Circle tattoo ideas

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Black ink pen sketch of two stylised waves inside a circle, with the words A million waves in the ocean and Crash at once to make you smile written around the edge.
Waves and quote in a circular pen sketch
Geometric flash sheet of navy line and solid designs, including squares, circles, triangles, arrows and diamonds, some with dotwork shading.
Geometric flash sheet with arrows and triangles
Black brush-stroke drawing of the Taurus zodiac symbol on a plain white background.
Taurus zodiac symbol in brush stroke
Black and white flash design of a sun with flame-like rays around a circle containing a pentagram and interlocking circular motifs.
Sun burst with pentagram circle design
Black ink flash design of a knotwork dragon coiled inside a circle, drawn on aged parchment with a faint star behind it.
Celtic knotwork dragon in a circle
Navy engraved-style drawing of a curling wave with foam and a dark speckled circle on a beige background, a flash design with no body placement shown.
Curling wave with splatter circle
Pencil sketch design of a map of Canada with a dotted grid, a compass rose, a maple leaf and dripping outline, over dashed geometric guide lines.
Canada map with compass rose and maple leaf sketch
Black ornamental linework drawing of a hamsa hand with floral motifs and a red and blue circle holding a white lightning bolt at its centre.
Hamsa hand with lightning bolt emblem
Black and grey design of a lotus flower with layered petals inside a bold, sweeping black brush-stroke circle, shown without skin.
Lotus within a brush circle
Black linework flash design of a robot head inside circular blackletter-style lettering reading YOU ARE WHO YOU CHOOSE TO BE, drawn on cream paper.
Robot head with circular quote lettering design
Blue ink drawing of a radial mandala with teardrop petals, dotted rings and a central circle, shown on cream paper with no body placement.
Blue ink mandala design
Black tribal-style dragon design with a flared head and sweeping tail wrapping around an open circle, drawn in bold solid linework on a white background.
Tribal dragon coiling around a circle
Small watercolour design of a circular sunset landscape with a pale moon, lilac mountains and dark pine trees, with a handwritten date below, on textured paper.
Circular sunset landscape watercolour
Metallic gold, copper and turquoise necklace-style flash design with chain arcs on either side, shown on a white background with no body placement.
Metallic necklace flash design
Black ink drawing of a bare tree with spreading branches inside a brushed enso-style circle, with ink spatter at the base, shown on a white background.
Bare tree inside a brushed black circle
Four pen drawings of tattoo designs: a dotwork geometric stag, a jellyfish, a ram skull inside a circle and two feathers, all in black ink on white paper.
Geometric stag, jellyfish, ram skull and feathers
Black silhouette design of a three-headed dragon with its body curled inside a circle, shown as a bold blackwork flash design with no body placement.
Three-headed dragon in a circle
Black line drawing of a tattoo design with three male symbols and arrows, silhouetted figures inside the circles and a dark spider-like shape behind them.
Three male symbols with silhouetted figures
Black and grey dotwork drawing of a stag beetle with a skull and two faces overlaid on its body, set within a circle and dashed triangles.
Stag beetle with skull and faces design
Black and white flash sheet of twelve circular geometric designs with orbits, planets and dots, each labelled with a word such as Prison, Victory or Fear.
Twelve geometric circle designs on a sheet
A bold black brush-stroke circle on a white background, with a tapered head shape at the upper right, drawn as a tattoo design.
Black brush enso circle
Black tribal tattoo design of a pentagram inside a sun motif, flanked by spiked wings, shown on a white background.
Winged pentagram tribal design
Black ink drawing of a tiger curled into a circle, with bold stripes and a skull-like shape formed in the negative space, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Curled tiger design in black ink
Black line drawing of the word OBLIVIATE in a typewriter-style font, with the A replaced by the Deathly Hallows symbol, on a white background.
OBLIVIATE lettering with Deathly Hallows symbol
Flash sheet of twelve black and white Celtic knot designs, each labelled with a code from C10 to C74, shown without a body placement.
Celtic knot flash sheet with twelve designs
Black ink mandala drawing on white paper, with a circular centre surrounded by teardrop petals filled with swirls and dots, and small dash and arrow marks around the edge.
Mandala design with petals and swirls
Four identical black line drawings of interlocking concentric circles arranged in horizontal bands, a geometric tattoo flash design with no body placement shown.
Four rows of interlocking circle designs
Black and white flash sheet of Polynesian-style tattoo motifs, including a turtle, dolphins, a whale tail, a lizard, a fishhook and a sun, each with a printed label and meaning.
Polynesian motif flash sheet with labelled designs
Purple ink sketch of a fox head inside a sun-like mandala with sacred geometry and swirling lines, shown as a tattoo design drawing.
Fox head in a sun mandala design
Black and white line drawing of a tiger and a dragon around a yin yang circle, above a pavilion roof and stacked bars, shown as a design with no body placement.
Tiger and dragon with yin yang design
Sheet of metallic gold, silver and black temporary tattoo designs showing arrows, a key, stars, chevrons and circular sunburst motifs on a white background.
Metallic arrow and key flash sheet
Black and white design of a braided rope ring enclosing the word caim, its definition and a small star and circle emblem, with no body placement shown.
Caim braided ring with star sigil
Red line drawing of a Vegvisir, an eight-armed Norse compass symbol, surrounded by a ring of runic characters on a white background.
Vegvisir compass within a runic ring
Black and grey dotwork drawing of a stag beetle with a skull and two female faces at its centre, set within a circle and triangles.
Stag beetle with skull and faces
Black and white flash design of a bearded figure framed by two surfboards, anchors, waves and dotwork bands, with no body placement shown.
Symmetrical surfboard figure flash
Pencil sketch of an abstract geometric design with overlapping angular planes, a spiral and small circles, drawn in black and grey as a possible tattoo design.
Geometric pencil sketch of an abstract animal head
White dotwork drawing of a ram skull with curled horns, two crescent moons and a starry triangle inside a circle, on a black background.
Ram skull with crescent moons in a triangle
White line drawing of a circular seal of interlocking circles, arcs and loops on a dark background, in a geometric style.
Circular seal design in white line
Deathly Hallows symbol above a handwritten quote with footprints, shown as a dark grey tattoo design on a white background.
Deathly Hallows symbol with script quote
Flash sheet of three black line geometric arrow designs with triangles, diamonds, circles and dotted rings on a white background.
Three geometric arrow designs on a flash sheet
Traditional style moth flash design in black, cream and orange, shown as a framed print on a peach background with an orange circle behind it.
Traditional moth design in a framed print
Black line drawing of an interlaced Celtic triquetra knot with looping bands, shown as a flash design on a white background.
Celtic triquetra knot design
Black and grey dotwork design of a multi-pointed star with a stippled centre circle, drawn as a flash-style tattoo design.
Dotwork star with a stippled sunburst
Realistic pencil drawing of two owls arranged in a yin yang circle, one with a yellow eye, shown as a tattoo design.
Yin yang owls design
Ink line drawing of Rafiki the mandrill seated cross-legged inside a circle of handwritten script, with blue and pink accents on the face.
Rafiki meditating within a handwritten quote circle
Black and grey flash design of a beetle, an eye in a triangle and engraved flowers, arranged symmetrically within thin geometric circles and lines.
Beetle, eye and flowers in a geometric design
Black and grey flash drawing of an ornate moth with a crescent moon on its head, framed by dashed geometric lines on white paper.
Moth with crescent moon and geometric lines
Hand-coloured flash drawing of sunflowers and green leaves with bold black circle and triangle linework, labelled Leo, planet Sun, element Fire, flower Sunflower.
Leo sunflower design on paper