Skull tattoo ideas

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Painted tattoo design of a shaded skull framed by blue and purple anemone-style flowers, leaves and grey scrollwork on a pale background.
Skull with blue and purple flowers design
A black and white flash sheet with red accents, showing traditional tattoo designs themed around the number thirteen, including a cat, skull, dagger, heart and eye.
Thirteen themed traditional flash sheet
Black and grey flash design of two mirrored skulls forming a heart, with filigree scrollwork and a small flower beneath, on a plain white background.
Twin skulls forming a heart with floral ornament
Traditional style flash design of a red rose and a black ink sugar skull with green leaves and rainbow lines, drawn on a tan background with no body placement shown.
Sugar skull and rose design on tan background
Illustrated tattoo design of a face split into a woman's side and a skull, with a Roman numeral clock behind the head and a colourful butterfly wing over one eye.
Half skull, half woman with clock face
Flash-style drawing of a skull with pink poppies and teal leaves in bold black linework, shown without any body placement.
Skull with poppies flash design
Black and white skull design with purple and green accents, crown, spade and star motifs, and red teeth outlines, drawn on a black background.
Joker skull with playing card motifs
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
Traditional flash design of a one pint bottle holding two sailing ships, with a banner reading A Sailor's Grave over a skull and crossbones, flanked by red stars and green leaves.
Bottle with ships and a sailor's grave banner
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design with three skulls, roses and three scrolling banners reading See, Hear and Speak no evil, drawn in black and grey shading.
Skulls, roses and no evil banners design
Realistic drawing of a grey skull wrapped in pink and dark teal octopus tentacles with suckers, shown as a standalone tattoo design on a white background.
Skull wrapped in octopus tentacles design
Black line drawing of an owl with spread wings, a skull, roses and leaves, shown as a fine line tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Owl with skull and roses design
White line drawings on a black background of traditional tattoo flash, including a skull with a dagger, a horseshoe, an anvil, roses, an envelope reading I HATE YOU and a spider web.
Traditional flash sheet with skull, dagger and horseshoe
Illustrated design of a yellow pineapple merged with a skull, wearing pink sunglasses and topped with teal leaves, drawn in bold line art.
Pineapple skull wearing sunglasses
White line drawing of a unicorn skull above crossed bones on a dark grey background, shown as a design rather than a tattoo on skin.
Unicorn skull over crossed bones
Sheet of black line drawings of traditional tattoo designs, including roses, skulls, swallows, snakes and anchors, arranged as a character grid.
Traditional tattoo flash glyph sheet
Black and grey flash design of a skeleton pin-up in a polka dot headscarf, flexing one arm, with a We Can Do It banner beneath in a traditional style.
Skeleton pin-up with We Can Do It banner
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design with three skulls, roses and banners reading see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil, in realistic greyscale shading.
Three skulls with roses and see, hear, speak no evil banners
Black and grey stippled drawing of a skull with bat-like wings spread either side, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Winged skull design in black and grey
Black and grey flash design of a skull above a sailing ship on waves, with a mermaid resting on a treasure chest below, shown without a body placement.
Skull, pirate ship and mermaid design
Pen sketch of a tattoo design showing a skull, roses and a banner reading Dead men tell no tales, in a neo-trad lettering style.
Skull and banner lettering design
Black and grey realistic design of a skull with a black music note across the forehead and dark liquid dripping from the eye sockets, nose and jaw.
Dripping skull with music note
A flash sheet of twenty black and white sugar skull designs in a grid, each with different patterned eyes, foreheads and teeth.
Twenty sugar skull tattoo designs
Tattoo flash drawing of a tall Halloween sleeve design with a full moon, bats, jack-o'-lanterns, ghosts, a skull and crossbones and a green figure, shown on a white background rather than on skin.
Halloween sleeve design with pumpkins and ghosts
Colour flash design of a burning pirate ship above an octopus wrapped around an anchor, with skeleton arms and a skull and crossed swords at the top.
Pirate ship, octopus and anchor sleeve design
Black and grey flash design of a bearded figure in a crown of thorns, with cherubs, a skull, an armoured angel with a sword, an apple and praying hands with a rosary.
Religious allegory flash with skull and angel
Pencil sketch flash design of a skull with crossed bones, spiderweb lines and roses, drawn in a bold neo-traditional style.
Skull, roses and spiderweb sketch
Pencil sketch of a skull with a serpent coiling out of its jaws and looping down to a broken tail, drawn in grey shading on white paper.
Skull and serpent pencil design
A numbered poster of twenty coloured sugar skull illustrations, with decorative patterns, flowers and a few non-skull motifs, headed 20 Free and Awesome Sugar Skull Graphics.
Twenty sugar skull graphic designs
Ink and grey wash drawing of a skull melting into drips with wisps of smoke above, shown as a tattoo design without any body placement.
Dripping skull with smoke design
Red and cream vector illustration of a skull wearing a patterned headband with a peace symbol, framed by feathers, a tomahawk, a pipe and a dreamcatcher.
Skull with peace signs, dreamcatcher and tomahawk
Distressed vintage-style illustration of a dark-haired woman with red roses in her hair leaning towards a teal and cream skeleton, with clasped hands and swirling teal lines, shown as a design with no
Skeleton and woman embracing, distressed flash
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design showing stacked skulls framed by tribal-style swirls and linework on a white background.
Stacked skulls tribal design
Black and grey lettering flash design reading From dust you were made unto dust you shall return, with a stippled skull beside the words.
Lettering flash with skull and dust quote
Black and grey realistic drawing of a woman in profile wearing a wolf headdress, smoking a pipe, with skulls and swirling smoke at the bottom.
Woman with wolf headdress and skulls
Black and grey flash design of a top-hatted gentleman and a skull joined by a banner, shown twice in mirrored, upside-down orientation.
Double-ended skull and gentleman design
Black and grey pen drawing of a skull built from guitars, headphones, a microphone and trailing cables, with no body placement shown.
Skull made of guitars, headphones and microphone
Black ink drawing of a human skull with octopus tentacles coiling over the cranium, jaw and sides of the face, shaded with fine hatching and stippling on a white background.
Skull wrapped in octopus tentacles
Colourful sugar skull design surrounded by magenta flowers, gold leaves and swirling stems, drawn as a tattoo flash design with no body part shown.
Sugar skull with magenta flowers
Flash design of a watercolour-style skull with a butterfly, leafy branches and a Roman numeral clock, drawn in ink on a white background.
Skull, butterfly and clock design
Black line flash sheet of small geometric motifs including skull faces, spirals, zigzags, diamonds, squares and asterisks, with no body placement shown.
Geometric motif flash sheet in black line
Black and grey pencil drawing of a flaming skull with a large eye in its forehead and a toothy grin, a tattoo flash design.
Flaming skull with eye tattoo design
Vertical flash sheet of black and grey engraved designs, including a skull with candle, an eye, crossed bones, hands, scales and a plague doctor, with Latin lettering.
Vertical sheet of occult and engraved motifs
Pencil drawing of a traditional-style tattoo design showing an anchor wrapped in rope, a swallow and two skulls, with no body placement visible.
Anchor, swallow and skulls tattoo design
Black and grey flash design of skulls among roses and thorned vines on a textured grey background.
Skulls and roses on thorned vines
Hand-drawn neo-traditional design of a golden dragon coiled around a grey skull, shown as a flash sheet with no body placement.
Golden dragon coiled around a skull
Black and grey pencil drawing of a monstrous skull with an open jaw and long jagged teeth, shown as a tattoo design.
Monstrous skull with open jaw
Illustration of a muscular cartoon man with a moustache and pipe, his arms, torso and legs covered in dense line-drawn tattoo designs in teal on yellow.
Cartoon figure covered in tattoo designs