Dotwork tattoo ideas

63 photos and flash · 60% Dotwork, 49% Geometric · Forearm most common

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Black line drawing of a woman's face in sugar skull style, with a rose at the upper left, a spiderweb over the forehead and long flowing hair, shown as a tattoo design on cream paper.
Sugar skull portrait with rose and spiderweb
Black ink mandala tattoo with a crescent moon and dotwork border on the inner forearm, set against a green mountain valley.
Mandala and moon on a forearm
Black ink drawing of a sitting cat filled with ornamental tribal patterns on a cream background, suited to a blackwork tattoo design.
Sitting cat in tribal patterns
Ink drawing of a cat face with a large bow on its ear, with tribal-style swirls and dotted shading filling one side of the head.
Cat head with bow and tribal swirl pattern
Black and grey dotwork and realism calf tattoo of a stormtrooper helmet beneath a triangle emblem, geometric stars and honeycomb pattern.
Stormtrooper helmet and geometric motifs on a calf
Traditional style squid tattoo in green, orange and red with black outlines, shown from two angles on an arm.
Traditional squid on an arm
Black ink pen drawing of a wolf head in fine line hatching, set inside a dashed geometric frame, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Wolf head pen drawing in a geometric frame
Three black ink line drawings of feathers with beaded dotted details and drop ornaments on a plain grey background, shown as fine line tattoo flash designs.
Three feather and bead line designs
Fine line black lotus tattoo with a triangular geometric frame on the centre of a woman's chest, above a small mole.
Geometric lotus on the chest
Black and grey geometric wolf head tattoo with dotwork detail on the inner forearm, shown on a pale arm against a white textured wall.
Geometric wolf head on a forearm
Woman with white ink elephant design on her chest, mandala designs on both hands and a lace-style design at her neck, in bright sunlight.
White ink elephant and mandala designs
Black and grey thigh tattoo of two animal skulls, a poppy and an anatomical heart inside an ornate oval frame, with dotwork and geometric shading.
Skulls, poppy and heart in an oval frame
Full sleeve tattoo of stylised birds, leaves and geometric motifs with dotwork shading, running from the upper arm down to the forearm.
Sleeve of stylised birds and leaves
Blue and black lace-style tattoo with a faceted blue gem at its centre, sitting on the chest below the bust.
Blue gem and lace ornament on the chest
Black line drawing flash of an ornate sun above a crescent moon, both decorated with fine dotwork and hanging drop ornaments.
Sun and crescent moon line designs