Guitar tattoo ideas

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

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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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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 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
Black line drawing of an acoustic guitar entwined with swirling scrollwork, roses, hearts and stars, in a botanical design for a tattoo.
Swirling guitar with roses and hearts
Hand-drawn sheet on squared paper showing many small line symbols, including an ankh, eye, skull, owl, lion, dreamcatcher and mountains, as possible tattoo designs.
Hand-drawn sheet of small tattoo symbols
Colourful neo-traditional style tattoo design of a blue unicorn playing a red guitar with skeletal hands, with a green METAL banner, on a black background.
Metal unicorn guitarist with banner
Black line drawing of an electric guitar wrapped in a ribbon banner with roses and leaves, shown as a neo-traditional tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Electric guitar, ribbon and roses design
Black and grey pen drawing of a skull built from guitars, headphones, a microphone and trailing cables, with no body placement shown.
Skull made of guitars, headphones and microphone
Black and white flash design of a guitar with a treble clef, musical notes, swirling vines and flower motifs, shown with no body placement.
Guitar with florals and a treble clef
Black continuous-line drawing of an acoustic guitar with a spiral scroll on a plain off-white background, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Single-line guitar design
Black line drawing design of a guitar neck whose body forms a treble clef with a peace sign inside its loop, with thin swirling lines behind the neck.
Guitar neck, treble clef and peace sign design
Black line-art design of a stylised bass guitar with musical notes along the neck and flowing swirls around the body, on a white background.
Stylised bass guitar with musical notes