Lettering tattoo ideas

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Black line drawing of a woman in an Art Nouveau arched frame, surrounded by skulls and snakes, with the word DEATH lettered at the base, shown as a tattoo design.
Art Nouveau woman with skulls and DEATH lettering
Pencil sketch flash design of a woman with long flowing hair embracing herself, framed by script lettering and floral flourishes, shown without a body placement.
Woman with script lettering design
Two flash designs of script lettering reading I Love you more and I Love you most, each with a looping line and a small green heart.
I Love you more and I Love you most designs
Black and grey traditional flash design of a mermaid holding a palette and brush beneath a crescent moon, with a squirrel and the banner reading She's a Rose, She's a Pearl.
Mermaid painter with squirrel and banner
Neo-traditional tattoo design of a woman with long dark hair, feathers, hummingbirds and sunflowers, with a banner reading choose your own path.
Woman with hummingbirds and path banner
Black script lettering reading live the life you love arranged in an infinity loop, shown as a design, on temporary transfers and as a small tattoo on skin.
Live the life you love infinity lettering
Black and grey flash drawing of a UFO beaming up a brain above a cracked skull, with the words LOSING MY MIND beneath it.
UFO beaming a brain above a cracked skull
Traditional-style flash drawing of an open envelope with a letter reading FUCK OFF, a red flower and black leaves on the left.
Envelope with red flower and FUCK OFF letter
Neo-traditional flash design of a braided, dark-haired figure holding a green skull bottle, flanked by birds and roses, with a banner reading Over Your Dead Body; no body placement shown.
Braided figure with potion bottle and banner
Black line drawing of a cross, a heartbeat line and a heart above the words Faith, Hope and Love on a plain pale background.
Cross, heartbeat and heart with Faith Hope Love
Pink cartoon raptor peering over lilac banners that read CHAOS IS WHAT KILLED THE DINOSAURS, DARLING, on a pale pink background.
Pink raptor with lilac banner lettering
Black line drawing of a teepee with the words Girls Have Cooties, a cactus, a sun and clouds, drawn on tracing paper beside pens and a hand with a tattooed forearm.
Teepee and cactus desert design sketch
Line drawing flash design of a dotwork-shaded snake coiled around two pink roses, with planetary symbols and the Latin phrase Omnia Vnvs Est beneath.
Snake with roses and planetary symbols
Black and white flash sheet of tattoo designs on a phone case, including a fox head, compass, bird, spider webs, playing card suits and a rope knot.
Black ink flash sheet with spider webs, compass and fox
Black ink drawing of a circular badge design with the words ALL GOOD THINGS ARE WILD AND FREE around a solid black pine tree silhouette, on white paper.
Pine forest badge with 'All good things are wild and free'
Black ink drawing of an ornate calligraphic letter with floral and leaf filling and stippled dotwork outlines, shown on white paper beside a quartz cluster and a fine liner pen.
Ornate floral lettering design in fine ink
Pen drawing of flowing script lettering with looped capitals and long swashes on a pale paper background, a lettering design for a possible tattoo.
Flowing script lettering on paper
Pencil flash drawing of a trident above a triangle and circle with a bird-like figure and arrow, with an Always banner beneath; no body placement shown.
Trident, triangle and Always banner design
Black line drawing of a heart with a ribbon-style band reading love, honesty, and communication in script, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Heart with love, honesty and communication script
Traditional style flash design of two swallows over clasped hands with red roses and green laurel, shown on a round board and in a white frame beside a vintage camera.
Swallows holding hands in traditional flash style
Pale pink handwritten script reading Aries on a coral background, a lettering design with no skin or body part visible.
Aries handwritten script lettering
Hand-drawn flash design of a crosshatched ribbon banner wrapping vertically, with the lettering 'You are what you love not who loves you' in black on a purple background.
Ribbon banner with 'You are what you love' lettering
Pencil drawing of two facing profile silhouettes filled with starry space, UFOs, Earth and a green mountain landscape under the words The Truth and Is Out There.
Twin profiles with UFOs and mountains
Line drawing of two skeletal mermaids with mint green hair and pink shells on a black background, with mirrored lettering reading dead and sea.
Skeleton mermaids with mint hair
Flash sheet of black script lettering tattoo designs with ornate flourishes, including New York City and Happy Times Sad Times, on a cream background.
Script lettering flash sheet with flourishes
Collage of pencil-style sketches of a pocket watch, roses and leaves with a scroll banner reading Time Stays Long Enough For Those Who Use It, shown in several stages of shading.
Pocket watch and rose banner design
Grey flourished script reading faith above smaller pink lettering that reads is things which are hoped for and not seen, shown as a design on a plain white background.
Faith script lettering design
Black line drawing flash design of a coffee mug with a Death banner above and a Before Decaf banner below, unshaded apart from a dark coffee surface.
Coffee mug with Death before Decaf banners
Flat-lay sheet of Monster High cartoon temporary tattoo designs, including skulls, hearts, coffin shapes and character faces, on a teal background.
Monster High temporary tattoo sheet
Black and blue line drawing of a cat covered in traditional-style flash designs, including a rose, a dagger, a razor, a skull and crossbones and a milk bottle.
Tattooed cat flash drawing
Pencil sketch flash design of a Mad Hatter top hat with a pocket watch, roses, cake and the words We're all mad here, in a neo-traditional style.
We're all mad here Mad Hatter design
Circular flash design of two clasped hands and two small hearts inside a red and cream ring of lettering, on a dark navy background.
Clasped hands in a circular lettering ring
Fine line lettering design reading WARR;OR, with a semicolon in place of the I, on a plain white background.
WARR;OR lettering design
Black ink line drawing of a hot air balloon with banners reading It's not about the destination and It's about the journey, surrounded by clouds and sunburst rays, in a traditional style.
Hot air balloon and journey banners flash
Black hand-lettered script reading The struggle is part of the story on a pale pink background, a Lettering design for a tattoo.
Script lettering: The struggle is part of the story
Black ink line drawing of a heart made of leaf veins, with the word DAD formed from leaves, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Heart of leaves spelling DAD
Black ink line drawing of a four-line ribbon banner with hand-drawn lettering and hatched shading on the folds, shown as a flash design on textured paper.
Ribbon banner with four lines of lettering
Black and white flash design of an ornate planchette with a central eye, sun, moon and stars, lettered OUIJA and AS ABOVE SO BELOW.
Ouija planchette with eye and celestial motifs
Black and grey traditional style flash design of a tattooed mermaid holding an artist's palette, with a squirrel playing a guitar and a banner reading she's a rose, she's a pearl, set against stars
Mermaid with palette, squirrel and banner
Pale yellow script lettering reading Twist and Shout, surrounded by looping fine line flourishes on a dark charcoal background.
Twist and Shout script lettering with flourishes
Pen drawing of an arrow design with the words follow your and Arrow on a kraft card with a purple and turquoise watercolour wash, suitable as a tattoo flash sketch.
Arrow design with script on kraft card
Clear bag of Note to Self temporary tattoo designs showing black line drawings of flowers, lettering, arrows and a bird, held in a hand.
Note to Self temporary tattoo designs in a packet
Black handwritten script lettering reading "with you, I am home." on a cream background, drawn as a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
"With you, I am home" script lettering
A printed sheet of the word Wanderlust set in a dozen different lettering styles, pinned to a board, offered as lettering flash for a tattoo design.
Wanderlust lettering study sheet
Black ink flash design of a woman with long hair embracing a skeletal punk with a mohawk and eye patch, above a banner reading I AM YOURS.
Skull punk and woman with banner design
Black monoline lettering on a white background spelling WARR;OR, with a semicolon in place of the letter I, in a lettering tattoo design.
Spaced lettering reading WARR;OR
Traditional style black and grey tattoo flash of a crying crescent moon face, a woman in profile with a rose and swallow in her hair, and the words I HOPE YOU'RE MISERABLE.
Crescent moon, woman and rose design
Black flash design of the Japanese kanji for strength above the word STRENGTH in blackletter lettering, on a white background.
Kanji for strength with blackletter lettering