Flourishes tattoo ideas

25 photos and flash · 80% Lettering, 12% Dotwork · Forearm most common

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Illustrated flash design of a grey skull with red roses, barbed wire and a sword across a cross shape, on a black background.
Skull, roses and barbed wire design
Black ink script lettering design with stippled shading, dots and swirling flourishes, drawn on white paper.
Script lettering design with dotwork shading
Black ink drawing of the words Come Forth in flowing script, with stippled dotwork shading around the letters, on white paper.
Come Forth lettering with dotwork flourishes
Black and grey blackletter alphabet flash sheet with A to Z in ornate gothic capitals and swirling flourishes, shown as drawn designs rather than on skin.
Blackletter alphabet flash sheet
Black and grey pencil sketch of a steampunk compass rose surrounded by interlocking cogs, levers and scrollwork flourishes, drawn as a tattoo design.
Steampunk compass with gears and flourishes
Ink drawing of an ornate lettering design with curling leaf flourishes and dot shading, drawn on cream paper beside a fine liner pen.
Ornate lettering sketch with flourishes
Black script lettering design of the quote I'm going to make everything around me beautiful, with flourished capitals and no body placement shown.
Script quote lettering design
Pencil sketch of the words Stay a little longer in flowing script lettering with swirled flourishes, drawn on paper beside a stencil and an eraser.
Stay a little longer script lettering sketch
Pencil drawing of a realistically shaded rose and a pocket watch with Roman numerals, with leaves and swirling flourishes, shown as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
Rose and pocket watch pencil design
Hand-drawn lettering design reading Never give up in ornate script with flourishes, sketched in pencil on paper beside a pencil.
Never give up lettering design
Black ink script lettering samples with flourishes, including phrases such as Adaggio and Love Catalogue, and a full lowercase and numeral alphabet along the bottom.
Script lettering specimen sheet
Black ink lettering design on white paper, with a decorative blackletter-style word surrounded by scrollwork and foliage, beside a fine black pen.
Ornate lettering design in black ink
Black and grey flash sheet of decorative alphabet letters A to Z, each with floral swirls, and some with small butterflies, in a lettering style.
Decorative alphabet letters A to Z with swirls
Black and grey flash design of a top-hatted gentleman and a skull joined by a banner, shown twice in mirrored, upside-down orientation.
Double-ended skull and gentleman design
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