Dragon tattoo ideas

457 photos and flash · 35% Japanese, 11% Blackwork · Back most common

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Character map sheet of black tribal tattoo-style designs, including butterflies, hearts, dragons, suns and scorpions, arranged in a grid of labelled cells.
Tribal tattoo design font specimen sheet
Black tribal-style dragon design with white highlights and a small red eye, drawn on a white background.
Tribal dragon design with red eye
Black line drawing of a horned Hannya mask with prayer beads, smoke swirls and a coiled dragon, a Japanese style tattoo flash design.
Hannya mask with horns and prayer beads
Black and grey Japanese dragon tattoo with clouds and kanji covering the upper arm and shoulder.
Japanese dragon on upper arm
Colour tattoo of a pink and orange dragon with horns and whiskers coiling down the upper thigh, in a Japanese-influenced style.
Pink dragon coiled around a thigh
Black tribal-style dragon design with sweeping spiked wings and a flowing tail, drawn on a plain white background.
Tribal dragon design
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of a red and orange dragon head with grey horns across the upper arm and shoulder.
Red and orange dragon on upper arm
Solid black tribal-style design of a dragon whose serpentine body loops into an infinity symbol, shown on a white background with no body placement.
Dragon forming an infinity symbol
Black tribal-style dragon head and sweeping wings drawn as a solid silhouette on white paper, a design suitable for a blackwork tattoo.
Tribal dragon head and wings
Colour flash drawing of a serpentine dragon with a long horned head, filled with pastel teal, pink and purple and decorated with black scrollwork, in a neo-traditional style.
Pastel serpentine dragon flash design
Black and grey shaded Japanese-style dragon tattoo with scaled body and clawed feet, coiling down a calf.
Eastern dragon coiled down a lower leg
Black outline drawing of a stylised dragon with scale patterning and spiral details, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Stylised dragon line drawing
Full sleeve tattoo of a grey Japanese dragon with red flames on a man's arm, shown from shoulder to wrist in two views.
Japanese dragon full sleeve with red flames
Black and grey realism tattoo of a warrior woman holding a sword, with dragons on her abdomen, on the outer thigh.
Warrior woman with sword and dragons on thigh
Colour Japanese-style tattoo on a side thigh and hip, with a pink crystal, black scrollwork vines, and demon masks and creatures below.
Japanese thigh piece with crystal and masks
Black and grey pencil drawing of a Japanese-style sleeve design showing a samurai mask, koi, dragon, peony and waves, with no body part visible.
Japanese sleeve design with samurai, koi and dragon
Neo-trad style dragon tattoo with black outlines, grey shading and a blue watercolour wash, placed on the upper thigh.
Grey dragon with blue wash on the thigh
Full back tattoo in Japanese style showing a teal dragon above an orange and black tiger on rocks, with clouds and wind bars.
Dragon and tiger full back piece
Full-colour painted drawing of a winged dragon with horns, glowing orange eyes and a scaled, coiled tail on a white background, offered as a tattoo design.
Winged dragon with coiled serpent tail
Black and grey Japanese-style dragon design surrounded by swirling clouds and cherry blossoms, drawn as a tattoo flash sheet.
Japanese dragon with clouds and blossom
Black ink line drawing of a stylised dragon with long tapering lines and a coiled body, shown as a tattoo design on plain white paper.
Stylised dragon line drawing
Black line drawing of a mermaid wrapped around an anchor with a rope, in a traditional flash style, on a sheet of paper.
Mermaid wrapped around an anchor flash
Painted flash design of an interlaced Celtic knotwork serpent with a pale skull-like head, in blue-grey, ochre and rust on a parchment background.
Celtic knotwork serpent with skull head
Black line drawing of a stylised dragon head with scale-patterned neck and interlaced ribbon body, shown as a tattoo design on white.
Interlaced dragon head line drawing
Colour Japanese-style tattoo of a red dragon with yellow whiskers, teal cloud shapes and black claws on a lower leg.
Red Japanese dragon on a calf