Flourish tattoo ideas

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

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Two wrists with matching black fine line script tattoos of the word nourish, each with a swirl flourish at one end.
Matching nourish wrist tattoos
Pen and ink lettering design of an ornate numeral five with dotwork shading, hatching and swirling flourishes, drawn on paper beside pens and a ruler.
Ornate numeral five lettering design
Black and grey script lettering with a flourish and shading on the back of a man's hand, with a wristwatch on the wrist.
Script tattoo on the back of a hand
Black fine line script tattoo reading Amor vincit omnia with love conquers all beneath it, across the inner forearm.
Latin script quote on a forearm
Flash sheet of black script lettering tattoo designs with ornate flourishes, including New York City and Happy Times Sad Times, on a cream background.
Script lettering flash sheet with flourishes
Black script tattoo reading Allons-y on the top of a foot near the ankle, with blue bow flats and dark jeans visible.
Allons-y script tattoo on the foot
Pen drawing of a tattoo design showing a black arrow with a patterned geometric shaft and the words follow your arrow where ever it points, drawn on lined paper.
Arrow with follow your arrow lettering
Close photo of a fine line script tattoo reading Wanderlust with a looping underline, on the inner wrist of a hand held in a loose fist.
Wanderlust script on the inner wrist
Pale yellow script lettering reading Twist and Shout, surrounded by looping fine line flourishes on a dark charcoal background.
Twist and Shout script lettering with flourishes
Fine line script tattoo design reading i love you, with a looping flourish beneath the words, drawn on a plain white background.
Handwritten i love you script design
Black lettering tattoo of the word Believe in a script style, with a swirled flourish beneath it, on the ankle.
Believe script with swirls on ankle
Black calligraphy script reading still i rise with long flowing flourishes on a white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Still I rise script lettering design
Pencil-style tattoo design of a shaded heart padlock with a small key and swirling script letters, in black and grey, with no body placement shown.
Heart padlock and key with script letters
Black script lettering reading Elle est forte with the reference Proverbs 31:25 beneath, drawn as a lettering design on a white background with no body placement shown.
Elle est forte script lettering design
Close photo of a script tattoo reading Family is forever with a shaded cross behind the word Family, on the side of the torso above a waistband.
Family is forever script with a cross
Black and grey flash sheet of three script lettering designs reading Amor, Baby Girl and Princess, with small star accents between them.
Script lettering flash: Amor, Baby Girl, Princess
Pencil sketch of an ornate swash design with shaded ribbon-like forms and curling scrolls, drawn on off-white paper.
Pencil sketch of an ornate scroll flourish
Black script lettering reading Leaving behind my minor life for grander maybes, with small underline flourishes, on skin at the side of the hip above a patterned fabric strap.
Script quote tattoo on the side of the hip
Black and grey script lettering with swirling flourishes across a lower abdomen, above two heart-framed pin-up tattoos on the thighs.
Script lettering on abdomen with heart pin-up thighs
Hand-drawn pencil sketch of the words Once upon a time in ornate script with swirling flourishes, a lettering design for a tattoo.
Once upon a time lettering sketch
Black ink drawing of a stylised calligraphic script design with curling flourishes on a plain grey background, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Black ink calligraphic swirl design
Two pencil sketches of ornate lettering designs, one reading HOPE and one reading FAITH, with flourishes around each word.
Hope and Faith lettering sketches
White ink script tattoo reading Believe, with swirled flourishes beneath, on a forearm.
Believe script on a forearm
Black and grey pencil design of symmetrical blackletter-style lettering with four wolf heads and flowing ornamental lines, drawn as a flash design for a tattoo.
Symmetrical blackletter lettering with four wolf heads
Black script lettering reading Refuse to sink with swirling flourishes and a small anchor below, tattooed on the side of the ribs.
Refuse to sink script with anchor on ribs
Black ink lettering tattoo reading know your own happiness, with scrolled flourishes above and below, on the upper arm of a person in a denim vest.
Know your own happiness quote on upper arm
Black ink drawing of decorative script lettering with shaded capitals, swirling flourishes and a leaf motif, drawn on paper beside a black fineliner pen.
Script lettering with flourishes
Black cursive lettering reading dream with looping flourishes across the inner wrist, in a fine line style.
Dream script tattoo on a wrist
White script lettering on a black background reading We're all stories in the end, just make it a good one, set inside a police box outline, shown as a lettering flash design with no body placement.
Police box with script quote design
Close-up of a white ink tattoo of the word Believe in flowing script with swirled flourishes on a forearm.
Believe script with swirls on a forearm
Black linework design of the word LOVE in an elegant serif script, with the O looped into the flowing L and a curled flourish on the E, drawn on a plain white background.
Stylised LOVE lettering design
Black and white flash design of a coffin with a central skull, flourishes and a block of lettering on a speckled background, in a lettering style.
Coffin with skull and lettering
Tattoo design drawing of the word dream in black script with grey swirling leaf flourishes, shown on a plain white background with no body placement visible.
Dream script with floral flourishes
Black and grey serif lettering tattoo on a person's upper back reading I am the architect of my own Destruction, with a small flourish beneath.
Quote tattoo across upper back
Black fine line script tattoo of the word enough with a long looping flourish above the letters, on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Enough script on the inner wrist
Black and grey pen drawing of an ornate lettered banner design with flourished scrollwork, shown on paper beside two drawing pens.
Lettered banner design with flourishes
Black script lettering reading inspired, with swirling flourishes and small sparkle stars on a white background, in the style of a tattoo lettering design.
Inspired script lettering design
Black and grey pencil drawing of the word Love in ornate script with sketched flourishes, leaves and swirls, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Ornate script design spelling Love
Fine line black scrollwork monogram tattoo on the forearm, with looping flourishes enclosing stylised letters.
Scrolled monogram on a forearm
Black and grey lettering tattoo reading ART MUSIC LOVE with scroll flourishes on the inside of a wrist.
Art, music and love lettering on a wrist
Black script tattoo reading Walk by faith and Not by sight, with swirls and a small flourish across the top of a foot.
Walk by faith quote with swirls on a foot
Line drawing of the words Love yourself in flowing script, framed by paisley-style flowers, feather shapes and swirling flourishes on a tan textured background.
Love yourself script with floral flourishes
Black and grey photograph of the words "Not all those who wander are lost" in script lettering with swirling flourishes along the side of a foot, on a carpet.
Script quote tattoo along the side of a foot
Black script lettering reading La Vita è Bella with flourished guillemet ornaments at each end, shown as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
La Vita è Bella script lettering
Black flash design of the word Breathe in flowing script lettering with a looped underline flourish, shown on a white background.
Breathe script lettering with flourish
Two panels show black and grey script lettering on an upper arm: the word Cursed in shaded lettering above, and the word Blessed in solid black script with swirling flourishes below.
Cursed and blessed script lettering on an arm
Black and grey rose with leaves on the outer leg beside a script tattoo on the other leg, both photographed in bathwater.
Rose and script tattoos on legs in a bath
Black cursive script lettering tattoo wrapping diagonally around the outer thigh, shown in a close photo of a bare leg in shorts.
Black script lettering around a thigh