Octopus tattoo ideas

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

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Two printed arm sleeves laid diagonally, covered in traditional-style tattoo designs including an octopus, a pin-up, a skull, a rose and a nautical star.
Printed tattoo-style arm sleeves
Colour traditional-style tattoo of a red octopus with grey shading and a yellow eye, wrapping across the upper arm of a man in a blue vest top.
Red octopus tattoo on upper arm
Black and white flash drawing of an anchor wrapped in tentacles with a banner reading LOVECRAFT and H.P., in a traditional engraved style with no body placement shown.
Anchor with tentacles and banner design
Black and white flash sheet of crescent-moon eyes, octopus tentacles, triangle borders and stripes, designed as temporary tattoo artwork.
Sheet of eyes, octopus tentacles and bands
Colour tattoo of a red octopus with yellow suckers on the top of a foot, with a second foot wearing a turquoise bead anklet beside it.
Red octopus tattoo on a foot
Black and grey dotwork sleeve tattoo on a forearm showing a sailing ship, a diver in a brass helmet, a submarine, fish and an octopus.
Nautical sleeve with diver and sailing ship
Black and grey traditional-style tattoo of an octopus with its tentacles wrapped around an anchor, placed on the outer thigh.
Octopus wrapped around an anchor on a thigh
Black and grey Traditional style tattoo of octopus tentacles rising from engraved waves beneath stars and clouds, on an upper arm.
Octopus tentacles rising from waves on an upper arm
Colour tattoo of a sailing ship, red sun, waves and an octopus across the side of a torso and upper thigh, in a Japanese and traditional style.
Sailing ship and octopus side piece
Black and grey tattoo of an octopus with tentacles wrapped around an anchor, in a traditional style, on the upper arm.
Octopus and anchor on an upper arm
Blue octopus with dotted suckers wrapped around a ship in a bottle, a traditional style tattoo on the outer thigh.
Octopus and ship in a bottle on a thigh
Traditional-style tattoo on a forearm of a green octopus with yellow suckers wrapped around a grey anchor, with pink roses and blue flowers below.
Octopus wrapped around an anchor with roses
Black line drawing of a ship in a glass bottle above an octopus and a whale, with a rose at the base and ribbon banners, in a traditional style.
Ship in a bottle with octopus and whale
Colour tattoo of a green octopus with pink suckers among blue waves across a person's chest, in a traditional style, with tattooed arms visible at the sides.
Green octopus and waves on chest
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
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
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 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 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
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 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
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
Colour tattoo of an orange octopus with grey suckers and a cross-eyed expression on a lower leg, in a traditional style.
Orange octopus on a lower leg
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