Character tattoo ideas

213 photos and flash · 20% Fine line, 15% Lettering · Forearm most common

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Two colour neo-traditional tattoos stacked on forearms: Star Wars characters on the left and Pokémon characters on the right.
Star Wars and Pokémon character stacks on forearms
Full colour Neo-trad style sleeve tattoo on an upper arm and forearm, showing a Maleficent figure with green and purple tones and a princess figure above, with partial lettering at the wrist.
Disney character sleeve on an arm
Neo-traditional tattoo of a smiling black cartoon cat with large pale eyes and a curled tail, on the calf.
Cartoon black cat on a calf
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of a pin-up style Snow White with black hair, a red bow and a black corset, above a row of red roses on a forearm.
Pin-up Snow White and roses on a forearm
Colour tattoo of Jack Skellington, Sally and other Nightmare Before Christmas characters under a spiral moon, covering an upper arm and shoulder.
Nightmare Before Christmas characters on upper arm
Vivid colour tattoo of Maleficent with a green dragon and a staff on a forearm, in a bold neo-traditional style.
Maleficent and green dragon on a forearm
Hand-coloured flash drawing of a red and orange feather with a black kanji character beside it, shown on a cream background, with no body placement visible.
Red feather with kanji character
Colour cartoon tattoo of a baby creature with a spiky grey head and curled blue tail, shaded in blue and grey on the lower back above a waistband.
Cartoon baby creature with curled blue tail
Colour tattoo of Jack Skellington with snowflakes on a blue background, shown on an arm in a neo-traditional style.
Jack Skellington and snowflakes on an arm
Colour tattoo across a calf of three panels showing Count von Count, Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch beside a Sesame Street sign, with orange numbers.
Sesame Street characters across a calf
Colour illustration of a botanical sleeve design with a golden skull, pink roses, green vines and blue butterflies, shown beside a character with a tattooed upper arm and forearm.
Skull, roses and butterflies sleeve design
Colour neo-trad style tattoo of a pink cartoon dog and a green-faced cartoon character with a purple nose, placed on a shoulder.
Two cartoon characters on a shoulder
Neo-traditional flash design of a pale blue fictional character with red hair, surrounded by roses, vines, a skull and a banner reading I Sense There's Something in the Wind, shown without a body
Sally with roses, skull and banner design
Neo-traditional tattoo of Totoro with a small white companion on its head, above a purple flower and green leaves, on the inner forearm.
Totoro and flower on a forearm
Colour neo-traditional tattoo on an upper arm showing a male comic-style character in a long dark coat, reaching forward amid orange flames and a flying playing card.
Comic-style fighter with playing card on upper arm
Colour tattoo of a grinning orange cartoon monster beneath an AAHH speech bubble, covering the upper arm and shoulder in a bold neo-traditional style.
Cartoon monster and AAHH speech bubble on upper arm
Colour tattoo of the Joker character with green hair, a purple hat and a wide yellow-toothed grin, on the forearm.
Joker character portrait on a forearm
Colour neo-trad style tattoo of a masked character in red, orange and black on a forearm, set against a teal splattered background.
Skull Kid character on forearm
Neo-traditional colour tattoo of a pale, wide-eyed ghoulish character with wild hair and a striped suit and tie, on the upper arm.
Ghoulish character in striped suit on upper arm
Colour tattoo of a cartoon caterpillar smoking a hookah on red spotted toadstools against a green swirled background, on a limb, in a neo-traditional illustrative style.
Caterpillar on a hookah and red mushrooms