Skull tattoo ideas

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Black and grey pencil drawing of a woman with closed eyes wearing a wolf head, flanked by two roses and a skull within an ornate frame.
Woman with wolf headdress, roses and skull
Black and grey drawing of a sugar skull flanked by roses, with an ornate heart and lotus, shown as a neo-traditional tattoo design on paper.
Sugar skull with roses and heart design
Black and grey pen drawing of a sailing ship in a storm inside an ornate banner, with a lantern above, a compass and skull below and a quote on the scroll.
Ship in storm within ornate banner design
Six black and white line drawings of ornate sugar skulls with floral, rose and heart patterns on a mint green background, shown as tattoo flash designs.
Six sugar skull designs on mint green
Pencil and red ink sketch of a skull with a rose in its open jaw and leaves below, drawn as a tattoo design on paper with no body part shown.
Skull and rose design sketch
Black line drawing of a sugar skull face with a diamond on the forehead, a lily in flowing hair, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Sugar skull woman with lily, line drawing
Monochrome lettering design shaped as a skull, reading Beautiful Disaster and Sinner Saint, shown as a flash-style artwork with no body placement.
Lettering skull design in white on black
Coloured flash design of a green skull-faced woman with purple hair, roses, foliage and crossed bones, drawn on paper.
Skull-faced woman with roses and crossed bones
Flash design of a teal sugar skull with purple linework, dot details and red roses with thorny vines, in a neo-traditional style.
Teal sugar skull with red roses
Black and grey line drawing of a skull framed by fern-like foliage and a beaded arc above, with the word Virgo and a short poem beneath, shown as a botanical tattoo design.
Skull and foliage Virgo design
Traditional flash drawing of a horned pin-up devil woman holding a pistol, with a "NEVER FEEL SORRY" banner, a red skull and crossbones, and a red devil tail.
Pin-up devil with gun and banners
Black and grey drawing of two skulls, roses and an all-seeing eye in a triangle, shaded in neo-traditional style on paper.
Skulls, roses and all-seeing eye design
Three black line drawing flash designs on paper: a lipstick with a bow, a skull and crossbones with a spider web, and a heart containing a lipstick.
Lipstick and heart flash designs
Traditional style flash design of a skull pierced by a dagger, with a snake coiled around it and the words MAKE OR DIE beside it, drawn in black and mustard with halftone shading.
Skull, dagger and snake flash design
Flash-style drawing of a sugar skull face on a matryoshka doll body, with red roses, a cross and a diamond on a black background.
Sugar skull matryoshka doll design
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design showing a woman's face split down the middle, with one side as a realistic eye and the other as a decorated sugar skull with scrollwork.
Half woman, half sugar skull portrait
Black ink drawing of a mermaid skeleton with long flowing hair, swimming beside two fish skeletons, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Skeletal mermaid with fish skeletons
Black and grey drawing of an owl with a sugar skull beneath it, decorated with diamonds and small flowers, shown as a neo-traditional tattoo design on paper.
Owl and sugar skull flash design
Flash design of a cream skull with a pentagram on its forehead, framed by red ribbon banners reading Salt and Burn, in a traditional illustrative style.
Skull with pentagram and Salt & Burn banner
Monochrome line drawing of a skull with a crescent moon, two halved moon faces with eyes, sunburst rays and the words BRING ME NIGHT on a cream background.
Skull, crescent moon and split moon faces
Traditional flash collage showing a purple skull with a LOVE KILLS SLOWLY banner, pin-up women, a koi fish, a mermaid, a dragon head and roses.
Traditional flash collage with skull and pin-ups
Black and grey pencil drawing of a woman with long hair and flowers, holding a skull, with a wolf on each side, shown as a tattoo design.
Woman with skull and two wolves design
Black and grey drawing of a skeleton pirate in a tricorn hat with a skull and crossbones, holding a lantern and a dagger in its teeth, with a ship's mast behind.
Skeleton pirate with lantern and dagger
Black ink drawing of three human skulls stacked on top of each other in front of an open-sided coffin outline, shown in cream on a black background.
Stacked skulls on a coffin drawing
Black and white flash design of a skull pierced by a dagger, with the words MISTAKES WERE MADE beneath, suitable as a tattoo design.
Skull pierced by a dagger with lettering
Drawn tattoo design of a shaded grey skull with two red roses and green leaves, with red drips running down the left side, on a tan background.
Skull with red roses and dripping blood
Black linework and purple wash drawing of a skull combined with a hummingbird, flower and feathers, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Skull, hummingbird and flower design
Flash sheet of small solid black tattoo designs including a swallow, clover, heart, rose, skull, cat, anchor and unicorn head, arranged in rows on a white background.
Black tattoo flash sheet of small icons
Line drawing design of a horned human skull above a snarling wolf skull, with bones and crescent shapes, in navy ink with gold speckles on a cream background.
Horned skull over wolf skull design
Coloured drawing of a ram skull with grey horns, a red gemstone eye set in pearls, red roses and leaves, and an orange sun behind, in a neo-traditional style.
Ram skull with roses and a rising sun
Black and white pen and ink drawing of a grinning skull wearing an ornate crown, rendered with dense hatching as a flash design.
Skull wearing a crown in pen and ink
Two drawn sugar skulls, one wearing a top hat and one with roses and a veil, above the words till and death, in a traditional flash design.
Twin sugar skulls with 'till death' lettering
Black and grey tattoo design drawing of a skull wearing a feather headdress, with an eye motif on the forehead band and a stippled, engraved finish.
Skull in feather headdress flash design
Pencil sketch design of a woman in a feathered headdress with a large peony flower and a skull, drawn as a tattoo design.
Feathered headdress woman with peony sketch
Black ink drawing of a deer skull with large branching antlers on a pale beige textured background.
Deer skull with antlers drawing
Colourful sugar skull design with red roses in the eye sockets, a cross on the forehead and flowers above, drawn in a bold traditional style on a black background.
Sugar skull with roses and flowers
Black and grey dotwork drawing of a white-haired figure with a halo, eyes in the palms, beaded necklaces and two skulls at the base, on a grey background.
Hooded figure with skulls and dotwork shading
Greyscale pencil drawing of a skull wearing a feathered headdress, shown in profile on a white background, suitable as a tattoo design.
Skull in feathered headdress drawing
Flash sheet of six cartoon tattoo designs in a bold neo-traditional style, each with a slogan banner, including a lemon, a game console and a flame figure.
Six cartoon character tattoo designs on banners
Black and grey flash design of a skeletal mermaid holding a skull and a flower, with dotwork sunburst rays and stippled waves inside an oval frame.
Skeletal mermaid with skull and sunburst
Black and grey flash sleeve design with orange pumpkins, a green sack-like character, a skull and crossbones and a yellow full moon.
Halloween sleeve design with pumpkins and skull
Black and grey illustration of a wolf head above a skull wearing a feather headdress, with a column of vertebrae below, drawn as a tattoo design.
Wolf and skull with feather headdress
Monochrome drawing of a woman whose face is half skull, with a long side braid, a bow at the collar and a lace-trimmed blouse, shown as a tattoo design.
Skull-faced woman with braid and bow
Black ink drawing of two spindly, spiked figures with a crossed-bones motif and a single red drop between them, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Twin spiky figures with crossed bones and red drop
Black ink flash sheet with six traditional-style designs: a crescent moon with clouds, a rose with a banner, a dagger with a banner, a silhouette and skull, a sun with a banner, and a heart inside a
Six black ink flash designs on a sheet
Pencil drawing of a sugar skull tattoo design with roses, a diamond on the forehead and decorative swirls, shown without a body placement.
Sugar skull with roses flash design
Black and grey pencil drawing of a dragon with spread wings coiled around a shaded human skull, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Dragon wrapped around a skull
Black and grey flash design of a grinning skull with tall flames rising above it and two revolvers crossed beneath the jaw.
Skull with flames and crossed revolvers