Cross tattoo ideas

1,031 photos and flash · 32% Fine line, 19% Lettering · Forearm most common

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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
Collage of black cross flash designs around a black and grey photo of a small thin cross tattoo on the back of a neck.
Cross designs with a small neck cross photo
Pencil drawing of an ornate tribal-style cross tattoo design with spiked points and scrollwork, shown without a body placement.
Tribal-style cross design in pencil
Shaded black and grey drawing of a geometric tattoo design in a cross shape, made of stacked triangles and arrowheads, with no body placement shown.
Geometric triangle and arrow cross design
Pencil drawing of a traditional-style tattoo design showing a hand with dark nails holding a cracked oval hand mirror, with a banner reading YOU'RE STILL PRETTY.
Hand holding a cracked mirror with banner
Pencil drawing of a gothic cross with a shaded rose at upper left and a thorned vine with leaves wrapping around the cross, as a tattoo design.
Gothic cross with rose and thorned vine
Hand-drawn black ink sketch of a looping, cross-shaped design with the words run, with and perseverance, the numbers 3.1, 6.2, 13.1 and 26.2, and small hearts, drawn on lined paper.
Run with perseverance looping script design
Traditional black and grey flash sheet showing four moth designs, two with skulls on their bodies, held up by a hand against a wooden floor.
Four moth designs on a flash sheet
Pencil drawing of a cross wrapped in ribbon banners reading Your Pain, Is A and Gift, drawn in black and grey shading as a tattoo design.
Cross with ribbon banners, pencil design
Black tribal-style cross tattoo design drawn in solid black with white inner outlines, shown on a plain white background.
Tribal cross design
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 and grey traditional flash sheet with a skull and rose, crescent moon, anatomical heart, eye, horseshoe and clover designs.
Black and grey traditional flash sheet
Seamless black and white line pattern of traditional flash motifs, including hearts with banners, daggers, a skull, an eye, a diamond, an anchor and an eight ball.
Traditional flash pattern of hearts, daggers and skulls
Fine line black ink drawing of an outline heart with a looping script letter, a dotted trail and a small cross, shown as a design on paper beside a mechanical pencil.
Fine line heart and cross design on paper
Illustrated flash design of a grey skull with red roses, barbed wire and a sword across a cross shape, on a black background.
Skull, roses and barbed wire design
Pencil drawing of two shaded roses with a leaf, a rosary of beads and an ornate cross, a traditional-style tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Roses and rosary with cross
Black outline drawing of a cross with a rose across its centre, shown as a tattoo design with no body visible.
Rose and cross line drawing
White line drawings of traditional tattoo flash motifs, including a skull, rose, diamond and dagger, repeated across a black duvet cover on a bed.
Traditional tattoo flash print on black bedding
Framed black and grey tattoo designs on a dark wall, showing a skull entwined with a snake and a veiled woman holding a skull.
Framed black and grey skull and snake designs
Black tribal-style winged heart design with red cross marks and a silver crown on top, shown as a flash drawing with no body placement.
Winged heart with crown design
Pencil sketch on lined paper of a plain outlined cross with the words Philippians and 4:13 in script lettering, drawn as a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Philippians 4:13 script and cross sketch
Black line drawing of a simple cross above the fine-line lettering I surrender who I've been for who you are, on a plain light grey background.
Cross and lettering quote design
Black and grey pencil drawing of a tattoo design with a skull, two roses, a raven, a rosary, a cross and a pocket watch, in a realistic shaded style.
Skull, roses and raven tattoo design
Fine line black script reading faith, crossed by a horizontal stroke to form a cross, drawn on a sepia textured background.
Faith script with a crossed line
Black and white drawing of six forearms and hands, each with a different traditional-style tattoo design including a mandala, skull, rose, eye in a triangle and crossed bones.
Six hands with black ink tattoo designs
Purple brush lettering of the word Tetelestai written over a faint grey pencil cross on pale paper.
Tetelestai lettering with a pencil cross
Scanned page of numbered black and white drawings of Russian prison tattoo symbols, including a hand with a boar's head and lettering across the fingers.
Reference sheet of Russian prison tattoo symbols
White line drawing of an ornate cross with outstretched wings and scrolled detailing on a black background, shown as a tattoo design.
Winged ornamental cross design
Bold traditional flash drawing of a woman with a cross, FAITH and HOPE lettering, a spider web and an anchor on her face and neck, shown as a painted wooden cutout.
Traditional pin-up flash with face and neck tattoos
Black ink drawing of a woman with a third eye, surrounded by dripping candles, with teal rose and ornament shading on her arms, torso and thigh.
Woman surrounded by dripping candles design
Teal script reading forgiven laid over a black line drawing of a cross, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Script word forgiven over a cross
Black and white ornate cross design with swirling tribal-style detail and a red gem at the centre, shown as a standalone flash drawing with no body placement.
Ornate cross with red centre design
Traditional flash design of an anchor, red heart and clasped hands holding a cross, with a TRUE LOVE banner, in red, yellow, grey and black.
True love anchor and clasped hands flash
A sheet of gold, silver and black metallic temporary tattoo designs, including chevron bands, a heart, a cross and zigzag strips.
Metallic temporary tattoo sheet with chain and geometric
Tribal-style tattoo design of a gothic cross with a cyan-highlighted centre and dark tribal flame motifs on each side, shown on a white background.
Gothic cross with tribal flames design
Black and grey traditional flash sheet of skulls, an eagle, a reaper, a pigeon, a deer head, a sun, and two feathered headdresses, with no placement shown.
Traditional flash sheet in black and grey
Pencil sketch of an ornate cross with feathered angel wings on either side, shaded in grey, drawn as a tattoo design.
Ornate winged cross pencil design
Black ink flash sheet of twenty cross designs in fine line, filigree and bold blackwork styles, with no body placement shown.
Sheet of twenty cross designs
Painted illustration of a pink head covered in black tattoo designs, including a skull and crossbones, a dagger, a winged cross and church domes on the neck and chest.
Painted head with skull, dagger and church tattoos
Black and white flash sheet showing six drawn forearms and hands, each with a different traditional and blackwork tattoo design including a mandala, rose, dagger and horseshoe.
Six forearm and hand flash designs on drawn arms
Flash sheet of Mexican-style tattoo designs in colour, including sugar skulls, roses, a praying woman, a sun with an eye and a central cross.
Mexican tattoo flash sheet with skulls and roses
A green Celtic knotwork cross drawn on a white background, with interlaced bands forming the arms and shaft of the cross.
Celtic knotwork cross in green
Flash sheet of compass rose designs in black, grey, blue and colour, with a few small ornamental cross motifs, shown without any body placement.
Compass rose tattoo flash sheet
Fine line tattoo design of four small black icons in a row: a sun, three wavy lines, a mountain and a cross, on a plain light grey background.
Sun, waves, mountain and cross line icons
Black and grey flash sheet of more than fifty small icon designs, including a dagger, anchor, eye, skull, heart and paper plane, with no body placement shown.
Grid of small tattoo flash designs
Black and red tattoo design of a sword over a red cross shield, flanked by wings, with a banner reading Accipite Armaturam Dei.
Winged sword and shield with banner
Black and grey tribal-patterned cross design with a red striped and blue starred flag draped across the arms, drawn as a tattoo design on a white background.
Tribal cross draped with a flag
Coloured flash drawing of a woman in profile with blue hair, a red bandana, a sailing ship and a wave, with neck and chest tattoos of a cat, cross, diamond and heart in a neo-traditional style.
Blue-haired woman with ship and wave