Lettering tattoo ideas

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Traditional style flash design of a grey dagger wrapped in yellow ribbon banners with lettering, a red cross detail and a red drop of blood, shown as a drawing with no body placement.
Dagger and cross with lettered banners
Flash-style drawing of a large key wrapped in two banners reading Courage is the Key, with a heart-shaped lock, a compass and bubbles, in traditional-style colour outlines.
Key with Courage is the Key banners
Traditional flash sheet of six Star Wars designs: Chewbacca, C-3PO with a STAY COOL banner, Darth Vader, Yoda, an AT-AT walker and R2-D2, with roses and leaves.
Star Wars characters traditional flash sheet
Traditional style flash design of a pin-up woman in a blue top and brown shorts riding a large black moustache, with the words Best Ride and Giddy Up, and no body placement shown.
Pin-up riding a giant moustache
Flash design of a walking skeleton in a wide-brimmed hat and pipe, carrying a crescent moon bindle, with the words SEE YOU OUT THERE, in tan ink on a dark navy background.
Walking skeleton with bindle and pipe
Black line drawing of a cartoon character with spiky hair and antennae, raising two middle fingers, above a traditional banner reading Peace Among Worlds.
Cartoon character with Peace Among Worlds banner
Black ink line drawing of a pizza slice with dripping cheese, a striped handled tool and two banners reading Love dies and Pizza is forever, shown as a tattoo design on white paper.
Pizza slice with banners reading Love dies and Pizza is
Traditional style flash design of a cartoon fox in a green hat inside a yellow oval, with a red poppy and green leaves below, shown on a framed poster mockup.
Cartoon fox in green hat flash design
Traditional style black and grey flash design of a crescent moon with a crying face beside a woman with a rose in her hair, with the words I hope you're miserable, shown on a grey background.
Crescent moon and woman with rose flash
Black and grey traditional tattoo designs printed on a white sweatshirt, including swallows over a clasped-hands heart, a rose with a banner, a stag and an anchor.
Tattoo designs printed on a white sweatshirt
Traditional style flash design of three Poké Balls with fire, water and leaf elements and ribbon banners reading Life's Hardest Choice, on a black background.
Pokeball trio with fire, water and leaf
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
Flash design of a dark-haired cartoon princess with a red bow, framed by a rope oval, roses and banners reading waiting for love's true kiss, in traditional colour.
Dark-haired princess pin-up with true kiss banner
Coloured flash drawing of a traditional-style tattoo design with two roses, a gold star, a heart-shaped compact, a heart bell and the words Fighting Evil on banners.
Fighting Evil flash with roses, star and heart charms
Traditional style flash design of two matching banners reading society, with a vintage bus, a compass, red roses and a bare tree, in colour.
Society banners with bus, compass and roses
Flash design of a cross made of five skulls wearing cartoon-style hairstyles and glasses, with banners reading Ghosts N Crooks and Appetite for Mystery, in a traditional style.
Skull cross with banners and cartoon-gang hair
Flash design of a skull made from a pizza slice with dripping cheese, pepperoni eyes and a banner reading Small Steps, in a traditional style.
Pizza skull with Small Steps banner
Traditional flash sheet showing a pin-up figure in black stockings with a Bring On The Crazy banner, surrounded by pink hearts, a teal flower and a Baby banner.
Pin-up flash sheet with hearts and banners
Traditional style flash design of a white teacup with a skull on its side, steam rising, green leaves, red roses and two banners reading Death Before Decaf.
Death Before Decaf teacup flash
Black and white flash design of open lips with a dagger piercing through them, dripping drops, and the words NOT JUST TALK arched above.
Mouth and dagger flash with NOT JUST TALK lettering
Traditional-style flash design of a fist gripping a knife with red blood drips and a banner reading KILL 'EM ALL, shown on paper with no body placement.
Fist holding a bloodied knife
Black and white flash design of a sword running through the words Be Brave Not Safe in decorative lettering with swirling flourishes.
Be Brave Not Safe lettering with sword
Traditional-style flash design of a couple kissing in front of a red sun, with a banner reading IN LOVE WITH A SCOUNDREL and sparkling stars around them.
Couple kissing beside a banner reading In Love With a
Black line drawing of a coffee mug with a banner reading DEATH above and a banner reading BEFORE DECAF below, in a traditional flash style.
Coffee mug with Death before decaf banners
Black and grey flash sheet of six vintage men's hairstyle portraits, labelled The Valentino, The Executive, City Slick, Service Man, The Playboy and Aristocrat.
Vintage men's hairstyle flash sheet
Traditional style flash sheet of video game themed designs including a chainsaw gun, Xbox 360 console, Kinect sensor, controller with a PLAY HARD banner, burger and fries, and a drink cup.
Video game flash sheet with gun, console and burger
Black line-drawn tattoo flash sheet with food, objects and lettering motifs, including a steak, pizza slice, pie, revolver and the word MEAT, on a pale grey background.
Tattoo flash sheet of food and text motifs
Traditional style flash drawing of a hot air balloon with a red sun, flowers and an anchor, with the words Enjoy the Ride on a banner.
Hot air balloon with banner and flowers
Pencil drawing of a crescent moon, a hand holding a wand and two ribbon banners with script lettering, shaded in yellow and black linework.
In the Name of the Moon banner design
Black and white pen drawing of a traditional-style design with stacked ribbon banners reading Ain't no woman like the one I got, an arrow and a heart, with no body placement shown.
Stacked ribbon banners with lettering and heart
Traditional-style flash drawing of a ship in a heart framed by roses, with the words Beyond the Sea in black outline lettering.
Ship in a heart with roses flash design
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Cross stitch of a red heart with a white banner reading MOM and a small pink rose, in a traditional tattoo style on dark navy fabric.
Cross stitch heart with MOM banner
Black and grey flash design of a rib cage, rose, dagger, skull and butterfly with banners reading Can we create something beautiful and destroy it, in traditional style with dotwork shading.
Rib cage, skull and butterfly with banner text
Black line drawing flash of a small bird perched on a branch in front of a circle, with a banner reading OH, HELLO across its chest.
Bird with banner reading Oh, Hello