Skull tattoo ideas

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Pencil-shaded tattoo design of a skull with heart-shaped eye sockets, a bow on top and crossed bones behind it, shown without any body placement.
Skull with bow and crossed bones
Black ink traditional flash sheet showing a skull, a sun, a bat, a spider web, an eagle and a snail, drawn in a bold outline style with shading.
Traditional flash sheet of skulls and symbols
Overhead view of many small temporary tattoo designs, including animals, flowers, lettering and simple line motifs, scattered around a silver tin marked SUPER.
Temporary tattoo designs around a metal tin
Black line drawing of a skeletal female profile with swirled hair inside an oval scrollwork frame, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Skull profile cameo in ornate frame
Pencil drawing of a skull wearing a feathered headdress with beaded strings, shaded in black and grey on grey paper, suitable as a tattoo design reference.
Skull in feathered headdress drawing
Black and grey pencil and ink drawing of a Medusa figure with snake hair, a clawed hand and a skull, drawn on tracing paper as a tattoo design.
Medusa and skull tattoo design on tracing paper
Black and grey ink drawing of a ram skull with large curled horns, rendered in fine hatching on a plain light background.
Ram skull with curled horns
Two sugar skull designs on a grey background, one with a cross and blue rose-like eyes, the other with a red rose on its crown and purple flower eyes.
Two colourful sugar skull designs
Digital illustration of a skull covered in red tribal patterns, beside a vertical strip of skulls, crossbones and tribal flames on a dark textured background.
Tribal skull with red patterns and crossbones
Black and grey realistic drawing of a cracked clock face breaking into shards, with a skull and fragmented faces, shown as a tattoo design.
Shattering clock and skull design
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design showing a shaded skull wrapped in a snake, with two roses and a dagger at the base.
Skull with snake and roses design
Line drawing design of a woman with wavy hair looking into a hand mirror that shows a skeleton, with poppy flowers below, in a neo-traditional style.
Woman with skull reflection in hand mirror
Black and grey flash design of an owl with spread wings holding crossed pistols, flanked by skulls, dice and playing cards.
Owl with crossed pistols and skulls
Black and white flash design of a skull wearing a feathered headdress above two crossed axes, with no body placement shown.
Skull in feather headdress with crossed axes
Flash design of a horned helmeted skull with two purple roses and a cream banner with lettering, in neo-traditional style with speckled shading.
Horned helmet skull with roses and banner
Black line drawing of an ornate skull design filled with leaves, scrolls and cell-like patterns, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Ornate skull with leaves and scrollwork
Colourful illustrated design of a red and teal phoenix with flowing feather linework arranged to form a skull on a dark background.
Phoenix forming a skull design
Greyscale realistic drawing of a skull with a rose held in its teeth, with red watercolour splatters below, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Skull and rose with red splatter
Black ink drawing of a UFO beaming up a brain from a cracked skull, with the words LOSING MY MIND beneath, shown as a tattoo design on white paper.
UFO lifting a brain from a skull design
Colour drawing of the words BE YOU, NOT THEM in ornate orange lettering, decorated with flowers, a mushroom, bluebirds, a skull and turtles, with red swirling linework.
Be you, not them lettering design
Black and grey drawing of a snarling bear face inside a bear paw print, with shaded claws and teeth.
Snarling bear paw design
Black and grey flash design of an ornate filigree skull with a keyhole for a nose, above two crossed skeleton keys, on a black background.
Ornate skull and crossed skeleton keys
Pencil drawing of a skull framed by pink orchids on cream paper, a botanical design suited to a tattoo.
Skull with pink orchids
Traditional-style Halloween flash sheet in bold black outlines and bright flat colour, showing a pin-up witch, ghost, bats, skull, pumpkin and coffin designs.
Halloween flash sheet with witch and bats
Pencil drawing of a traditional-style tattoo design with a vintage microphone, dice, two skulls, a rose and an 8 ball, shown without any body placement.
Skulls, dice and microphone flash design
Four black ink flash designs on a beige background: a skull with a bandana and feather, a feather headdress, a skull with a feather headdress, and a dreamcatcher with feathers.
Four skull and feather designs on beige
Neo-traditional style tattoo design of a dark-haired girl with braids, holding a skull, surrounded by green roses, two birds and a banner reading Over You Dead Body.
Girl with roses and Over You Dead Body banner
Pencil drawing of a rose whose petals form a human skull, with a leaf and thorned stem, shown as a tattoo design on plain white paper.
Skull and rose design sketch
Pen and watercolour tattoo design drawn on paper, showing a skull, a woman's face, roses and flowing hair, being inked by hand.
Skull, roses and woman design drawing
Pencil-style drawing of a bull skull with wrapped horns, hanging feathers and a red eight-pointed star on the forehead, shown as a tattoo design.
Bull skull with feathers and red star
Black and grey neo-trad style flash of a woman with a towering updo, skulls, pearls and a lace collar.
Skull-adorned woman with pearls and lace
Sheet of assorted temporary tattoo designs including koi, arrows, a hummingbird, a skull, owls and hearts, mostly black with some colour.
Assorted temporary tattoo designs sheet
Watercolour-style drawing of a tattoo design showing an anchor wrapped in rope, with a death's-head hawkmoth, two compasses, lightning flags and two revolvers.
Anchor with moth, compasses and revolvers
Black and white stippled flash design of a skull over crossed bones, an all-seeing eye in a triangle, a dollar sign, a hand and a 40 oz bottle on a banner, in dotwork style.
Skull, crossbones and 40 oz bottle design
Black linework drawing of a pair of legs in high heels, covered in traditional-style tattoo flash designs such as a heart banner, anchor, spider web and skull across the calves.
Traditional flash designs on drawn legs
Coloured flash drawing of a sugar skull cat face with a red rose on its forehead, a red bow and a red rose below, framed by vines on a yellow background.
Sugar skull cat with rose and bow
Black and grey tattoo design of a bare tree with roots spreading over a hatched skull, with three crows and ink splatter around it.
Bare tree growing from a skull with crows
Greyscale pencil drawing of a human skull blending into a rose with curling petals, shown as a tattoo design on paper with no body placement.
Skull and rose pencil drawing
Black and grey flash sheet of gothic tattoo designs including a moth, owl, ghost, coffin, dagger, cat and crossed bones, drawn in dotwork and bold outlines.
Black and grey gothic flash sheet
Coloured drawing of a raven perched on a skull among red roses, with a bee and a blue butterfly, in a detailed botanical realism style.
Raven, skull and roses design
Black ink flash drawing of an anchor with rope, a skull and a cluster of flowers, in a traditional style.
Anchor, skull and flowers drawing
Black and grey line drawing of a horned animal skull framed by roses and leaves, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Horned skull with roses design
Red pencil drawing of a skull shaped as a dripping ice cream cone, with a fishnet leg in a heel and the script words I'm so above it.
Skull ice cream cone with dripping melt
Pencil drawing of a traditional-style skull framed by red-outlined flowers and leaves, shown as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
Skull and flowers flash drawing
Black ink drawing of a longhorn bull skull flanked by roses and feathers on a pale background, shown as a tattoo design.
Bull skull with roses and feathers
Traditional-style flash design of a blue teacup with a skull and crossbones, coffee spilling out, framed by two scroll banners of lettering on a red splash background.
Skull teacup with coffee banners
Black and white ink drawing of a skull wearing a top hat with a scrolled ornament on the band, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Skull in a top hat design
Traditional flash sheet of four designs in colour: chess pieces with a rose, a sunset over waves, an hourglass with a skull, and a fox with pine trees, above a BRAND NEW banner.
Traditional flash sheet with rose, fox and hourglass