Ocean tattoo ideas

186 photos and flash · 24% Realism, 24% Fine line · Forearm most common

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Black ink pen sketch of two stylised waves inside a circle, with the words A million waves in the ocean and Crash at once to make you smile written around the edge.
Waves and quote in a circular pen sketch
Flash sheet of nine jellyfish drawings in grey pencil shading, with small dots scattered between them, shown without a body placement.
Jellyfish flash sheet in grey pencil
Black silhouette design of five sea turtles swimming in a row from small to large, with scattered bubbles, on a white background.
Five sea turtles swimming with bubbles
Black script lettering reading Listen to the ocean on a pale blue background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Listen to the ocean script lettering
Neo-traditional flash drawing of a pink scallop shell holding a white pearl, with green seaweed and teal dots, drawn on paper.
Pearl in a pink shell design
Black ink drawing of two whale tails rising from stylised waves on white paper, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Two whale tails with waves
Six blue fine line drawings of waves arranged in a grid on a white background, shown as tattoo design flash.
Six line drawings of waves
Hand-lettered navy script reading 'the ocean cures all' stacked over three lines on a white background, a lettering design suitable as a tattoo stencil.
The ocean cures all lettering design
Black ink drawing of a seahorse filled with looping curved line patterns, a flash design with no placement on the body.
Seahorse in black line zentangle pattern
Flash design of three blue dolphins arcing together in a tight group, shaded in blue with white highlights on a white background.
Three blue dolphins leaping
White line drawing of a whale tail fluke on a dark navy background, with mountains, waves and a whale scene filling its shape, shown as a design with no body placement.
Whale tail filled with mountains and sea
Loose blue watercolour and black ink drawing of a curling wave on white paper, with splattered ink dots around it.
Blue ink and watercolour wave
Black and grey pencil drawing of a jellyfish with long trailing tentacles, shown as a tattoo design on paper, realism style.
Jellyfish design in pencil shading
Black ink drawing of a curling ocean wave inside an inverted triangle, with fine hatched linework and stippled spray.
Wave curling inside an inverted triangle
Five watercolour sea turtle designs in green, purple, blue and brown, arranged on a white background as tattoo flash.
Five watercolour sea turtles
Drawn tattoo design of a black whale tail rising from blue watercolour waves, with five black birds and a dotted pink circle, shown on a white background.
Whale tail, waves and birds design
Black and grey pencil drawing of a jellyfish with a shaded, ridged bell and long flowing tentacles, shown on a cream background, in a realism style suited to a tattoo design.
Jellyfish pencil drawing
Black and grey hand-lettered tattoo flash design of an anchor with rope and the words If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land, drawn on a sketchbook page, with no body part shown.
Anchor with hand-lettered quote design
Black tribal-style design of a leaping orca with swirling wave patterns on a white background.
Tribal orca leaping through waves
Pen and pencil drawing of two orcas swimming head to tail, with their backs and fins filled in swirling black linework.
Two orcas in swirling fine-line pattern
Black ink flash design of hatched ocean waves rising beneath a open sky, enclosed in a thick circular outline, with no body placement shown.
Hatched ocean waves in a circle
Fine line handwritten script reading palm trees, ocean breeze, drawn as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Palm trees, ocean breeze script