Upper arm tattoo ideas

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Traditional-style illustration of a cartoon princess in a cameo frame, with a tiger tattoo on her upper arm and Arabic script on a banner below.
Cartoon princess with tiger tattoo on banner
Black line drawing of a flexed arm with a heart-and-arrow tattoo reading MOM on the upper arm, on a plain grey background.
Heart with arrow and MOM on a drawn arm
Black ink illustration of a woman with a hair bun and tattoos of a swallow, skull and Darth Vader helmet on her upper arm, traditional style.
Tattooed woman with blaster illustration
Black and white Norse sleeve design with runes, a Vegvisir and valknut symbols, shown beside a mock-up of the design on an upper arm.
Norse rune sleeve design with Vegvisir
Book cover showing an illustrated arm with a lizard tattoo on the upper arm, with tribal spiral and figure designs below and the title Tribal Body Art Tattoos.
Tribal tattoo designs on a book cover
Four illustrated paper dolls with fine black linework tattoos covering their chests and arms, two with moustaches and beards, shown against pale walls.
Four tattooed paper dolls
Traditional flash design laid out across a white body silhouette, covering the arms and torso with an eagle, snakes, dragon, peacock, pin-up, reaper and portrait.
Full-body traditional flash on a white silhouette
Traditional style flash drawing of a woman with curled hair and red lips, with outlined rose and butterfly tattoos on her upper arms.
Pin-up face with rose and butterfly tattoos
Pencil sketch of a mermaid with shell and starfish tattoo designs on both upper arms and forearms, drawn in red and blue on kraft paper.
Mermaid tattoo design sketch
Black line drawing of a woman with long hair and closed eyes, showing a Japanese-style sleeve of cherry blossoms, a koi-like fish and a skull on her arm.
Woman with Japanese-style sleeve and skull
Cartoon collage of eleven tattoo designs, including a PIN and password on the chest, an Apple logo on an upper arm, and the words Mrs Christian Grey on a ribbon.
Eleven badly judged tattoo ideas illustrated
Colour illustration of a botanical sleeve design with a golden skull, pink roses, green vines and blue butterflies, shown beside a character with a tattooed upper arm and forearm.
Skull, roses and butterflies sleeve design
Black and white tribal armband designs with a central tiki face motif, shown in several sizes on grey body silhouettes for upper arm placement.
Tribal armband designs on silhouettes
Coloured traditional-style illustration of a woman in profile with a swallow and diamond on her neck and chest and a skull on her upper arm.
Traditional-style woman with swallow, diamond and skull
Neo-traditional illustration of an animated princess with a red tiger tattoo on her upper arm and shoulder, lotus flowers, and Arabic script on a banner.
Tattooed animated princess with tiger in cameo frame
Black tribal spiral designs with curling patterns shown as armbands and shoulder pieces over grey body silhouettes.
Tribal spiral armband designs on body silhouettes
Pencil sketch of a woman with eyes closed and a bonsai pine tattoo design across her shoulder and upper arm, drawn in a Japanese-inspired style.
Woman with bonsai pine tattoo design, pencil sketch
Full body suit design of a red Japanese dragon with yellow claws, chrysanthemums and clouds across the back, arms and thighs.
Red dragon full body suit design
Pin-up style drawing of a woman in a red polka dot headscarf flexing her bicep, with Girl Power script tattooed on her upper arm.
Pin-up woman flexing with Girl Power script
Black and grey pencil drawing of a Japanese style peony and scroll sleeve tattoo design for the upper arm, shown from back, side and front.
Peony and scroll sleeve design, three views
Pencil sketch of a woman in profile framed by peony flowers, a botanical tattoo design for the shoulder and upper arm.
Profile portrait with peonies sketch
Black ink drawing of a woman with flowing hair and pink rose and scroll tattoo designs on her shoulder and upper arm.
Woman with pink rose tattoo designs
Black and white drawing of a full sleeve tattoo design in a geometric tribal style, with bands of triangles, chevrons and curved stripes on an upper arm outline.
Tribal-style sleeve design drawing
Pencil drawing of a pin-up woman in a red polka-dot bandana flexing one arm, with Girl Power lettering across her upper arm.
Pin-up girl flexing with Girl Power script
Black and grey Japanese style illustration of a woman in a patterned kimono holding a dragon, with a tattoo-style design on her upper arm and a parasol behind her.
Kimono woman with dragon and parasol
Traditional style flash of a jumping sailor pin-up in red shorts and red heels, with blue tattoo designs on her upper arm, thigh and calf.
Sailor pin-up with tattooed arm and legs
Line drawing of a figure with a black and purple tattoo on the upper arm and forearm, beside a blue gradient dragon design with dotwork scales and a curled tail.
Blue dragon designs with an arm tattoo outline
Illustration of a muscular cartoon man with a moustache and pipe, his arms, torso and legs covered in dense line-drawn tattoo designs in teal on yellow.
Cartoon figure covered in tattoo designs
Hand-drawn colour pencil design for a full arm sleeve showing a compass rose, clouds, swallows, a sailing ship, waves, jellyfish, manta rays, an anchor and a treasure chest.
Nautical sleeve design with compass and ship