Cross tattoo ideas

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

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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
Tattooed hands resting on a white cat, with a colour traditional shell design and roses on the hand and arm and a grey etched design on the back of the other hand.
Tattooed hands petting a white cat
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
Traditional style crown tattoo with a cross on top, shaded in red and grey, flanked by two small black stars on a forearm.
Crown and stars on a forearm
Traditional style colour tattoo of a blue cross wrapped in green vines and a grey banner reading Mom and Dad, on a limb.
Blue cross with Mom and Dad banner
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
Traditional style back tattoo of a winged angel holding a palm frond, with red sun rays, black fleur-de-lis crosses and green leaves.
Winged angel with palm on a back
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
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
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
Black and grey Traditional style tattoo of a wooden cross with a crucifix and a banner reading PHILIPPIANS, with 4:13 beside it, on the upper arm.
Wooden cross with banner and scripture reference
Traditional-style tattoos cover both hands, with a skull on one palm, a blue and red mandala on the back of the other hand, and small finger designs including a spider and an anchor.
Skull and mandala hand tattoos with finger designs
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
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 and grey traditional anchor tattoos with rope and script lettering on both thighs, worn above striped over-knee socks.
Matching anchor tattoos with quotes on thighs
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
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a large Victorian mansion with a tower and cross, on the inside of a forearm, above a banner reading The Devil.
Victorian mansion with tower on a forearm
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
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
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
Traditional-style anchor tattoo with pink, purple and blue roses and a rope on the lower leg above the ankle.
Anchor and roses on an ankle
Black and grey traditional tattoo on a calf showing a hut with an onion dome, a crescent moon, pine trees, flowers and a skull.
Hut, crescent moon and skull on a calf
Black and grey tattoo of the state of Texas with the word Texas in script, a cross above and shaded roses with leaves, on a person's upper back.
Texas state outline with cross and roses
Black and grey sugar skull tattoo with roses and leafy vines across the upper back, shown from behind.
Sugar skull and roses on upper back
Three traditional style flash designs on stickers: a light blue car, a fiery banner with flowers, and a red and blue cross with roses.
Car, flames and roses flash designs
Black and grey pencil drawing of a sacred heart wrapped in a rosary, with a banner across the top, a cross and leaves below, in a traditional tattoo design style.
Sacred heart with rosary and cross drawing
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a coffin with a cross, scale pattern and two roses with leaves and tendrils, shown on a limb in three close-up photos.
Coffin and roses in black and grey
Pencil sketch of a traditional style tattoo design showing a headstone inscribed Wish You Were Here, a crescent moon, a rose and leaves.
Headstone with rose and crescent moon design
Colour traditional-style tattoo of a crown-topped key with a twisted shaft and a small cross above, on the inside of a forearm.
Crown key tattoo on a forearm
Side of a torso with traditional tattoos: a colour ship in an oval with a banner, and a black outline dagger wrapped in ribbon with red lettering on the ribs.
Traditional ship, dagger and lettering on ribs
Traditional-style flash design on paper showing two oval portraits with honeycomb, bees, a flying saucer and an atom, above two scrolled banners in colour.
Two illustrated portraits with banners and bees
Colour tattoo of a circle with a brown cross, arrowhead tips, yellow binding and grey feathers, on the upper thigh, in a traditional style.
Cross, feathers and circle on a thigh
Traditional style tattoo of a black coffin with a cross, a scythe and two flowers, with a banner reading Kill the hate within me, on a thigh.
Coffin, scythe and cross on a thigh
Black and grey sugar skull tattoo design with rose-filled eye sockets, flowers, a cross and scrollwork, shown as a drawing with no body part visible.
Black and grey sugar skull with roses
Black and grey realistic tattoo of a weathered wooden cross with a ribbon banner reading To Live Is Christ in script, on the upper arm.
Wooden cross with To Live Is Christ banner
Two hands with black and grey traditional style tattoos, a large skull on the back of the left hand and a rose on the back of the right hand, with small finger tattoos including a cross, a letter P
Skull and rose tattoos on the hands
Traditional style flash design of a moth-winged woman with a skull and red roses in her hair, drawn in red, cream and black.
Moth-winged woman with skull and roses
Colour traditional tattoo on a calf showing a woman clinging to a cross beside a ship, under a banner reading Rock of Ages.
Rock of Ages cross and woman on a calf
Black ink drawing of a tattoo design showing an anchor, a heart with a cross, three roses and a dotted rope over a lace-like mesh, in a traditional style.
Anchor, heart and roses tattoo design
Colour and grey tattoo of a winged cross with a red rose and an In Loving Memory banner on the outer thigh, in traditional style.
Winged cross with red rose on thigh
Painted traditional flash design of two red roses, a grey cross and yellow scrollwork framing a dark central panel, with no body placement shown.
Traditional roses and cross frame design
Black ink traditional flash sheet on cream paper showing a raven, bat, black cat, pumpkin, coffin, broomstick, spiders and spider webs, with a £31 price marked in the centre.
Halloween flash sheet with bats, cats and spiders
Traditional style flash drawing of a red sacred heart with a flaming cross on top, framed by purple flowers and green leaves on a cream background.
Flaming sacred heart with cross and flowers
Shaded grey cross with a rainbow monarch butterfly tattoo across its lower arm, placed on the upper back.
Cross and butterfly on upper back
Traditional style pomegranate tattoo with dark green leaves on the back of a hand, with small heart, fish and star tattoos on the fingers.
Pomegranate tattoo on the back of a hand
Two-panel photo of colour traditional tattoos on an upper arm and forearm, including a blue rose, a woman's face, a skull cross, a winged heart labelled Rocker and a shield reading Victory or Death.
Traditional rock-themed arm tattoos