Calf tattoo ideas

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Colour botanical tattoo of green leaves and a climbing vine wrapping around a bare calf, photographed outdoors on a pavement.
Leafy vine wrapping a calf
Two large rose tattoos on the backs of a person's calves, one red and one blue-grey, with dark linework and teal leaves.
Red and blue roses on both calves
Fine line botanical tattoo of a lavender sprig in purple and green on a calf.
Lavender sprig on a lower leg
Black and grey floral leg sleeve with roses, foliage and script running from ankle to thigh, with the leg raised against a wooden jetty.
Floral leg sleeve with script
Black and grey fine line poppy tattoo on the back of a calf, with a stem, buds, leaves and a shaded diamond below.
Poppy with diamond on a calf
Black and grey traditional bouquet tattoo with a rose, poppy-style flowers and leaves, tied with a band at the stem, on a calf.
Flower bouquet on a calf
Pink cherry blossom tattoo with grey-brown branches running down a woman's leg from thigh to ankle, in a botanical style.
Cherry blossom leg tattoo from thigh to ankle
Black and grey tattoo of a curled-up sleeping squirrel framed by flowers and leaves, done in dotwork and linework on a lower leg.
Sleeping squirrel with flowers on a calf
Botanical colour tattoo of a red poppy with a fine black stem on the calf, shown above black leather boots.
Red poppy on a calf
Black linework lotus flower tattoo with teal, purple and pink watercolour splashes on the lower leg.
Lotus flower with watercolour splashes on lower leg
Black and grey full leg sleeve tattoo with roses, a woman's portrait and script across the thigh and calf, photographed with legs raised on a wooden pier.
Full leg sleeve with roses and portrait
Black and grey sunflower tattoo with shaded petals and leaves on a person's calf, shown in a casual outdoor setting.
Two sunflowers on a calf
Colour Japanese-style cherry blossom branch tattoo with red blossoms, a black sun and flying birds, running from the ankle up the lower leg.
Cherry blossom branch and sun on an ankle
Japanese style dragon leg sleeve with red cherry blossoms running from the thigh down to the ankle, shown on a leg resting on a tattooist's paper.
Japanese dragon leg sleeve with cherry blossoms
Two legs resting in a bath showing black and grey rose and compass tattoos on one thigh and a long block of script down the other thigh.
Rose and script leg tattoos in a bath
Colour traditional-style rose tattoo with red petals, green leaves and bold black outlines, shown on a calf.
Traditional rose with green leaves on a calf
Colourful neo-traditional tattoo of succulents and cacti in a red pot with teal heart motifs, placed on the calf.
Succulents in a heart-patterned pot on a calf
Shaded grey anchor wrapped in rope and decorated with blue flowers, with script initials on the stock, in a traditional style on the lower leg.
Anchor with rope and blue flowers on a calf
Black handwritten lettering reading 'It's not you, it's my inability to stand human beings' with a line-drawn palm tree below, tattooed on a lower leg.
Handwritten quote and palm tree on a calf
Colour realism tattoo of a red and orange dahlia with green leaves on the calf.
Realistic dahlia with leaves on a calf
Black and grey fine line botanical ornament with stars and a sun motif on the calf, shown in a black and white photo.
Botanical ornament on a lower leg
Black and grey tattoo of a veined leaf with dotwork shading on a person's calf.
Veined leaf tattoo on a calf
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of birch tree trunks inside a circle on a calf.
Birch trunks in a circle on a lower leg
Black and grey realism leg sleeve on the thigh and calf showing a lion head, sunflowers, a clock face and scrolled lettering.
Lion and clock leg sleeve in black and grey
Black and white photo of a person's legs with black silhouette pine trees tattooed from the thigh down to the calf, in a botanical style.
Pine tree silhouettes on both legs
Watercolour-style colour tattoo of a pink rose under a blue glass dome with falling petals, placed on the calf.
Rose under a glass dome on a calf
Black and grey tattoo of a cactus in a clay pot on the lower leg, with stippled dotwork shading on the cactus body.
Cactus in a clay pot on a calf
Pink magnolia flowers and orange-brown buds on a branch, painted in a soft watercolour style across the calf.
Pink magnolia branch on a calf
Black fine line sunflower tattoo with dotwork centre and a leaf, sitting on the calf above a partial circle outline.
Sunflower with circle on a lower leg
Black fine line tattoo of a botanical sprig with a spike of lupin-like flowers, leaves and a small clover-like bloom on the calf.
Lupin sprig on a lower leg
Three red poppy flowers with dark stems in a painterly botanical style, tattooed on a calf.
Red poppies on a lower leg
Woman seen from behind in a black dress, showing black and grey floral and bird tattoos across her back, upper arm and forearm.
Floral and bird tattoos on back and arms
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a curled sleeping fox with a cub inside its coil, framed by anemone-style flowers and leaves on the lower leg.
Curled fox and flowers on a calf
Black and white photo of a bare lower leg and foot with a solid black fern tattoo wrapping from the calf down towards the ankle, in a botanical style.
Fern tattoo wrapping a lower leg
Black and grey rose, skull and script tattoo covering the outer thigh and calf of a woman wearing grey shorts and white trainers.
Rose and skull leg sleeve with script
Black and grey rose with leaves on the outer leg beside a script tattoo on the other leg, both photographed in bathwater.
Rose and script tattoos on legs in a bath
Neo-traditional tattoo of two stacked owls framed by green leaves, acorns and red berries, placed on a limb.
Two owls with oak leaves on a leg
Colour and black lace-style tattoo of flowers and leaves on a woman's lower leg, with a pink bloom, red poppy and yellow leaves below black lace patterns.
Lace and flowers on a calf
Three views of a leg tattoo on the calf and ankle showing a wolf head with blue eyes, honeycomb hexagons, pink cherry blossoms and a geometric line design in neo-traditional style.
Wolf, honeycomb and blossom leg tattoo
Pink rose with green leaves framed by black lace-style linework, tattooed on a calf in a Botanical style with soft shading.
Pink rose and black lace tattoo on a calf
Colour botanical tattoo on a lower leg showing a green owl with two smaller owls, a red heart, a brown swirling vine, leaves and white daisies.
Green owls and daisy vine on a calf
Black and grey realism style tattoo of a bare tree with spreading roots running down the calf towards the ankle.
Bare tree with roots on a calf
Black and grey botanical tattoo with flowers, leaves and a stylised face with closed eyes, running down a calf.
Floral and face design on a calf
Two mirrored black and grey dotwork tattoos on the calves, each showing a curled squirrel-like animal beside a hedgehog-like animal, framed by flowers and berries.
Mirrored animal and floral calf tattoos
Two calves with tattoos: pink cherry blossom branches on the left leg with script lettering along the shin, and a grey realistic Buddha head with blossoms and waves on the right leg.
Cherry blossom and Buddha on both calves
Black and grey fine line dandelion tattoo with seeds drifting away, on the calf.
Dandelion with drifting seeds on a calf
Black and grey tattoos of script lettering and a botanical motif on a thigh and calf, with a hairless sphynx cat resting on the leg.
Script and botanical tattoos on legs with a sphynx cat
Two matching black and grey dotwork tattoos of curled animals with flowers, one on each calf.
Matching curled animals with flowers on calves