Ray tattoo ideas

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

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Black and white flash drawings of a yin yang with floral and geometric patterning and a sun with rays around a crescent moon with a face, with no body placement shown.
Yin yang and sun and moon tattoo designs
Black line drawing of a hand-drawn sun with rays, with the words LIFE IS TOUGH BUT SO ARE YOU lettered inside the circle, shown as a tattoo design on white.
Line drawn sun with lettered quote
Close photo of a small fine line sun outline tattoo with a circle and short rays on the top of a foot, near the big toe.
Small sun outline on a foot
Black and grey tattoo of a rayed sun with three small stars on the upper arm.
Rayed sun with three stars on an upper arm
Pencil drawing of a hatched mountain peak under a sunburst with swirled clouds on either side, shown as a tattoo design on plain paper with no body part visible.
Mountain peak with sunburst and clouds
Black line drawing of a winged heart flanked by two roses with radiating rays, in a traditional flash style with no body placement shown.
Winged heart with roses flash
Black ink neo-traditional design of a woman in a headscarf holding a tarot card over her mouth, with a flower and radiating dotted rays, drawn on cream paper.
Woman with tarot card and flower design
Black and grey light bulb tattoo on the upper arm, with a globe showing the Americas inside the bulb and short radiating lines around it.
Light bulb with globe on upper arm
Black and grey pencil and ink drawing of a tattoo design inside a diamond, showing a UFO-like eye with rays, raindrops, stars and waves.
Diamond with eye and rain over waves
Black and white drawing of a sun with a solid black circle and wavy, flame-like rays, with thin outlined rays between them, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Black sun with flame-like rays
Black and white photo of a small fine line eye tattoo with radiating rays on the side of the torso, above a skirt waistband, with a hand resting nearby.
Small eye tattoo on the side torso
Blue line drawing of a rayed sun with the words You are my sunshine written in script and capitals inside it, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
You are my sunshine lettering in a sun
Brown ink sun with a plain centre, pointed petal-like rays and dotted chevron details, placed on the inner forearm.
Sun design on the inner forearm
Black and grey pencil drawing of an ornate lantern with a rose, leaves, bees and radiating rays, drawn as a tattoo design.
Lantern and rose design with bees
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design showing praying hands, a winged cross, a dove and clouds in black and grey shading, with no body placement visible.
Praying hands, winged cross and dove design
Colour traditional tattoo of a green wand topped by a gold star with a number 4, with pink roses, a bud and a small heart, on the forearm.
Rose wand with star on a forearm
Black and grey sun tattoo with a face, radiating rays and dotted chains hanging below, placed centrally on the chest.
Sun with face on chest
Traditional style colour tattoo of a striped lighthouse with rays of light and a banner reading BUT ALWAYS A GUIDING LIGHT, on a forearm.
Traditional lighthouse banner on a forearm
Realism style black and grey tattoo of a winged hourglass with rays, roses and diamonds across the upper back.
Winged hourglass with roses on upper back
Two matching forearm tattoos in black ink: a sun with a face and dotted chain drapery on the left arm, and a crescent moon with a face on the right arm, in a dotwork style.
Sun and moon tattoos on two forearms
Black and grey sun and moon face tattoo with dotwork rays and mandala-style petals on the upper thigh.
Sun and moon face on thigh
Black ink drawing of a split sun and moon design with an eye, two roses, arrows and radiating dotwork rays, drawn on paper.
Sun and moon with eye, roses and arrows
Traditional style tattoo of a palm tree, red setting sun and hibiscus-like flowers on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Palm tree and sunset on a forearm
Black ink drawing of a sun and crescent moon with carved-style faces, dotwork mandala detail and wavy rays, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Sun and crescent moon with faces
Colour tattoo of a red Dalek with lightning bolts, red rays, wheat and a pink blossom, with a banner reading EXTERMINATE, on the forearm.
Dalek and lightning forearm tattoo
Black and grey pencil drawing of a sphynx cat with a third eye and winged eyes, beside a snake and roses, as a tattoo design.
Sphynx cat with snake and roses design
Two wrists side by side, each with a fine line black tattoo of a hand beneath three radiating lines, on a blue painted surface.
Matching hand and rays tattoos on wrists
Colour tattoo of a smiling sun and a blue crescent moon with faces, outlined in black with orange rays and small stars, on skin.
Sun and crescent moon with faces
Black and grey eye inside a triangle with radiating lines on a woman's chest, shown in a mirrored photo.
Eye in triangle tattoo on chest
Colour Japanese-style tattoo of a rising sun over teal waves and pine trees, with grey clouds on the shoulder, shown on an upper arm from three angles.
Sun, waves and clouds on an upper arm
Neo-traditional style flash drawing of a woman with a bob haircut wearing a space helmet, with stars, planets and roses in pink, red and teal.
Astronaut woman with roses flash design
Black geometric arrow with a dotted compass wheel tattooed on the inner wrist and forearm.
Geometric arrow and compass on the inner wrist
Black and grey sun and moon face tattoo with rays and stars on skin, with the body placement not clearly visible.
Sun and moon face tattoo with stars
Traditional style pomegranate tattoo with dark green leaves on the back of a hand, with small heart, fish and star tattoos on the fingers.
Pomegranate tattoo on the back of a hand
Traditional style dagger piercing a heart with a banner reading MORTE and blood drops, tattooed on a forearm in black, grey and red ink.
Dagger through a heart with a Morte banner
Colour tattoo of a sun and moon combined into one face with long rays and watercolour washes in orange, purple and teal.
Sun and moon face with watercolour wash
Two black and grey tattoos side by side: a crescent moon with a face and hanging beaded chains, and a sun with a face, rays and beaded chains on the upper back.
Crescent moon and sun tattoos with chains
Black and grey sun tattoo with a face, ornamental rays and hanging chains, sitting on the thigh.
Sun with face and hanging chains on thigh
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of an eye inside a radiating sunburst on the forearm, with a hand curled at the top of the frame.
Eye within a dotwork sunburst on a forearm
Close view of a solid black tribal-style sun tattoo with flame-like rays on the lower back, above a pair of blue jeans.
Sun tattoo on the lower back
Black and grey traditional tattoo of clasped hands inside a dotwork-shaded heart, with Call Me Safe Bet lettering and a flower, on a forearm.
Clasped hands in a heart with Call Me Safe Bet lettering
Black tribal tattoo with a sun face on a shirtless man's chest, continuing over the shoulder and down the upper arm and forearm in a Polynesian-inspired blackwork style.
Tribal sun chest and full arm sleeve
Black and grey traditional tattoo on a thigh showing mountains, pine trees, a rising sun with rays, two roses and the script Let's be Adventurous.
Mountain lake scene with script on thigh
Black and grey sun and moon face tattoo with radiating rays on the top of a foot, above turquoise painted toenails.
Sun and moon face on a foot
Black and grey traditional flash drawing of an ornate dagger through a heart, with a Valentine banner, rays and a swallow.
Dagger, heart and swallow flash design
Black blackwork sun with a solid filled centre and flame-like rays, tattooed on a woman's upper back beside the shoulder blade.
Black sun tattoo on a shoulder blade
Black linework tattoo of a smiling sun with a face and sunburst rays on the side of a person's ribs, above the waistband of light blue jeans.
Sun with face tattoo on the side ribs
Colourful eye tattoo with black linework, spiky rays and orange, blue and purple wash shading on the inner forearm.
Eye with spiked rays on a forearm