Shell tattoo ideas

264 photos and flash · 18% Fine line, 15% Neo-trad · Forearm most common

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Black and grey tattoo design drawing of an eye inside an ornate triangle, with a fan shell and dotted chains below, in a dotwork and geometric style.
Eye in triangle with shell and dotted chains
Coloured pencil drawing of a blue turtle creature with a brown shell peering over a grey anchor inside a rope frame, with blue water swirls above, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Blue turtle creature on an anchor and rope
Line drawing of a stylised turtle design in brown ink, with a patterned shell of four teardrop shapes and spiral flippers.
Stylised turtle design with spiral flippers
Pencil sketch of a mermaid with long flowing hair and a scalloped shell tail, drawn on a sketchbook page, suitable as a fine line tattoo design.
Mermaid with shell tail sketch
Coloured pencil drawing of an open shell holding a pearl, shaded in purple, pink and teal, with pencil ribbon swirls around it, as a tattoo design.
Open shell with pearl and swirling ribbons
Black tribal-style sea turtle design with bold solid shapes, swirling motifs and patterned flippers on a white background.
Tribal sea turtle design
Black and grey pencil-style flash drawing of a mermaid on a rock inside an oval rope frame, with a shell motif and the year 1989 at the top.
Mermaid in a rope frame with 1989
Black and white stencil style drawing of the Pokémon Squirtle with a solid black shell, swirled tail and floating bubbles, shown as a design with no body placement.
Squirtle line art design in black ink
Black tribal-style sea turtle tattoo design with a spiral shell and patterned flippers, shown as a drawing with no body placement.
Polynesian-style sea turtle design
Nine black silhouette designs on white tiles showing a starfish, scallop shell, fish, seahorse, crab, jellyfish, shell, sea turtle and coral.
Sea creature silhouette design sheet
Sheet of gold and silver metallic temporary tattoo designs, including shells, arrows, chain bands, waves and fern fronds.
Gold and silver metallic tattoo design sheet
Black ink and pencil drawing of a snail with an ornate patterned shell beside geometric crystals and scrolling swirls, a neo-traditional tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Snail and crystals tattoo design
Black and grey dotwork tattoo design of an ornate scallop shell with a central oval gem, drawn on pale paper.
Ornate scallop shell design
Black tribal-style sea turtle design with a spiral head, patterned shell and stylised flippers, shown as a line drawing on a white background.
Polynesian-style sea turtle design
White sea turtle silhouette with a sand dollar inside its shell on a black background, shown as a design with no body placement.
Sea turtle with sand dollar design
Blue pencil sketch of a mermaid with shells in her hair, a starfish, bubbles, waves and a fish, drawn in a neo-traditional style on cream paper.
Mermaid with shells and fish sketch
Coloured illustration of a skeletal mermaid with a skull, flowing hair and fishbone tail, holding an open shell with a pearl, drawn as a tattoo design.
Skeletal mermaid holding a shell
Painted design of a skeletal mermaid with a fishbone tail, holding a shell with a pearl, shown on a white background with no body placement visible.
Skeletal mermaid holding a shell
Black and white cartoon sea turtle tattoo design with large round eyes, a spotted head and shell, and flipper outlines, shown as a bold stencil-style drawing.
Cartoon sea turtle line drawing
Black silhouette design of five sea turtles swimming diagonally, decreasing in size from top left to bottom right, with scale-patterned shells and outlined flippers.
Five sea turtles swimming in a diagonal line
Four hand-drawn sea turtle designs stacked vertically on white, each with spiral flippers and a petal-patterned shell, in green and one brown line drawing.
Four sea turtle designs with spiral flippers
Black and grey traditional flash line drawing of a mermaid holding a baby with a flower, seated on a wooden-beamed anchor with rope, shown without a body placement.
Mermaid and baby on an anchor