Elephant tattoo ideas

638 photos and flash · 29% Fine line, 15% Dotwork · Forearm most common

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Colour realism portrait tattoo on an upper arm, set in an ornate red and orange circus-style frame with a monkey, an elephant and a peacock, and lettering reading Michael Jackson.
Circus-framed portrait tattoo on upper arm
Realistic grey-shaded elephant head tattoo framed by colourful mandala patterns on a thigh, with denim shorts visible at the top.
Realistic elephant with mandala on thigh
Colour tattoo of a cartoon baby elephant holding a pale blue daisy with its trunk, with pink ear and cheek shading, on skin.
Baby elephant holding a daisy
Black and grey Ganesha tattoo with ornate mandala detailing on the forearm, beside a dotwork lotus mandala tattoo on the thigh.
Ganesha and mandala tattoos on arm and leg
Small fine line tattoo of an outlined elephant with a filled green clover on the outer ankle, with sea foam around the foot.
Elephant and clover on an ankle
Black and grey fine line tattoos on a forearm, including small script reading BE IT and an outlined animal on the lower arm, with the wearer's arms crossed over a dark jacket.
Fine line lettering and animal tattoos on forearms
Large watercolour-style tattoo across a woman's back showing an elephant with tusks and a woman's face framed by red and pink flowers.
Watercolour elephant and woman across the back
Collage of six colourful watercolour-style tattoos, including a wolf head, a splashed bird across a woman's upper back and shoulder, an elephant on an upper arm, and an orange sun on a man's arm.
Watercolour wolf, bird, elephant and sun tattoos
Black and grey tattoo of the elephant-headed deity Ganesha with ornate patterned linework forming an Om symbol on skin.
Ganesha within an Om symbol
Two women seen from behind, each with a matching black ink elephant tattoo with ornate patterned detail on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Matching elephant tattoos on two backs
Black fine line outline of a small elephant on the inside of a wrist, with the hand raised against a dark floral backdrop.
Small elephant outline on wrist
Fine line tattoo of two elephants walking in single black outlines across the side of a foot, shown healed above and as a stencil on skin below.
Two elephants in line outline on a foot
Black and grey tattoo of an elephant head merged with octopus tentacles on the forearm, drawn in blackwork and stippled dotwork shading.
Elephant and octopus on a forearm
Black ink ornamental elephant with a lotus flower on a woman's ribs, with script tattooed on her upper arm.
Ornamental elephant with lotus on ribs
Black linework and dotwork tattoo of an elephant head wearing a crown of pink flowers, with small leaves, on the outer thigh.
Elephant with flowers on the thigh
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a small elephant outline on the side of a finger, photographed against a dark background.
Small elephant outline tattoo on a finger
Black and white ornamental drawing of an elephant head filled with swirls, dots and paisley-like patterns, shown as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
Ornamental elephant head line drawing
Black line drawing of the elephant-headed deity Ganesha framed by an ornate mandala and resting on a lotus, a flash design suited to a larger back or chest piece.
Ganesha with mandala and lotus design
Small fine line black outline tattoo of a baby elephant with its trunk raised, placed on the ribs.
Small baby elephant outline on skin
Large realistic grey elephant head tattoo across a person's upper back, with a trunk formed of vertebrae and muted brown tusks.
Elephant head with vertebrae trunk across back
Red scribbled-line tattoo of an elephant on a man's chest, with silhouetted birds rising from its back on trailing lines, beside a colour lotus tattoo.
Red sketched elephant and birds on chest
Black outline elephant tattoo with blue, purple and green patterned body and raised trunk holding a leafy sprig, on the side of the ribs.
Patterned elephant with raised trunk on ribs
Upper arm tattoo with a grey shaded elephant head framed by a red rose, a yellow rose and dark roses, in a neo-traditional style.
Elephant and roses on an upper arm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo on an upper arm, with a linework elephant, repeating tessellated shapes and a circle within flowing outlines.
Dotwork elephant and tessellation sleeve
Black script lettering reading 'the very things that hold you down' on a thigh, beside a coloured cartoon elephant tattoo on a second thigh.
Script quote and cartoon elephant on thighs
Small soft-shaded tattoo of a grey elephant holding a pink heart-shaped balloon on the inner wrist.
Elephant holding a heart balloon on wrist
Black and grey fine line elephant with mandala-style patterns on the upper back, with a script quotation tattooed below it.
Ornamental elephant and script quote on upper back
Small black outline tattoo of a baby elephant in fine line style on the inner wrist.
Small elephant outline on a wrist
Colour tattoo of an elephant head in a watercolour-style with red geometric linework and black ink splatters on the forearm.
Elephant head watercolour tattoo on forearm
Black and grey elephant tattoo on a forearm, with small script reading never forget arched above its back.
Elephant tattoo on a forearm
Black and grey ornate elephant tattoo filled with intricate geometric patterns, shown on a limb with visible body hair.
Ornate elephant on a leg
Close-up photo of a small red elephant tattoo with a black outline and raised trunk on brown skin.
Red elephant tattoo with raised trunk
Black and grey ornamental elephant tattoo on the outer thigh, with denim shorts above and a hand wearing a ring at the left edge.
Ornate elephant on the thigh
Black and white engraved design of an elephant-headed deity with an ornate crown, rendered in fine parallel hatching on a white background.
Ganesha elephant head engraving design
Colour tattoo of an elephant in profile, filled with layered pink, blue and yellow landscape bands, on the side of the ribs.
Elephant silhouette with landscape fill on ribs
Black and grey elephant head tattoo with a mandala and daisies across the upper arm and shoulder.
Elephant head with mandala and daisies on upper arm
Sketch-style grey elephant tattoo with red and orange balloons, spanning the shoulder and upper arm.
Elephant with balloons on upper arm
Black line flash sheet of six geometric low-poly animals, including a horse, elephant, giraffe, rhinoceros and camel, in Geometric style with no body placement shown.
Geometric animal flash sheet
Two matching fine line outline tattoos of a giraffe and an elephant with a small heart, one on each ankle.
Matching giraffe and elephant ankle tattoos
Black line-work tattoo of an elephant on the upper arm, with a small red heart on its body.
Line-work elephant on upper arm
Black and grey realistic tattoo of an elephant walking towards the viewer, with white tusks, on the calf.
Realistic elephant tattoo on a calf
Two facing elephant line drawings, one blue and one brown, with raised trunks, shown as a fine line tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Two elephants with raised trunks
Black and grey tattoo of an ornately decorated elephant with its trunk raised, shown on a person's lower abdomen above a belt.
Ornate elephant on the lower abdomen
Coloured drawing of an ornate elephant head with a jewelled headdress, hanging chains and curved tusks, in neo-traditional style flash.
Ornate elephant head design
Fine line black outline of a small elephant tattooed on the inner wrist, with a hand raised in the background.
Small elephant outline on the inner wrist
Gold and turquoise metallic temporary tattoo of feathers, elephants and a mandala across a woman's back and upper arm.
Gold and turquoise feather and elephant back design
Realism tattoo of a grey elephant with a pink flower on the back of a neck.
Realistic elephant tattoo on the neck
Colour tattoo of the cartoon elephant Dumbo with large pink ears and blue eyes, outlined in black, on an upper arm.
Dumbo the elephant on an upper arm