Skull tattoo ideas

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Traditional-style flash design of a pink sugar skull with heart-shaped eyes, a pink bow, red roses and a cobweb pattern, with no body placement shown.
Pink sugar skull with bow and roses
Pencil drawing of a human skull seen from the front, with fine hatched shading on white paper, as a tattoo design sketch.
Realistic skull drawing in pencil
Pink flash sheet of black and pink horror designs including a skeleton, werewolf head, coffin, raven, snake, bats, eyes and a severed hand.
Horror flash sheet with skeleton and werewolf
Gold line drawing of a sugar skull bride with heart-shaped eyes, a crown of roses and flowers, and the word BRIDE beneath, as a flash design.
Sugar skull bride with rose crown
Coloured drawing of a grey sugar skull with a purple diamond, purple roses, olive leaves and small flowers on a grey paper background, shown as a tattoo design.
Sugar skull with purple roses
Traditional flash design of a skull, dice, brass knuckles and playing cards with an ace of spades, under a banner reading Old School Of Hate.
Old school cards, skull and dice flash
Black and grey pencil drawing of a Japanese-style skull with peony flowers and swirling wave motifs, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Skull and peonies in a Japanese design
Black and grey pencil drawing of a human skull with a death's head moth on its crown and a rose at its base, shown as a tattoo design on white.
Skull, death's head moth and rose design
Flash design of three sugar skull pin-up heads with skeletal hands over their eyes, ears and mouth, on a ribbon banner reading Beauty, Truth and Love.
Three sugar skulls with Beauty, Truth and Love banner
Pen and ink sketch of a human skull drawn with dense cross-hatching on cream paper, beside a black mechanical pencil.
Cross-hatched ink skull sketch
Black and gold flash design of a skull in a pharaoh headdress holding crossed bones, with scythes and an eye inside a triangle, shown without a placement on the body.
Skull pharaoh with scythes and crossed bones
A grid of twelve flat, outlined flash designs in blue, red, green and light blue, including a snake and dagger, a MOM heart, a skull, a ship and a diamond.
Grid of twelve flat flash designs
Black and grey pen and wash drawing of a cracked skull with a gaping jaw and jagged teeth, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Cracked skull with jagged teeth
Black ink line drawing of a skull built from poppies, orchids, carnations and small star flowers, shown as a design with no body placement.
Floral skull line drawing
Three traditional-style stickers on a grey surface: a skull with red and blue flowers, a pointing hand with flowers, and a pill bottle, each with text on a banner.
Three traditional flash designs with banner text
Black ink drawing of a traditional-style sleeve tattoo design on paper, with a skull, sun, nautical star, compass rose and playing cards, shown as an elongated arm-shaped outline.
Sleeve design with skull, sun and nautical star
Black line drawing of a sugar skull with round Mickey Mouse ears on a cream background, decorated with ornate scrollwork across the face.
Mickey Mouse sugar skull design
Four hand-shaped forms display tattoo designs: a praying figure with rays, a horned devil, a geometric pattern and a skull in a feathered headdress.
Four tattoo designs printed on hand forms
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
Pair of white gloves painted with traditional style tattoo designs, including a swallow, a skull, an anchor, a horseshoe and a cross.
Traditional tattoo designs painted on white gloves
Pencil and ink sketch of a hairless sphynx cat above a skull, framed by geometric linework and dotwork, drawn on paper.
Sphynx cat and skull design sketch
Blue line drawing of two sleeve designs in a neo-traditional style, showing a skull, a dragon, a rose, flames, a bird, a tattoo machine and the words Love and Hate.
Dragon and skull sleeve flash sheet
Flash design of a red and black skull with lightning-bolt eyes above the words SEMPRE OLTRE, beside a black cat with red eyes above the words LA NOTTE È LUNGA, in a traditional style.
Skull and black cat flash with Italian lettering
Black and grey flash sheet of nine traditional-style tattoo designs, including a rose with a banner, a skull with crossed shovels, a boombox and two bold character heads.
Black and grey traditional flash sheet
Black ink drawing of a sugar skull with triangle motifs in the eye sockets, framed by detailed flowers and leaves, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Sugar skull surrounded by flowers
Traditional flash sheet of tattoo designs in bold colour, including a skull with crossbones, a hand with flowers, a snake and heart, mushrooms and a frog.
Traditional flash sheet with skull, hand and snakes
Black and grey traditional style flash sheet showing a shield with three horses and an eagle at the top, with a swallow, key, dagger, rose, skull, bicycle and other small designs below.
Traditional flash sheet with horses, eagle and dagger
Flash-style drawing of a flaming skull wearing a vest top above a banner reading LOOKS LIKE SHIT, in red and navy line work with a small star below.
Flaming skull in a tank top with banner
Black and grey flash design of a woman in profile with long hair flowing into a vintage car, surrounded by roses, with no body placement shown.
Woman's profile with roses and a vintage car
Black and grey sketch design of a winged bird skull with five spears above and below, drawn on a white background with no body placement shown.
Winged skull with spears design
Black and white line drawing of a horned skull wearing a rose and leaves in flowing hair, with a ribbon banner, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Horned skull with rose and flowing hair
Black ink drawing of a death's-head moth with skull patterns on its wings, set against red geometric lines and a single eye on its body.
Death's-head moth with skulls and red geometry
Grey stencil design of a skull and crossbones on a waving pirate flag, with no body placement shown.
Skull and crossbones pirate flag stencil
Black and grey realistic design of a cracked skull with a rose at its right side, set against a clock face with Roman numerals.
Skull and rose within a clock face
Black and grey drawing of a coiled, scaled dragon with fin-like crest and clawed feet, shown as a tattoo design on white paper.
Black and grey coiled dragon design
Flash-style design of a white skull in a headwrap with an earring over crossed bones, with a small red swallow, on a black background.
Skull, crossed bones and swallow design
Four white filigree skull designs with floral and scroll patterns on a black background, with a spade motif at the centre and an ornate border.
Four ornate skull designs with a spade
Black and grey pencil drawing of a horned skull with octopus tentacles coiling across aged, cream-coloured paper.
Skull and tentacles design on aged paper
Black ink dotwork drawing of a bird skull beside a flowering branch and a feather, a tattoo design sheet with no body placement shown.
Bird skull, blossom branch and feather design
Line drawing of a sugar skull with a pompadour hairstyle, a cigarette in its mouth and a scrolled banner, in yellow and orange tones on a gradient background.
Sugar skull with pompadour and cigarette
Four black and grey traditional moth designs drawn on a sheet, one with a skull on its body and a crescent moon above it.
Four traditional moth designs on flash sheet
Pencil drawing of a woman with closed eyes and long flowing hair holding a skull, surrounded by ribs, a spine and bones, with a soft yellow glow behind her.
Woman with skull and bones design
Black and grey pencil drawing of a woman with sugar skull face paint, pin-up and skull motifs, and a corset, shown as a neo-traditional tattoo design.
Sugar skull pin-up figure drawing
Black ink drawing of a skull with two bats and draped pearl chains set with dark gems, shown as a tattoo design on grey paper.
Skull with bats and pearl chains
Black and white line drawing of three skulls with skeletal hands covering eyes, ears and mouth, above the words Snitches Are A Dying Breed, shown as a flash design.
Three skulls with skeletal hands and slogan
Black and grey pencil drawing of a tattoo design showing a woman's face framed by roses, with a skull and thorned stems below, in a realistic style.
Woman, roses and skull pencil design
Black and grey ink drawing of a longhorn bull skull with an ornate filigree pattern on the forehead, flanked by two roses and hanging feathers.
Bull skull with roses and feathers
Black linework flash design of a woman with flowers in her hair, a hand at her face, paintbrushes and a skull with an all-seeing eye, in botanical style.
Woman with brushes, skull and eye design