Key tattoo ideas

392 photos and flash · 19% Realism, 16% Traditional · Forearm most common

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Black and grey drawing of two crossed ornate skeleton keys with detailed scrolled bows and engraved shafts, shown on a plain white background.
Crossed ornate skeleton keys
Pencil sketch of an ornate key with the word Honesty in cursive script across its shaft, drawn on paper as a tattoo design.
Honesty key pencil sketch
Black and grey drawing of a shaded rose with leaves, an ornate scrolled key and a chain, designed as a tattoo.
Rose and ornate key with chain
Black ink flash sheet of many small fine line doodle tattoo designs, including eyes, stars, a moon, a skull and a bicycle, on a grey background.
Stick 'N' Poke doodle flash sheet
Black and white lettering design reading I knew who I was this morning but I've changed a few times since then, with a key, a mushroom and a cupcake beside the words.
Quote lettering with key, mushroom and cupcake
Black and grey neo-traditional design of a raccoon with feathered wings, a Roman numeral clock face, a heart padlock and hanging keys, drawn on paper.
Raccoon with clock and feathered wings
Sheet of metallic gold, silver and black temporary tattoo designs showing arrows, a key, stars, chevrons and circular sunburst motifs on a white background.
Metallic arrow and key flash sheet
Black and grey vintage-style flash sheet showing a key, crown, stag, anchor, butterfly, teacup, sailing ship, fox, camera, swallow and arrows, with no tattoo on skin.
Vintage flash sheet of keys, crown, ship and fox
Pencil sketch design of an ornate skeleton key with the word Honesty written in cursive script through the shaft, on a textured paper background.
Pencil sketch of a key with the word Honesty
Traditional flash design of a red rose, a grey key and a tan Bad Wolf banner with dark green leaves, shown on a black surface beside a coin for scale.
Red rose and key with Bad Wolf banner
Black and white drawing of six forearms and hands, each with a different traditional-style tattoo design including a mandala, skull, rose, eye in a triangle and crossed bones.
Six hands with black ink tattoo designs
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design showing a Roman numeral clock face with a monarch butterfly, orchids and ornamental swirls, with no body placement shown.
Clock, orchids and butterfly design sketch
Black ink drawing of a heart with a keyhole at its centre, flanked by keys, flowers and leaves, shown as a dotwork tattoo design on paper.
Heart with keyhole and flowers design
Black and grey stippled line drawing of an ornate old key beside the hand-lettered words 'We carry our prisons with us'.
Ornate key and 'We carry our prisons with us'
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 ink dotwork drawing of a lace-patterned bow with a heart keyhole and a dangling key, shown as a tattoo design on white paper.
Dotwork bow with heart keyhole and key
Black ink line drawing of an ornate vintage key with stippled dotwork shading beside the words 'We carry our prisons with us' in handwritten capitals, with no body placement shown.
Key with a 'We carry our prisons with us' quote
Neo-traditional flash drawing of a grey owl perched in front of a red and gold heart with a white banner and two gold keys, with black swirls around it.
Owl with heart and keys flash design
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design in neo-traditional style showing a woman with tear-streaked cheeks, surrounded by roses, a cameo, a bat wing and a spider.
Woman portrait with roses and bat wings sketch
Pencil and ink flash sheet showing rat silhouettes with ornate key tails and Mind the Gap lettering, drawn without any body placement shown.
Rat and key designs with Mind the Gap script
Black ink illustration of a woman with a hair bun and tattoos of a swallow, skull and Darth Vader helmet on her upper arm, traditional style.
Tattooed woman with blaster illustration
Black and grey line drawing of a tattoo flash design with a pocket watch, teacups, a key, playing cards, a keyhole, and Drink Me and Eat Me labels, shown without a body placement.
Alice in Wonderland objects flash design
Sheet of gold and silver metallic temporary tattoo designs, including triangle diamonds, chains, arrows, stars, leaves, a moon, a heart and a key.
Metallic gold temporary tattoo design sheet
Overhead view of many small temporary tattoo designs, including animals, flowers, lettering and simple line motifs, scattered around a silver tin marked SUPER.
Temporary tattoo designs around a metal tin
Black line drawing flash sheet of traditional tattoo designs, including a ship, anchor, dagger through a heart, snake, swallow on a padlock and diamond in a laurel wreath, with no placement shown.
Traditional flash sheet of nautical and classic motifs
Black and white line drawing of a collage with a pocket watch, teapot, key, keyhole and playing cards, shown as a tattoo design sketch.
Pocket watch and playing card collage
Black and grey flash design of an ornate filigree skull with a keyhole for a nose, above two crossed skeleton keys, on a black background.
Ornate skull and crossed skeleton keys
Black ink sketch in a notebook of an ornate key with a keyhole, a star, a chain and swirling linework, drawn as a tattoo design.
Ink sketch of a key and star design
Pencil-style drawing of a sparrow perched on a blossom branch beside an ornate pocket watch, scrollwork and key, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Sparrow, blossom and pocket watch design
Black line drawing of an ornate butterfly with filigree scrollwork wings and a key-shaped body, suitable as a tattoo flash design.
Ornate butterfly with key body design
Pencil flash drawing of a shaded pocket watch wrapped in chain with a key and scrolling ornament, with no body placement shown.
Pocket watch, chain and key design
Black ink drawing of a key whose bow forms a bare tree, shown as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Key with a bare tree bow
Black line drawing of a tattoo design with poppies, a bird with shaded wings, a pocket watch and a key, shown as a sketch on paper.
Poppies, bird and clock design
Two pencil drawings of tattoo designs in script lettering: a shaded key reading one heart, and a red and grey heart reading one love.
One heart key and one love heart designs
Line drawing flash of a winged heart-shaped padlock with an ornate filigree pattern, a ribbon and a key below, shown as an unplaced tattoo design.
Winged heart padlock with key design
Black dotwork drawing of ornate skeleton keys fanning out from a filigree circle, photographed on white paper.
Ornate skeleton keys around a filigree circle
Pencil-style drawing of a fine-line botanical tattoo design with a curling vine, a pocket watch, a key and the words Life is what you make of it, shown on a pale pink background.
Vine, pocket watch and key design
Flash sheet of black brush-style kanji characters, each with a small red English translation printed beneath it.
Kanji character flash sheet with translations
Black line flash sheet of small fine line designs, including semicolons, a ribbon, a cross, a dragonfly, a key and lettering such as Hope, Faith and Never Give Up, shown on white paper.
Semicolon and inspirational word flash sheet
Pencil sketch flash design of a Mad Hatter top hat with a pocket watch, roses, cake and the words We're all mad here, in a neo-traditional style.
We're all mad here Mad Hatter design
Neo-traditional flash design of a pair of spread wings framing a unicorn head, two roses, a key and crossed swords, in teal and cream.
Winged unicorn, rose and sword design
Painted neo-traditional flash design of the Cheshire Cat grinning from a teacup beside a pocket watch, rose, key, cupcake and Eat Me and Drink Me labels, with art supplies around it.
Cheshire Cat in a teacup with rose and key
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
Pencil-style tattoo design of a shaded heart padlock with a small key and swirling script letters, in black and grey, with no body placement shown.
Heart padlock and key with script letters
Black ink flash design of Harry Potter themed icons, including a quill, key, Hogwarts crest and Platform 9 3/4 sign, arranged in a heart shape on aged parchment.
Harry Potter icons arranged in a heart
Black and grey flash sheet of tattoo designs including a pipe, key, skull cameo, feather, tobacco tin, compass, pocket knife, matchbox and honeycomb, set on a dotted background.
Flash sheet of pipe, key, skull and feather
Three drawn skeleton key designs with heart-shaped bows and scrolled shafts, one in black and grey and two smaller ones in black and pink, shown without any body placement.
Three ornate skeleton key designs
Black and white tattoo flash sheet with designs including a origami crane, feather, cross, sugar skull, anchor, heart, diamond and geometric triangles.
Black and white tattoo flash sheet