Shark tattoo ideas

92 photos and flash · 27% Traditional, 21% Realism · Forearm most common

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Four white Valentine's cards each show a taped-on traditional-style tattoo flash design: an anchor, a shark head, a swallow and a heart with a flame, with no body part visible.
Traditional flash designs on Valentine's cards
Traditional style flash sheet of many small coloured tattoo designs, including hearts, roses, daggers, pin-ups and animals, all lettered with True Love and framed by TATTOO at the top and bottom.
True Love traditional flash sheet
Five views of a colourful traditional style full sleeve tattoo on an arm, showing a mermaid, a shark, sailing ships, a castle and fish in a sea scene.
Under-the-sea full sleeve tattoo
Traditional style tattoo of a grey cartoon shark wearing a brown cowboy hat, with HOWDY repeated in an arc above it, on a lower leg.
Cartoon shark in a cowboy hat with Howdy lettering
Traditional style colour tattoo of a cartoon shark standing with arms raised, with a red splash behind it, on a lower leg.
Cartoon shark standing with arms raised
Two legs raised against a pale wall, covered in traditional-style tattoos of a shark, roses and a clock on the thigh and calf, with white high-top trainers.
Traditional leg sleeve with shark and roses
Full arm sleeve in traditional style with a sailing ship, shark, swallow, pin-up and roses scattered with small stars, shown in three photographs on the upper arm and forearm.
Traditional nautical full arm sleeve
Colour tattoo of a cartoon shark wearing a top hat and monocle, with blue waves, on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Cartoon shark in top hat and monocle on upper back
A traditional flash sheet printed in cream on navy blue, showing a sheet of tattoo designs including a skull eagle crest, pistols, roses, a shark, a snake and a woman's bust.
Traditional flash sheet in cream on navy
Traditional style tattoo of a blue shark with bared teeth biting a diver's yellow flipper, with red blood splashes, on skin.
Shark biting a diver's fin
Colour traditional-style tattoo of a grinning cartoon shark with a purple banner reading SHART, on a limb with a partly visible line-art tattoo at the lower left.
Cartoon shark with SHART banner
Traditional colour tattoo of a grinning shark in a top hat and tuxedo, inside a rope-edged circle on a red background, shown on skin.
Shark in top hat and tuxedo
Traditional colour tattoo of a shark filled with mandala-style ornaments, shown on the side of the body beside a white line stencil of the same design.
Ornamental shark on the side of the body
Traditional style flash drawing of a shark wearing a top hat, monocle and tailcoat inside a rope border, with no body placement shown.
Shark in top hat and tailcoat in a rope frame
Two close-up photos of a traditional style shark tattoo with open jaws and a skull wearing a top hat, on a leg.
Shark and top hat skull tattoo
Flash sheet of 30 small tattoo designs in Japanese style, pairing kanji characters with animals, flowers and symbols such as a rose, tiger, koi carp and dragon, each with an English label.
Kanji and animal tattoo flash sheet
Traditional colour tattoo of a shark's open mouth framing a palm tree, red sunset and sea, on a calf.
Shark mouth with beach sunset on a calf
Black and grey Japanese style tattoo of a shark with an anchor and rope amid curling waves, covering a person's upper arm and shoulder.
Shark, anchor and waves on upper arm
Traditional style full sleeve tattoo on an upper arm and forearm, with a ship, swallows, a shark, a pin-up and banner lettering, shown in three photographs.
Traditional sailor full sleeve in three views
Traditional colour tattoo of a dark shark wrapped around a ship's wheel with a pink rose and green leaves, on the side of the body.
Shark and ship's wheel with rose
Coloured flash design of a thorny vine with shark heads in place of flowers, drawn in a traditional style with bold black linework, shown on a cream background with no body placement.
Shark-headed flowers on a thorned vine
Traditional style shark tattoo in orange, red and black ink on a calf, with a fishing bobber hanging from a line.
Traditional shark with fishing bobber on calf
Traditional-style colour tattoo covering a man's chest and stomach, with a sailing ship, a skull in a cap, a lighthouse, a parrot and a shark.
Sailing ship and skull torso piece
Traditional style flash sheet of repeating tattoo designs, including daggers through skulls, swallows, pin-up women, hearts, roses and a scorpion, on a tan background.
Traditional flash sheet with skulls, hearts and pin-ups
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