Sketch tattoo ideas

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Pencil sketch on paper of the word Always in cursive script, with a Deathly Hallows triangle-circle-line symbol before it and a lightning bolt after it, drawn as a tattoo design.
Always lettering with Deathly Hallows symbol
Pencil sketch of an ornate key with the word Honesty in cursive script across its shaft, drawn on paper as a tattoo design.
Honesty key pencil sketch
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design with a battered helmet, a rose and leaves in black and grey shading, with lettering across the top.
Helmet, rose and lettering design
Pencil sketch on lined paper of a plain outlined cross with the words Philippians and 4:13 in script lettering, drawn as a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Philippians 4:13 script and cross sketch
Pencil sketch of a heart with the word Love in flowing script lettering, drawn on tracing paper beside a black marker.
Love script heart design sketch
Black ink pen sketch of stylised cursive script lettering on cream paper, drawn as a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Hand-drawn script lettering sketch
Pencil sketch of the word Faith in flowing script lettering with decorative swirls, drawn as a tattoo design on textured paper.
Faith script lettering with flourishes
Ink drawing of an ornate lettering design with curling leaf flourishes and dot shading, drawn on cream paper beside a fine liner pen.
Ornate lettering sketch with flourishes
Pencil sketch of the words Family First in flowing script lettering on pale paper, shown on a wooden table beside an eraser and a pen.
Family First script lettering sketch
Pencil and ink flash sheet showing rat silhouettes with ornate key tails and Mind the Gap lettering, drawn without any body placement shown.
Rat and key designs with Mind the Gap script
Pen and ink drawing of an ornate, flourished letter with scroll details on paper, with a faint pencil sketch of another letter behind it.
Ornate lettering sketch of a flourished letter
Three pencil sketches of the word Vegan in script lettering, decorated with leaves, a small heart and swirls, drawn on torn paper.
Vegan script lettering sketches with leaves
Pencil drawing of a face with smeared dark eye makeup and a red grinning mouth, above the script words Love is a Joke, with coloured pencils and pens around it.
Joker face sketch with Love is a Joke lettering
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design with a pocket watch, roses and script lettering, in a neo-traditional style.
Pocket watch and roses pencil design
Pencil sketch of an open hand with the words Promise, love, PROVOKE, DIRECTION and Good Luck written around the fingers, shown as a tattoo design idea.
Hand sketch with word designs
Pen sketch of a tattoo design showing a safety pin with a bow and two lettered ribbons, drawn on paper with no body part visible.
Safety pin and bow with lettered ribbons
Hand-drawn ornate script lettering reading New York with fine line flourishes on white paper, sketched in progress with a pen.
New York ornate script lettering design
Pencil sketch of the words Stay a little longer in flowing script lettering with swirled flourishes, drawn on paper beside a stencil and an eraser.
Stay a little longer script lettering sketch
Black and grey italic script tattoo on a man's forearm, reading 'to thine own self be' with the end cut off by the frame, above a sketched line motif.
Script quote tattoo on a forearm
Pencil sketch flash design of a woman with long flowing hair embracing herself, framed by script lettering and floral flourishes, shown without a body placement.
Woman with script lettering design
Black fine-line script lettering and a dragon sketch tattooed along a forearm, with a second small dragon outline near the wrist.
Script quote with dragon sketch on a forearm
Pen sketch of a tattoo design showing a hand rising from ripples with a banner reading DON'T LET ME DROWN, in black and grey linework.
Hand rising from water with banner
Pencil sketch of two crossed arrows with the words BE, AND, STILL and KNOW set around the crossing point, a lettering-led tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Crossed arrows with 'Be still and know' lettering
Hand-drawn pencil sketch of the words Once upon a time in ornate script with swirling flourishes, a lettering design for a tattoo.
Once upon a time lettering sketch
Pencil sketch of an interlocking script monogram in black and grey, drawn as a lettering design for a tattoo.
Interlocking script monogram sketch
Black and grey pencil design of symmetrical blackletter-style lettering with four wolf heads and flowing ornamental lines, drawn as a flash design for a tattoo.
Symmetrical blackletter lettering with four wolf heads
Pen sketch of a head and shoulders in profile outline, with the words We're all stories in the end, Just make it a good one, eh? lettered inside the shape in a hand-drawn script.
Profile outline with lettered quote
Sketchy black linework winged bird with a red heart and red and black lettering tattooed along the side of a ribcage.
Winged bird and lettering on ribs
Hand-drawn ornate letterform in red fineliner with scrolls, filigree and hatched shading, a design suited to lettering-style tattoos.
Ornate red ink lettering sketch
Hand-drawn script lettering design reading Mind on my money, money on my mind, in black ink on cream paper, being traced by a hand holding a pen.
Script lettering sketch on paper
Hand-drawn black ink lettering sheet of the numbers 0 to 9, an exclamation mark and an ampersand, in a decorative lettering style suitable as tattoo flash.
Hand-drawn numerals and symbols sheet
Pen sketch of the words Who I am today is worse than other times in mixed lettering styles, with no body part visible.
Hand-drawn lettering sketch of a quote
Coloured pencil drawing of a clenched fist with red nails and a lettering design reading 'be kind to yourself' with a small heart on the wrist, in a lettering style.
Fist with 'be kind to yourself' wrist design
Pencil sketch of a large number five with swirling filigree ornaments and the word Thirty in script lettering above it, beside a green pencil.
Thirty script and ornate number five sketch
Black ink sketch of a mountain range above the script words "the mountains are calling", shown as a flash design on a white background with no body placement visible.
Mountain sketch with script quote
Graphite sketch of two lilies, a butterfly and swirling lines with the word Love in script, drawn as a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Lilies, butterfly and Love script design
Black and grey mandala tattoo with script lettering on a forearm, shown alongside a pencil sketch of the design and a second mandala tattoo on another pair of wrists.
Mandala with script on forearms
Pencil sketch of the words John 3:16 in flowing script lettering on squared graph paper, drawn as a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
John 3:16 script lettering sketch
Black ink sketch of a tree above the handwritten words I climbed the tree to see the world on a forearm.
Tree and quote on the inner forearm
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design showing an arrow running diagonally through a flame-like shape, with the words hope and fear in script across the shaft.
Arrow with hope and fear script sketch
Pencil sketch of the Batman bat symbol with the word BATMAN in block lettering, shaded with hatching and cracked details, shown as a design with no body placement.
Batman logo pencil sketch
Three stacked panels of ornate hand-lettered design: a pen-and-ink sketch of the words Black Magic on paper, a blurred close-up of white and red outlined letters on black, and a close-up of
Black Magic ornate lettering design
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design showing a curved heart outline with the words Beautifully Wonderfully Made in handwritten script and Psalm 139:14 beside it, with no body placement shown.
Pencil sketch of a heart with scripture lettering
Set of pencil lettering sketches for a tattoo design with decorative block and script letters, shaded ribbon banner and flourishes, shown without a body placement.
Lettering sketches with ribbon banner and flourishes