Hand tattoo ideas

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Black ink flash sketch on cream paper showing a wolf head, a skull, a woman's face with a hand, a dagger and scissors, with no body placement shown.
Wolves, skull and woman sketch flash
Black and grey line drawing of a woman wearing an ornate masquerade mask, with swirling hair and a shell held in one hand, on tracing paper.
Masked woman with flowing hair design
Black line flash drawing of two long-nailed hands with stylised flames, sparkles and the words Fire Walk With Me above a chain.
Hands with flames and Fire Walk With Me
Black ink flash sheet of ornate calligraphic lettering designs on a beige background, including the words Joy, Love, Peace and Love One Another, with no body placement shown.
Calligraphic lettering flash sheet
Black ornamental linework drawing of a hamsa hand with floral motifs and a red and blue circle holding a white lightning bolt at its centre.
Hamsa hand with lightning bolt emblem
Fine line drawing of two hands interlocking, with black filled nails, on a plain cream background.
Interlocking hands line drawing
Black ink drawing of a saguaro-style cactus with several arms, its base cupped by two outlined hands, shown as a flash design on white paper.
Cactus cradled by two hands
A hand uses a black marker pen to draw an intricate ornamental design of figures and swirling foliage on white paper.
Hand inking an ornate black linework design
Black line drawing of three hands rising from a dotted ellipse with a teardrop beneath, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Three hands rising from a dotted circle
Pencil drawing of a traditional-style tattoo design showing a hand with dark nails holding a cracked oval hand mirror, with a banner reading YOU'RE STILL PRETTY.
Hand holding a cracked mirror with banner
Black line drawing of two hands in lace cuffs, one wrapped in pansies and leaves, shown as a flash design for a tattoo.
Lace-cuffed hands with pansies
Neo-traditional flash design of a green zombie hand gripping a red rose, with two curled banners and a small skull at the lower left.
Zombie hand holding a red rose with banners
Black and white drawing of an open hand with mandala and lotus patterns, a dotwork all-seeing eye in a triangle above the fingertips, in a dotwork and geometric style.
Hand with eye in triangle design
Coloured flash design of a brown hand holding red poppies, with a blue eye, a dotwork shaded grey orb and a red heart, in a neo-traditional style.
Poppies held in a hand with a heart
Black ink flash sheet of tattoo designs including a feather, antlers, mushrooms, a cleaver, an ear, an eye, a bird skull, balance scales with a brain, and a severed arm, drawn in dotwork and fine
Flash sheet of antlers, mushrooms and balance scales
Line drawing in teal and pale blue of a woman with long braided hair, a hand raised near peony flowers, shaded with dotwork, on a pale pink background.
Woman with braided hair and peonies
Black ink dotwork flash design of a wolf head merged with a woman's face, with a crown, skulls, ram horns, flowers and a hot air balloon.
Wolf and woman surreal design with skulls
Black and white ink drawing of two hands clasped in a handshake, with a snake with dripping fangs coiled over the joined hands, in a flash style.
Snake biting a handshake
Black ink line drawing of a hamsa hand filled with mandala, scroll and paisley patterns on a textured teal and orange background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Hamsa hand with mandala pattern
Black line drawing of a pocket watch with Roman numerals, a ring bow and exposed gears on the dial, shown as a tattoo design.
Pocket watch with visible gears line drawing
Pen drawing of a hamsa hand filled with mandala and paisley patterns and an open eye at its centre, drawn on paper with a black pen.
Hamsa hand with eye design sketch
Black and white linework drawing of a hamsa hand with an eye at its centre, a lotus behind it and dense ornamental patterns across the fingers and palm.
Hamsa hand with eye and lotus
Scanned page of numbered black and white drawings of Russian prison tattoo symbols, including a hand with a boar's head and lettering across the fingers.
Reference sheet of Russian prison tattoo symbols
White line drawing on a black background of an open hand with an ornate cuff and an eye on the palm, holding a lotus flower, in a botanical tattoo flash style.
Hand holding a lotus flower design
Flash sheet of pastel tattoo designs including a horned skull, a crab, palm trees, watchful eyes and a seahorse in a bottle, in a neo-trad style.
Pastel flash sheet of skulls, eyes and palm trees
Neo-traditional flash design of a hand holding a black feather quill dripping with blood, with a rose tattooed on the back of the hand and a lace cuff at the wrist.
Hand holding a bloodied quill with rose
Black ink drawing of a woman with a third eye, surrounded by dripping candles, with teal rose and ornament shading on her arms, torso and thigh.
Woman surrounded by dripping candles design
Traditional style flash drawing of a pale hand with pink fingertips, wrapped in three yellow banners reading COLD HANDS, COLDER and HEART, with dripping red and white details at the wrist.
Hand with COLD HANDS, COLDER, HEART banners
Fine line drawing of a hand with black painted nails, with the words SNAP OUT OF IT wrapped across the fingers as a hand tattoo design.
Hand with SNAP OUT OF IT lettering
Traditional style flash design of a hand holding a lipstick above a Femme Fatale banner, with pink roses and pearls on a teal background.
Hand with lipstick and roses flash
Fine line drawing of two hands hooked together by their little fingers on a cream background, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Two hands linking little fingers
Black line drawing of two eyes framed by long-nailed hands, one eye with a single tear running down the cheek, shown as a tattoo design on plain paper.
Hands framing eyes with a tear
Black line drawing of two pairs of long-nailed hands framing a pair of eyes, one with a teardrop, in a fine line style on a pale background.
Hands framing two eyes with a single tear
Black and grey flash design of an open hand with a dotted triangle in the palm, a key, a bullet and the words TO KILL, with no body placement shown.
Open hand with triangle and key design
Black and grey pen drawing of a hamsa hand with a lotus flower and dotted shading, sketched on grid paper with a hand holding the pen.
Hamsa hand and lotus design sketch on grid paper
Black ink flash design of a symmetrical vertical motif with sweeping feather-like shapes and five circular emblems showing flame, hand, scales, eye and tree.
Symmetrical blackwork design with five circular emblems
Black linework flash sheet drawn on paper, showing a skull with a flower, a flowered heart, a bouquet, a hand and a rope banner reading forget me not, in traditional style.
Traditional flash sheet with skull, heart and flowers
Black ink hand-lettered design reading Make Memories That Last Forever, with ornate scrolls and dotwork shading, being drawn with a fine pen on white paper.
Make Memories That Last Forever lettering design
Black and grey pencil sketch design of two hands linking little fingers, with a banner scroll on each wrist, suited to a hand or wrist placement.
Pinky promise hands with wrist banners
Coloured pencil tattoo design of a face with red spiky hair and a pale disc on the forehead, framed by two dark red roses and hands inside a yellow diamond.
Portrait with roses in a diamond frame
Fine line flash sheet of a house, ginkgo leaf, polar bear, pine trees, dinosaur, hand and a scorpio constellation in black ink on cream.
Woodland flash sheet of fine line motifs
Black ink line drawing of a living hand clasping a skeletal hand, shown as a flash design on a pale background.
Two hands clasped, one skeletal, in black line
Red pencil drawing on tracing paper of a figure wearing a tall ornate headdress and tinted sunglasses, with one hand raised near the mouth, shown as a possible tattoo design.
Red pencil sketch of a headdressed figure in sunglasses
Tote bag printed all over with traditional-style flash designs of aliens, UFOs, hands, flowers, flames and banner lettering in colour.
Tote bag printed with tattoo flash designs
Black and white flash drawing of a hand with crossed fingers holding a cigarette, with lettering around it and a small anchor on one finger.
Crossed fingers holding a cigarette
Traditional-style flash design of a red rose, two headstones with carved busts, clasped hands, a shovel and a banner reading Forever True.
Forever True flash with rose and headstones
Two aged, torn-edge sheets of vintage tattoo designs in grey line work, showing a woman's portrait, a dagger, roses, a bottle and a seated nude figure.
Vintage tattoo designs: woman, roses and dagger
Black ink line drawing of a hand in a hang loose gesture, filled with geometric spirals, triangles and dots in a tattoo flash style.
Patterned hang loose hand design