Rose tattoo ideas

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Symmetrical ornate owl design with dotwork, floral and paisley patterns, drawn in a single dark brown ink on a white background.
Ornate owl in sugar skull style
Black ink drawing of two roses, a peony bud, small berries and leaves in a botanical design, shown as a sketch on paper.
Roses and berries botanical design drawing
Traditional style flash design of a black anchor wrapped in rope and entwined with red and orange roses, teal leaves and blue flowers.
Anchor with roses and rope
A round blue floral design in a Delft-inspired botanical style, shown as a tattoo design on a white card against a textured brown background.
Blue Delft-style floral tattoo design
Black line drawing of an ornate genie lamp with two roses, leaves and swirling smoke, with script lettering, shown as a flash design on cream paper.
Genie lamp and roses flash with script
Two sugar skull designs on a grey background, one with a cross and blue rose-like eyes, the other with a red rose on its crown and purple flower eyes.
Two colourful sugar skull designs
Traditional-style flash design of a woman with a wolf's head above her, pearl strands, a red rose and black scrollwork, drawn on cream paper.
Wolf-headed woman with rose flash
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design showing a pocket watch with Roman numerals, roses and leaves, with the words Time Flies in script lettering across the lower half.
Pocket watch and roses with Time Flies script
Black and grey tattoo flash design of brass knuckles, two roses and a ribbon banner with the script words Love thy Neighbor and Lev.19:18, shown without any body placement.
Brass knuckles and roses with Love thy Neighbor
Line drawing of a rose, ornate filigree heart and ribbons with leaves, a neo-traditional tattoo design on paper with no body placement shown.
Rose, ornate heart and ribbon design
Black line drawing of a curving musical staff with a treble clef, several notes, two roses and floral swirls, shown as a tattoo design.
Musical staff with treble clef and roses
Pastel coloured flash design of a triceratops and two dinosaur heads with pink roses, ferns and leaves, framed by a banner reading dinosaurs eat man and woman inherits the earth.
Dinosaurs, roses and banner flash design
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design showing a shaded skull wrapped in a snake, with two roses and a dagger at the base.
Skull with snake and roses design
Black and grey line drawing of a horned bull skull decorated with geometric patterns and three roses with leaves, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Bull skull with roses design
Hand-coloured traditional-style tattoo flash of the cartoon character Stitch in an ornate gold frame, with a banner reading OHANA and three dark pink roses below.
Stitch in an ornate frame with roses
Red pencil sketch of a neo-traditional tattoo design showing a dreamcatcher, two roses and a feather, drawn on white paper.
Dreamcatcher, roses and feather design sketch
Black outline drawing of a neo-traditional tattoo design showing a candle, crescent moon, clouds, a rose and an ornate scroll with pearls, drawn on pale paper.
Candle, crescent moon and rose design
Black linework flash design of an eye inside a triangle, framed by outlined roses and leaves in a neo-traditional style.
Eye in triangle with roses design
Black dotwork flash sheet showing a rose, a snake, a dagger, a praying hand, an angel, a cross and church buildings, shown as tattoo designs with no placement on the body.
Dotwork flash sheet of churches, snakes and hands
Black linework flash design of a compass rose with two roses in a botanical and geometric style, shown without a body placement.
Compass rose with two roses
Botanical tattoo design of a grey shaded rose with purple berries, leaves and thorny stems on a beige background.
Rose and berry sprig design
Black line drawing of a tattoo design with two hearts edged in rope, swirls, two roses, leaves and beaded chains, in a neo-traditional style.
Hearts, roses and beads line drawing
Colour flash design of a woman in profile within an ornate gold oval frame, with purple roses and a white rose, in a Neo-trad style.
Woman in profile cameo with roses
Pencil line drawing of a traditional-style tattoo design with roses, two lovebirds in an ornate heart frame and a banner reading Hopeless Romantic.
Roses and lovebirds tattoo design
Flash design of a black skeleton cat holding up a blue butterfly, beside a red and gold rose and green leaves, in a traditional style.
Skeleton cat with rose and butterfly
Flash design of a horned helmeted skull with two purple roses and a cream banner with lettering, in neo-traditional style with speckled shading.
Horned helmet skull with roses and banner
Pencil drawing of a shaded cross with a rose bud and leaves at its base, in a neo-traditional style, shown without a body placement.
Cross and rose design
Black and grey pen-hatched antlers with three pink roses clustered at their base, drawn on a plain white background in a botanical illustration style.
Antlers with pink roses
Traditional-style flash drawing of a snarling wolf head with a red eye above a shaded red and grey rose, on a white background.
Wolf head and rose flash design
Pencil and ink sketch of a rose with thorny stems and a revolver outline, drawn as a tattoo design with light shading.
Rose and revolver line drawing
Black linework flash of a scorpion whose curled tail ends in a rose with leaves and thorns, drawn on a plain pink background.
Scorpion with a rose tail in black linework
Pencil drawing of two feathers curling around a rose and vine swirls, a botanical tattoo design shown on plain white paper with no body placement.
Feathers and a rose tattoo design
Greyscale realistic drawing of a skull with a rose held in its teeth, with red watercolour splatters below, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Skull and rose with red splatter
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design showing a rose made from folded dollar bills with leaves and black script lettering beneath, in a realism style.
Rose made of folded banknotes with script
Black design of lips with vampire fangs biting a thorned rose stem, drawn in solid black and outline on a pale background.
Vampire lips biting a thorned rose stem
Black ink linework drawing of a neo-traditional tattoo design with a rose, pansy, top hat, pocket watch, teapot and ace of spades on white paper.
Mad hatter rose and ace of spades design
Black and grey flash sheet of ten ornate heart designs with scrollwork and dotted borders, including a rose, an eye and a moth.
Ornate heart flash sheet
Traditional style flash design of a pin-up woman with black bob hair, a red rose tucked behind her ear and red flowers on a black collar.
Pin-up woman with rose in hair flash
Drawn tattoo design of a red rose with a heart and green thorned vines, outlined in bold black in a neo-traditional style, shown without a body placement.
Rose and heart with thorned vine
Black and grey neo-traditional flash design of a woman in profile holding a rose, with banner lettering reading LUST is the THORN and LOVE is the ROSE.
Profile woman with rose and banner
Traditional flash drawing of a dagger with a red rose at its base, with green leaves, small pink flowers and a red star on the hilt.
Dagger and rose flash design
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design with a pocket watch, roses and script lettering, in a neo-traditional style.
Pocket watch and roses pencil design
Black and grey flash sheet of Addams Family themed designs, including a kissing couple in a heart, a young woman's face, a candelabra, a vintage car and a spider web.
Addams Family flash sheet in black and grey
Mint green painted wooden hand mannequin decorated with a traditional style rose, anchor, heart and banner design.
Painted wooden hand with traditional designs
Black and white line drawing of a compass star inside a circle, with roses and thorny vines, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Compass star with roses and thorny vines
Purple pencil sketch of crossed scissors, a comb and two roses wrapped in a ribbon, drawn as a neo-traditional tattoo design.
Scissors, comb and roses design
Coloured flash sheet showing a blue TARDIS with a rose, a Dalek with an EXTERMINATE banner, a grey weeping angel and a sonic screwdriver, drawn with bold outlines.
TARDIS, Dalek and weeping angel flash sheet
Pencil and watercolour style drawing of an anchor wrapped in rope, with pink roses, a teal jewel-like shape and a small bird perched on the crossbar.
Anchor with roses and a songbird