Leaves tattoo ideas

6,438 photos and flash · 63% Botanical, 22% Traditional · Forearm most common

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Pencil-style drawing of an anatomical heart with pink and mauve daisies, thistle and small blossoms growing from its top, on a white background, in a botanical design suited to tattooing.
Anatomical heart with flowers
Two black line drawings on cream paper: a matryoshka doll with a heart and roses on the left, and a dagger wrapped in a rose on the right, in a traditional flash style.
Matryoshka doll and dagger flash designs
Pencil drawing of a stylised owl head with heavily shaded scales and large staring eyes, set within a decorative leafy and beaded border, with two pencils resting on the paper.
Pencil sketch of an owl in an ornamental frame
Traditional style flash drawing of a dagger piercing a dark red rose surrounded by black leaves, with orange and yellow accents on the hilt and blade tip.
Dagger and rose flash design
Pencil and ink sketch of a botanical floral design with blossoms, leaves and a trailing vine on white paper, with a thumb at the left edge.
Floral sketch with blossoms and vine
Four black and grey botanical flash drawings of succulent rosettes on a white background, shown as a tattoo design sheet with no body placement.
Four succulent rosettes in black and grey
Pencil drawing of a realistic shaded rose surrounded by leaves, a tattoo design shown on paper with no body placement visible.
Shaded rose with leaves pencil design
Blue ink drawing of a symmetrical ornate beetle-like motif framed by flowers, leaves and geometric bands, drawn on kraft paper.
Ornate beetle design with flowers
Black line drawing design of a fox curled around a heart, surrounded by blossom and falling petals, with a circle behind the fox's head.
Fox curled around a heart with blossom
Blue-ink botanical sprig of roses, buds and leaves on a cream patterned background, drawn in a delicate botanical style.
Blue botanical rose sprig on cream
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
Traditional flash design of a teal and red helmet resembling Boba Fett's, framed by red roses, green leaves and curling tendrils, with no body placement shown.
Helmet and roses traditional flash design
Black ink pen drawing of a crescent moon with a fern-like pattern inside, surrounded by curling vines, tendrils and small leaves, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Crescent moon with botanical swirls
Pencil line drawing of a tattoo design showing a pocket watch with a bow, a ladybird, a poppy and leaves, drawn on tracing paper.
Pocket watch, bow, poppy and ladybird design
Pencil flash sheet of a teapot, teacups, a cupcake, strawberries, a rose and a biscuit, drawn in a neo-traditional style with no body placement shown.
Teapot, teacups and strawberries flash sheet
Black ink drawing of an ornate hot air balloon filled with floral and geometric patterns, with two mandala flowers drawn on the page beside it.
Ornate hot air balloon ink drawing
Black ink drawing of a symmetrical dotwork mandala tattoo design with leaves, acorns and geometric borders, shown on paper beside two fineliner pens.
Dotwork mandala design with leaves and acorns
Pencil drawing of a deer skull with antlers wrapped in wildflowers, ferns and leaves, pegged to a line against a dark background.
Deer skull with antlers and flowers
Black ink line drawing of a bouquet of peonies, roses and leaves on white paper, a fine line botanical tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Peony and rose botanical bouquet drawing
Orange and yellow fox design drawn in a circular frame of swirling linework, shown as a finished drawing and mid-drawing with a pen on a warm background.
Fox design in a swirling floral frame
Neo-traditional style illustration of a dark-haired pin-up woman with a red rose in her hair, with blue line roses shown across her shoulder as a tattoo design.
Pin-up portrait with rose and shoulder roses
Traditional style flash design of a black coffin with a skeleton hand emerging from it, flanked by grey flowers and olive leaves, with a WIDE AWAKE banner below.
Coffin with skeleton hand and banner
Sheet of six vertical strips of metallic gold and silver geometric temporary tattoo designs, including chevrons, diamonds, triangles, a chain, leaves and a leaf pattern.
Gold and silver metallic temporary tattoo sheet
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design: a treble clef formed from twining stems with bell flowers, a calla lily and small blossoms.
Treble clef entwined with flowers
Traditional style flash design of two swallows, a red rose, a red heart, a banner reading All of time and space, a pocket watch and a sonic screwdriver style pen, on a tan background.
Swallows, rose and heart flash with banner
Traditional-style flash design of a grey owl with yellow eyes perched on a compass, framed by dark red roses and leaves.
Owl perched on a compass with roses
Black and grey hand-drawn tattoo flash design of ornate Mom lettering with a rose, leaves and the words Happy Birthday and Always by my side.
Ornate Mom lettering with a rose
Black line drawing of two fists with CATLADY across the knuckles, framed by flowers, in a traditional tattoo style, printed on a white crop top.
Knuckle fists with CATLADY lettering
Traditional style flash design of a red and white ball above a red polka dot flower and a blue rose, with gold banners reading I and CHOOSE YOU and YOU.
Poke Ball and rose flash with I choose you banners
Black ink line drawing of a bird in flight with a small leafy sprig below it, on a cream background, in a loose fine line style.
Bird in flight with a sprig
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design showing a woman in a feathered headdress with a wolf above her head, drawn in neo-traditional style with red accents.
Woman with wolf headdress design sketch
Black line drawing of ornate script lettering decorated with flowers, hearts and dotted outlines, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Script lettering design with flowers
Pencil sketch of a large-eyed cartoon bat with fluffy fur, surrounded by curling vines and leaves, drawn as a tattoo design in a sketchbook.
Cartoon bat with vine flourishes
Black and grey pencil-style flash design of two roses, leaves, a filigree Roman numeral clock and hanging pearls, with the script words 'You know my name, not my Story...'.
Roses, clock and pearls with script lettering
Black ink line drawing of an ornate heart with mandala-style patterns, leaves and trailing vines, drawn as a tattoo design on paper.
Ornate heart with vines and leaves
Pencil sketches of peony clusters with leaves on tracing paper, drawn as designs for a tattoo in a fine line botanical style.
Peony cluster tattoo sketches on tracing paper
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design showing two shaded koi fish within black tribal-style lines, with flowers and swirls, in black and grey.
Koi fish and flower tattoo design
Black line drawing of a tattoo design with an hourglass, three roses, a pocket watch and banners reading I wish time was on our side, in a traditional style.
Hourglass, roses and pocket watch tattoo design
Painted traditional-style peony with green leaves on a bark-edged wooden slice, shown against a grey wall.
Traditional peony painted on a wooden slice
Three pencil sketches of the word Vegan in script lettering, decorated with leaves, a small heart and swirls, drawn on torn paper.
Vegan script lettering sketches with leaves
Black ink drawing of an ornamental cross design with filigree detail, leaf motifs and stippled dotwork shading, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Ornamental cross with leaves and dotwork
Traditional-style flash design of two swallows, a red rose, a red heart, a blue flower, a pocket watch and two sonic screwdriver-style objects, with banners reading All of Time and Space and Allons-y.
Swallows, rose and heart with banner scroll
Black ink dotwork sketch of two roses with shaded leaves, drawn on white paper in a spiral sketchbook as a tattoo design.
Two roses dotwork flash sketch
Symmetrical ornate owl design with dotwork, floral and paisley patterns, drawn in a single dark brown ink on a white background.
Ornate owl in sugar skull style
Black ink drawing of two roses, a peony bud, small berries and leaves in a botanical design, shown as a sketch on paper.
Roses and berries botanical design drawing
Coloured pencil sketch of a pocket watch with Roman numerals, a looping ribbon and a flower with leaves, drawn as a tattoo design.
Pocket watch with ribbon and flower sketch
A round blue floral design in a Delft-inspired botanical style, shown as a tattoo design on a white card against a textured brown background.
Blue Delft-style floral tattoo design
Neo-traditional flash design of a blonde woman in a dark gown and white gloves, holding a small mouse, with a clock, a bird and a KEEP ON BELIEVING banner.
Princess with mouse in a leafy frame