Line drawing tattoo ideas

280 photos and flash · 64% Fine line, 12% Geometric · Forearm most common

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Single-line drawing of a mother's profile leaning over a sleeping baby, with two butterflies, in dark ink on a tan background.
Mother and sleeping baby line drawing with butterflies
Black line drawing of two overlapping circular discs filled with Gallifreyan-style circles, arcs and lines, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Gallifreyan-style circular design in two linked discs
Black line drawing of a stylised leaf sprig with decorative patterned fills, offered as a botanical tattoo design.
Stylised leaf sprig line drawing
Black line drawing of the Cancer zodiac symbol inside a thin square border, set on a pale cream marbled background.
Cancer zodiac symbol line drawing
Black line drawing of two Unalom scroll tattoo designs labelled Female and Male on a cream background, each with a zigzag shaft ending in a spiral.
Unalom scrolls, female and male designs
Black and white line drawing of four hands, two views each, showing geometric and spiral tattoo designs across the back of the hand and the wrist.
Marquesan hand and wrist tattoo designs
Black line drawing of a circular geometric diagram with arcs, dots and a small filled circle, above the words hello, sweetie in a thin script, shown as a tattoo design.
Circular line diagram with "hello, sweetie."
Black and white line drawing of octopus tentacles with suckers, framed by solid vertical bands and triangular tribal patterns, shown as a design for an armband.
Octopus tentacles with tribal armband bands
Black line drawing of a heart formed from interlaced ribbon-like Celtic knotwork, with no placement shown on skin.
Interlaced heart knot design
Black line drawing of an infinity symbol with the word glee in cursive script at the right loop, shown on a white background as a tattoo design.
Infinity symbol with script 'glee'
Black line drawing of a pocket watch surrounded by roses and a beaded chain, in a traditional style, shown as a tattoo design on a sepia textured background.
Pocket watch with roses and beads
Black line drawing of a sitting cat with whiskers and a curled tail on a plain white background.
Sitting cat line drawing
Black fine line drawing of two olive branches with leaves and olives meeting at their stems on a white background, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Fine line olive branch design
A flash sheet of nine black line drawings of cacti and succulents in pots, arranged in a three by three grid on a white background.
Nine potted cacti and succulents sheet
Black line drawing of four triangle symbols in a row, each with a handwritten label, showing an upward triangle, a downward triangle, an upward triangle with one bar and a downward triangle with two
Four element triangles with handwritten labels
Thin black line drawing of three geometric, origami-style elephants walking in a row, in a Geometric style, on a plain white background.
Three geometric elephants in a row
Black line drawing of a symmetrical interlaced knot with four loops forming a cross shape, a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Four-loop interlaced knot design
Black ink drawing of a tattoo design made of a double spiral with dot trails on white paper, with no body part shown.
Spiral with dotted trails design
Four black line drawings of cats on a white background, showing two sitting cats, one curled up asleep and one sitting cat seen from the side.
Four cats in line drawing
Black ink line drawing of a woman with long dark hair, eyes closed, leaning in to kiss a skull held in her hand, on a white background.
Woman kissing a skull, line drawing
Black line drawing of a woman with her hair in an updo and a hoop earring, shown as a single-weight fine line design on a white background.
Line drawing of a woman with an updo
Black line drawing of a fairy with a bun, flowing hair and large wings on a white background, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Fairy with wings line drawing
Three simple black line drawings of cats in different poses on a white background, shown as tattoo flash designs.
Three line drawings of cats
Fine line drawing of a feather whose long stem trails into a cursive script line, sketched in dark ink on squared paper.
Feather with trailing script line design
Black ink drawing of an Om symbol with flowing strokes, dotted lines and teardrop shapes above and below, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Om symbol design with dots and teardrops
Black line drawing of a stylised goat with a curled horn and a fin-like tail, shown as a standalone tattoo design on a white background.
Stylised goat line drawing
Black linework drawing of nested circular arcs inside a large circle, on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design sheet.
Nested arcs inside a circle
Black line drawing of a hand gripping a tattoo machine, with roses and lotus leaves wrapped around the wrist and forearm in a traditional botanical style.
Hand holding a tattoo machine with roses
Black line drawing of a geometric rose in angular, layered petals, sketched on a white spiral notebook page with the flower in the lower right.
Geometric rose line drawing on a notebook page
Contact sheet of fifteen black line drawings of the Hindu deity Ganesh in varied poses, shown as design options rather than tattoos on skin.
Ganesh line drawing designs
Six-step line drawing tutorial building a rose from a bud to a full bloom with leaves, in black linework with red guide strokes in the early steps.
Step by step rose drawing
Black ink line drawing of a standing giraffe, its body and neck filled with intricate zentangle-style patterns on white paper, shown as a design rather than a tattoo.
Patterned giraffe line drawing
Black ink drawing on cream paper of a lotus flower above an Om symbol, with a small dot and curved line between them, shown as a tattoo design.
Lotus flower and Om symbol design
Black line drawing of a dog face decorated in sugar skull style with ornamental eyes, a heart shaped nose ring and floral patterns, shown on white paper.
Sugar skull dog face design
Hand-drawn fine line tattoo design of a continuous black line forming interlocking loops, shown on plain paper with no body placement visible.
Looped continuous line design on paper
Line drawing of a solid black cat and an outlined white cat walking side by side, tails curled together above them, in a fine line style.
Two cats walking with tails entwined
Black line drawing of a stylised face in a curved outline with a handwritten quote beneath it reading I do not let my insecurities overtake me.
Abstract face line drawing with quote
Black fine line drawing of a stylised bird with sweeping curved wings and a tapering tail on a white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Fine line flowing bird design
Black line drawing of a peony with leaves above a vertical unalome design, shown as a flash sheet on tracing paper.
Peony and leaves with unalome line drawing
Black line drawing of an arrow passing through an infinity symbol, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Arrow through an infinity symbol
Black ink linework drawing of a unicorn head with a flowing, wavy mane, shown as a tattoo design sketched on paper.
Unicorn head line drawing
Black line drawing of two birds kissing beneath a small heart, a flash-style tattoo design shown on plain white with no body placement.
Kissing birds beneath a heart
Black line drawing of a stylised animal with a flowing tail, standing in water beside a large swirling crescent, drawn as a tattoo design.
Swirling stylised animal standing in water
Single-line fine line drawing of a wolf head in profile facing left, with pointed ears and a flowing ruff of fur, in dark blue ink on white.
Wolf head in profile line drawing
Seven black and white feather line drawings, several filled with dotted, swirled and sun-like patterns, shown as possible blackwork tattoo designs with no body placement visible.
Seven ornamental and plain feather designs
Black ink line drawing of a flower with broad pointed petals and a dotted centre, sketched on white paper in a spiral notebook.
Black ink line drawing of a flower
Black line drawing of a woman in profile with flowers in her hair, a small earring and bare shoulders, shown as a tattoo design.
Profile of a woman with flowers in hair
Black line drawing of a lotus flower with layered petals, mandala-style detailing and a vertical line of dots and circles beneath it, on a pale background.
Lotus flower line drawing design