Hand tattoo ideas

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Black line drawing of a tattoo design in a traditional style, showing a hand holding a letter with a heart, two roses, leaves and a butterfly, on a tracing sheet.
Hand holding envelope with roses and butterfly
Black linework flash design of a woman with flowers in her hair, a hand at her face, paintbrushes and a skull with an all-seeing eye, in botanical style.
Woman with brushes, skull and eye design
Black and white flash drawing of an ornate hamsa hand with a large eye in the palm, filled with dotted and linear patterns.
Hamsa hand with eye design
Black ink flash sheet in a traditional style showing two female heads with daggers, barbed wire, clasped hands, a sailing ship and birds.
Traditional flash sheet with ship, daggers and barbed wire
Black ink drawing of a hand whose fingers and knuckles are replaced by eyeballs, with dripping lines below, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Hand of eyeballs with dripping lines
Pencil drawing of a hamsa hand design with an open eye at its centre, surrounded by leaf sprigs and scalloped dotted outlines, with soft pink shading on the fingertips.
Hamsa hand with eye and botanical filigree
Coloured neo-traditional tattoo design drawn on paper, showing a hand reaching towards a planchette with an eye, framed by purple and red roses and leaves.
Ouija planchette, hand and roses design
Black thread embroidery in a wooden hoop of a tattoo-style hand holding a heart with a SOULMATE banner, a chain and a decorated cuff.
Embroidered hand holding a heart banner
White line drawings on a black background of traditional tattoo flash, including a skull with a dagger, a horseshoe, an anvil, roses, an envelope reading I HATE YOU and a spider web.
Traditional flash sheet with skull, dagger and horseshoe
Black linework traditional flash sheet showing a perfume bottle, a potted plant with a banner, a sundae, a hand holding lipstick, a pin-up, cherries and a knife with banners.
Traditional flash sheet with pin-up and cherries
Neo-trad style flash sketch of a woman in a beaded headwrap with an Ouija board alphabet across her eyes, with long black nails and beaded bracelets.
Ouija board headwrap woman sketch
Traditional style flash design of a dagger dripping blood, wrapped in lettered banners over a drawn arm with a spider web and rose.
Dagger and banners flash with blood
A hand draws a bold black tribal gorilla design with a marker pen on white paper, a design suited to a blackwork tattoo.
Tribal gorilla design being drawn
Five white stencil-style circular designs on a black background showing a tree, scales, clasped hands, an eye and flames, with no body placement shown.
Five circular symbol designs on black
Two-panel pencil drawing of a geisha holding a fan, surrounded by frangipani and hibiscus flowers, shown as an outline and as a shaded design for a tattoo.
Geisha with fan and frangipani flowers design
Neo-traditional style flash design of a hand gripping a dagger with a ribbon wrapped around the blade, flanked by red roses and set in an ornate frame labelled Ace and Swords.
Ace of Swords tarot design with dagger and roses
Black linework flash design of an ornate stag head with antlers above a hamsa hand containing an eye, surrounded by paisley and mandala filigree.
Ornate stag and hamsa hand design
Distressed vintage-style illustration of a dark-haired woman with red roses in her hair leaning towards a teal and cream skeleton, with clasped hands and swirling teal lines, shown as a design with no
Skeleton and woman embracing, distressed flash
Flash sheet of drawn designs including crossed knives, a coiled snake, a dog's head, a bottle labelled Kingpin and a beetle, in navy and orange on cream.
Flash sheet of knives, snakes and objects
Vertical flash sheet of black and grey engraved designs, including a skull with candle, an eye, crossed bones, hands, scales and a plague doctor, with Latin lettering.
Vertical sheet of occult and engraved motifs
Black and white drawing of a hamsa hand tattoo design with blackwork outlines and dotwork detailing on a white background.
Hamsa hand design
Black line drawing of a hamsa hand with an eye inside a triangle, crescent moons and dangling diamond motifs, in a fine line geometric style.
Hamsa hand with eye and crescent moons
A hand drawing a black and grey spider web design with bold, swooping tribal-style strokes on white paper.
Spider web tattoo design being drawn in marker
Black blackwork design of a hand silhouette with a skull inside it and wispy tendrils, with the words WE KNOW beneath, drawn on a plain white background.
Skull within a hand silhouette with WE KNOW
Flash drawing of a bearded skull in a peaked cap with an anchor emblem, gripping a dark bottle, in black and red ink on parchment.
Skull in peaked cap holding a bottle