Hand tattoo ideas

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Black ink drawing of a figure wearing a balaclava with white eye and mouth openings, holding a cigarette with smoke rising from it, on white paper.
Balaclava figure smoking, ink drawing
Black line drawing of a woman in a headband with curly hair, framed by two open roses and an arched border of circles, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Woman portrait with roses design
Black ink linework of a mechanical robotic hand drawn across the fingers, back of the hand and wrist, with hatched shading.
Mechanical hand design in black ink
Black ink drawing of a hamsa hand with an eye set in a lotus flower and dense ornamental patterning, shown over a photo of clear water.
Hamsa hand with eye and lotus design
Flash sheet of fine line designs with black ink and pale watercolour washes, including a hand, Saturn, a birdcage, a teacup, a bicycle and a paper plane, each with a text banner.
Sticker sheet of quote-banner designs
Circular flash design of two clasped hands and two small hearts inside a red and cream ring of lettering, on a dark navy background.
Clasped hands in a circular lettering ring
Traditional flash design of a red-crested songbird perched on an outstretched hand with a teal rose, a heart pendant and red nails.
Songbird perched on a hand
Sheet of metallic gold and silver temporary tattoo designs showing two hamsa hands, turquoise accents, a small eye motif and vertical chain strips.
Metallic hamsa hand and chain temporary tattoo sheet
Black and grey flash sheet showing a Celtic cross with interlaced knotwork beside a Claddagh design with a crown, heart and hands, labelled with their names.
Celtic cross and Claddagh flash designs
Black and grey line drawing of praying hands with the number 6 above them on a white background.
Praying hands with the number 6
Pencil sketch of two hands meeting to form a heart shape on white paper, with a black pen lying beside it.
Pencil sketch of two hands forming a heart
Traditional-style flash design of a jewelled hand holding a lipstick, with pink roses, pearl strands, a cat cameo and the script words Femme Fatale, on a teal background.
Femme Fatale hand with roses and pearls
Pen sketch of a weeping willow rising from a cupped open hand, drawn in black ink with dense hatching, a design suited to a botanical tattoo.
Weeping willow growing from an open hand
Black ink pen sketch of a woman with long flowing hair, large flowers and a flower with an eye at its centre, drawn on a spiral notebook page.
Woman with flowing hair and flowers
Black ink and pencil shaded flash drawing of a hamsa hand with a lotus flower at its base, in a botanical neo-traditional style.
Hamsa hand with lotus flash
Black line drawing of a woman with long hair and closed eyes, showing a Japanese-style sleeve of cherry blossoms, a koi-like fish and a skull on her arm.
Woman with Japanese-style sleeve and skull
Black line stencil of an ornate hamsa hand with mandala patterns and dotted border on transfer paper, with a faint pink outline behind it.
Hamsa hand stencil with mandala detail
Red pencil tattoo design of a woman's face framed by a rose, leaves and vines, with a hand over her head, in a neo-traditional style.
Woman's face with roses and a hand
Black ink neo-traditional design of a woman in a headscarf holding a tarot card over her mouth, with a flower and radiating dotted rays, drawn on cream paper.
Woman with tarot card and flower design
Fine line drawing of an outstretched hand with poppy flowers, leaves, a moon and an eye motif, and the words trust the path unseen, in black ink with blue accents.
Hand with poppies and lettering
Neo-traditional flash drawing of a woman's face framed by flowers, a large key and a red sun, inked in black and red on paper.
Woman with key and flowers flash design
Pen sketch of a tattoo design showing a hand rising from ripples with a banner reading DON'T LET ME DROWN, in black and grey linework.
Hand rising from water with banner
Black and grey dotwork flash design of a woman with flowing hair, a starfish, bubbles and a skull on her cheek, drawn in ink on textured paper.
Woman with starfish and skull, dotwork design
Black ink flash design reading One for the road, surrounded by feathers, a kookaburra, a moon, a sun, wattle, a fish, a bottle, an eye and animal skulls, drawn in fine line with stippled shading.
One for the road tattoo flash design
Pencil flash design of a woman with peony flowers, a crescent moon on her brow and a hand holding a red heart, in a neo-traditional style.
Woman with peonies and crescent moon design
Black ink dotwork drawing of a jackal-headed Anubis figure with an ankh on a forearm-like shape, set among geometric lines and sun motifs.
Anubis head and ankh dotwork design
Black and white line drawing of four hands, two views each, showing geometric and spiral tattoo designs across the back of the hand and the wrist.
Marquesan hand and wrist tattoo designs
Black ink line drawing of a pair of lips showing teeth, with GRRL POWER written across the lower lip above a clenched fist, in a hand-drawn style.
Lips and fist with GRRL POWER text
Black and grey dotwork flash drawing of a skeleton resting its head on one hand while holding a steaming mug in the other.
Skeleton resting head on hand with steaming mug
Fine line flash design of two hands pressed palm to palm, with black painted nails, drawn in black ink on a plain off-white background.
Fine line drawing of two hands pressed together
Set of traditional-style tattoo flash designs printed as stickers, showing a teacup, aeroplane, microphone, cigarette hand, globe, ship wheel and carousel horse, all with lettering on banners, on a
Traditional flash designs printed as stickers
Three traditional style flash designs on a pale surface: a ship wheel with a banner, a carousel horse with a banner, and a hand holding a microphone with a banner.
Ship wheel, carousel horse and microphone flash
Black outline drawing of two cartoon-style hands meeting to form a heart, shown as a flash design on a white background.
Two cartoon hands forming a heart
Black line drawing of a hand holding a letter envelope with a red heart, leaves and the words I'll love you forever, in a traditional flash style on torn paper.
Envelope, heart and leaves flash design
Black and grey neo-traditional flash drawing of the Madonna with a halo, outstretched hands and a glowing sacred heart, drawn on tracing paper.
Madonna with sacred heart design
Ink drawing of a skeleton with many arms raised around a halo and a full moon, with feathered wings behind the skull, in navy and cream.
Multi-armed skeleton with moon and halo
Black dotwork stipple drawing of a hand with the index and middle fingers crossed, shown on a pale grey textured background.
Crossed fingers hand in dotwork
Pencil drawing of a Celtic cross with interlaced knotwork, a shamrock and a crowned claddagh heart held by two hands, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Celtic cross with claddagh and shamrock
Neo-traditional flash design of a pin-up woman with a red rose in her hair, half of her face a skull, with the quote I got a beautiful heart but a twisted mind around her.
Pin-up woman with half skull face and red rose
Pencil line drawing of a hamsa hand tattoo design with an om symbol, an eye, flowers, a diamond and feather motifs, on pale paper.
Hamsa hand design with om and eye
Black ink flash sheet of traditional-style designs including hands, daggers, a skull, a rose and a candle, drawn on white paper.
Black ink flash sheet of hands, daggers and skulls
Black and grey pencil drawing of a woman in a cap with script lettering, a hand raised to her mouth and a rosary, a tattoo flash design with no placement on the body.
Pencil portrait of a woman in a script-embroidered cap
Hand-drawn fine line tattoo design of a lotus flower within a dotted geometric triangle, with a pen held beside it on white paper.
Lotus flower tattoo design in fine line
Black line drawing of a hand delicately holding a rose stem with leaves, beside a triangle containing the number 13, on a peach background.
Hand holding a rose stem with triangle 13
Stippled dotwork drawing of two open palms beneath a sunburst and a row of moon phases, with rosette shapes at the wrists, in black and ochre ink on cream paper.
Stippled hands with sun and moon phases
Pencil and dotwork drawing of a hamsa hand with the face of Ganesha and ornate mandala patterns, a design suitable as a tattoo.
Hamsa hand with Ganesha design
Gamago Fingerstache temporary moustache tattoo on a finger, shown in its clear blister pack beside a card of black moustache designs.
Temporary moustache tattoos in Gamago packaging
Hands hold open a spiral notebook showing a colourful feather design in teal, pink and purple that breaks apart into small flying birds.
Feather dissolving into birds sketch