Flourish tattoo ideas

464 photos and flash · 55% Lettering, 17% Fine line · Forearm most common

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Black line drawing flash sheet of an ornate outlined alphabet, numerals, scrolls, daggers and a scroll banner, with no body placement shown.
Ornamental alphabet and numbers flash sheet
Black and grey script tattoo reading one step at a time with a small looped flourish, across the side of a foot.
One step at a time script on a foot
Sheet of seven hand-drawn black ink border designs with swirls, dots, leaves and vines, with a handwritten note reading to start left to right.
Hand-drawn ornamental border designs
Fine line scrollwork flourish tattoo in pale pink ink on the inner forearm, shown against a gold textured background.
Pale pink scroll flourish on a forearm
Black line drawing of a scrolling floral flourish with curling tendrils and small leaf-like swirls on a white background, with no body part shown.
Black scrolling floral flourish design
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design showing a dog head in profile above three roses, with the script words misunderstood breed arched overhead, in a traditional style.
Dog portrait with roses and script lettering
Black fine line swirls with dotwork accents and a small flower across a person's upper back, shown in a sepia photograph.
Swirling linework and flower on upper back
Blue ink drawing of an ornamental letter R with swirling flourishes on white paper, with a grey fineliner pen at the top left.
Ornamental letter R with flourishes in blue ink
Fine line white ink script monogram tattoo on the inside of a wrist, shown against a pale cream background.
White ink script monogram on a wrist
Two colour tattoos of scrolling folk-style motifs, one on the side of the ribs and one on the upper chest near the collarbone.
Scrollwork tattoos on ribs and upper chest
Black fine line script tattoo reading "Wild hearts can't be tamed" with decorative swirls, placed on the calf.
Wild hearts can't be tamed lettering on a leg
Black script reading 'If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever', framed by two calla lilies with soft colour and flourishes, tattooed on the upper back.
Calla lilies and script quote on upper back
Colour tattoo of a pink awareness ribbon with black scrolling swirls on the top of a foot.
Pink ribbon and swirls on a foot
Black ink hand-lettered design reading never stop exploring, with a ribbon banner, shaded letterforms and swirling flourishes, drawn on white paper.
Never stop exploring lettering design
Black ink drawing of an ornate decorative capital letter with filigree patterning and curling flourishes on white paper, shown as a tattoo design.
Ornate decorative letter in ink
Black line drawing flash sheet of four flower designs, including a calla lily, a rose, a chrysanthemum-style bloom and an abstract leaf flourish, in a botanical linework style.
Four-piece floral flash sheet
Close-up of black and grey script lettering with shaded flourishes across the lower abdomen, with a green succulent plant tattoo at the upper right.
Script lettering with flourishes across the stomach
Pencil-style drawing of a tattoo design with the word Love in ornate script, a large swash L, leaves and buds in black and grey.
Ornate script Love with botanical flourishes
Black and grey tattoo of a pistol above flowing script reading 'Insult my best friend? Run bitch' on the upper arm.
Pistol and script quote on upper arm
Black script tattoo reading Cellar Door with swirling flourishes on the inner upper arm, against a black and white damask towel.
Cellar Door script on upper arm
Two forearms with black script lettering reading Pain is Inevitable and Suffering is Optional, framed by fine flourishes.
Pain is inevitable quote on forearms
Black ink drawing on white paper of an abstract tattoo design made of curling swirls and flourishes, with no body placement shown.
Black ink swirl flourish design
Black script lettering reading Be Stronger than Your Excuses, with a small swash flourish between the lines, on a white background.
Be Stronger than Your Excuses script lettering
Black line drawing of a tattoo design made of looping calligraphic strokes, a thin hairline stroke and a curled spiral at the base, on a white background.
Looped flourish and spiral design
Pencil sketch of the word Faith in flowing script lettering with decorative swirls, drawn as a tattoo design on textured paper.
Faith script lettering with flourishes
Two photos of black and grey script lettering tattoos on forearms, one reading Your Pain Is A Gift with flourishes and the other a quote with butterfly accents.
Script quotes on forearms
Fine line script tattoo of the word love in black ink on the inner forearm, with a looping flourish under the letters.
Script love tattoo on a forearm
Black ink hand-lettered design reading Everything changes, with swirling flourishes on the capitals and tails, drawn on cream paper.
Everything changes lettering design
A sheet of eight black line monogram designs in flourished lettering styles, with initials such as JM, CB, SB, AG, EJ and TS, shown on a plain white background.
Eight decorative monogram designs on white
Black lettering tattoo on a thigh reading 'It takes courage to grow up and become who you truly are', with ornamental flourishes above and below the text.
Quote lettering with flourishes on a thigh
Black and grey realism roses with swirling vine linework running down a lower leg and onto the ankle.
Black and grey roses and swirling vine on a calf
Black and grey tattoo of the numerals 1689 surrounded by scrollwork on the back of a hand, resting on a dark leather book.
1689 numerals with scrollwork on the hand
Black ink hand-lettered design reading Make Memories That Last Forever, with ornate scrolls and dotwork shading, being drawn with a fine pen on white paper.
Make Memories That Last Forever lettering design
Black line flash sheet of ornamental divider flourishes, scrolls and leaf motifs under the heading divider embellishments.
Divider embellishment flash sheet
A grid of twelve black ink ornamental arrow and swirl designs on a white background, shown as tattoo flash without any body placement.
Twelve black ornamental arrow designs
Black and grey drawing of an ornate capital letter R with curling scrollwork flourishes, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Ornate scrollwork letter R design
Colour tattoo of a pink heart with a scalloped yellow, orange, green and blue border and the words BE KIND, in a traditional style, on the upper arm.
Be Kind heart on upper arm
Black ink drawing of an ornate capital letter R with hatched shading and curling flourishes on white paper, with fineliner pens beside it.
Ornamental letter R pen drawing
Black ink design of the word Believe in flowing script lettering, framed by swirling flourishes on a white background, shown as a flash design without a body placement.
Believe script lettering with flourishes
Black script lettering reading live without regrets, with a swirled flourish beneath, across the upper back.
Live without regrets script across upper back
Butterfly tattoo with black outlines, soft pink and grey shading and black swirling tendrils on a person's upper back.
Butterfly with swirls on upper back
Pencil drawing of a Vespa scooter framed by leaves, berries, swirling flourishes and cloud shapes, shown as a flash design.
Vespa scooter with leaves and swirls
Black ink script lettering reading New York, framed by looping flourishes, drawn as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
New York script lettering with flourishes
Pencil drawing of the word Blessed in flowing shaded script lettering, decorated with curling flourishes, as a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Blessed script lettering with swirls
Fine line black ink tattoo of ornamental script and a central symbol on the inner wrist, worn beside stacked silver bracelets.
Ornamental script tattoo on the inner wrist
Flash sheet of ten black tribal-style heart designs on a white background, each built from swirls, dots and linework, with no body placement shown.
Ten tribal heart designs on a flash sheet
Fine line black tattoo of a howling wolf with ornamental swirling lines trailing below it, on the inside of a wrist.
Howling wolf with swirls on a wrist
Black line drawing of a heart outline with swirling script letters inside, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Heart with swirling script lettering