Lettering tattoo ideas

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

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Hand-drawn black lettering design in a sketchbook reading 'Cause I'm as free as a bird now and this bird you cannot change, with decorative letterforms and shading.
Lettering design with a bird lyric
Black ink drawing of the word elephant in hand-drawn lettering, with the letters shaped to form an elephant's body, trunk and legs on a grey background.
Elephant lettering design in black ink
Black ink script lettering reading New York, framed by looping flourishes, drawn as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
New York script lettering with flourishes
Pencil drawing of the word Blessed in flowing shaded script lettering, decorated with curling flourishes, as a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Blessed script lettering with swirls
Black monoline drawing of the words New York in angular geometric letters on a white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
New York geometric line lettering design
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
Flash sheet of tattoo designs with script lettering reading Stay Strong, let go and faith, plus a cross, lips, a feather, a heart and small birds.
Flash sheet of script quotes and small motifs
Black and grey flash design of a shaded feather with the script words One day I'll fly away running diagonally across it.
Feather with One day I'll fly away script
Black ink hand-lettered design of the word Strength in flowing script on a white background, with a looping infinity-style flourish under the final letters, shown as a drawn design with no body
Strength hand lettering design
Pencil sketch of a cross made from black cursive lettering on paper, with soft grey shading beneath the letters, shown as a lettering design without a body placement.
Cursive script words arranged in a cross
Four black script lettering designs of the word Wanderlust on a white background, with a small definition line beneath, shown as a lettering flash sheet with no body placement.
Wanderlust lettering in script styles
Black ink drawing on paper of two semicolons with the hand-lettered words OUR STORIES and WILL NEVER END, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Semicolon with hand-lettered quote design
Black fine line script lettering reading "He Lives" on a plain white background, drawn as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
"He Lives" script lettering design
Black and grey flash design of a three-masted pirate ship with a skull flag, surrounded by pirate-themed lettering and a shark.
Pirate ship with lettering flash design
Black ink flash sheet showing three Deathly Hallows symbols with curved script quotes, and a pair of winged designs flanking the word Always.
Deathly Hallows symbols with script lettering
Black bold script lettering set vertically on a cream background, shown as a lettering design with no skin or body placement visible.
Bold black script lettering, set vertically
Hand-lettered navy script reading 'the ocean cures all' stacked over three lines on a white background, a lettering design suitable as a tattoo stencil.
The ocean cures all lettering design
Black line drawing of a heart outline with swirling script letters inside, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Heart with swirling script lettering
Black line drawing of a circular Tengwar script inscription, a Tolkien-style Elvish lettering design with no body part shown.
Tengwar ring inscription lettering design
Black ink drawing on white paper of the word HOME formed from wood grain lines, with a knot in the letter O, suited to a lettering design.
Word HOME drawn in wood grain with a knot
Colour drawing of a tattoo design showing a purple and orange mountain inside a golden laurel wreath, with the words Don't paint me black when I used to be golden in black lettering.
Mountain in a golden laurel wreath with lettering
Black ink script lettering reading "it is well" with flowing calligraphic strokes on a pale textured background, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Script lettering reading it is well
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 ornate script lettering decorated with flowers, hearts and dotted outlines, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Script lettering design with flowers
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
Flash design of the words Mama Tried in ornate gold-brown lettering, with a revolver and pink and white flowers around it.
Mama Tried lettering with revolver and flowers
Black line drawing of an ornate genie lamp with two roses, leaves and swirling smoke, with script lettering, shown as a flash design on cream paper.
Genie lamp and roses flash with script
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
Black line drawing of a heart reading TACOS BEFORE VATOS, surrounded by sparkles and small flowers, as a fine line tattoo design.
Tacos before vatos heart flash
Hand-drawn script lettering of the word blessed in black ink with thin blue flourishes on white paper, shown as a design sketch with no body placement.
Blessed script lettering design
Black ink hand lettering on white reading IT IS well WITH MY soul, with tall capitals and flowing script words.
It is well with my soul lettering design
Fine line hourglass design with mountains, a crescent moon and the words He has made everything beautiful in its time, drawn on white paper beside pens and a phone.
Hourglass and mountains with verse lettering
Hand-drawn flash design of a multicoloured eye with decorative lettering reading Look for the Girl with the Sun in Her Eyes.
Eye design with "Look for the Girl" lettering
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design showing a pocket watch with Roman numerals, roses and leaves, with the words Time Flies in script lettering across the lower half.
Pocket watch and roses with Time Flies script
Black and grey tattoo flash design of brass knuckles, two roses and a ribbon banner with the script words Love thy Neighbor and Lev.19:18, shown without any body placement.
Brass knuckles and roses with Love thy Neighbor
Pencil sketch of a lettering flash design with ribbon banners reading Life is Short, Break the Rules, Kiss Slowly and Love Truly, drawn on graph paper.
Lettering flash with banners and quotes
Black flowing script lettering reading I am my beloved's, and my beloved is Mine with looping flourishes on a white background, shown as a tattoo design.
Script lettering quote in black ink
Lettering design with the English lines Two Bodies, One Heart and Two Minds, One Soul above the same meaning in blue Tengwar elvish script.
Two Bodies, One Heart and Tengwar script lettering
Flat vector arrow design with the words follow your arrow in script along the shaft, purple and black fletching and an arrowhead, on a white background.
Arrow with follow your arrow script
Black silhouette of a Canada goose on off-white paper, with white script reading You Silly Goose and swirling ornaments across its body.
Canada goose with You Silly Goose lettering
Black ink handwritten lettering design on a light background reading a short line of lyrics, with the words sleepwalking, night, lost, broken and right emphasised in larger script.
Handwritten lyric lettering design
Thin black script reading Someday followed by three dots, shown as a fine line lettering tattoo design on a plain white background with no body part visible.
Someday script lettering design
Colour drawing of the words BE YOU, NOT THEM in ornate orange lettering, decorated with flowers, a mushroom, bluebirds, a skull and turtles, with red swirling linework.
Be you, not them lettering 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 line design of the word MUSIC where the letters are replaced by musical symbols, including a clef, beamed notes and a rest, on a white background.
MUSIC lettering made from musical symbols
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 hand-drawn lettering reading OOPS with an exclamation mark and two underlines, drawn on a plain white background as a lettering design.
Hand-drawn OOPS lettering design