Sea creature tattoo ideas

181 photos and flash · 19% Dotwork, 13% Fine line · Forearm most common

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Teal jellyfish tattoo with soft watercolour-style shading and trailing tentacles on the upper arm of a woman in a red lace top.
Teal jellyfish on an upper arm
Colourful watercolour-style tattoo of a blue and purple whale with splash strokes on the upper arm of a woman in a grey vest top.
Blue and purple whale on upper arm
Colour traditional-style tattoo of a red octopus with grey shading and a yellow eye, wrapping across the upper arm of a man in a blue vest top.
Red octopus tattoo on upper arm
Black linework octopus tattoo with curling tentacles and suckers across a flexed upper arm, shown in profile against a pale background.
Octopus tattoo on upper arm
Black and grey realism style octopus tattoo with curling tentacles spreading across a person's back and over the shoulder and upper arm.
Octopus tattoo across a back and shoulder
Black and grey realism tattoo of the bearded sea god Poseidon with a trident and a sea creature on the upper arm, shown in three views.
Poseidon portrait with trident on upper arm
Black and grey vintage engraved octopus tattoo on the upper arm of a woman with blonde hair and a white lace top.
Vintage octopus on upper arm
Colour tattoo of a blue octopus with a yellow eye and orange-tinged tentacles and suckers across an upper arm.
Blue octopus wrapped around an upper arm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a humpback whale on the upper arm, with the arm raised and flexed.
Whale on an upper arm
Black and grey jellyfish tattoo with stippled bell and long trailing tentacles, shown on the upper arm near the shoulder.
Jellyfish on the upper arm
Black and grey dotwork and realism tattoo of an owl, jellyfish and spiral forms with dotted geometric lines across a person's back and upper arm.
Owl and sea creatures across back and arm
Traditional style colour tattoo of a blue-spotted stingray with orange ringed spots and black outlines, on the upper arm.
Blue-spotted stingray on an arm
Two people shown from behind with colour octopus tattoos covering their full arm sleeves, from shoulder to wrist, in teal, green and purple.
Octopus full sleeves on two arms
Purple octopus tattoo with green suckers and a yellow eye, wrapping across the upper arm in a neo-traditional style.
Purple octopus on an upper arm
Colour tattoos of SpongeBob SquarePants, Patrick Star and Plankton across a chest and upper arm, with a black and grey floral tattoo on the other shoulder.
SpongeBob and friends on chest and arm
Dotwork octopus tattoo with curling tentacles on an upper arm, set against green and pink wash shading and a scattering of dots.
Octopus tentacles on an upper arm
Three arms shown side by side, each with a black and grey octopus and squid sleeve in a dotwork engraved style, running from the upper arm to the forearm.
Octopus and squid sleeve across three arms
Colour tattoo of a purple and green octopus with curling tentacles on the upper arm and shoulder of a person holding a camera.
Purple and green octopus on shoulder
Large black and grey Japanese style blackwork octopus tattoo spreading across a person's back and upper arm, with scaled skin and sucker detail on the tentacles.
Octopus tattoo across a back
Black and grey realism tattoo of an octopus with curling tentacles across the upper arm and top of the shoulder.
Octopus tattoo on upper arm
Black ink squid with swirling tentacles covering the outer upper arm, drawn in fine line with hatched shading.
Squid and tentacles on an upper arm
Black and grey engraved-style tattoo of an anglerfish on the upper arm, with a skeleton curled inside its body.
Anglerfish with skeleton on upper arm
Black and grey blackwork jellyfish tattoo with dotted bell and long trailing tentacles on the upper arm.
Jellyfish tattoo on upper arm
Black and grey blackwork octopus tattoo with curling tentacles wrapping around the upper arm.
Octopus tattoo wrapping upper arm
Black and grey realistic octopus tentacles and eye tattoo wrapping across an upper arm and onto the shoulder.
Octopus tentacles and eye on an upper arm
Fine line jellyfish tattoo in dark blue ink with dotted, trailing tentacles on the upper arm of a person in a white t-shirt.
Jellyfish tattoo on upper arm
Traditional style tattoo of a shark with ornate red, yellow and teal patterns across its body, on the upper arm.
Ornate shark tattoo on upper arm