Fish tattoo ideas

407 photos and flash · 25% Japanese, 14% Fine line · Forearm most common

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Blue pen sketch of an ornamental design with paisley leaves, a fish with scale detail, an open eye and flowers, shown without any body part.
Paisley, fish and eye design sketch
Bold black line drawing of a stylised fish in profile, facing right, on a plain white background.
Stylised fish line drawing
Black ink design of a swallow in flight, with its wings and body filled with Japanese-style waves, flowers and a koi-like fish, drawn on a white background.
Swallow in flight with wave and koi patterns
Several sheets of cartoon cat temporary tattoo designs in watercolour style, with cat portraits, paw prints, fish, mice and words such as Meow and Purr.
Cat temporary tattoo design sheets
Neo-traditional flash design of a red-haired mermaid with teal tail, fish and a banner reading SIREN, with an anchor and wave tattoo on her arm.
Mermaid with banner reading Siren
Pencil sketch of a long-finned fish with flowing fins, a detailed eye and scale shading along the body, drawn as a tattoo design.
Long-finned fish design in pencil
Neo-trad style flash design of a red-haired cartoon girl surfing a turquoise wave beneath pink flowers and a ribbon banner with lettering, with no body placement shown.
Surfing girl with wave and flowers
Black and grey engraved skull design built from an octopus, fish, shells and an anchor, in a detailed flash style.
Sea creature skull with anchor
Black and grey koi fish drawing in a Japanese style with orange fins and a red gill patch, beside the heading The Meaning Behind Koi Fish Tattoos.
Koi fish tattoo design with heading text
Coloured neo-traditional flash design of a red-haired mermaid in an oval cameo frame, with a teal tail, fish, an anchor and a banner reading SIREN.
Mermaid cameo with fish and a SIREN banner
Retro-style flash drawing of a dark-haired mermaid with a teal tail, surrounded by orange fish, pink coral and stylised waves, with no body placement shown.
Vintage mermaid with fish and coral
A grid of twelve black line drawings of the zodiac signs, in a thin single-weight linework style, with no tattoo placement shown.
Twelve zodiac line drawings in a grid
Four pastel nautical designs on a flash sheet: an anchor with a dolphin, a seahorse with a telescope, a compass rose with a clock face, and a ship's wheel with a lantern.
Vintage nautical flash sheet
Coloured flash design of a red-haired mermaid in a rope-edged oval frame, with two fish, an anchor and a SIREN banner, in a neo-traditional style.
Red-haired siren in an oval frame
Black stencil design of two stylised koi fish curving around a circle with three dots between them, in a Japanese style.
Two koi fish in a circle stencil
Sheet of twelve black tribal-style zodiac designs on white, including a ram, bull, crab, lion, scales and goat, in flowing swirled linework.
Twelve tribal zodiac designs in black
Sheet of coloured cartoon temporary tattoo designs showing Ariel, Flounder and Sebastian from The Little Mermaid on a white background.
Little Mermaid characters temporary tattoo sheet
Neo-traditional flash design of a red-haired mermaid with a teal tail, two fish and a SIREN banner, in an oval frame.
Mermaid with fish in an oval frame
Traditional flash drawing of a pin-up woman resting her arms on the rim of a foaming beer mug, with a green and red fish tail below, in bold colour.
Pin-up leaning over a beer mug
Black and grey flash design of a three-masted pirate ship with a skull flag, surrounded by pirate-themed lettering and a shark.
Pirate ship with lettering flash design
Black and gold koi fish drawn in a Japanese style with white scale outlines and red gills, beside the headline The Meaning Behind Koi Fish Tattoos, with no body part shown.
Black and gold koi fish tattoo design
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design showing two shaded koi fish within black tribal-style lines, with flowers and swirls, in black and grey.
Koi fish and flower tattoo design
Black ink drawing of a seahorse filled with looping curved line patterns, a flash design with no placement on the body.
Seahorse in black line zentangle pattern
Black and grey pencil-style drawing of a koi fish with a faceted geometric lower body, sketched on a tablet with a stylus.
Geometric koi fish design sketch
Flash design of a compass rose wrapped in vines and flowers, with a hanging anchor, rope, a bird and a fish, in teal and peach tones.
Compass rose with vines, anchor and bird
Flash design of a compass rose on a teal world map, framed by branches, flowers, leaves, rope, a fish, a bird and an anchor, in a botanical style.
Compass rose with anchor, bird and botanical wreath
Painted design of two blue and black betta fish curving around a pale blue circle on a white background.
Two betta fish in a circle
Blue ink drawing of two koi fish circling in a yin and yang arrangement, surrounded by stylised water swirls, in a Japanese style.
Two koi fish in a yin and yang circle
Black and grey tribal line design of a mermaid riding a large fish decorated with sun motifs, paw prints and a small lion, shown without any body placement.
Tribal fish and mermaid design
Colour flash design of a dark-haired mermaid with a green scaled tail seated on a pink and orange shell, holding a pearl necklace among rising bubbles and two yellow fish.
Mermaid on a shell with bubbles
Black ink flash drawing of two flowing goldfish with scale detail and a fine geometric hexagon outline, a design suited to a tattoo, shown without a body placement.
Two goldfish with geometric linework
Black line drawing of a koi fish with flowing fins and curling waves, shown as a Japanese style tattoo design on a white background.
Koi fish with swirling water design
Black ink line drawing of a shark built from angular geometric facets on white paper, with two black fineliner pens resting above it.
Geometric shark line drawing
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
Monochrome traditional flash sheet of lumberjack designs including a bear, log cabin, pin-up with a saw, axe, truck and bearded man, with no body part shown.
Lumberjack themed flash sheet
Coloured ink drawing of a leaping trout curved into a circle, with black linework, green, peach and teal washes, and splashes of water around it.
Leaping trout within a circle of splashes
Single-line black ink drawing of a fish with long, flowing fins on a cream background, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Flowing fish line drawing
Flash sheet of many small colour tattoo designs, including a swallow, butterflies, roses, a dolphin, a ladybird, a heart and a sun, with no body placement shown.
Fund-raising tattoo flash sheet with assorted designs
Traditional-style mermaid, anchor, stars and flowers design printed on a black t-shirt, shown flat with no body placement.
Mermaid and anchor design on a black t-shirt
Flash design of two black tribal-style fish with dotted patterns curving around a red lotus flower on a white background.
Two tribal fish around a red lotus
A black and white flash sheet of nautical designs including anchors, a lighthouse, a whale, a compass star, a ship's wheel, a sailing boat and a sailing ship.
Nautical flash sheet of anchors, waves and ships
Black line drawing of a Japanese-style koi fish swimming among lotus flowers and swirling waves, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Koi fish with lotus flowers and waves
Hand-drawn traditional flash designs on tracing paper, including a rose, a bowed heart, a beaded heart locket, a crown, and a beetle, with no body placement shown.
Traditional flash sheet with roses and hearts
Pencil sketch of a koi fish swimming upward past two open blossoms and a bud on a thin branch, a Japanese and botanical tattoo design.
Koi fish with blossoms sketch
Black tribal-style shark design on a white background, with bold swirling linework and geometric triangles across its body and fins.
Tribal shark design
Black ink flash sheet of tribal designs including a turtle, a manta ray, a circular swirl motif and a fish-like shape on white paper.
Polynesian tribal flash sheet with turtle and ray
Blue tribal-style shark tattoo design with white and black ornamental swirls and a toothed open mouth, shown as a drawing on a white background.
Blue tribal shark design
Black line drawing of a fish with interlaced Celtic knotwork across its body and scale-like circles along its side, shown as a tattoo design.
Celtic knotwork fish design