Guitar tattoo ideas

86 photos and flash · 23% Realism, 13% Traditional · Forearm most common

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Black and grey chest tattoo of the word CASH in ornate block letters above an acoustic guitar, with scrolling flourishes, placed on the upper chest.
CASH lettering and guitar on chest
Black and grey guitar tattoo with two roses and a Music Forever banner on a lower leg, shaded in a realistic style.
Guitar, roses and Music Forever banner
Back of a person showing a tattoo of a guitar body shape filled with a red and orange sunset, trees and a tent, with a dark treeline forming the neck on the upper back.
Guitar silhouette landscape across upper back
Nautical flash sheet of line-art designs in navy and red, including a lighthouse, swallow, whale, anchor, jellyfish and squid on a cream background.
Nautical tattoo flash sheet
Purple and teal illustration of a skull and crossbones filled with traditional tattoo flash motifs such as roses, swallows, stars and banners.
Skull and crossbones with traditional flash motifs
Full back tattoo in black and grey realism showing the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, poker chips, dice, city towers and two large portraits across the upper back.
Las Vegas back piece in black and grey
Black and grey linework tattoo of a long-limbed figure playing a guitar, in a striped top and boots, on a limb.
Long-limbed guitarist tattoo on a limb
Black and grey tattoo of a cartoon rooster playing a guitar, with a ball and chain on one leg, on the side of the ribs.
Rooster guitarist with ball and chain on ribs
Small black silhouette tattoo of an electric guitar on the inner forearm of a hand gripping a guitar neck, in a black and grey style.
Small guitar tattoo on a forearm
Black geometric forearm tattoo of angular star shapes and solid bands, shown on a guitarist playing a black electric guitar.
Geometric black forearm tattoo with guitar
Black ink drawing of a skull built from electric guitars, violins, a microphone, headphones and tangled cables, shown as a standalone design with no body placement.
Skull made of guitars and a microphone
Two side-by-side photos of a full-colour cartoon tattoo on an upper arm, showing a yellow character with a guitar and a silver robot-like character on a green background.
Colourful cartoon characters on an upper arm
Full back tattoo of a purple electric guitar framed by grey skulls, pink roses and wings, with banners reading Where words fail and music speaks, in Traditional and Neo-trad style.
Guitar, skulls and roses across a back
Blue and grey sketch-style guitars tattooed across a man's upper back, with a black hexagon pattern band on the shoulder and upper arm.
Sketched guitars across a back
Realism style black and grey tattoo across a woman's upper back showing a spiralling clock face with music notes, a treble clef and a guitar.
Spiral clock and music notes on a upper back
Black and grey blackwork tattoo on a forearm showing a guitar body filled with inverted trees and roots, with the neck fading into a city skyline.
Guitar body of trees and roots with skyline neck on a
Traditional style tattoo of a guitar headstock with red roses and green leaves on the calf.
Guitar headstock and roses on a calf
Black and grey realism tattoo of an electric guitar with two skulls, a red plectrum and a coiled cable on the forearm.
Guitar and skulls on a forearm
Solid black acoustic guitar silhouette tattoo on the upper arm of a woman in a green dress.
Acoustic guitar on upper arm
Colourful forearm tattoo of an electric guitar body and neck with strings and pickups, set against red sun rays and black ink splatter.
Electric guitar and red sunburst on a forearm
Realism style tattoo of a black acoustic guitar with a red rose and leaves on the upper arm.
Acoustic guitar and red rose on upper arm
Fine line black tattoo of a small guitar on the side of an ankle, photographed in black and white against crumpled bedsheets.
Small guitar outline on an ankle
Black and grey realistic tattoo of a guitar neck and body appearing to tear through skin on the forearm.
Guitar neck tearing through a forearm
Black and grey hand-drawn flash sheet of small tattoo designs, including a planet, paper plane, guitar, airplanes, a bridge, a sailboat and short phrases in lettering.
Hand-drawn tattoo design sheet with phrases and icons
Small black fine line tattoo of an outlined heart and a music note on a forearm, with a guitar neck in the background.
Heart and music note on a forearm
Full-colour cartoon tattoo of a band of puppet characters with guitars and a horn, across the upper arm and shoulder.
Puppet band across the upper arm
Solid black silhouette of an acoustic guitar tattoo on the inner upper arm of a woman with auburn hair wearing a green top.
Acoustic guitar silhouette on upper arm
Colour tattoo of Hello Kitty with green mohawk hair, a skull, stars and a green guitar, shown on a forearm in a bold neo-traditional style.
Punk Hello Kitty with guitar on forearm
Traditional style tattoo of an acoustic guitar wrapped in a script banner, with two red roses, on the forearm.
Guitar, roses and lyric banner on a forearm
Colour cartoon tattoos of three chibi musicians with guitars and a microphone, with lettering, on the outer thigh.
Three cartoon musicians with lettering on a thigh
Black fine line tattoo of a guitar built from overlapping circles and construction lines, on the inner forearm.
Fine line guitar outline on a forearm
Realism black and grey tattoo of a bass guitar across the back of a hand, with letters tattooed on the fingers.
Bass guitar tattoo on the back of a hand
Black and grey pencil drawing of an electric bass guitar flanked by three shaded roses and a ribbon, drawn as a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Bass guitar with roses and ribbon design
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of an acoustic guitar on a forearm, with a tree, stars and mountains filling the body.
Guitar with tree and mountains on forearm
Close photo of the word recover(ed) tattooed in small black lettering on the inner forearm, with a cream electric guitar in the background.
Recover(ed) lettering on inner forearm
Black and grey traditional style flash design of a tattooed mermaid holding an artist's palette, with a squirrel playing a guitar and a banner reading she's a rose, she's a pearl, set against stars
Mermaid with palette, squirrel and banner
Close view of a tattooed forearm and hand resting on a gold guitar, with a traditional style skull and rose design on the forearm and small lettering on the knuckles.
Tattooed forearm and hand on a guitar
Black ink line drawing of a surfboard, an acoustic guitar and a camper van above the handwritten words surf, jam, live in a van.
Surfboard, guitar and camper van sketch
Close-up of a hand held over a sunburst electric guitar, showing a small solid black guitar silhouette tattoo on the back of the hand.
Electric guitar silhouette on the hand
Three die-cut flash-style sticker designs on a grey surface: a guitar with flowers and banner text, a red and white aeroplane, and a pen and harpoon above flowers.
Three flash sticker designs: guitar, plane and harpoon
Black and grey pencil drawing of a skull with a guitar headstock, two roses and music notes, shown as a tattoo design.
Skull, guitar and roses design
Shaded guitar neck and body with a swirling musical staff and notes across the upper back, in grey and purple ink.
Guitar and musical notes on upper back
Black tribal-style guitar design with a swirling body, musical notes on staves and five-pointed stars spreading out on either side, shown as a tattoo flash design.
Guitar with music notes and stars
Flash-style drawing of four coloured beetles playing instruments on an aged parchment background, including a sunburst guitar, a drum kit, a Union Jack beetle and a bass guitar.
Four beetles playing guitars and drums
Black and grey tattoo of an acoustic guitar with strings and fretboard on the inner forearm of a man wearing a grey t-shirt.
Acoustic guitar on a forearm
Black and grey pencil drawing of an acoustic guitar with a ribbon of musical staff and notes wrapping around its neck, shown as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Acoustic guitar with flowing music staff
Realistic tattoo of an electric guitar neck and body with metal pickups and yellow highlights, on the back of a hand.
Electric guitar tattoo on the back of a hand
Large colour tattoo across a person's upper back showing a leafy tree with birds in flight above an electric guitar wrapped in orange ribbons, on the Back.
Tree, birds and guitar across a back