Dot tattoo ideas

3,012 photos and flash · 42% Dotwork, 35% Geometric · Forearm most common

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Colour fine line style snowflake tattoo in turquoise and purple on the side of a ribcage, under a grey sports top.
Turquoise snowflake on the ribs
Two matching black cameo silhouette tattoos in ornate frames sit on the upper thighs, drawn in a bold black ink style.
Matching cameo silhouettes on thighs
Fine line black tattoo of two overlapping triangles and a small dot on the back of a hand, which rests on an animal skull.
Overlapping triangles and dot on the hand
Black ink mandala tattoo with lotus flowers and leaves, shaded with dotwork, across the inner forearm.
Mandala and lotus design on a forearm
Black ink fine line drawing on grey paper of a radial mandala of looping lines, spirals, an eye and dotted rays, with no placement shown.
Radial line-loop mandala design
Colour tattoo of two lavender sprigs with blue-violet flowers and green stems on the side of the thigh, in a fine line botanical style.
Lavender sprigs on a thigh
Colour tattoo of a hamsa hand with an eye above a pink and purple lotus, with black linework, on a forearm.
Hamsa hand and lotus on a forearm
Colour tattoo of a blue swirling wave shape with light highlights and small dots, on the top of a foot.
Blue swirl tattoo on the top of a foot
Black linework tattoo covering a forearm in lattice, dot and bands patterns, with geometric and dotwork styling, photographed in black and grey.
Geometric lattice sleeve on a forearm
Colour tattoo of a dotwork mandala flower with orange petals, teal edges and mauve shading on a forearm, with a small geometric arrow design below it.
Mandala flower tattoo on a forearm
Colourful ornamental feather tattoo with black linework and dotwork shading on the side of a person's ribs, with a hand resting on the chest.
Ornate feather on the ribs
Colour tattoo of a lily, daisy, blue rose and peacock feather with dotted vines across a person's upper back and shoulder.
Lily, daisy and peacock feather on a shoulder
Black and grey tattoo on the side ribs of a torso, showing a profile made of connected dots and lines filled with a mosque skyline, clouds and birds.
Profile of minarets and clouds on the ribs
Flash sheet of four black and grey tattoo designs: crossed arrows with a diamond, crossed arrows with a rose, solid crossed arrows, and crossed feathered arrows with letters and dots.
Crossed arrow tattoo flash sheet
Close view of a wrist with fine line black banded tattoos, one with a chain pattern, worn beneath a silver bracelet and a gold woven dress.
Banded wrist tattoos under a gold bracelet
Black and white flash design of a stylised gecko covered in circles, dots and swirls, shown on a plain white background.
Patterned gecko tattoo design
Black and pink nautical stars and outline stars scattered across a woman's upper arm and shoulder, in a traditional style.
Nautical and outline stars on upper arm
Close-up of a blue floral tattoo with two large flowers, leaves and small dots, placed on the inner forearm of a person wearing a white lace top.
Blue floral tattoo on a forearm
Blue and silver ornamental temporary tattoos on a forearm and both hands, photographed on a beach with rocks behind.
Blue and silver temporary tattoos on arms and hands
Black ink mandala-style lotus flower tattoo with dot accents on a woman's upper back, seen from behind in a wooded setting.
Mandala lotus on upper back
Small solid black tattoo of a bass clef forming a heart, with two dots on each side, on the inside of a wrist.
Bass clef heart on a wrist
Close-up of a hand with a small black swoosh tattoo on one finger and tiny dot clusters on the other fingers, in a minimal dotwork style.
Small swoosh and dot tattoos on fingers
Black tattoo of snow-capped mountains under a crescent moon and stars, with horizontal water lines beneath, shaded with dotwork on the forearm.
Mountains, crescent moon and stars on a forearm
Black ink drawing of an ornate tiger head with dotwork shading, stars and a central flower, shown as a tattoo design on paper rather than on skin.
Ornate tiger head design in dotwork
Back of a neck with a purple bob haircut, showing a small black fine line geometric tattoo of a circle above a downward triangle and dots, sitting on the nape.
Small geometric triangle tattoo on the nape
Black ink lotus flower mandala tattoo with dotwork petals and curling swirls on a person's upper chest.
Lotus mandala on the chest
Black ink tattoo on a forearm of a gramophone horn releasing dotted filigree swirls, with a small record player at the end, in dotwork style.
Gramophone and swirls on a forearm
Black circle tattoo on a calf with white geometric mountain linework and white dots for stars, in a blackwork and dotwork style.
Geometric mountains in a black circle on a calf
Colour tattoo of a Hello Kitty style sugar skull with a pink bow and floral details, traditional style, on the top of a foot, shown in two photos.
Sugar skull Hello Kitty tattoo on the foot
Fine line script reading redemption on the inner forearm, with three yellow dots decreasing in size towards the wrist.
Redemption script and yellow dots on a forearm
Black ink drawing of a symmetrical four-armed ornament with stippled dotwork at its centre, drawn as a tattoo design on paper beside two pens and a pencil.
Four-armed ornament tattoo design sketch
Fine line black arrow tattoo with a feathered tail on the inner upper arm of a person with long dark hair.
Arrow tattoo on an upper arm
Black line drawing of a lotus flower tattoo design with dotwork shading and mandala-style detail, drawn on paper with no body part shown.
Lotus flower design with dotwork
Back of a shoulder showing an abstract black ink brush stroke tattoo with a red splash and a small blue dot, in a mixed colour design.
Brush strokes and red splash on a shoulder blade
Back of a woman with her hair in an updo, showing a dotwork tattoo of dots and drops forming a pendant down the spine, with a band of dots over the upper arm.
Dotwork pendant design across a woman's back
Black and grey drawing of a five-pointed star divided into panels of swirls, dots, a heart and radial patterns, shown as a tattoo design.
Star with swirls and heart design
Black ink mandala drawing with a radial, symmetrical design of petals, circles and dotwork, suitable as a tattoo flash sheet image.
Symmetrical mandala design in black line
Black and grey fine line tattoo on a forearm, with a sun, mountains and pines above a sunflower on one band and a crescent moon and stars on a lower band.
Mountain, sunflower and moon forearm bands
Black dotwork compass rose tattoo with a stippled sun-like halo and four arrowed points, on the inner upper arm.
Dotwork compass on inner upper arm
Traditional flash design of a Stormtrooper helmet framed by red roses, green leaves, crossed bones and black dots, drawn on paper.
Stormtrooper helmet with roses and bones
Fine line black constellation tattoo of star shapes joined by thin lines across a person's upper back.
Constellation tattoo across upper back
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a nautilus shell spiral with dotted construction lines, sitting on the upper chest near the shoulder.
Nautilus spiral on upper chest
Close-up of a fine dark lace-style mandala design on the back of a hand, with dotted lines running down the wrist and simple bands on the fingers.
Lace mandala design on the back of a hand
Close-up of a black geometric mandala design on the back of a hand, with silver rings and grey matte nails.
Black mandala on the back of a hand
Black fine line script reading side by side across the ribs, partly covered by a grey knitted jumper, with a small dot to the right.
Script phrase along the ribs
Black ink sunflower tattoo with mesh-patterned petals, curling vines and dotwork accents on a forearm, with a car interior visible behind.
Sunflower with mesh petals and swirls on forearm
Black ink lotus mandala tattoo with dotwork detail centred on a woman's upper back, with dots running above and below it.
Lotus mandala on upper back
Black ink mandala tattoos cover the tops of both feet and the toes in a geometric dotwork style, photographed against a dark background.
Mandala tattoos covering both feet