Lettering tattoo ideas

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Hand-drawn black ink flash sheet of thirteen numbered traditional-style designs, including a crescent moon, pipe, hourglass, flower, moth, flying saucer, jellyfish and the word thirteen in script.
Numbered black ink flash sheet of thirteen designs
Traditional flash design of a howling wolf beneath a teal crescent moon, with the banners Beware the Moon and leaves around it.
Howling wolf and crescent moon design
Traditional style flash sheet showing a retro television, a cassette with a flower and banner, a dark hand with a banner, and two round badges.
Traditional flash of TV, cassette, hand and banners
Traditional style flash drawing of a red and white lighthouse inside a bottle labelled On the Rocks, with an anchor on the neck, waves and rocks below.
Lighthouse in a bottle flash design
Traditional style flash design of a man in a suit beside a vintage microphone, with a red rose, a flowering sprig and a banner reading Long Live The King, shown as a framed print.
Crooner portrait with microphone and roses
Traditional-style flash design of a long-haired woman with hummingbirds, autumn leaves and sunflowers, framed by a rope border with a banner reading CHOOSE YOUR OWN PATH.
Illustrated woman with hummingbirds and banner
Traditional style flash drawing of a straight razor with a wood grain handle, a brass FTW plate and red accents on a tan background.
Straight razor flash design
Framed traditional-style flash design of two blue swallows, red roses and striped banners with red lettering, displayed on a table.
Traditional swallows and roses flash in a frame
Black and grey traditional flash design of a heart holding a hand clasping a cat paw, with a crescent moon, stars, a flower and the words Boys Whatever Cats Forever.
Heart with clasped hand and cat paw
Traditional style flash design of a cartoon boy in a bow tie inside a scalloped heart framed by roses, with the words I choo choo choose you on banners.
I choo choo choose you heart flash
Traditional flash drawing of a horned pin-up devil woman holding a pistol, with a "NEVER FEEL SORRY" banner, a red skull and crossbones, and a red devil tail.
Pin-up devil with gun and banners
Three black line drawing flash designs on paper: a lipstick with a bow, a skull and crossbones with a spider web, and a heart containing a lipstick.
Lipstick and heart flash designs
Traditional style flash design of a skull pierced by a dagger, with a snake coiled around it and the words MAKE OR DIE beside it, drawn in black and mustard with halftone shading.
Skull, dagger and snake flash design
Black and grey lettering design reading Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future, in a shaded and outlined traditional-style typeface on a beige background.
Every saint has a past lettering design
Shower curtain printed with traditional style flash designs of hearts, a swallow, a dagger and roses, hung in a bathroom.
Traditional flash hearts on a shower curtain
Flash design of a cream skull with a pentagram on its forehead, framed by red ribbon banners reading Salt and Burn, in a traditional illustrative style.
Skull with pentagram and Salt & Burn banner
Traditional-style design of Hello Kitty with a pink heart, a banner reading Hello Kitty, roses and leaves, shown as a sticker on a white background.
Hello Kitty heart and banner tattoo design
Traditional-style flash drawing of a dagger with a chain link hilt, wrapped in banners reading BLOOD, SWEAT and GEARS, with a gear at the tip and a CYCLOLOGY banner below.
Dagger wrapped in ribbons with gears and chain
Round badge showing a red traditional-style swallow holding a banner that reads MOTHER, above a red flower with green leaves.
Swallow and MOTHER banner design
Traditional-style tattoo design of a dark heart with a ROTTEN banner, a crossed baseball bat, purple and teal roses and lips, shown on a grey textured poster background with no body placement.
Heart tattoo design with bat and roses
Traditional flash design of a red rose and a blue rose above a banner reading there's no place like home, with red shoes and a star, shown on a plain background with no body placement.
Roses and ruby slippers banner flash
Two drawn sugar skulls, one wearing a top hat and one with roses and a veil, above the words till and death, in a traditional flash design.
Twin sugar skulls with 'till death' lettering
Traditional-style flash design of a man in profile holding a small vial, with red roses, a gas mask and two banners with lettering.
Man in profile with roses and banner flash
Black and grey traditional nautical designs, including a ship, star, compass and lighthouse, shown as flash sheets and temporary tattoos on a thigh.
Nautical temporary tattoo designs on a thigh
Traditional style flash drawing of a sonic screwdriver wrapped in banners that read 'The Doctor will see you now', in grey, gold, blue and purple on a black background.
Sonic screwdriver with 'The Doctor will see you now' banner
Traditional style tattoo design showing a blue gem, a red bomb with a lit fuse and green leaves and vines, with banners reading Sirens who slay together and Stay together, shown on a navy phone case.
Sirens who slay together tattoo design on phone case
Black and grey traditional flash sheet showing an anchor, clasped hands, crossed arrows, a rope, flowers, an envelope and banners with lettering.
Traditional flash sheet with anchor, hands and banners
Traditional style flash design of a black kraken with yellow eyes wrapping around a sailing ship, with a red sun and banners reading Kraken's Revenge on a starred cream background.
Kraken's Revenge sailing ship design
Black ink flash sheet with six traditional-style designs: a crescent moon with clouds, a rose with a banner, a dagger with a banner, a silhouette and skull, a sun with a banner, and a heart inside a
Six black ink flash designs on a sheet
Black and grey flash drawing of a pizza slice with dripping cheese, hearts and an I LOVE AFFAIR banner, in a traditional style, with no body placement shown.
I Love Affair pizza slice flash design
Traditional flash design of a studded cylindrical object with a teal and red centre, wrapped in a yellow and brown banner reading NEVER ENOUGH.
Never Enough banner on a studded cylinder
Traditional-style flash drawing of a black sleeve cuff holding bacon, with an anchor on the wrist and the words Bringing Home The Bacon around it, painted on watercolour paper.
Bringing home the bacon flash design
Traditional-style flash design of a grey weeping angel with its face in its hands beneath a peach banner reading DON'T BLINK, with blue tears.
Weeping angel with Don't Blink banner
Three traditional-style stickers on a grey surface: a skull with red and blue flowers, a pointing hand with flowers, and a pill bottle, each with text on a banner.
Three traditional flash designs with banner text
Black ink dotwork drawing of a planchette with a central eye, crescent moons, a bone, leaves and YES and NO lettering beneath a burst of rays.
Planchette with eye, moons and YES NO lettering
Colour drawing of a cracked red, white and blue round shield with a white star, green leaves and two grey banners reading OUTLIVE THE TEST OF TIME, designed as a traditional style tattoo.
Cracked shield with leaves and banners
Pair of white gloves painted with traditional style tattoo designs, including a swallow, a skull, an anchor, a horseshoe and a cross.
Traditional tattoo designs painted on white gloves
A grid of cross stitch chart designs in traditional tattoo flash style, including swallows, hearts, roses, a pin-up, a cherry pair and lettering, on a grey background.
Sheet of cross stitch tattoo-style flash designs
Flash design of a red and black skull with lightning-bolt eyes above the words SEMPRE OLTRE, beside a black cat with red eyes above the words LA NOTTE È LUNGA, in a traditional style.
Skull and black cat flash with Italian lettering
Flash-style drawing of a flaming skull wearing a vest top above a banner reading LOOKS LIKE SHIT, in red and navy line work with a small star below.
Flaming skull in a tank top with banner
Traditional style flash design of a red heart with the words WELL FUCK, a red flower and two dark teal leaves on a cream background.
Traditional heart with flower and leaves
Red pencil flash drawing of a Ball Mason jar with flowers on the lid and a banner reading MOONSHINE, in a traditional style.
Mason jar with flowers and moonshine banner
Traditional-style flash design of red and yellow roses and rope framing a lettered sign on a aged yellow background, with no body part shown.
Roses and rope sign flash design
Traditional style flash design of an hourglass with an eye at its centre, two red and orange roses, and banners reading Time is Slipping.
Hourglass, eye and roses flash design
Black traditional-style swallow flying on a plain light background, with the words NOT ONE WILL FALL in capitals beneath it.
Swallow in flight with lettering
Traditional style tattoo design of an anatomical heart pierced by a blue and gold arrow, with a red and yellow rose and a banner reading El Corazon, shown as a cross-stitch style drawing.
Anatomical heart with arrow and banner
Traditional style flash design of the BB-8 droid with red roses, a sunburst and a banner reading They See Me Rollin.
BB-8 droid with roses and banner
Black and grey flash design of a Darth Vader helmet with stippled shading, two roses and leaves, and the words Who's Your Daddy arched above.
Darth Vader helmet with roses flash