Rose tattoo ideas

4,399 photos and flash · 46% Botanical, 31% Traditional · Forearm most common

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Black and grey flash design of a rose formed from banknote-style scrolls with geometric borders and numerals, shown without a body placement.
Rose woven from banknote scrolls
Hand-drawn traditional flash designs on tracing paper, including a rose, a bowed heart, a beaded heart locket, a crown, and a beetle, with no body placement shown.
Traditional flash sheet with roses and hearts
Pencil drawing of a dreamcatcher with feathers, ribbons, two roses and three butterflies, shaded in purple and pink tones, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Dreamcatcher with roses and butterflies
Black line drawing of a neo-traditional tattoo design showing an hourglass, roses, a pocket watch and a banner with lettering, with no body placement shown.
Hourglass, roses and pocket watch flash
Pencil drawing of a realistically shaded rose and a pocket watch with Roman numerals, with leaves and swirling flourishes, shown as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
Rose and pocket watch pencil design
Realistic drawing of a skull with a peach rose across its left side and dark drips running down from the jaw, shown as a tattoo design on tan paper.
Skull and rose drip design
Collage of pencil-style sketches of a pocket watch, roses and leaves with a scroll banner reading Time Stays Long Enough For Those Who Use It, shown in several stages of shading.
Pocket watch and rose banner design
Black and grey botanical flash design of two roses with buds and leaves, shown on a white card against pale wood, with no body placement visible.
Black rose cluster flash design
Pencil and pen drawing of two roses inside a triangle, shaded in grey at the top and pink-red at the base, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Rose within a triangle design
Drawing of a skeleton in profile within an ornate scrolled cameo frame, with pink roses, spider webs and green leaves, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Skeleton cameo with roses in ornate frame
Black line drawing on tracing paper of roses, a steaming teacup, a cupcake with an apple on top and a ribbon, in a neo-traditional style.
Roses, teacup and cupcake design
Black and blue line drawing of a cat covered in traditional-style flash designs, including a rose, a dagger, a razor, a skull and crossbones and a milk bottle.
Tattooed cat flash drawing
Pencil sketch flash design of a Mad Hatter top hat with a pocket watch, roses, cake and the words We're all mad here, in a neo-traditional style.
We're all mad here Mad Hatter design
Line drawing of the number 5 formed into a rose bloom with a purple outline, a spiral inside and green leaves and stem, shown as a tattoo design without any body part visible.
Number 5 designed as a rose
Coloured pencil drawing of a gold pocket watch wrapped in green vines and leaves, with a red and blue rose below, shown as a tattoo design.
Pocket watch and rose with vines
Traditional flash design of a red-crested songbird perched on an outstretched hand with a teal rose, a heart pendant and red nails.
Songbird perched on a hand
Traditional style flash drawing of two mirrored clusters of blue roses with dark leaves and teal-tipped buds on a parchment background.
Blue roses on stems in a traditional flash design
Pencil drawing of a compass rose tattoo design with N, E, S and W points and a shaded rose at the centre, in a black and grey gothic style.
Compass rose design with central rose
Three pencil and ink flash drawings of roses inside triangular frames, drawn on translucent paper, with botanical and geometric detailing.
Three triangle framed rose designs on tracing paper
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design showing an open pocket watch with Roman numerals, framed by shaded roses and leaves, with no body part visible.
Pocket watch and roses design sketch
Four colourful sugar skull designs with floral patterns, hearts and a red rose, arranged on a beige background.
Four colourful sugar skull designs
Four sugar skull designs in teal, magenta, purple and green, each decorated with flowers, scrolls and hearts on a white background.
Four coloured sugar skull designs
Pencil drawing of a skull nestled among the petals of a rose with leaves, a neo-traditional tattoo design sketched on a spiral sketchbook page.
Skull in a rose, pencil flash design
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design with two shaded roses, a pocket watch with Roman numerals and a ribbon banner, in neo-traditional style.
Roses and pocket watch design with banner
Black and grey stippled line drawing of a dreamcatcher design with a butterfly, roses and feathers, shown on a white background with no body placement.
Dreamcatcher with butterfly and roses
Traditional-style flash design of a hot air balloon with red roses, a swallow and the words TIME FOR AN ADVENTURE, printed on a black shower curtain.
Hot air balloon flash on a shower curtain
Neo-traditional flash design of a pair of spread wings framing a unicorn head, two roses, a key and crossed swords, in teal and cream.
Winged unicorn, rose and sword design
Black and grey traditional style flash design of a tattooed mermaid holding an artist's palette, with a squirrel playing a guitar and a banner reading she's a rose, she's a pearl, set against stars
Mermaid with palette, squirrel and banner
Black linework flash design of a compass, a flintlock pistol and two roses with leaves, drawn on a white background with no body placement shown.
Compass, flintlock pistol and roses
Black and grey traditional rose flash design with broad leaves, a long stem and a curled swirl, set on a cream diamond-shaped background.
Traditional rose flash design
Black ink drawing on paper of two shaded roses with leaves, buds and small berries, a botanical tattoo design.
Two roses with leaves and buds design
Black and grey pen drawing of three open peony or rose blooms with a bud and leaves, shaded with fine hatched linework, shown as a flash design for a botanical tattoo.
Peony and rose cluster pen drawing
Black line drawing of a bird skull with roses, leaves and crystals, a neo-traditional tattoo design shown without a body placement.
Bird skull with roses and crystals
Black ink drawing of an ornate pocket watch with Roman numerals, wrapped in rose petals and ink splatter, shown as an unplaced tattoo design on paper.
Pocket watch and rose design sketch
Traditional-style flash design of a jewelled hand holding a lipstick, with pink roses, pearl strands, a cat cameo and the script words Femme Fatale, on a teal background.
Femme Fatale hand with roses and pearls
Red line drawing on tracing paper of a compass, swallow, rose and feather with banners reading Never Forget and Where you're from, in a traditional style.
Compass, swallow and rose stencil
Traditional style black and grey tattoo flash of a crying crescent moon face, a woman in profile with a rose and swallow in her hair, and the words I HOPE YOU'RE MISERABLE.
Crescent moon, woman and rose design
Pencil drawing of an anchor wrapped in rope, with roses, hibiscus flowers and leaves, as a tattoo design sketch.
Anchor with roses and hibiscus drawing
Black line drawing of a sealed envelope with a monogram wax seal, two roses and script reading No post on Sundays, in a traditional flash style.
Envelope and roses with No post on Sundays lettering
Pencil shaded tattoo design of a cello wrapped in two roses, a lily and flowing ribbons, with no body placement shown.
Cello with roses and lily in pencil
Traditional flash sheet on a cream background showing a hammer, a shield with banner, an Iron Man helmet with a rose, a spider with eye, an eagle with a cube, and a skull.
Traditional flash sheet of superhero designs
Black ink drawing of a tattoo design showing an anchor, a heart with a cross, three roses and a dotted rope over a lace-like mesh, in a traditional style.
Anchor, heart and roses tattoo design
Neo-traditional flash design of a green Frankenstein-style bride kissing a skull held up by a figure, framed by teal roses and a banner reading Made for You.
Frankenstein couple kiss with roses
Flash design sheet of ornate black filigree crosses with red roses, green leaves and grey rose centres on a white background, shown without a body placement.
Ornate crosses and roses design sheet
Traditional style flash drawing of a black butterfly wings filled with red roses, green leaves and blue and orange swirls, shown on a white background.
Butterfly with roses flash design
Black and grey traditional style flash design of a skeletal-faced mermaid seated among roses and hibiscus flowers, with bones in her hair.
Skull mermaid with roses and hibiscus
Seamless pattern of neo-traditional style tattoo designs on a tan background, each showing a female figure with banners, a Tardis, a Dalek, roses, wings and stars.
Repeating tattoo-style character emblems
Painted neo-traditional flash design of the Cheshire Cat grinning from a teacup beside a pocket watch, rose, key, cupcake and Eat Me and Drink Me labels, with art supplies around it.
Cheshire Cat in a teacup with rose and key