Ray tattoo ideas

335 photos and flash · 20% Dotwork, 20% Traditional · Forearm most common

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Black ink line drawing of a sun with a sleeping face and wavy hatched rays, overlapping a crescent moon with a closed-eyed face on a white background.
Sun and crescent moon with faces
Black ink drawing of a ram skull with curled horns, stippled and hatched, with an eye and radiating rays above it, on a cream background.
Ram skull with eye and rays
Black and grey pencil flash design of praying hands, dice, playing cards, a winged pocket watch, roses, skulls and a banner reading Such is life, in a neo-traditional style.
Such is life flash with skulls, dice and praying hands
Black ink drawing of a dotwork sun and crescent moon with an open eye, three roses and arrows radiating from the centre, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Sun, moon, eye and roses design
Black and grey flash design of a ribcage, heart, spine and pelvis framed by serrated leaves, with no body placement shown.
Anatomical ribcage and pelvis with leaves, Cancer
Line drawing of a shaded skull with black tribal swirls and spiky beige rays behind it, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Skull with tribal swirls flash design
Black linework drawing of a sun with a spiral centre and pointed rays on a white background, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Spiral sun design
Black linework flash drawing of a lace-edged heart with two script lettering banners and rays, drawn on tracing paper, suited to a neo-traditional tattoo.
Heart and script banners flash design
Black ink line drawing of a face in profile with a radiating mandala, dotwork and a feather across the forehead and cheek, shown as a tattoo design.
Mandala and feather face profile design
Greyscale drawing of a dove in flight with outstretched wings, set against a sunburst and soft clouds, shown as a tattoo design without any body placement.
Flying dove with sunburst and clouds
Flash design of a stag head with antlers, feathers and flames, above crossed axes and a ribbon, drawn in engraved linework with red accents.
Stag head with axes and flames
Black ink dotwork drawing of a sun with stippled rays, leaf-shaped petals and a crescent moon, shown as a design on grey paper with no body placement.
Sun and crescent moon design
Traditional black and grey flash design of a cartoon character with glasses inside a rayed halo, holding a rose, with the words Pray for butts beneath.
Madonna-style cartoon figure with rose flash
Pencil drawing of a neo-traditional compass and lighthouse design with a Find Your Own Way banner, in black and grey shading, shown on a sketch pad.
Compass and lighthouse with Find Your Own Way banner
Black ink dotwork and fine line drawing of a sphynx cat head with a third eye, set beneath a dotted sun with radiating rays.
Sphynx cat with third eye and sun
Black tribal sun flash design with eight flame-like rays radiating from a central point, drawn on white paper.
Tribal sun design in black ink
Solid black flash design of a flaming sun with wavy rays surrounding a pentagram inside a circle, shown without any body placement.
Flaming sun with pentagram design
Line drawing of an anchor wrapped in rope, with a fish skeleton on the shaft, an eye at the centre and radiating rays behind, shaded in blue, purple and yellow.
Anchor with rope, fish skeleton and eye
Gold line drawing of a geometric owl with spread wings, an arrow through its talons and rays above its head, on a black background.
Geometric owl with arrow and spread wings
Black ink drawing in a dotwork and fine line style of the state of Oregon filled with mountains, pine trees and a sun with dotted rays, on a cream background.
Oregon outline with mountains, pines and sun
Black and white drawing of an ornate fleur-de-lis surrounded by acanthus leaf scrollwork and radiating lines, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Fleur-de-lis with scrollwork design
Pencil line drawing of a winged eye inside a triangle with rays, scrollwork and two roses, designed as a neo-traditional style tattoo.
Winged eye in triangle with roses
Black and white yin yang symbol set inside a sun with spiralling rays, shown as a tattoo flash design without placement on the body.
Yin yang inside a sun design
Hand-drawn black ink sun with wavy rays surrounding the words radiate love in script, on a tan kraft paper background.
Sun with radiate love lettering
Black and white flash design of a Triforce inside a circle with flame-like edges, radiating spikes and dots, shown without a body placement.
Triforce sunburst design with rays and dots
Traditional-style design of a vintage silver teapot with two dark red roses and dashed rays on a sepia background.
Teapot and red roses design
Black ink dotwork drawing of a planchette with a central eye, crescent moons, a bone, leaves and YES and NO lettering beneath a burst of rays.
Planchette with eye, moons and YES NO lettering
Four hand-shaped forms display tattoo designs: a praying figure with rays, a horned devil, a geometric pattern and a skull in a feathered headdress.
Four tattoo designs printed on hand forms
Black line drawing of a ram's head with a triangle eye on its forehead, framed by two roses, in a neo-traditional style, shown as an unshaded design on paper.
Ram head with eye and roses design
Black ink linework drawing of a sun with a closed-eyed face and a crescent moon, with dotwork rays and stars, drawn on paper as a tattoo design.
Sun and crescent moon face design
Black, grey and gold drawing of a coiled snake with stippled dotwork rays behind its head, shown as a tattoo design on plain paper.
Coiled snake with gold discs
Red line drawing flash design of a seated bodhisattva figure within a halo, surrounded by rays, clouds and lotus flowers, in a Japanese-influenced style.
Seated bodhisattva with halo and lotus
Flash sheet of 36 black line drawings of sunbursts and stars on a cream background, under the heading 36 hand-drawn sunbursts and stars.
36 hand-drawn sunbursts and stars sheet