designs
Flash-style drawing of a Hello Kitty face styled as a sugar skull, with pink bow, turquoise flowers and cobweb ears, with no body placement shown.
Hello Kitty sugar skull design
Flash-style design of a black cat with yellow eyes, framed by pink roses and green leaves, with a banner reading Wednesday beneath it.
Black cat with roses and Wednesday banner
Japanese style flash drawing of a grey cat with a scowling face and one blue eye, wearing a red hood with gold floral patterns, set against blue clouds on a pale background.
Cat in a red hood with clouds
Pencil and ink flash drawing of a neo-traditional maneki-neko lucky cat with a raised paw, a fan and a bell collar, surrounded by leaves and flowers.
Maneki-neko lucky cat design with flowers
Black and grey neo-traditional flash drawing of a woman with roses in her hair, her head resting beside a cat, shown on paper with no body placement.
Woman with roses and a cat design
Black continuous line drawing of a seated cat in profile with a curled tail beside a dog's head in profile, drawn as a tattoo design on a white background.
Cat and dog in a single line drawing
Three-panel drawing of a black ink design of a cat curled up with a tiger's head, shown being brushed in progressively in a Japanese-influenced style.
Sleeping cat and tiger design in ink
Black continuous single-line drawing of four cats stacked one above another, shown as a fine line tattoo design on a white background.
Four stacked cats in one line
Black and white tattoo design of a sitting black cat on a crescent moon wrapped in botanical vines and flowers, shown without a body placement.
Black cat on a flowered crescent moon
Pencil drawing of a tattoo flash design showing a cat in a top hat and bow tie inside a beaded oval cameo frame, with a rose and leaves below, on a sepia sheet of paper.
Cat in top hat cameo with rose, pencil flash
Flash drawing of a sphynx cat head inside an ornate pink heart frame, with blue eyes and pink paisley detailing on the ears.
Sphynx cat in a pink heart frame
Two carved wooden arm and hand boards showing traditional-style tattoo designs of skulls, a heart with a dagger, a goat, a cat and flowers, in black and cream.
Carved arm boards with skull, goat and cat designs
Black line drawing of an ornamental cat face framed by roses, leaves and swirling stems, in the style of a tattoo design.
Ornamental cat face with roses
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
Black ink drawing of a grinning cat with a wide toothy smile, set inside an ornate oval frame topped with a crown and a MADNESS banner, with no body placement shown.
Grinning black cat in an ornate crowned frame
Black and white flash design of a cat in a top hat with a spade card, bow tie and cigar, flanked by roses and leaves, with the words Lie to the Liars and Steal from Thieves arced around it.
Cat in top hat with roses and slogan
Fine line drawing of cat whiskers meeting at a small solid black heart on a white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Cat whiskers with a small heart
Black tribal-style sitting cat design with bold solid shapes and swirling lines, shown as a flash drawing with no body placement visible.
Tribal sitting cat design
Flash sheet of five blue flat-colour creature designs, including a flame spirit, a masked face, a mushroom-shaped figure, a cat-like face and a large round creature with whiskers.
Blue character flash sheet of five creatures
Black brush lettering design on a white background reading Curiosity did not kill this cat, set in three slanted lines with underlines, shown as a lettering tattoo design.
Curiosity did not kill this cat lettering
Sheet of solid black cat silhouette designs in varied poses on a white background, with no tattoo or body placement shown.
Black cat silhouette flash sheet
Loose black ink sketch of a cat face with bright green eyes, drawn on white paper with a Posca marker lying at the top left.
Ink sketch of a cat face with green eyes
Black outline drawing of a cat-faced skull with a heart-shaped nose, ribcage and crossed arm bones ending in X-marked hands, shown as a flash design.
Cat skull and crossbones line drawing
Pencil sketch of an octopus with a cat-like head and curling tentacles, drawn as a possible tattoo design on a soft grey background.
Octopus with a cat-like head sketch
Black line drawing of a fluffy kitten with a bow and a ball of yarn, framed by swirling cloud motifs, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Kitten with a ball of yarn and bow
Black and blue line drawing of a cat covered in traditional-style flash designs, including a rose, a dagger, a razor, a skull and crossbones and a milk bottle.
Tattooed cat flash drawing
Black and grey neo-traditional design of a cat's face inside a heart-shaped dotted and lace-edged frame, printed on a cream tote bag.
Cat in a heart-shaped ornate frame
Black and white yin yang style design of two cats curled together inside a circle, drawn as a bold solid silhouette.
Yin yang cats design