Hand tattoo ideas

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Black and grey neo-traditional tattoo design on tracing paper showing a bearded man in a helmet beside a ship in a bottle, with flowers and a hand.
Bearded sailor and ship in bottle design
Orange and yellow fox design drawn in a circular frame of swirling linework, shown as a finished drawing and mid-drawing with a pen on a warm background.
Fox design in a swirling floral frame
Black ink traditional flash sheet showing a skull, a sun, a bat, a spider web, an eagle and a snail, drawn in a bold outline style with shading.
Traditional flash sheet of skulls and symbols
Black line drawing flash design of two eyes behind outstretched hands with solid black nails and one tear, showing no placement on the body.
Hands covering eyes with a single tear
Black and grey dotwork flash designs pinned to a white wall, including hummingbirds, a heart, a hamsa hand, a scorpion, a ribcage and an eye.
Dotwork flash of birds, hearts and hands on a wall
Watercolour and ink drawing on paper of a pink hand raised beside a stylised face, with yellow flowers and a large eye.
Watercolour hand and face design with flowers
Black and grey pencil and ink drawing of a Medusa figure with snake hair, a clawed hand and a skull, drawn on tracing paper as a tattoo design.
Medusa and skull tattoo design on tracing paper
Black fineline drawing of a dense floral design with leaves, paisley swirls and flower heads, being inked by hand with a fineliner pen.
Hand-drawn floral design with fineliner
Flash sheet of gold, silver and black metallic temporary tattoo designs, including feathers, a hamsa hand, chevrons, a cross, the word dream in an infinity loop and tribal bands.
Metallic temporary tattoo sheet with feathers and chevrons
Black ink drawing of an ornate hamsa hand with a central eye, filled with dotwork shading and mandala-style patterns, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Hamsa hand with eye in dotwork design
Black and grey flash design of an owl with spread wings holding crossed pistols, flanked by skulls, dice and playing cards.
Owl with crossed pistols and skulls
Black dotwork flash sheet showing a rose, a snake, a dagger, a praying hand, an angel, a cross and church buildings, shown as tattoo designs with no placement on the body.
Dotwork flash sheet of churches, snakes and hands
Black and grey drawing of an ornate hamsa hand with a detailed eye at its centre, set on a textured beige background, shown as a tattoo design.
Hamsa hand with eye design
Black and white line drawing of a collage with a pocket watch, teapot, key, keyhole and playing cards, shown as a tattoo design sketch.
Pocket watch and playing card collage
Fine line drawing of a hand making the horns gesture above a purple banner reading I DON'T CARE, shown as a tattoo design.
Horns hand gesture with banner
Black and grey flash sheet of Addams Family themed designs, including a kissing couple in a heart, a young woman's face, a candelabra, a vintage car and a spider web.
Addams Family flash sheet in black and grey
Black line drawing of two facing profiles, one a horned figure and one a woman with her hair up, leaning towards a red rose, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Two profiles leaning towards a red rose
Pencil sketch of an open hand with the words Promise, love, PROVOKE, DIRECTION and Good Luck written around the fingers, shown as a tattoo design idea.
Hand sketch with word designs
Pen and watercolour tattoo design drawn on paper, showing a skull, a woman's face, roses and flowing hair, being inked by hand.
Skull, roses and woman design drawing
Fine line black outline drawing of two hands linking little fingers on a cream background, a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Two hands linking little fingers
Black line drawing of a hand with a cuff reading LOVE KILLS, holding up a card marked with a heart pierced by an arrow.
Hand holding a heart card with Love Kills
Black and grey dotwork drawing of a hamsa hand with an eye at its centre, flanked by two roses, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Hamsa hand with eye and two roses design
Black and white stippled flash design of a skull over crossed bones, an all-seeing eye in a triangle, a dollar sign, a hand and a 40 oz bottle on a banner, in dotwork style.
Skull, crossbones and 40 oz bottle design
Black line drawing flash sheet showing an AK-style rifle, a pixel sad face, a bag of pills labelled Soft Drugs, a unicorn head, a middle finger hand and two cartoon characters.
Flash sheet with rifle, pills and cartoon designs
Black line drawing of an open hand with dotted and floral henna-style patterns across the palm, wrist and fingers, suited to a hand tattoo.
Dotted floral henna-style hand design
Black line drawing flash design of an anatomical heart cradled by a hand, with the lettering Do not hold my heart unless you want to hold my hand.
Anatomical heart held in a hand
Black and white line drawing of a palm tattoo design with symbols on the fingers, a sunburst eye and the words Deus Ex Machina, in a blackwork and geometric style.
Palm design with sunburst eye and numerals
Black line drawing of a hamsa hand with a lotus flower in its centre, drawn as a tattoo design on a white background.
Hamsa hand with lotus flower design
Flash sheet of black henna-style floral and paisley designs drawn on outlined hands, with pricing bundles shown at the top of each section.
Henna hand design flash sheet
Black and grey traditional flash sheet showing a central urn, a hand holding a dagger, a bird, an eye, a pipe, flowers, arrows and script lettering.
Black and grey flash sheet with urn and hand
Drawing of a skeleton hand making the rock horns gesture, outlined in black with purple, green and yellow watercolour-style washes over the bones.
Skeleton hand in rock horns gesture
Black line drawing of two solid black hands reaching up out of concentric ripples, shown as a flash design on a white background.
Two hands rising from ripples
Pencil drawing of a fine line botanical tattoo design, with an arrow at each end and a lotus flower in the centre, held beside a hand holding a pencil.
Lotus and arrows vertical design sketch
Two carved wooden arm and hand boards showing traditional-style tattoo designs of skulls, a heart with a dagger, a goat, a cat and flowers, in black and cream.
Carved arm boards with skull, goat and cat designs
Black line drawing flash of a vintage ribbed microphone held in a hand, with roses on a plain tan background.
Vintage microphone with roses
Flash sheet of metallic gold and silver temporary tattoo designs, including a hamsa hand, a dreamcatcher, arrows, chevrons, a sun star and a diamond border.
Metallic flash sheet with hamsa and dreamcatcher
Fine line drawing of two hands in black outline on a white background, one resting in the cupped palm of the other.
Line drawing of two cupped hands
Illustrated pair of hands with solid black sun face designs on the wrists, a black circle with crossbars on each palm, and the letters of DEATH across the fingers.
Sun and circle hand tattoo designs
A hand paints black ink onto a mandala flower tattoo design drawn on white paper, with heart motifs and dotted borders around the petals.
Black ink mandala flower design being painted
Black ink drawing of a symmetrical mandala with lotus-like petals and dotwork shading, shown on paper beside a hand wearing a silver ring.
Mandala flash design on paper
Black ink drawing of a hamsa hand with an intricate elephant and lotus pattern filling its outline, shown as a tattoo design on white.
Hamsa hand with elephant in black ink
Black and grey flash drawing of an owl face merged with a hamsa hand, with a mechanical pencil resting across the paper.
Owl and hamsa hand flash design
A sheet of gold and silver metallic temporary tattoo designs showing evil eyes, hamsa hands and dotted chain-style lines, with teal and black accents.
Gold and silver evil eye and hamsa temporary tattoo sheet
Black ink line drawing of a woman with cat ears, a flower crown and long flowing hair, holding an angular heart-shaped object, as a neo-traditional tattoo design.
Woman with flowers and cat ears line drawing
Traditional style flash drawing of a cluster of red roses with dark leaves, held by a grey hand with red drops of blood on the stem.
Traditional rose and gripped stem flash
White t-shirt with an all-over repeat print of traditional style flash designs, including retro televisions, a raised hand with a banner, roses and cassette tapes.
Retro TV and hand flash repeat print on a t-shirt
Black ink line drawing of a geisha with a flower hair ornament leaning in to kiss a figure with short hair, in a Japanese-influenced style, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Geisha and figure embrace flash design
Cream line illustration of a hamsa hand with a central eye, ornate spirals and dotted detailing on a dark brown background.
Hamsa hand with central eye design