Serpent tattoo ideas

164 photos and flash · 14% Blackwork, 14% Japanese · Forearm most common

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Close-up of a Japanese style tattoo on a back and upper arm, showing a red and yellow serpent with a dark scaled head and orange eye among black and grey waves.
Japanese serpent and waves across back and arm
Colour tattoo of a green sea serpent with red eyes and teeth inside a block letter F, framed by blue waves on a red background.
Green sea serpent in a block letter F
Full-colour Japanese-style dragon design in blue and orange with orange flame-like fins, coiled and clawed, shown on a white background.
Coiled dragon design in blue and orange
Full arm sleeve tattoo in Japanese style showing a blue-green scaled serpent, red flames and dragon heads, shown from three angles.
Full sleeve with dragons and serpent in Japanese style
Three side-by-side views of a colour tattoo of a green eastern dragon with red eyes and gold accents coiling around a calf, Japanese style.
Green eastern dragon wrapped around a calf
Black and grey dragon with red flame swirls tattooed down the side of a torso and hip, in Japanese style.
Dragon with red flames on the side
Black and grey Japanese style chrysanthemums and a serpent tattooed across the back and legs of a woman lying face down on a treatment bed.
Chrysanthemums and serpent across legs and back
Black and grey back tattoo in a Japanese style, with a central lotus flower, a moth, a serpent and swirling clouds across the full back.
Full back piece with lotus and moth
Woman in a white mesh bikini showing a black Japanese-style dragon tattoo that wraps from her hip down onto her thigh.
Black dragon tattoo across hip and thigh
Large Japanese-style back tattoo of a geisha with pink flowers in her hair, a red and green serpent, waves and chrysanthemums, shown across a person's upper back.
Geisha and serpent back piece
Black and grey Japanese style dragon tattoo running down a person's back from the shoulder to the waist.
Black and grey dragon across a back
Full body Japanese style tattoo covering a man's arms, chest, back and legs, with a dragon, cherry blossoms, clouds and waves in bright colour on grey shading.
Full body Japanese bodysuit tattoo
Japanese style colour tattoo of a black cat holding an arrow above a red and teal dragon, shown on a limb in two side by side photos.
Black cat and dragon in Japanese style
Black line-work Japanese-style dragon with cherry blossoms wrapping around the upper arm and shoulder, shown without shading or colour.
Dragon and cherry blossoms on upper arm
Japanese-style drawing of a samurai skull in a helmet, surrounded by a serpent, skulls, white chrysanthemums and red lightning on a dark smoky background, with no body placement shown.
Samurai skull and serpent with chrysanthemums
Japanese style tattoo flash of a red and gold snake coiled among colourful chrysanthemums and black swirling waves.
Snake and chrysanthemums with waves design
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of a horned owl with spread wings and a red dragon, framed by grey clouds, across the left ribs of a torso.
Owl and dragon across the ribs
Colour Japanese-style tattoo of a black spotted cat with a red and grey serpent and a blue dragon head on the side of the torso.
Spotted cat with snake and dragon
Japanese style full back tattoo design in colour, showing a blue oni demon, a dragon head and a scaled serpent with red claws on a torso outline.
Oni and dragon full back design
Full back tattoo of red poppies, pink flowers, black lace and a dragon head in mixed botanical and Japanese style across the upper and lower back.
Poppy, lace and dragon back piece
Black and grey Japanese style snake wrapping around two peony flowers with leaves, tattooed on the outer thigh.
Snake and peonies on a thigh
Black and grey brush-stroke dragon with red accents running up a forearm, in a loose ink wash style.
Brush-stroke dragon on a forearm
Black line drawing of a horned Hannya mask with prayer beads, smoke swirls and a coiled dragon, a Japanese style tattoo flash design.
Hannya mask with horns and prayer beads