Root tattoo ideas

341 photos and flash · 70% Botanical, 14% Fine line · Back most common

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Black and grey tree tattoo across the upper arm and shoulder, with birds, a faint musical staff, a small red berry and roots reaching down the arm.
Tree with birds and roots on upper arm
Black ink drawing of a bare tree with a heart-shaped root system, a small hanging heart and several birds in flight, a blackwork-style design with no body placement shown.
Bare tree with heart roots and birds
Black blackwork tattoo of a branching tree with fine roots spreading from the ankle across the top of a foot.
Branching tree tattoo across a foot
Solid black stylised tree design with curling branches, roots and seven eight-pointed stars above, a blackwork-style flash drawing with no body placement shown.
Stylised tree with seven stars
Black and grey blackwork tattoo on a forearm showing a guitar body filled with inverted trees and roots, with the neck fading into a city skyline.
Guitar body of trees and roots with skyline neck on a
Black blackwork tattoo of a tree within a circle, with branches dissolving into flying birds, on a person's upper back.
Tree in a circle with birds on upper back
Black and white photo of a solid black tree of life tattoo with roots inside a circle, centred on a person's upper back.
Tree of life on upper back
Black and grey blackwork tattoo of utility poles, wires and root-like lines across an elbow and forearm.
Abstract poles and wires on an elbow and forearm
Black tree tattoo with bare branches and spreading roots on the inner wrist and forearm, in a blackwork botanical style.
Tree with roots on a wrist
Black and grey raven tattoo on the calf, with stippled dotwork shading on its head and wing and dark strands trailing downwards.
Raven with dissolving roots on a calf
Black blackwork tree of life inside a circle, with bare branches above and roots below, on a person's upper back.
Tree of life in a circle on upper back
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a brain with branching root lines running down the upper arm, shown in a close greyscale photo.
Brain with roots on an upper arm
Black line drawing of a tree with an eagle perched on top, a curled creature in the trunk and serpents coiled among the roots, with dotted shading in the canopy.
Tree with eagle and serpents design
Large black tree of life tattoo within a circle, with leafy knotwork branches and roots, across a man's upper back.
Tree of life in a circle across a back
Black and grey blackwork tree of life with roots, inside a Celtic knotwork ring, tattooed on the upper back of a woman with long blonde hair.
Tree of life in a Celtic knot ring on a back
Black linework design of a leafy tree with a full canopy and spreading roots on a white background, shown as a blackwork flash drawing with no body placement.
Tree with spreading roots design
Black and white drawing of a tree of life woven through interlaced knotwork inside a Celtic knot border, presented as a tattoo design.
Tree of life in a Celtic knot ring
Black and grey blackwork tattoo of a house framed by branching trees and roots, sitting on the calf.
House with branches and roots on a calf
Black tree of life tattoo with a central swirl, branches with small red leaves and spreading roots, on a person's upper back.
Tree of life on upper back
Black blackwork tattoo of two fairy silhouettes among bare branches and roots with butterflies, on the outer thigh.
Fairy silhouettes in a bare tree on a thigh
Black tree of life tattoo enclosed in a circle with spreading roots, on the inner forearm above a beaded bracelet.
Tree of life in a circle on a forearm
Solid black blackwork tattoo of a fairy silhouette beside a bare tree with drifting leaves, on the outer leg.
Fairy silhouette beside a bare tree
Black and white photo of a woman seen from behind, with a solid black tree of life inside a Celtic knot circle on her upper back.
Tree of life in a Celtic knot circle on upper back
Black and grey tattoo of a pine forest with roots along the forearm, in a blackwork style.
Black pine forest band on a forearm
Black ink drawing of a broad oak tree with stippled leaves and a full root system spreading beneath it, on a plain white background.
Oak tree with spreading roots, black ink design
Black and grey raven with an eye on its wing, perched on tree roots that run down the calf, in a traditional style tattoo.
Raven with eye and roots on a calf
Black stencil design of a gnarled, leafless tree with a skull in its trunk, shown on a white card against a dark green backdrop.
Gnarled dead tree with skull stencil
Collage of five photographs showing black tree of life tattoos on a back, a foot, a lower back and a circular design on a upper back.
Tree of life tattoos on back and foot
Black flash design of a tree of life with spreading roots and branches, enclosed in an interlaced Celtic knotwork circle.
Tree of life in a Celtic knot circle
Black and grey blackwork tattoo of a bare tree and birds on a forearm, with shaded ground and roots lower down the arm.
Bare tree and birds on a forearm
Black and grey blackwork tattoo of an anatomical heart pierced by a dagger, with roots and a geometric frame, on the upper arm.
Anatomical heart and dagger on upper arm
Black ink tattoo of a skeleton entwined with a bare tree, running down the side of the ribs, with small red accents on the branches.
Skeleton and bare tree on the ribs
Black blackwork tree of life with exposed roots inside a circle on a chest, with birds flying off the branches towards the shoulder.
Tree of life and birds on the chest
Black ink tattoo on the side ribs of a skeleton standing within a bare tree with roots, with small red accents on the buds.
Skeleton in a bare tree on the ribs
Solid black blackwork tattoo on a lower leg, showing a peace sign enclosing a human silhouette with outstretched arms whose head and limbs become bare tree branches and roots.
Peace sign with tree-figure silhouette on a leg
Solid black tree of life tattoo with swirling branches and roots enclosed in a circle on pale skin.
Tree of life in a circle
Black blackwork tattoo of a bare tree with a small bird perched on a branch, with shaded foliage at the base, on the inner forearm of a person in a grey satin dress.
Bare tree silhouette with a bird on a forearm
Black blackwork tattoo of a bare tree on a person's upper back, its trunk running down the spine with vertebra-like segments and branches spreading over the shoulder blade.
Bare tree with spine trunk across a back
Black blackwork tattoo of two silhouetted figures holding hands among branches and roots, across a person's upper arm and shoulder.
Two silhouetted figures holding hands within tree roots