Circle tattoo ideas

2,163 photos and flash · 48% Geometric, 30% Fine line · Forearm most common

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Collage of eight sepia photographs of black fine line geometric tattoos with diamond, arrow and circle motifs on the forearm, upper arm, spine, ribs, neck and ankle.
Geometric line tattoos in a collage of eight
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a nautilus spiral with dotted geometric construction lines and circles on an upper arm.
Nautilus spiral with geometric construction lines
Black and grey tattoo of mountains and pine trees inside a triangle, with a small circle above and a horizontal line across the middle, on the upper arm.
Mountains and pines inside a triangle
Neo-trad style tattoo of a black crow in flight with yellow, orange and red circles and white rain strokes, with partial script below, on an upper arm and shoulder.
Crow in flight with rain on upper arm
Black and grey full sleeve tattoo on an upper arm and forearm, showing a tree in a circle, an engraved hand and printed French text in a vintage style.
Vintage engraving sleeve with tree and hand
Black and grey blackwork tattoo of a circle with concentric wavy lines and a central shape, on the upper arm.
Circular wood-grain style motif on an upper arm
Black and grey moon with a dotwork crescent shadow on the inner upper arm, with a small galaxy ring and Genesis reference inset below.
Moon and crescent shadow on upper arm
Colour neo-traditional style tattoo on an upper arm with two ribbon banners bearing a quotation above a geometric emblem in red, blue and cream.
Ribbon banner quote and emblem on upper arm
Fine line tattoo of a hand reaching out beside a half-filled sun on a shoulder, with a black and grey hand and the words NEVER TALK on the upper arm below.
Fine line hand and sun on shoulder
Black and grey mandala tattoo on the upper arm of a woman in a white tank top printed with a Triwizard Tournament slogan.
Mandala tattoo on upper arm
Black and grey tattoo across the shoulder and upper arm, showing torn skin revealing riveted metal armour plates above a Celtic knotwork cross.
Celtic cross under torn armour plates
Close photograph of a blue botanical tattoo in a circular folk-style floral design on the upper arm of a woman wearing a white vest top.
Blue folk floral circle on upper arm
Two views of an arm with an abstract geometric tattoo of teal and blue circles, a dark shell-like form and fine radiating lines, running from the upper arm across the elbow onto the forearm.
Geometric shapes and shell on upper arm and forearm
Full arm sleeve in blackwork and dotwork geometric designs, with a dotted mandala rosette and cube patterns on the upper arm and forearm.
Blackwork and dotwork geometric arm sleeve
Black geometric tattoo of a solid triangle with a partly dotwork circle overlapping it, on the upper arm.
Solid triangle and dotted circle on upper arm
Black linework geometric tattoo on a man's upper arm, with an inverted triangle, a striped circle and faceted polyhedra in a geometric style.
Geometric triangle and polyhedra on an upper arm
Black fine-line triskelion of three interlocking spirals on the centre of a person's chest, with a small pentagram tattoo on the upper arm.
Triskelion tattoo on the chest
Black and grey blackwork tattoo of a curled animal inside a circle with radiating stripes, on the outer upper arm.
Curled animal in a circle on upper arm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a pine forest, lake and misty mountains inside a circle on the upper arm.
Pine trees and lake in a circle on an arm
Abstract geometric tattoo in grey and red ink with dotwork shading, covering the upper arm and forearm of a person in a dark top.
Abstract geometric sleeve on upper arm and forearm
Black fine line compass tattoo with N, E, S and W markings and curved arrows, on the inner upper arm.
Fine line compass on an upper arm
Three black and grey tattoos: a wolf built from overlapping circles on an upper arm, a bear with Roman numerals in a circle pattern, and a realistic owl inside an orbit-style ring on a forearm.
Geometric wolf, bear and owl tattoos in black and grey
Black linework geometric tattoo sleeve on an upper arm and shoulder, with a bird on the back, a flower and city shapes, dotwork shading and small pink and teal dots.
Geometric bird, city and flower tattoos on arm and shoulder
Black ink full sleeve tattoo with bold geometric and tribal-style patterns covering a forearm, upper arm and hand, shown on a standing person in a grey t-shirt.
Black geometric sleeve tattoo on arm and hand
Upper arm and shoulder tattoo of a thin-line circular Gallifreyan seal and a grey shaded TARDIS police box within blue and purple watercolour splashes.
Gallifreyan seal and TARDIS on upper arm
Black and grey geometric dotwork full sleeve tattoo covering the upper arm and forearm, with star and mandala patterns.
Geometric dotwork full sleeve on an arm
Three photographs of black compass tattoos: a fine line compass, plane and small world map on a forearm, an arrow and compass on a wrist, and a dotted compass star on a shoulder.
Compass and travel tattoos on arm and shoulder
Collage of small fine line tattoos in black ink, including stars on the forearms and fingers, a dotted arrow on the upper arm and dotwork circles on the hands.
Small dotwork stars, arrows and circles
Blue songbird tattoo with black linework and watercolour-style splashes of teal and green, on the upper arm near the shoulder.
Blue bird with watercolour splashes on upper arm
Watercolour-style tattoo on the upper arm and shoulder showing a grey outlined Tardis among blue and purple washes, with a line drawing of circular symbols above.
Tardis and circle motif on upper arm
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a diagonal arrow crossed by two overlapping circles and small dots, on the upper arm.
Arrow and overlapping circles on an arm
Fine line and dotwork tattoo on an upper arm, with a shaded black mandala circle, red geometric polygons and dotted lines rising upward.
Mandala and geometric lines on upper arm
Four black and grey photographs of fine line geometric tattoos showing arrows crossing overlapping circles, placed on the upper arm and forearm.
Fine line arrows and circles on arms
Sketched black and grey hands reaching towards each other with orange and turquoise watercolour washes and a red triangle outline, tattooed on the upper arm.
Reaching hands and red triangle on upper arm
Black and grey wolf head in profile inside a circular border of runic-style characters, tattooed on the upper arm.
Wolf head in a runic circle on the arm
Colour tattoo of a blue police box in front of a dark, swirling textured background with a circular ring and red markers, on the upper arm.
Blue police box in a swirling vortex on an arm
Full arm sleeve tattoo of a pink axolotl with dotwork and geometric patterns, yellow circles and a flower bud, across the upper arm and forearm.
Axolotl full arm sleeve
Full arm sleeve in a Japanese-influenced brushstroke style, with a black enso-style circle and red ring on the upper arm and black strokes running down the forearm.
Brushstroke circle sleeve on upper arm