Desert tattoo ideas

41 photos and flash · 24% Fine line, 20% Dotwork · Forearm most common

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Traditional style tattoo of a striped teepee, red sun, cactus and stars on a lower leg, with bold black outlines and red and yellow fills.
Teepee and desert scene on a calf
Grey and red shaded hot rod car with a windmill and mountains on a back shoulder, beside a Route 66 shield tattoo on the upper arm.
Hot rod and Route 66 shield on a shoulder
Woman seen from behind with arms raised, showing a rose tattoo on her upper arm and shoulder in muted red and grey ink.
Rose tattoo on upper arm
Black and grey circular tattoo of a desert scene with a saguaro cactus, mountains and a rising sun, done in stippled shading on a forearm.
Desert landscape in a circle on a forearm
Colour realism tattoo on the upper arm and shoulder showing a woman's face beside a purple planet, a red desert horizon and a floating astronaut.
Woman's face and astronaut in a space scene
Black and grey tattoo on a thigh showing a seated figure in a sombrero beneath saguaro cacti and a rayed sun, drawn in dotwork within a diamond frame.
Desert scene with saguaro and sun on a thigh
Colour tattoo of a crystal ball showing a desert with cacti and a mesa under a purple sky, framed by smoke clouds, on the calf in a neo-traditional style.
Crystal ball with desert scene on a calf
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a teepee under a crescent moon with stars, cacti and a bull skull on the inner forearm, framed by fine geometric circles.
Teepee and desert scene on a forearm
Full back tattoo in black and grey realism showing several portraits, a woman in a white dress, vintage motorcycles, a motel sign and a Route 66 shield on the back.
Full back realism scene with motorcycles and portraits
Black linework tattoo of a desert sunrise, cacti and mountains with bands of solid black, across the back of both calves.
Desert landscape across both calves
Fine line black tattoo on an upper arm showing a desert road, cactus, sun, mountains, bull skull and the words Doing time in the universal mind.
Desert road and cactus with lettering on an arm
Fine line outline of a world map tattooed on the inner wrist of a raised arm, with a desert landscape behind.
World map outline on a wrist
Black line drawing of a flying saucer over a desert with cacti, an eye motif and the lettering Just Hold On We're Going Home, in a traditional flash style.
UFO and lettering tattoo design
Black line drawing flash sheet of a saguaro-style cactus, prickly pear, crescent moon, fish, sun and wavy lines on a cream background.
Desert cactus flash sheet
Black and grey realism tattoo of a desert road with a windmill, a motel sign and an old car, across the forearm.
Desert road with windmill and motel sign on a forearm
Black ink line drawing on cream paper showing mountains, cacti, a filled sun, a star and an arc, in a fine line style that could serve as a tattoo design.
Desert landscape line drawing
Black line drawing of a teepee with the words Girls Have Cooties, a cactus, a sun and clouds, drawn on tracing paper beside pens and a hand with a tattooed forearm.
Teepee and cactus desert design sketch
Red and blue fine line tattoo of a saguaro cactus with a stippled crescent moon and small stars on the outer thigh.
Cactus, crescent moon and stars on a thigh
Traditional style tattoo of a flowering cactus, a sombrero and a red and orange sunset inside a circle, on a forearm.
Cactus and sombrero sunset on a forearm
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of a desert scene inside a heart on an arm, with a cactus, prickly pear, bull skull, crescent moon and stars.
Desert scene with bull skull in a heart
Black ink tattoo of pyramids, mountains, a cactus, a palm tree, a UFO and stars on a leg.
Desert pyramids with UFO and palm tree
Neo-traditional tattoo of an anthropomorphic cat in a leather jacket and star badges, holding a blade, with orange and blue washes behind, on the forearm.
Cat in leather jacket with a blade
Colour tattoo on an upper arm of the Rebel Alliance symbol above a desert scene with domed dwellings, a lone silhouette and twin suns, in a neo-traditional style with bold black outlines.
Rebel Alliance symbol over a desert sunset
Colour tattoo of pyramids, a UFO and stars inside a Polaroid-style frame on the thigh, in a neo-traditional style.
Pyramids and UFO in a Polaroid-style frame
Traditional tattoo of a saguaro cactus, barbed wire ring, white flower and desert mesa on a forearm.
Desert cactus and barbed wire on a forearm
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a sun with radiating rays above rocky mesas and a path, with agave plants at the base, on an upper arm.
Sun over mesas on an upper arm
Black and grey desert landscape tattoo on the upper arm with saguaro cacti, a campfire with red flames and a scorpion, in a traditional style.
Desert campfire scene on upper arm
Full arm sleeve tattoo in a realistic style showing an astronaut helmet on the upper arm, a nebula and planet in the middle, and an astronaut on a red desert landscape near the wrist.
Space sleeve with astronauts and planets
Black fine line tattoo of a saguaro cactus between two hatched mountains and a small sun, on the upper arm.
Cactus and mountains with a sun
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a desert scene with saguaro cacti, mountains and a moon, set inside a circle on the lower leg.
Desert landscape in a circle on the lower leg
Embroidered traditional-style design of a green cactus growing from a skull above a red sun and mesa silhouettes, with the words DON'T BE A PRICK, shown in a wooden frame against a brick wall.
Cactus and skull design in a wooden frame
Full leg sleeve tattoo in colour styled as film strip frames with cartoon characters, shown from the thigh to the calf in two photographs.
Cartoon film strip leg sleeve
Colour leg sleeve tattoo of cartoon film strip scenes covering the thigh and calf, shown from two angles.
Cartoon film strip leg sleeve on thigh and calf
Black and grey dotwork and linework tattoo of a desert scene with saguaro cacti and mountains inside a circle on a calf.
Desert scene with saguaro cacti on a calf
Small black outline of a cactus tattoo on an ankle, with rolled denim jeans above and a sandy desert behind.
Outline cactus on an ankle
Full back tattoo in colour realism showing two muscle cars against a desert sky, with a cracked glass effect and a Route 66 sign.
Two muscle cars and Route 66 sign across a back
Traditional style tattoo of a heart reading I'll never let my youth cave in, with a desert scene inside, on a forearm.
Heart lyric tattoo with desert scene
Fine line black tattoo on a forearm showing a UFO beaming up a figure above cacti and Joshua trees, with the words I WANT TO LEAVE below.
UFO and desert scene with lettering on a forearm
Full-colour realism tattoo of Boba Fett with a starship and desert city behind him, covering the upper arm.
Boba Fett and starship on upper arm
Two traditional-style snow globe tattoos on upper arms, one showing a desert with a cactus and moon, the other a palm tree, sea and flowers.
Snow globe tattoos on upper arms
Black dotwork tattoo of pyramids and a flying saucer inside a diamond frame on the inner forearm.
Pyramids and UFO in a diamond on a forearm