Lettering tattoo ideas

3,720 photos and flash · 59% Lettering, 22% Traditional · Forearm most common

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Traditional style flash sheet with two portrait figures in the centre, surrounded by an eye, a hand holding a cigarette, a UFO, a bee and crystals, with slogan lettering.
Flash sheet with two portraits, UFO, eye and bee
Pencil sketch of decorative lettering reading Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday, with scrollwork and a banner, beside an eraser and two pencils.
Lettering sketch of a quote on a banner
Black script lettering on a white background reading 'La vita è un sogno', a tattoo design in a flowing calligraphic style.
Italian script quote 'La vita è un sogno'
Pencil and ink drawings of a dotwork geometric cat head with a triangle and a cross with blackletter lettering, shown as tattoo design sketches.
Geometric cat head and cross designs
Two black line drawings of potted cacti and succulents on banners reading DON'T BE A PRICK and SUCK IT, a botanical flash design.
Cactus and succulent flash with banner lettering
Black cursive script lettering on a plain white background, reading "I didn't give you the gift of life, life gave me the gift of you."
Script quote design, gift of life
Traditional flash drawing of a woman with bats swirling through her hair and bold red-rimmed eyes, with lettering reading Bat Shit Crazy beneath her.
Woman with bats in her hair, traditional flash
White textured hand lettering reading IF NOT NOW WHEN, stacked over several lines on a black background, in a lettering design style.
If not now, when hand lettering
Pencil sketch design of a pocket watch, a rose, a key and a beaded chain, with handwritten lettering beneath, drawn on white paper.
Pocket watch, rose and key pencil design
Traditional black and grey flash design of a cartoon character with glasses inside a rayed halo, holding a rose, with the words Pray for butts beneath.
Madonna-style cartoon figure with rose flash
Black and grey line drawing of a ram skull with ridged horns in front of a paisley and floral mandala, with the word Aries and two lines of text beneath.
Ram skull with mandala flash design
Pencil drawing of a cracked pocket watch with Roman numerals, two shaded roses and script lettering, drawn as a tattoo design.
Pocket watch and roses pencil design
Black ink drawing of a grinning devil with swept-back hair, horns and pointed ears, flanked by the words JUST WAIT on a white background.
Grinning devil with Just Wait lettering
Pencil drawing of a traditional-style dagger with the name Rumplestiltskin on the blade and a banner reading All Magic Comes With a Price, drawn as a tattoo design.
Dagger and banner reading All Magic Comes With a Price
Bold black hand-lettered word Smile in a flowing script style, drawn with marker on a cream background, shown as a tattoo design.
Smile hand lettering in black ink
Watercolour-style flash design of a zombie-like Alice with a grinning pink Cheshire cat, a pocket watch and the words We're all mad here, with no body placement shown.
Zombie Alice and Cheshire cat with lettering
Black line drawing of a dreamcatcher-style hoop with arrows, feathers and hearts around the lettered verse When my heart is overwhelmed lead me to the rock that is higher than I, Psalm 61:2.
Dreamcatcher arrows and Psalm 61:2 design
Neo-trad style flash design of a coffin framing a cracked red heart, green lightning bolts and a white banner reading ALL WE LOVE WE LEAVE BEHIND, with red drips along the base.
All we love, we leave behind coffin flash
Pencil drawing of a neo-traditional compass and lighthouse design with a Find Your Own Way banner, in black and grey shading, shown on a sketch pad.
Compass and lighthouse with Find Your Own Way banner
Black ink script lettering samples with flourishes, including phrases such as Adaggio and Love Catalogue, and a full lowercase and numeral alphabet along the bottom.
Script lettering specimen sheet
Black line drawing of a tattoo design in a circle, with two small circles, a crescent shape, two parallel diagonal bars and the word Hope beneath.
Hope symbol with circles and bars
Black line drawing of a stylised face in a curved outline with a handwritten quote beneath it reading I do not let my insecurities overtake me.
Abstract face line drawing with quote
Black and grey traditional flash drawing of a peony with leaves above a lettered ribbon banner, being sketched on paper by a hand holding a pencil.
Peony and lettering banner flash sketch
Traditional style flash design of a smiling pin-up woman in boots and gloves riding an oversized black moustache, with Best Ride lettering and Giddy Up beside it.
Pin-up woman riding a giant moustache
White fine line script reading Remember why you started on a plain black background, shown as a lettering design for a tattoo.
Remember why you started script lettering
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design with the words we were, AND IN THAT MOMENT I SWEAR and infinite woven into an infinity symbol, shown on plain paper.
Infinity loop with lettered quote design
Three views of a wooden artist's hand drawn with a black and grey sphynx cat with a third eye and crescent moon on the palm, a bird skull with crossed bones on the forearm, and PURR EVIL lettering on
Sphynx cat and bird skull designs on a wooden hand
Neo-traditional coloured pencil design of a pink octopus wrapped around a blue anchor, with a cream skull and a banner reading NO MANS LAND.
Octopus with anchor and skull design
Hand-drawn blue ink design of the word Faith in ornate script lettering with swirling flourishes on cream paper, beside a blue felt-tip pen.
Faith script lettering with flourishes
Black ink decorative script alphabet showing upper and lower case letters with swirling flourishes, in a lettering style, on a white background.
Decorative script alphabet sheet
Promotional graphic showing free temporary tattoo designs on cards, including a heart with closed eyes, a pennant, a popsicle, a cactus and a smiley face, in pink, blue, yellow and mint.
Summer temporary tattoo freebie designs
Pencil drawing of ornate script lettering with swirling flourishes and a shaded banner, shown on paper beside a black fineliner pen.
Script lettering design with flourishes
Black fine line handwritten script reading just imagine, with a small outlined heart beneath, drawn on a plain white background.
Just imagine script with small heart
Hand-drawn script lettering design reading Mind on my money, money on my mind, in black ink on cream paper, being traced by a hand holding a pen.
Script lettering sketch on paper
Black line drawing flash design of a winged pincushion with two skulls on pins and a curled banner reading Sew or Die, in a traditional style.
Winged pincushion with skulls and Sew or Die banner
Black line drawing of an upright cross with the words 'my GOD'S NOT DEAD' set in a thin, hand-lettered typeface on the crossbar, shown as a flash design.
Cross design with 'my God's not dead' text
Flash style drawing of a blue tidal wave with a cream banner reading We Will Bring The Tidal Wave and the words Pierce The Veil 2013 beneath, shown without any body placement.
Tidal wave banner flash design
Flash design of a red heart pierced by a green dagger with dripping blood drops and the word BOSS written above in black lettering.
Dagger through a heart with BOSS lettering
Pencil and coloured pencil drawing of Jack Skellington and Oogie Boogie with dice and a banner reading Jack VS Oogie Boogie, designed as a tattoo flash.
Jack vs Oogie Boogie banner design
Coloured flash drawing of a white mask, a red rose, green leaves and a dagger, with a banner reading Ideas are bulletproof, in a traditional style.
Mask, rose and dagger with banner design
Traditional style tattoo flash design of a man and woman above two red roses with a banner reading Timeless Love, shown without any body placement.
Timeless love couple and roses flash
Black and white engraved design of a face split down the middle inside a rope-twist circle, with Valar Morghulis and Valar Dohaeris lettering around the edge.
Split face emblem with Valar Morghulis lettering
Black and white flash design of a small bird perched on a branch above a three-part banner reading Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventures.
Bird on a branch with banner quote
Black and grey drawing of an ornate compass rose tattoo design with a fleur-de-lis at the top and the words Une Vie Extraordinaire around the ring.
Ornate compass rose design
Traditional style flash sheet of ten designs, including a green bird, a spider web, a red and black Spider-Man head, snakes, praying hands and a jack-o-lantern, with banner lettering.
Traditional flash sheet of mixed designs
Black line drawing flash of a pocket watch with roses, leaves and a chain, with a script banner of lettering beneath, styled as a traditional tattoo design.
Pocket watch and roses with script banner
Black and coloured flash sheet showing a city skyline, birds in flight, circular emblems of a flame, hand, scales, eye and tree, and two ferris wheels, with the word divergent in script.
Flash sheet of skyline, birds, emblems and ferris wheels
Black ink line drawing on cream paper of a banner reading PRONE TO WANDER above pine trees, a stag and hatched hills, a design with no body placement shown.
Prone to wander banner with pine trees and deer