Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Traditional-style flash design of a red rose, two headstones with carved busts, clasped hands, a shovel and a banner reading Forever True.
Forever True flash with rose and headstones
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
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 flash design of a black stiletto shoe with a yellow and red cupcake-style platform, a dagger through a red heart, blood drops and the word HEARTBREAKER running up the heel.
Heartbreaker stiletto with dagger and heart
Traditional style flash design of an open book with a quill and chain, flanked by two closed leather-bound books, with banner scrolls carrying lettering above and below.
Open book with quill and banner scrolls
Traditional flash sheet with the words NO MONEY NO TATTOO, a swallow, a lighthouse, falling coins, a clasped handshake on a striped sleeve, an anchor and shears in the corners.
No money no tattoo flash sheet
Traditional style flash design of Hello Kitty sitting in front of a pink heart with a banner reading HELLO KITTY, framed by flowers and leaves.
Hello Kitty traditional design with heart and banner
Black ink traditional-style anchor design with three banner scrolls across the shank reading Sleeping With Sirens, drawn as a flash sheet with no body part visible.
Anchor with three banners reading Sleeping With Sirens
Pastel coloured flash design of a triceratops and two dinosaur heads with pink roses, ferns and leaves, framed by a banner reading dinosaurs eat man and woman inherits the earth.
Dinosaurs, roses and banner flash design
Traditional-style flash design of a banner reading BREAKFAST ALWAYS, surrounded by a coffee mug, coffee pot, waffle, fried eggs, bacon and orange slices.
Breakfast always banner with eggs and bacon
Pencil line drawing of a traditional-style tattoo design with roses, two lovebirds in an ornate heart frame and a banner reading Hopeless Romantic.
Roses and lovebirds tattoo design
Black line drawing of a snarling wolf head in traditional style, with banners reading THIS WORLD OWES YOU NOTHING.
Snarling wolf head with banner
Traditional-style flash design of three orange carrots with green tops, wrapped in two banners reading REAL FOOD HAS MUD and NOT BLOOD, with no body placement shown.
Three carrots with banner design
Black line drawing of a traditional-style flash design showing a crown above a heart with a dagger, a banner reading CRAFTY, stars and swirls, with no body placement shown.
Crown and heart banner flash design
Black linework alphabet sheet of ornate lettering in a traditional style, with numerals and symbols, shown as a tattoo lettering design.
Ornate tattoo lettering alphabet sheet
Black and grey flash design of a lighthouse inside a rope circle, with a ship's wheel at its base and three banners carrying lettering.
Lighthouse and ship's wheel with banners
Black and grey pencil flash sheet showing heart lettering designs, a globe with a ribbon banner, a lightning bolt, a shoe and heart, and a linework portrait with lightning bolt face makeup.
Lettering and heart flash sheet
Black and grey traditional flash drawing of a heart holding an umbrella in the rain, with lightning, a beaded line, flowers and leaves, and the words It's Rainin' Inside.
Heart with umbrella and rain, It's Rainin' Inside
Black ink flash design of a stiletto heel with three banners reading boys only, want love if and it's torture, drawn in a traditional style on white paper.
Stiletto heel with banner quote
Black and grey flash drawing of a sloth holding two hatched banners reading NAP ALL DAY, SLEEP ALL NIGHT and PARTY NEVER, in a traditional style.
Sloth holding banners with slogan
Flash design of a black-outlined ribbon banner with green shading carrying the lettering IN THE WAVES OF CHANGE WE FIND OUR TRUE DIRECTION, shown on a speckled background.
Ribbon banner with a lettered quote
Pencil sketch of a traditional style tattoo design showing a headstone inscribed Wish You Were Here, a crescent moon, a rose and leaves.
Headstone with rose and crescent moon design
Black and grey dotwork flash design of a flying saucer emitting a light beam over pine trees, inside a circle with the words The truth is still out there.
UFO over pine trees with slogan
Black linework drawing of a pair of legs in high heels, covered in traditional-style tattoo flash designs such as a heart banner, anchor, spider web and skull across the calves.
Traditional flash designs on drawn legs
Black and grey flash design of a pin-up skeleton woman and a top-hatted skeleton man holding hands, with a banner quote above and below them.
Skeleton couple with banner quote
Two black and grey traditional swallow designs on white fabric, each with a ribbon banner reading HIS on the top and HERS below.
Traditional swallow designs labelled his and hers
Three hand-coloured traditional flash designs on paper, showing a red heart, a blue rose and a blue swallow, each with a scroll banner carrying names.
Heart, rose and swallow flash designs
Black line drawing of a snarling wolf head pierced by a dagger, with a Winter is Coming banner and snowflakes, shown as a tattoo design.
Wolf head and dagger with Winter is Coming banner
Black line drawing of a flying saucer over a desert with cacti, an eye motif and the lettering Just Hold On We're Going Home, in a traditional flash style.
UFO and lettering tattoo design
Black and grey traditional flash sheet showing a central urn, a hand holding a dagger, a bird, an eye, a pipe, flowers, arrows and script lettering.
Black and grey flash sheet with urn and hand
Traditional-style flash design of a blue teacup with a skull and crossbones, coffee spilling out, framed by two scroll banners of lettering on a red splash background.
Skull teacup with coffee banners
Traditional flash sheet of four designs in colour: chess pieces with a rose, a sunset over waves, an hourglass with a skull, and a fox with pine trees, above a BRAND NEW banner.
Traditional flash sheet with rose, fox and hourglass
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 ink pen drawing of a hot air balloon with banners reading It's not about the destination and It's about the journey, surrounded by clouds, rays and an anchor, in a lettering style suited to a
Hot air balloon with journey banner design
Traditional style flash design of a skateboard with a lettered banner, orange flames and two blue flowers, with no body placement shown.
Skateboard with flames and blue flowers
Pen drawing of a traditional-style tattoo design on paper, with two banners reading Fatally Yours, a skull, a heart, a flower and leaves, shown without a body placement.
Fatally Yours banners with skull and flower
Two carved wooden arm and hand boards showing traditional-style tattoo designs of skulls, a heart with a dagger, a goat, a cat and flowers, in black and cream.
Carved arm boards with skull, goat and cat designs
Traditional style flash design of three cartoon characters, a vampire, a grinning skeleton and a witch, above a banner reading Three of a Kind and a red rose.
Three of a Kind witches and skeleton flash
Black and white flash design of a cat in a top hat with a spade card, bow tie and cigar, flanked by roses and leaves, with the words Lie to the Liars and Steal from Thieves arced around it.
Cat in top hat with roses and slogan
Traditional-style flash design of a skull with a red rose crown, orange earrings and a FRIDA banner over red roses.
Skull with flower crown and FRIDA banner
Coloured drawing on kraft paper of a house lifted by a cluster of multicoloured balloons, with a pastel banner reading Adventure is out there, in a traditional tattoo flash style.
Balloon house with Adventure banner design
Black line drawings in a traditional style, including a heart with a cabin and pine trees, drawn on a wooden hand mannequin.
Traditional heart, cabin and portrait flash on a wooden hand
Flash design of a green-tipped sonic screwdriver wrapped in three white ribbon banners reading Wibbly, Wobbly and Timey-Wimey, with a green halftone glow behind it.
Sonic screwdriver with Wibbly Wobbly banners
Black and grey flash design of a dotwork-shaded rose with three arrows and the words "Love yourself so no one has to" curved around it.
Rose and arrows with "Love yourself" lettering
White traditional-style design of clasped hands, crossed arrows and banners with lettering, printed on a black t-shirt hanging on a wall.
Clasped hands and arrows shirt design
Traditional style flash design of a woman with curled hair, two blue roses, an eyeball and a banner reading I only have eyes for you.
Pin-up woman with roses and eyeball banner
Traditional style flash drawing of a cartoon woman with dark red hair holding a red rose, with a red rose, blue leaves and a ribbon banner reading BELLE, shown without a body placement.
Belle with rose and banner flash