Skull tattoo ideas

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Pencil drawing of a neo-traditional skull surrounded by roses, a crossbone and spider webs, designed as a tattoo.
Skull with roses and crossbones drawing
Black line drawing flash design of a winged pincushion with two skulls on pins and a curled banner reading Sew or Die, in a traditional style.
Winged pincushion with skulls and Sew or Die banner
Black and grey flash design of a rib cage, rose, dagger, skull and butterfly with banners reading Can we create something beautiful and destroy it, in traditional style with dotwork shading.
Rib cage, skull and butterfly with banner text
Black ink flash sheet of traditional-style designs including skulls, a cat, a rose, a dagger, an owl and a rabbit, many marked with the number 13, shown as drawings with no body placement.
Hand-drawn flash sheet with 13 motifs
Pencil sketch of a winged hourglass topped with an eye, a winged skull and roses, drawn in a neo-traditional style for a tattoo with no body placement shown.
Winged hourglass with roses sketch
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
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
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 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 four stacked skulls with roses and ribbon banners, drawn in a traditional style and suited to a long vertical placement.
Stacked skulls with roses and ribbon banners
Black and grey traditional-style pin-up illustration of a woman in a checked shirt and high-waisted shorts, with skull, praying hands and dagger tattoos on her legs.
Pin-up woman with tattooed legs illustration
Traditional style flash sheet of repeating tattoo designs, including daggers through skulls, swallows, pin-up women, hearts, roses and a scorpion, on a tan background.
Traditional flash sheet with skulls, hearts and pin-ups
Black and white flash sheet of Joker-themed tattoo designs, including a jester skull, playing cards, HAHA lettering, a grinning mouth and the word JOKER.
Joker-themed tattoo flash sheet in black ink
Black line drawing of a skull entwined with three roses, leaves and thorny stems, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Skull and roses line drawing