Lightning bolt tattoo ideas

166 photos and flash · 35% Fine line, 22% Lettering · Forearm most common

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A solid black lightning bolt design drawn on a plain beige sheet of paper, shown without any body placement.
Lightning bolt design on beige paper
Pencil sketch on paper of the word Always in cursive script, with a Deathly Hallows triangle-circle-line symbol before it and a lightning bolt after it, drawn as a tattoo design.
Always lettering with Deathly Hallows symbol
Black ornamental linework drawing of a hamsa hand with floral motifs and a red and blue circle holding a white lightning bolt at its centre.
Hamsa hand with lightning bolt emblem
Black ink flash sheet of many small fine line doodle tattoo designs, including eyes, stars, a moon, a skull and a bicycle, on a grey background.
Stick 'N' Poke doodle flash sheet
Black linework flash design of a fist gripping a lightning bolt beside a storm cloud with lightning, in a Traditional style on a tan background.
Fist gripping lightning and storm cloud flash
Seamless black and white line pattern of traditional flash motifs, including hearts with banners, daggers, a skull, an eye, a diamond, an anchor and an eight ball.
Traditional flash pattern of hearts, daggers and skulls
Black ink line sketch of a man with a quiff and a lightning bolt across his face, with lyrics in handwritten lettering and radiating lines, drawn on paper as a tattoo design.
Line drawing of a lightning bolt face with lyric
Flash sheet of pastel tattoo designs including a horned skull, a crab, palm trees, watchful eyes and a seahorse in a bottle, in a neo-trad style.
Pastel flash sheet of skulls, eyes and palm trees
Bold traditional flash drawing of a woman with a cross, FAITH and HOPE lettering, a spider web and an anchor on her face and neck, shown as a painted wooden cutout.
Traditional pin-up flash with face and neck tattoos
Black outline drawing of round glasses with a solid lightning bolt above them, shown as a flat design with no body part visible.
Round glasses and lightning bolt design
Black and grey flash sheet of small hand-drawn tattoo designs, including hearts, eyes, stars, a moon and a skull, under the heading Stick and Poke.
Stick and poke flash sheet of small doodles
Black flash design of a crown above large letters FOB, with a ribbon banner reading Save Rock and Roll and a small lightning bolt.
Crown over FOB lettering with banner
Traditional flash design of a paper boat on stippled waves beneath a red lightning bolt and clouds, framed by a rope border with a red flower at the base.
Paper boat and lightning in a rope oval
Black and grey flash sheet of more than fifty small icon designs, including a dagger, anchor, eye, skull, heart and paper plane, with no body placement shown.
Grid of small tattoo flash designs
Black line flash sheet of lightning bolts, clouds and the words Lightning and Thunderbolt, shown as designs with no body placement.
Lightning bolt and cloud flash sheet
Black ink drawing of a tattoo design showing the Deathly Hallows triangle, a flying owl, a stag head and a banner reading death is but the next great adventure.
Deathly Hallows with owl and stag
Black ink illustration of a woman with a hair bun and tattoos of a swallow, skull and Darth Vader helmet on her upper arm, traditional style.
Tattooed woman with blaster illustration
Pencil sketch of a neo-traditional tattoo flash design showing a portrait with a lightning bolt across the face, sparkles and a banner with the words ZIGGY PLAYED GUITAR.
Portrait with lightning bolt and banner 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 and grey flash sheet of Harry Potter themed designs, including the Deathly Hallows symbol, round glasses, a lightning bolt and several script phrases, with no body placement shown.
Harry Potter themed tattoo flash sheet
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 dotwork drawing of a man's face inside a circle, with a red lightning bolt crossing the head and face.
Stippled portrait in a circle with red lightning bolt
Watercolour-style drawing of a tattoo design showing an anchor wrapped in rope, with a death's-head hawkmoth, two compasses, lightning flags and two revolvers.
Anchor with moth, compasses and revolvers
Hand-painted flash design on cream paper showing a red lightning bolt with a teal shadow, a black line sun with rays, and a teal teardrop.
Lightning bolt, sun and teardrop flash
Watercolour and ink tattoo design of a red-haired figure with lightning bolt face paint, surrounded by rockets, planets, a crystal and a sun with leaves.
Red-haired figure with rockets and planets flash
Black and white flash sheet of small line tattoo designs, including an om symbol, a hamsa hand with an evil eye, script words and a crescent moon, in fine line and lettering styles.
Black and white flash sheet of small designs
Black and grey flash sheet of Harry Potter themed designs, including a skull with a snake, a wand, round glasses, a lightning bolt and script lettering.
Harry Potter themed flash sheet
A flash sheet of sixteen colour drawings of cupcakes decorated with superhero motifs, including a wolverine mask, a Captain America shield, a Hulk fist and a skull, with no body placement shown.
Superhero cupcake flash sheet
Four black flash designs on a tan background: a vinyl record with lightning bolts, an abstract blue and black star, and two cracked hearts, one with radiating rays.
Vinyl, lightning and cracked heart flash sheet
Four flash designs on black in orange and yellow: a black cat, a skull with diamonds, a bat beneath a spiderweb and an owl in front of a moon, drawn in a bold vintage style.
Halloween flash sheet: cat, skull, bat and owl
A cream flash sheet of many small black line drawings, including keys, skulls, hearts, a syringe, an eye, a pyramid and a hamburger, in a fine line style with no body placement shown.
Small flash sheet of black line tattoo designs
Close-up of leggings printed with traditional-style tattoo flash designs, including a geisha head, owl, cat, skulls and roses, worn on the legs.
Tattoo flash print leggings
Black and white line drawing of an hourglass with a beach scene inside the lower bulb and the words TIME OF YOUR LIFE on banners, shown on a starry black background.
Hourglass beach scene flash design
Traditional-style pin-up flash drawing of a woman with a cross, the words FAITH and HOPE, and a chequered neck design, painted on a board.
Pin-up face with FAITH and HOPE tattoos
Blue to purple hatched drawing of a lion head with a flowing mane inside a lightning bolt, on a textured off-white background.
Lion head within a lightning bolt
Sheet of six lightning bolt designs in black, varied in shape and outline, arranged in a grid on a tan background.
Six lightning bolt designs on tan
Three temporary tattoo sheets on a perforated grey surface, showing fine line moon, lightning and music note designs, a food illustration set, and hearts, diamonds and daisies.
Temporary tattoo sheets with food and doodle designs
Collage of black line temporary tattoo designs themed on Harry Potter, including a lightning bolt, Deathly Hallows, round glasses and quote lettering, shown on a sheet, on grass and on a pair of legs.
Harry Potter temporary tattoo designs
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
Flash sheet of small black line-drawn stick and poke tattoo designs, including arrows, stars, a diamond, an eye, a cross and a sun.
Stick n poke tattoo ideas flash sheet
Neo-trad style flash design of a coffin framing a cracked red heart, green lightning bolts and a white banner reading ALL WE LOVE WE LEAVE BEHIND, with red drips along the base.
All we love, we leave behind coffin flash
Black line flash sheet of Harry Potter themed tattoo designs, including the Deathly Hallows symbol, round glasses, a lightning bolt and quoted lettering.
Harry Potter themed tattoo design sheet
Black and grey flash sheet of Harry Potter themed tattoo designs, including the Deathly Hallows, a golden snitch, the Sorting Hat, a stag silhouette and Dementor-style skulls.
Harry Potter motif flash sheet
Hand-drawn lettering design reading Harry, Hermione and Ron in flowing script, with a lightning bolt, crown, glasses and small star doodles, drawn in brown ink on a sepia background.
Harry, Hermione and Ron name lettering design
Flash sheet of small solid black tattoo designs including a swallow, clover, heart, rose, skull, cat, anchor and unicorn head, arranged in rows on a white background.
Black tattoo flash sheet of small icons
Black line-art flash sheet of twelve small designs, including chevrons, a heart, a bow, a crown, swallows and a lightning bolt, on a white background.
Small line-art flash sheet of twelve designs
Black and white flash sheet of lightning bolt designs, including script and block lettering labels, outlined and solid bolts, and two thunderbolts with clouds.
Lightning bolt and thunderbolt flash sheet
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