Ink tattoo ideas

27 photos and flash · 22% Lettering, 7% Blackwork · Back most common

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A bold black brush-stroke circle on a white background, with a tapered head shape at the upper right, drawn as a tattoo design.
Black brush enso circle
Black ink drawing of a bee in fine hatched linework and stippled shading on white paper, beside a dip pen and ink pot.
Ink drawing of a bee with dip pen
Dark ink drawing of a feather quill dipping into a splashing ink pot, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Feather quill dipping into an ink pot
Black ink drawing of a yin yang symbol with melting, dripping ink running down from the dark half, shown on a white background.
Dripping yin yang symbol
Black and white photo of a woman's bare back with sweeping black ink brushstroke tattoo across the back and shoulder, her head turned away and hands resting on her sides.
Black ink brushstrokes across a bare back
Flash sheet of black ink botanical designs, including ferns, leafy sprigs and berry stems, on white paper beside fresh greenery and a brush.
Black ink botanical flash sheet with ferns and sprigs
Black abstract brushstroke tattoo with a teal streak and small ink dots across a person's shoulder and upper chest.
Abstract brushstroke tattoo on shoulder
Black handwritten script lettering on a white background, reading a quote about ink and breath, styled as a lettering design.
Handwritten script quote about ink and breath
Palm of a hand with a single black Chinese character tattooed on each of four fingers, shown in a sepia photograph.
Chinese characters tattooed on four fingers
Black ink script reading Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning, inside a stippled dotwork circle with two small stars, drawn as a lettering design.
Peter Pan quote in a dotted circle with stars
Black and grey blackwork tattoo of a broken ink circle with splattered droplets trailing down, on a person's shoulder and upper arm.
Black ink circle with splash on shoulder
Ink and watercolour drawing of a feather in blue, green and yellow washes with black splatters on a white background.
Watercolour feather design
Loose black ink sketch of a cat face with bright green eyes, drawn on white paper with a Posca marker lying at the top left.
Ink sketch of a cat face with green eyes
Black and grey lettering tattoo of a quote set in a typewriter-style font, running down the forearm.
Typewriter quote on a forearm
Loose blue watercolour and black ink drawing of a curling wave on white paper, with splattered ink dots around it.
Blue ink and watercolour wave
Painted tattoo design of black butterfly silhouettes over purple, pink and blue watercolour splashes, drawn on pale paper.
Watercolour butterflies in black and purple
Black and grey realism tattoo of a quill rising from an ink pot with birds in flight, above the script words By words the mind is winged, on the upper back.
Quill, ink pot and birds with script quote
Brown ink drawing of a jellyfish with long trailing tentacles on cream paper, shown as a possible tattoo design.
Jellyfish ink sketch on paper
Black brush-ink enso circle with a stylised lotus flower inside it on a grey background, drawn as a possible tattoo design.
Enso circle with lotus flower
Pen and ink sketch of two howling wolves with swirling smoke-like linework, drawn in black, blue, purple and orange on a notebook page, not shown on skin.
Pen sketch of two howling wolves
Black ink and watercolour drawing of an ornate owl perched on a branch with leaves, shown as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
Ornate owl perched on a branch
Black line drawing of a cluster of stars with ink splatter and dripping lines on a white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Stars with ink drips flash design
Three-panel collage showing a geometric flower tattoo on the upper back, shaded from orange and red through blue to green, beside a tattoo machine and a tray of ink pots.
Rainbow geometric flower on upper back
Pen and ink sketch of a human skull drawn with dense cross-hatching on cream paper, beside a black mechanical pencil.
Cross-hatched ink skull sketch
Black blackwork tattoo of a winged creature with dripping ink and splatter marks across the forearm.
Dripping winged creature on a forearm
Black and grey abstract brushstroke tattoo sweeping across the inside of a forearm, with soft grey shading at the edges of the strokes.
Abstract brushstroke tattoo on a forearm
Vertical black brush calligraphy of stacked Japanese-style characters on a white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body visible.
Vertical brush calligraphy design