Shield tattoo ideas

155 photos and flash · 28% Traditional, 22% Realism · Forearm most common

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Hand-drawn Hufflepuff house crest design in yellow, black and grey, with a badger over a striped shield and a blackletter banner reading Hufflepuff.
Hufflepuff crest with badger and banner
Colourful neo-traditional style tattoo on a forearm showing the cartoon characters Link with a shield and sword and Zelda, with a triforce and ivy in a stained-glass style circle.
Link and Zelda forearm piece with triforce
Black and grey tattoo of a shaded rose inside a shield-shaped banner with numerals, on the back of a hand.
Rose and numbered banner on the hand
Shaded drawing of a shield crest topped with a Spartan-style helmet, framed by scrollwork and leaves, with a blue band across the shield, shown as a tattoo design.
Crest with helmet and blue stripe
Colour tattoo of the Superman shield logo in red and yellow with black outlines, appearing to tear through the skin.
Superman shield tattoo with torn skin effect
Neo-traditional flash design of a pair of spread wings framing a unicorn head, two roses, a key and crossed swords, in teal and cream.
Winged unicorn, rose and sword design
Two colour tattoos on an upper arm: a blue and black teacup with roses and symbols beneath it, and a realistic frog on a blue and gold gothic shield.
Teacup and frog tattoos on an arm
Traditional style flash design of Captain America in profile with a spread-wing eagle, crossed anchors, American flags and a Forever Young banner, in colour.
Captain America eagle and anchor flash
Colour tattoo of Finn riding Jake from Adventure Time, with Finn raising a sword above a red banner reading MATHEMATICAL, on the thigh.
Finn and Jake riding with a banner on thigh
Neo-traditional tattoo of a grey snake coiled in a green shield crest with scrollwork, on the upper thigh.
Green snake in a shield crest on a thigh
Colour tattoo of a blue-hilted sword and a grey shield with a red crest and gold triangle on a forearm, in a neo-traditional style.
Sword and shield tattoo on a forearm
Neo-traditional colour tattoo of a pink-iced cupcake on a shield, crossed with a whisk and rolling pin, under a chef's hat on a large limb.
Cupcake and chef's hat shield on a thigh
Two pencil flash designs on translucent paper: a cat above an ornate shield with a rose and flowers, and a filigree heart locket with a key and ribbon, in a neo-traditional style.
Cat with rose and heart locket with key
Colour tattoo of superhero emblems, including Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, shown torn through skin from thigh to ankle in a neo-traditional style.
Torn skin superhero emblems down a leg