Octopus tattoo ideas

204 photos and flash · 19% Realism, 15% Dotwork · Upper arm most common

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Painted watercolour design of two red octopuses whose tentacles curl together to form a heart, drawn on pale paper with a blue wash behind them.
Two octopuses forming a heart
Black line drawing of a symmetrical design with two mermaids, two seahorses, an octopus and leaves, shown as a tattoo flash style illustration.
Mermaids, seahorses and octopus design
Flash sheet of twelve cute cartoon sea creatures in full colour, including a starfish, seal, octopus, turtle, clownfish, shark, seahorse, stingray, crab, dolphin, pufferfish and orca.
Cartoon sea creatures flash sheet
Pencil sketch of an octopus with curled tentacles wrapped around a trident, drawn on white paper as a tattoo design.
Octopus wrapped around a trident sketch
Blue pencil sketch of a mermaid with shells in her hair, a starfish, bubbles, waves and a fish, drawn in a neo-traditional style on cream paper.
Mermaid with shells and fish sketch
Black ink flash sketches on tracing paper showing an anchor, a lighthouse, an octopus in a sailor cap, a stag skull with a ship between its antlers, and a paper boat.
Nautical flash sheet with anchor, lighthouse and octopus
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
Four pink pen sketches of cats whose lower bodies become octopus tentacles, drawn in loose line work on white paper.
Four cat and octopus hybrid sketches
Watercolour-style flash design of a sailing ship being wrapped by an octopus tentacle among swirling waves, with an anchor and rope below.
Sailing ship, octopus and anchor design
Green line drawing on black of a Cthulhu octopus head with tentacles wrapped in chains, under blackletter lettering reading Cthulhu, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Cthulhu octopus with chains design
Black and grey pencil drawing of a horned skull with octopus tentacles coiling across aged, cream-coloured paper.
Skull and tentacles design on aged paper
Symmetrical blue line drawing on cream paper of two mermaids with seahorses, seaweed and a central octopus, shown as a design rather than on skin.
Mermaids, seahorses and octopus in blue line art
Realistic drawing of a grey skull wrapped in pink and dark teal octopus tentacles with suckers, shown as a standalone tattoo design on a white background.
Skull wrapped in octopus tentacles design
Red line drawing of an octopus with curling tentacles and detailed suckers on a white background, shown as a tattoo design rather than on a body.
Red ink octopus with curling tentacles
Colour flash design of a burning pirate ship above an octopus wrapped around an anchor, with skeleton arms and a skull and crossed swords at the top.
Pirate ship, octopus and anchor sleeve design
Pencil drawing of a woman in powdered 18th-century style hair, with a sailing ship and octopus tentacles rising from her head.
Woman with a ship and tentacles in her hair
Black ink drawing of a human skull with octopus tentacles coiling over the cranium, jaw and sides of the face, shaded with fine hatching and stippling on a white background.
Skull wrapped in octopus tentacles
Black ink drawing of an elephant head merged with octopus tentacles, shown as a tattoo design on a plain white background with no body part visible.
Elephant and octopus hybrid design
Black ink drawing on kraft paper of a stitched, cartoon octopus with large staring eyes and shaded tentacles, shown as a flash design rather than on skin.
Stitched octopus creature design
Black ink drawing of a curling octopus tentacle with detailed suckers and textured shading, shown as a standalone tattoo design with no body placement.
Curling tentacle design with suckers
Flash sheet of twenty-four black and white anchor designs, many with crosses, shields, rope and an octopus, in traditional and line-art styles.
Anchor and cross flash sheet