Cloud tattoo ideas

1,177 photos and flash · 25% Realism, 21% Japanese · Upper arm most common

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Black linework flash of an Eastern-style dragon coiling through clouds, a design suited to a Japanese style back or sleeve tattoo.
Eastern dragon with clouds
A sheet of blue line and solid wave designs in a Japanese-influenced style, arranged in rows on a white background.
Sheet of blue wave designs
Coloured Japanese-style flash design of a roaring tiger among bamboo and swirling clouds, with a small frog holding a leaf in the lower right corner.
Tiger and bamboo flash with frog in rain
Colour flash design of a cartoon kitty, a care bear, a pastel pony, cupcakes and a lollipop on purple clouds, with no body placement shown.
Cartoon cupcakes and pastel characters design
Watercolour design of the sun, Saturn, Jupiter, Earth and smaller planets against pink and blue clouds, drawn as a tattoo design with no body part shown.
Watercolour solar system with sun and planets
Japanese style colour design of a red oni with thunder drums, blue dragons and swirling clouds, shown as a full drawing with no body placement.
Red oni with dragons and thunder clouds
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design showing a crescent moon with a sleeping face, clouds, stars, mountains, a lake and pine trees inside a diamond-shaped frame.
Crescent moon over mountains and pines
Black and grey howling wolf silhouette in front of a full moon, shown as a design and as a digital mockup on the upper back.
Howling wolf and full moon, upper back mockup
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
Painted Japanese style design of a green snake coiling around pink and yellow lotus flowers over dark swirling clouds, shown on a flat back torso cutout.
Snake and lotus back design on a painted torso
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
Black linework drawing of a neo-traditional anchor wrapped in rope, with flowers, leaves and cloud shapes, shown as a tattoo design on a warm background.
Anchor with rope and flowers design
Traditional-style flash design on paper showing a sailing ship on rough seas and a black and grey rose in a bold black oval frame, with no body part visible.
Sailing ship and rose flash in oval frame
Black fine line flash design of a compass star with a central sun, mountains, moon, clouds and trees, shown on a white background.
Compass and landscape line design
Black ink dotwork flash design of a wolf head merged with a woman's face, with a crown, skulls, ram horns, flowers and a hot air balloon.
Wolf and woman surreal design with skulls
Black and white line drawing of a sun and moon face split down the middle, with the words we live by the sun and we feel by the moon around it.
Sun and moon face with quote lettering
Black and grey drawing of a ship's wheel, anchor and rope among clouds, with the script quote "Be the one to guide me, but never hold me down", shown as a tattoo design with no placement on the body.
Ship wheel and anchor with script quote
Traditional style flash design of a grey owl with orange eyes carrying an envelope, with two banners reading Don't count your owls until they have been delivered, set against blue clouds and stars.
Owl carrying an envelope with banner scrolls
Black line drawing of a Japanese shishi lion with peonies and swirling waves, styled as a tattoo design on paper, with no body placement shown.
Japanese shishi lion with peonies and waves
Traditional style flash drawing of a pink-frosted cupcake with a bow, a slogan banner, two orange flowers and a rising sun, in full colour.
Cupcake with banner flash design
Flash sheet of pastel tattoo designs including a horned skull, a crab, palm trees, watchful eyes and a seahorse in a bottle, in a neo-trad style.
Pastel flash sheet of skulls, eyes and palm trees
Pencil sketch flash of a hair dryer blowing a puff of air, with sparkles and a looping cord ending in a small heart.
Hair dryer design with heart cord
Black ink drawing of a yin yang circle filled with clouds, mountains, trees and two round celestial bodies, drawn as a tattoo style design.
Yin yang with mountain landscape
Black and grey pencil drawing of a geisha with a flowered parasol, a fan and cherry blossom, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Geisha with parasol and fan
Colourful neo-traditional flash drawing of a rainbow, lollipop, hearts, stars and flowers with the words Sugar, spice and everything nice, held up by a hand with glittery nail polish.
Sugar, spice and everything nice flash design
Black line drawing of a sleepy cloud with closed eyes and a small smile, with solid hearts falling beneath it like rain.
Sleepy cloud with falling hearts
Black line icon sheet on a light background showing twelve simple designs, including a dollar sign, crown, heart, flame, moon, compass and paper plane, each with a capitalised caption.
Line icon sheet with twelve labelled designs
Line drawing of a Japanese-style peony and chrysanthemum design with swirling waves and clouds on a dark background, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Japanese peony and wave design
Black line drawing of flowing decorative lettering surrounded by clouds, a crescent moon and a small star, a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Decorative lettering with moon and star doodles
Black and grey hatched drawing of an eye inside a cloud-shaped diamond, a flash design on paper with no body placement shown.
Eye within clouds in a diamond shape
Japanese style flash drawing of a green and red dragon coiling over black and grey waves, with a small cartoon figure in a yellow robe beside it.
Green dragon flash with wave background
White line drawing of a whale built from stylised waves on a navy background, with a tiny boat and figures in the sea, drawn as a flash design.
Whale formed from waves and a small boat
Illustration of a hairless cat with a Japanese style koi fish, waves and clouds tattoo in blue and black, leaning over a pale hairless cat.
Tattooed hairless cat with a koi and waves design
Black and grey dotwork drawing of an eye within a teardrop mandala framed by cloud scrolls, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Eye in a mandala with cloud scrolls
Traditional flash design of a paper boat on stippled waves beneath a red lightning bolt and clouds, framed by a rope border with a red flower at the base.
Paper boat and lightning in a rope oval
Full-colour Japanese style flash drawing of a snarling tiger among bamboo leaves and clouds, with a small frog below, shown without a body placement.
Tiger, bamboo and frog flash design
Black ink drawing of a floating island with stippled mountains, pine trees, a lone figure and a light bulb in a dotted cloud, shown on paper as a tattoo design.
Floating island with mountains and light bulb
A pencil sketch on tracing paper of a horned warrior holding a spear above a second armoured figure, in a Japanese-influenced tattoo design with clouds and a large circle behind.
Horned warrior with spear, tattoo sketch
Traditional flash sheet of ten coloured sailing ships on green waves, with banners reading Hell Bound and Home Ward Bound and a few small stars and a rose.
Sailing ship flash sheet
Pencil drawing of a Vespa scooter framed by leaves, berries, swirling flourishes and cloud shapes, shown as a flash design.
Vespa scooter with leaves and swirls
Black line flash sheet of lightning bolts, clouds and the words Lightning and Thunderbolt, shown as designs with no body placement.
Lightning bolt and cloud flash sheet
Black line drawing of a stylised animal leaping beside a blossom branch and curling cloud shapes, in a Japanese-influenced flash style.
Stylised animal with blossom branch
Red-brown line drawing of a Japanese dragon coiling through wisps of cloud, with cherry blossoms, as a tattoo design sketch.
Japanese dragon with cherry blossoms
Black and grey Japanese style flash design of a coiling dragon with lily-like flowers and cloud motifs on a white background.
Black and grey dragon with flowers and clouds
Colour Japanese style full back tattoo design showing a pig-headed figure in a patterned robe, surrounded by orange flames, clouds and a snake.
Pig-headed figure in flames, Japanese back design
Black line flash design of an eye within a cloud, with two crossed straight razors above and red rays and raindrops below, with no body placement shown.
Eye in a cloud with crossed razors
Pencil sketch of a geisha with cherry blossom, clouds and a koi fish in Japanese style, drawn on pink paper as a tattoo design.
Geisha with koi and cherry blossom sketch
Black ink pen drawing of a wooden treehouse on a tree trunk, surrounded by cloud shapes and two banners reading out of student loans and treehouse homes, we all would pick the latter.
Treehouse with banner lettering design