Crab tattoo ideas

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Colourful watercolour-style crab tattoo on a person's upper back near the shoulder, with a printed crab design shown at the top right.
Watercolour-style crab on upper back
Traditional style colour tattoo of an ornate crab with a mandala patterned shell, placed on the calf.
Ornate crab on a leg
Traditional colour tattoo of a crab with red, green and brown shading and bold black outlines, shown on a limb of pale skin.
Crab tattoo in traditional style
Solid black crab design with raised claws and a spiral-filled oval body on a white background, with no body placement shown.
Crab with spiral body design
Black ink drawing of a crab with moon phases on its shell, a feather, a flower, shells, an anchor and a CANCER banner, shown as a tattoo flash design.
Zodiac crab with moon phases and banner
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
Black and grey ink drawing of a crab gripping a spool of thread and needle, framed by sunburst rays and a looping thread, with the word Cancer beneath.
Crab with spool and needle, Cancer design
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
Sheet of twelve black tribal-style zodiac designs on white, including a ram, bull, crab, lion, scales and goat, in flowing swirled linework.
Twelve tribal zodiac designs in black
Colour traditional tattoo of a teal crab holding a palm tree sunset in its shell beside an orange plumeria flower, on the thigh.
Crab with palm sunset and plumeria
Sheet of coloured cartoon temporary tattoo designs showing Ariel, Flounder and Sebastian from The Little Mermaid on a white background.
Little Mermaid characters temporary tattoo sheet
Traditional style flash sheet showing a red crab with a heart-shaped body, an anchor wrapped in rope with waves, a scallop shell and a conch shell.
Nautical flash sheet with crab, anchor and shells
A grid of fifteen continuous single-line drawings of sea creatures, including a dolphin, sea turtle, seahorse, shark and orca, in black on white.
Fifteen single-line sea creature designs
Black and grey dotwork drawing of a crab with a central eye, set inside a circle with geometric construction lines and lettered points, shown as a tattoo design.
Crab with an eye in a geometric circle
Collage of six Cancer zodiac tattoos, including a crab skull, a swirled Cancer symbol with stars on the neck, and a script Cancer lettering piece.
Cancer zodiac tattoos in a collage
Small red and purple crab tattoo with dark outlines on the top of a bare foot, with grass in the background.
Small crab tattoo on a foot
Solid black silhouette tattoo of a mermaid reaching upward, with a small fish and a crab, on the inner wrist.
Mermaid silhouette with fish and crab on wrist
Colour tattoo of the cartoon crab Mr Krabs from SpongeBob, holding a krabby patty, on a lower leg.
Mr Krabs with a krabby patty on a calf
Black and grey line drawing of a skull with crab claws beneath a sunburst, set in an ornate gem frame with the word Cancer and a short line of text below.
Cancer crab and skull design
Traditional-style mermaid, anchor, stars and flowers design printed on a black t-shirt, shown flat with no body placement.
Mermaid and anchor design on a black t-shirt
Black silhouette tattoo of a mermaid with a small fish and a crab on the inner forearm.
Mermaid with fish and crab on forearm
Colour Japanese style tattoo of a stretched white cat with black skulls and red eyes over teal waves on the top of a foot, with a red crab on the ankle.
Stretching cat with skulls on a foot
Fine line black tattoo of a crab on the outer upper thigh, with a hand and a striped skirt visible at the edge of the frame.
Crab outline on a thigh
Black and grey pencil-style flash drawing of a mermaid on a rock inside an oval rope frame, with a shell motif and the year 1989 at the top.
Mermaid in a rope frame with 1989
Traditional style flash drawing of a sailing ship framed by red roses, a yellow butterfly and crabs, drawn on paper.
Ship, roses and butterfly flash design
Bold black brush-stroke drawing of the Cancer zodiac symbol, a crab sign made of two curled spirals, on a white background.
Cancer zodiac symbol in brush strokes
Colour tattoo of a crab filled with the Maryland flag pattern in red, yellow and black, shown on bare skin.
Maryland flag crab tattoo
Illustrated tattoo-style design of a woman's face framed by zodiac animals, a set of scales, twin faces and a water jar inside a circular star chart, in pink and blue gradient linework.
Zodiac wheel with woman and star signs
Flash sheet of twelve black and grey dotwork designs with ornamental animal heads, a crab, a lion and fish, with no body placement shown.
Twelve zodiac-style ornamental designs
Colour tattoo of cartoon characters on skin, including a red crab-like figure with large eyes and a yellow creature at the left edge, with bold black outlines.
Cartoon characters tattoo in bold colour
Black and grey flash drawing of a ribcage with a crab claw below, a flower rosette behind, the word Cancer and a short verse printed underneath.
Cancer zodiac ribcage and crab flash
Nine black silhouette designs on white tiles showing a starfish, scallop shell, fish, seahorse, crab, jellyfish, shell, sea turtle and coral.
Sea creature silhouette design sheet
Black and grey flash design of a crab holding a thread spool and needle, framed by sunburst motifs above and below, with the word Cancer beneath.
Crab, thread spool and sunburst design
Purple line drawing of a mermaid in a pirate hat holding a pipe beside a treasure chest, skulls and a shipwreck, shown as a tattoo flash design.
Mermaid pirate with treasure chest and skulls
Colour tattoo on a thigh showing an animated-style woman with long dark hair beside a red crab and a small fish against blue water, in a neo-traditional style.
Animated woman and red crab on thigh
Black line-art flash sheet of twelve zodiac-style designs, including an archer, a ram, a fish, a lion, a crab, a scorpion and a pair of scales, on a white background.
Set of zodiac-style line designs
Tribal-style tattoo design in black and purple showing the Cancer zodiac symbol, drawn on a plain white background with no body placement visible.
Tribal Cancer zodiac design
Flash sheet of twelve cute cartoon sea creatures in full colour, including a starfish, seal, octopus, turtle, clownfish, shark, seahorse, stingray, crab, dolphin, pufferfish and orca.
Cartoon sea creatures flash sheet
Black and grey tattoo of the Cancer zodiac crab symbol inside a ring of shaded crab claws, placed on the upper arm.
Crab zodiac symbol on upper arm
Colourful cartoon tattoo of the mermaid Ariel and Flounder the fish, with a crab, starfish and trident, on a thigh.
Ariel and friends on a thigh
Black tribal-style Cancer zodiac symbol drawn as a design on a plain white background, with no body placement shown.
Cancer zodiac symbol design
Traditional style flash design of a blue crab, beer bottle, sunflowers, Old Bay tin, baseball with Orioles O's logo and American and Maryland flags, with no body placement shown.
Maryland crab, beer and Orioles flash
Flash sheet of twelve black zodiac sign designs in a classic style above twelve modern tribal zodiac designs, with no body placement shown.
Zodiac sign designs in classic and modern tribal styles
Colour traditional-style tattoo of a cartoon mermaid with flowing red hair, a yellow and blue fish and a red crab among bubbles and seaweed, on an upper thigh.
Cartoon mermaid with fish and crab on a thigh
Colour tattoo on an upper arm of Ariel from The Little Mermaid sitting on a rock, with Flounder the fish and Sebastian the crab in a teal sea setting.
Ariel and Flounder on an upper arm
Sheet of thirty black single-line drawings of animals and sea creatures in a fine line style, shown as tattoo design flash on a white background.
Single-line animal designs sheet
Traditional style flash design of a red-haired mermaid with an anchor, two swallows, roses and a banner reading The Little Mermaid, in colour.
Mermaid, anchor and swallows flash