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 line sun and moon design with small stars on the ankle of a foot, resting on white bedsheets.
Sun and moon ankle tattoo
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
Colour neo-trad style tattoo on a woman's upper back showing a shaded red apple held by black-and-grey hands, with orange sunburst rays and abstract stripes behind it.
Apple held in hands over a sunburst on the back
Black and grey realism tattoo of a spiral staircase rising towards a glowing light with rays, covering the upper arm and shoulder.
Spiral staircase with light on upper arm
Black and grey blackwork tattoo of a dark sun with radiating lines, clouds, mountains and pine trees inside a rectangular frame on a forearm.
Eclipse landscape on a forearm
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
Fine line black ink tattoo of a sun with a crescent moon and radiating rays on the outer elbow of a person resting on an ornate metal table.
Small sun and moon tattoo on an elbow
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a half sun with rays and a small bird in flight, on the inner wrist.
Small sunrise with a bird on a wrist
Two views of a forearm tattoo of an anatomical heart with a teal and green bird, red ginkgo leaves and an orange sun with dotted rays, in mixed colour and dotwork shading.
Anatomical heart with bird and ginkgo leaves on forearm
Temporary glitter tattoo of a swirled sun with rays in teal, gold and magenta on the forearm.
Glitter swirl sun design on an arm
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
Colourful cartoon tattoo of Jake the Dog from Adventure Time on the top of a foot, set against bright rainbow rays.
Jake the Dog cartoon on a foot
Traditional-style tattoo of two pin-up women with hearts and sunburst rays on the lower leg, with small rainbow belts on their waists.
Two pin-up women with hearts on a calf
Black and grey fine line tattoos on the tops of two bare feet, showing a sun with a face and rays on the left foot and a crescent moon with a face on the right foot.
Sun and crescent moon tattoos on both feet
Black and grey dotwork and fine line tattoo of a sun with rays, clouds and a curling wave inside a circle, on the inner forearm.
Sun, clouds and wave on a forearm
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
Black ink sun with flame-like rays and a shaded centre, tattooed on the stomach above white shorts.
Sun tattoo on the stomach
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 line tattoo of a sun with a face and wavy rays on the side of the ribs, in a fine line style.
Sun with face on the ribs
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 outline tattoo on a forearm showing a crown, a heart shape, radiating rays, a sunburst arc and a flower-like sun.
Crown, heart and sun outline tattoo
Small black sun with a crescent moon at its centre, tattooed on the wrist of a hand raised against a plain pale background.
Sun and crescent moon on a wrist
Black and grey realism style tattoo of an eye inside a red triangle with radiating rays, above a solid black suited figure, on the lower leg.
Eye in a red triangle with a suited figure
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 tattoo of a crescent moon with ornamental filigree and a sun with radiating points, placed on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Crescent moon and sun on upper back
Black traditional-style tattoo of a sun with a face and long rays, placed on the chest beside a grey top.
Sun with face tattoo on skin
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
Forearm tattoo of a Zia sun symbol in black linework with red, orange, blue and green watercolour washes, shown from three angles.
Watercolour Zia sun on a forearm
Split image of two forearm tattoos: a geometric orange and red feather with a rising sun outline on the left, and a watercolour peacock feather in blue and green on the right.
Two feather tattoos on forearms
Colour traditional tattoo of a pale teal rose with green leaves inside a dark oval frame with black sunburst rays, on the upper arm of a person in a striped top.
Traditional rose in a sunburst on upper arm
Black and grey sun tattoo with rays and a face on the side of the ribs, with the wearer's head turned away and long blonde hair decorated with flower hair clips.
Sun tattoo on the ribs
Black fine line script reading You are my Sunshine with a small sun and rays, tattooed across the upper back near the shoulder blade.
You are my Sunshine script on the upper back
Black and grey realism tattoo of a winged pocket watch with Roman numerals, a rose and rays on an upper arm.
Winged pocket watch with rose and rays
Colour traditional tattoo of a black Kokopelli figure in front of a red and orange sun, with a yellow, brown and red geometric flower on healed skin.
Kokopelli figure with sun and flower
Black fine line tattoo of a small sun with a face and rays, placed between the shoulder blades on a woman's upper back.
Small sun with face on upper back
Colour traditional-style tattoo of a smiling sun with a crescent moon face and swirling rays on the lower abdomen, over a blue and purple wash.
Sun and crescent moon on the lower abdomen
Black ink eye surrounded by a radiating sunburst on the back of a hand, with dot pattern tattoos on the wrist, resting on an open book.
Eye and sunburst on the back of a hand
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a sun with radiating rays above rocky mesas and a path, with agave plants at the base, on an upper arm.
Sun over mesas on an upper arm
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
Two black ink script tattoos with rising sun designs sit on a pair of wrists, reading You are my Sunshine and My only Sunshine, shown in a phone screenshot.
Matching sunshine script tattoos on wrists
Back view of a person with long dreadlocks and a teal headwrap, showing a large black sun tattoo across the upper back and a butterfly tattoo on the shoulder.
Sun design across a back with butterfly on shoulder
Small black fine line sunburst tattoo of a open circle with radiating rays on the inner wrist, against white bedding.
Sunburst circle on the inner wrist
Small black fine line crescent moon tattoo with triangular rays on the hand near the wrist, with fingers holding a gold chain bracelet.
Small crescent moon with rays on the hand
Black and grey lettering tattoo on the lower back, showing a heart with a peace sign inside and a banner reading What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Heart and peace sign with banner on lower back
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
Fine line black sun tattoo with triangular rays on an ankle, shown on a bare leg and foot.
Small sun tattoo on an ankle
Colour tattoo of a yellow and orange sunburst with a long thin purple line crossing the upper chest near the shoulder.
Sunburst and line across the shoulder