Octopus tattoo ideas

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

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Pencil-style drawing of a horned skull-headed octopus with suckered tentacles on aged paper, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Horned skull octopus tattoo design
Black and grey fine line full sleeve on an upper arm and shoulder, showing a whale, mountains, a fox, ferns and foxglove, with a small teal octopus at the top of the shoulder.
Full arm sleeve with whale, fox and foliage
Colour tattoo of a purple and green octopus with curling tentacles on the upper arm and shoulder of a person holding a camera.
Purple and green octopus on shoulder
Dark brown octopus tattoo with tentacles wrapping the back of a hand and fingers, placed on the hand.
Octopus tentacles across a hand
Black ink fine line drawing of a woman's face framed by feathers and a curling tentacle, shown as a tattoo design on white paper with no body visible.
Woman portrait with tentacle and feathers
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
Black and grey tattoo of an octopus with tentacles wrapped around a bicycle on an upper arm, shown in close-up beside a grey sleeveless top.
Octopus and bicycle tattoo on an upper arm
Black and grey traditional tattoos on a man's upper arm and chest, including a panther head, a snake coiled around a woman's face, a cross and a stag head.
Traditional panther, snake and stag tattoos on arm and chest
Colour realism tattoo of a blue-ringed octopus with teal spots and curling tentacles across a leg, shown on the calf.
Blue-ringed octopus on a leg
Black and grey full back tattoo of a bearded pirate with an eyepatch and tricorn hat, beside sailing ships, an octopus tentacle and a treasure chest.
Pirate scene across a full back
Large black and grey Japanese style blackwork octopus tattoo spreading across a person's back and upper arm, with scaled skin and sucker detail on the tentacles.
Octopus tattoo across a back
Black and grey octopus tattoo on the back of a hand, with tentacles curling over the knuckles and onto the fingers, in a stippled dotwork style.
Octopus tattoo on the back of a hand
Traditional style colour tattoo of a red and white lighthouse with an octopus, teal waves and a yellow flower on a forearm.
Lighthouse and octopus on a forearm
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
Black and grey realism tattoo of an octopus with curling tentacles across the upper arm and top of the shoulder.
Octopus tattoo on upper arm
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
Four views of a black and grey nautical full sleeve tattoo on an arm, showing an octopus, a skull, a ship's wheel and a compass star, placed from the forearm up to the upper arm.
Black and grey nautical full sleeve
Black and grey octopus tattoo with pink, teal and gold geometric accents, wrapping around the outer forearm.
Octopus tattoo on a forearm
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
Black ink squid with swirling tentacles covering the outer upper arm, drawn in fine line with hatched shading.
Squid and tentacles on an upper arm
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
Neo-traditional colour tattoo of a woman's face framed by teal hair, octopus tentacles and peach shells, on the upper arm.
Woman portrait with teal hair and tentacles on upper arm
Black and grey realism style octopus tattoo with tentacles wrapping around a forearm, shown in a mirror reflection.
Octopus wrapped around a forearm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of an anatomical heart wrapped in octopus tentacles, with the word desillusions, on the ribs.
Octopus wrapped anatomical heart on ribs
A shaded red-brown octopus tattoo with grey outlines and suckers, wrapped across the side of a torso above the waistband of jeans.
Octopus tattoo on the side ribs
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
Black and grey back tattoo of a sailing ship, a lighthouse and a large kraken with tentacles rising through waves, in a traditional nautical style.
Kraken, sailing ship and lighthouse across a back
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
Man in a grey t-shirt printed with an octopus and ship wheel, with traditional tattoo sleeves showing roses on both arms.
Octopus and ship wheel tee with tattoo sleeves
Colour tattoo of a red octopus with purple-tipped tentacles across a man's upper back and shoulder, in a neo-traditional style.
Red and purple octopus across back and shoulder
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
Black and grey blackwork octopus tattoo with curling tentacles wrapping around the upper arm.
Octopus tattoo wrapping upper arm
Black and grey realism style octopus tattoo with shaded tentacles spread across a person's chest, partly visible under an unzipped top and a vintage necklace.
Octopus tattoo across the chest
Realistic colour tattoo of an octopus with purple and teal shading and sucker detail, wrapping around the outer thigh.
Octopus tattoo wrapping a thigh
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
Black and grey realistic octopus tentacles and eye tattoo wrapping across an upper arm and onto the shoulder.
Octopus tentacles and eye on an upper arm
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
Black and grey octopus tattoo with tentacles wrapping around the forearm, drawn in a fine etched engraving style.
Octopus tattoo on a forearm
Realistic colour back tattoo of a green-skinned mermaid bound in rope, with red octopus tentacles over the shoulder and arm, jellyfish, coral and passion flowers below.
Mermaid and octopus back piece
Realism colour tattoo on the upper arm showing a golden skull medallion above a bearded figure in a hat with tentacle-like facial hair.
Skull medallion and tentacled figure on arm
Black and grey realistic octopus tattoo wrapping across a person's forearm and wrist, with a patterned wall behind.
Octopus tattoo on a forearm
Black and grey realistic octopus tattoo across a shoulder and upper back, with tentacles curling over the shoulder blade.
Octopus tattoo across a shoulder
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