Claw tattoo ideas

236 photos and flash · 26% Japanese, 19% Realism · Upper arm most common

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Colour full sleeve tattoo of Wolverine, Venom, Iron Man and Spider-Man on an arm, shown from three angles.
Marvel characters full sleeve with Wolverine and Venom
Colour tattoo of a crab with a brown, pink and blue mandala-style flower for its body and blue and purple claws, in a neo-traditional style on a limb.
Crab with mandala body in colour
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of three ravens wrapped around a central eyeball with yellow lightning bolts and stars, across the outer thigh.
Ravens, eye and lightning on a thigh
Black and grey drawing of a skull with bat wings and a small bat at its jaw, shown as a neo-traditional tattoo design on white paper.
Winged skull with bat design
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of a snarling red-mouthed T-rex with olive and salmon scales, wrapping around a lower leg.
Neo-trad T-rex on a lower leg
Neo-traditional colour tattoo of a clawed paw with a yellow cap and a gold bead chain, on the outer thigh.
Paw with bead chain on a thigh
Neo-trad colour tattoo of a big-eyed Medusa with green skin and pink snakes on the outer thigh.
Big-eyed Medusa with snakes on a thigh
Colour tattoo of a teal dragon head with green eyes, purple accents and yellow claws, in a Japanese style, on a lower leg, shown in a two-panel photo.
Teal dragon head on a calf
Colour tattoo of a smiling sloth clinging to a cream sign with the words LET'S FUCK, shown on a section of skin.
Sloth holding a sign
Black ink flash drawing of an antlered woman with flower crown, third eye and long claws, shown on paper beside three black fineliner pens and a hand.
Antlered woman with flowers and third eye
Black and grey flash design of a winged dragon coiled around a Celtic cross filled with interlaced knotwork.
Dragon wrapped around a Celtic cross
Pen and ink drawing of a tattoo design showing a snarling wolf, coiled snake, rosary and red mandala, in a neo-traditional style, with no body placement shown.
Wolf, snake and mandala tattoo design
Pencil and colour sketch of two owls for a neo-traditional tattoo design, one holding a skeleton key in its beak.
Owl with key design sketch
Black line drawing of a three-eyed woman with a leaf crown, a choker and clawed hands holding smoking orbs, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Three-eyed woman with leaf crown flash
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of a horned, furry monster in a red and white striped top, holding a small crowned figure, on the outer thigh.
Horned monster with a crowned figure on thigh
Black and grey pencil drawing of a zombie pin-up in a corset and fishnets, flanked by two roses on a red splatter background, in a neo-traditional style.
Zombie pin-up with roses and blood splatter
Colour neo-traditional tattoo on the thigh of monsters from Where the Wild Things Are, with a boy holding a sceptre among green leaves.
Where the Wild Things Are monsters on a thigh
Neo-traditional colour tattoo of a snarling lion with raised claws above a red rose, sitting on the calf.
Snarling lion and rose on a calf
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of a green grinning cat-like creature with glowing pink eyes, bony yellow claws and a striped tail, on a lower leg.
Green grinning cat creature on a calf
Bold black-outlined winged griffin tattoo with pink accents across the back of a person's neck.
Winged griffin on the back of the neck
Neo-trad style tattoo of a blue and teal lobster with patterned fill and black outlines, on a person's calf.
Ornate blue lobster on a calf
Hand-drawn neo-traditional design of a golden dragon coiled around a grey skull, shown as a flash sheet with no body placement.
Golden dragon coiled around a skull