Insect tattoo ideas

421 photos and flash · 23% Fine line, 20% Realism · Forearm most common

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Black and grey dotwork drawing of a stag beetle with a skull and two faces overlaid on its body, set within a circle and dashed triangles.
Stag beetle with skull and faces design
Geometric beetle drawing with crystal shapes and dotwork shading, inked on a tan leather panel.
Geometric beetle design on leather
Black ink drawing of an ornately patterned insect with lace-like wings inside a circular mandala border, a design suited to fine line tattooing.
Ornate insect inside a circle frame
Black ink line drawing of a detailed moth with wings spread, above a vertical stack of geometric solids and a small formula, a flash design with no body placement shown.
Moth above stacked geometric solids
Solid black blackwork design of a symmetrical insect-like motif built from hexagons and curling arms, shown as a drawing with no body placement.
Symmetrical hexagon and curl design
Black ink dotwork drawing of a symmetrical moth with spread wings, overlaid on interlocking triangles, with a small symbol below, shown on paper as a tattoo design.
Moth with geometric triangles design
Pencil sketch of a bee in flight above a faint geometric pattern of overlapping circles and hexagons, drawn as a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Bee sketch over geometric circles
Black ink drawing of an ornate moth design with dotted patterns and dangling beaded chains on the wings, shown as a flash sketch with no placement on the body.
Ornamental moth design in black ink
Gold and black line drawing of a bee with honeycomb and floral patterns across its wings, head and abdomen, shown as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
Honeycomb and floral bee design
Black line drawing of a symmetrical beetle with ornamental detail and small star accents, shown as a tattoo design on a plain grey background with no body part visible.
Symmetrical beetle line drawing with stars
Black ink line drawing of a cicada at the centre of a geometric star and circle, surrounded by five flowers, a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Cicada and flowers in a geometric circle
Black line drawing of a symmetrical spider with a geometric patterned abdomen, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Spider line drawing with geometric abdomen
Black line drawing of an ornate dragonfly with patterned wings and a segmented body, shown as a tattoo flash design on a white background.
Ornamental dragonfly line drawing
Black ink line drawing of a geometric bee with angular, hatched wings and body, shown on a white background.
Geometric bee line drawing
Dotwork drawing of a moth with spread wings set within overlapping outline triangles, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Moth within overlapping geometric triangles
Black ink flash drawing of a wasp above peony and lily blooms, overlaid with a dotted geometric wireframe, shown as a tattoo design.
Wasp and peonies within a geometric frame
Black line drawing of a butterfly made of geometric triangular facets, shown as a framed print on white, with no body placement.
Geometric butterfly line drawing
Vertical strip of five black line-art flash designs on cream, including a moth with BERN CITY text, a lobster, a beetle and two animal faces, in a monoline geometric style.
Five line-art creature flash designs
Four black line drawings of stylised beetles stacked vertically on a cream background, in a fine line and geometric flash style with dot and star accents.
Four stylised beetles in black line