Laurel tattoo ideas

56 photos and flash · 41% Traditional, 30% Botanical · Forearm most common

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Black line drawing of a laurel wreath encircling a stylised number four, shown as a tattoo flash design with no body placement.
Laurel wreath around a number four
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
Black linework laurel wreath with a small tied bow at the base, drawn in a vintage engraved style on cream paper, shown as a tattoo design.
Laurel wreath design
Traditional style illustration of a pin-up woman holding a red rose, with teal line tattoos of swallows and flowers on her shoulders and forearm.
Pin-up with rose and swallows
Pencil sketch of a barn owl with spread wings, laurel sprig, arrows and an ornate hourglass, drawn as a neo-traditional tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Owl with wings and hourglass design sketch
Traditional style flash design of an anchor wrapped in rope with a ship's wheel, two swallows and a laurel wreath, drawn on torn paper over wooden boards.
Anchor and ship wheel with swallows
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
Navy line drawing of a bearded sailor in a striped top and cap, with tattooed arms, anchor and rope, and the lettering A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.
Sailor flash with smooth sea lettering
Black and grey flash sheet of cartoon ghosts, a skull, a moon, a heart, a mountain and stars, with the lettering Sad Ghosts Forever and Stay Nice.
Sad ghosts flash sheet
Pencil drawing of a bearded skull wearing a peaked captain's cap with a star and laurel badge, with rope and crossed anchors below, shown as a tattoo design.
Skull in captain's cap with beard and anchor
Watercolour and ink tattoo design of a red-haired figure with lightning bolt face paint, surrounded by rockets, planets, a crystal and a sun with leaves.
Red-haired figure with rockets and planets flash
Black and grey flash design of an all-seeing eye in a triangle above a skull, crossed bones, a candle and a twin-headed eagle, framed by scrollwork on a sunburst background.
All-seeing eye and eagle skull design
Traditional style flash design of two swallows over clasped hands with red roses and green laurel, shown on a round board and in a white frame beside a vintage camera.
Swallows holding hands in traditional flash style
Black and white flash design of an ornate planchette with a central eye, sun, moon and stars, lettered OUIJA and AS ABOVE SO BELOW.
Ouija planchette with eye and celestial motifs
Traditional-style flash design of a bearded sailor in a knitted cap smoking a pipe, framed by rope, with an anchor, laurel leaves and a red flower below.
Bearded sailor with pipe and anchor
Pencil sketch of a traditional-style anchor wrapped in rope with a pocket watch showing Roman numerals, drawn as a tattoo design on paper.
Anchor and pocket watch design
Traditional flash design of two tattooed women riding bicycles on rollers above a banner reading Roller Race, with roses and a laurel wreath.
Two women on bicycles roller race flash
White line drawings of traditional tattoo flash motifs, including an eagle, skulls, a hand, a bear and a skeleton, on a black fabric tapestry hung against a white wall.
Traditional flash sheet on black fabric
Traditional style flash design of a woman with a voluminous dark beehive hairstyle, red roses and a ribbon banner reading LOVE IS A LOSING GAME.
Traditional portrait with roses and banner
White lettering on a black background forming a skull outline, with the words Beautiful Disaster, Perfectly Imperfect, Love Hate, Live Fast Die Pretty and Sinner Saint.
Skull made of lettering
Illustrated flash design of a red-haired mermaid with a teal tail, a small anchor above, a laurel wreath and a starfish, with a lettered banner below.
Red-haired mermaid with anchor and banner
Flash sheet of black line-drawn laurel wreaths, sprigs and foliage designs in a hand-drawn botanical style, with no body placement shown.
Hand-drawn laurel wreaths and sprigs flash sheet
Flash sheet of black line flourishes, scrolls, leaves, arrows and a laurel motif on a white background, with a white laurel on a grey panel at the top.
Flourishes and ornaments flash sheet
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
Flash sheet of black botanical wreaths, laurel sprigs and leafy border designs on a textured white background, drawn in a botanical style with no body placement shown.
Botanical wreath and garland flash sheet