Skull tattoo ideas

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Close-up of leggings printed with traditional-style tattoo flash designs, including a geisha head, owl, cat, skulls and roses, worn on the legs.
Tattoo flash print leggings
Black and white line drawing of an hourglass with a beach scene inside the lower bulb and the words TIME OF YOUR LIFE on banners, shown on a starry black background.
Hourglass beach scene flash design
Black and grey pirate skull illustration wearing a skull-print bandana, an eye patch and a hoop earring, above crossed bones.
Pirate skull with crossed bones
Black ink line drawing of a skeletal couple kissing within an oval rope frame, with a floral-patterned figure and a large rose below, shown as a tattoo design.
Skeleton couple kissing in a rope frame with roses
Black and grey drawing of a skull built from US dollar bill engraving, with a pyramid eye, ornate scrollwork and the word HATE across the teeth.
Dollar bill skull design
Neo-traditional flash design of a pale blue fictional character with red hair, surrounded by roses, vines, a skull and a banner reading I Sense There's Something in the Wind, shown without a body
Sally with roses, skull and banner design
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design showing a skull with a pink rose, a feather, a songbird and beaded chains, with a pencil drawn in the lower right.
Skull, rose and feather design sketch
Flash drawing of a pirate skull wearing a red bandana, with a sparrow perched on top, shown in sketchy linework and muted colour.
Pirate skull with red bandana and sparrow
Flash design of a tattooed mermaid holding a skull, with an anchor, stars and a crescent moon above her head and tentacles coiled around her tail, in cream ink on a dark teal background.
Mermaid with anchor, skull and crescent moon
Pencil drawing of a skull design surrounded by butterflies, hibiscus-style blooms and daisies, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Skull with butterflies and flowers
Stippled black and grey tattoo design of a skull formed from a twisted tree, with a forest scene inside a circle, two birds and scattered orange leaves.
Skull made of a tree with forest and birds
Six neo-traditional tattoo flash designs on paper showing a ram skull, a deer skull, a moth, a fennec fox, a red panda and a bird with peonies, all in bright colour.
Neo-traditional animal designs on flash sheets
Black flash design of two skulls with cross and heart eyes above a red dripping heart crossed by a red line, with the words RAGE and LOVE, shown without a body placement.
Twin skulls and dripping heart with RAGE LOVE text
Black and grey pen illustration of a skull wreathed in sunflowers and wheat stems, with the word Virgo and the line delete your search history beneath it.
Skull and sunflowers with Virgo caption
Ink drawing of a skeletal carousel horse with skulls on its saddle, standing on a pole with a grass base, shaded in black and grey with brown and red accents.
Skeletal carousel horse with skulls
Teal tribal-style skull design with swirling linework and a toothed jaw, shown glowing against a black background.
Tribal skull design in glowing teal
Coloured neo-traditional flash design of a woman in a white dress holding a lantern, with a skull reaper, bee, unicorn, ghostly figures and a Forget Me Not banner.
Bride with reaper, bee and unicorn flash
Flash design of a cross made of five skulls wearing cartoon-style hairstyles and glasses, with banners reading Ghosts N Crooks and Appetite for Mystery, in a traditional style.
Skull cross with banners and cartoon-gang hair
Black and grey dotwork drawing of two wolf heads, skulls, crescent moons, a central eye and a star outline, shown as a tattoo design.
Wolf heads, skulls and crescent moons design
Flash design of a skull made from a pizza slice with dripping cheese, pepperoni eyes and a banner reading Small Steps, in a traditional style.
Pizza skull with Small Steps banner
Line drawing of a cat skull with green eyes and bared teeth on a black background, with a glowing green outline.
Cat skull with glowing green eyes
Pencil sketch of a woman in profile with a wolf over her head, a skull and rose at her temple, and crows at the right, in a neo-traditional style.
Woman with wolf, skull, rose and crows
Traditional style flash design of Jack Skellington's grinning face above a banner reading The Nightmare Before Christmas, framed by red roses, a bat and spider web linework.
Jack Skellington with roses and banner
Pencil sketch of a cracked skull framed by roses, rose buds and leaves, drawn on spiral notebook paper as a tattoo design.
Cracked skull with roses pencil design
Black and grey line drawing of three ornate sugar skulls with floral patterns, above and below a handwritten quotation, in the style of tattoo flash.
Three floral sugar skulls with handwritten quote
Black and white line drawing of a skull wearing a wide-brimmed cowboy hat, shown as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Skull wearing a cowboy hat
Black ink drawing of a snarling cat face merged with a skull, with stippled dotwork on the bone and fine hatched fur, shown as a tattoo design.
Cat and skull hybrid drawing
Pen and ink sketch of a sailing ship whose hull forms a dripping skull, drawn on an open sketchbook page.
Skull ship pen sketch
Traditional style flash design of a white teacup with a skull on its side, steam rising, green leaves, red roses and two banners reading Death Before Decaf.
Death Before Decaf teacup flash
Black and grey pen drawing of a longhorn skull with a small chevron on the brow, shown as a tattoo flash design with no body placement.
Longhorn skull line drawing
Two flash designs in black line work on cream: a skull with a mandala headdress and a rose framed by mandala ornaments, in a dotwork style.
Skull and rose tattoo designs
Pencil drawing of a shaded skull framed by a mandala ornament above and a lace-like geometric ornament below, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Skull with mandala ornaments design
Black and grey line drawing flash of a pin-up woman with pigtails, sunglasses and a cigarette, with lettering across her chest.
Pin-up with lettering across the chest
Black and grey traditional flash sheet showing a swallow with roses, a butterfly, a tiger head, a snake, a skull in a beanie, a woman with a rose in her hair and an eye.
Traditional flash sheet with swallow and tiger
Black raven with a crescent moon, peach poppies and sunflowers arranged around a grey skull, drawn as a botanical tattoo design.
Raven perched on a skull with flowers
Red pencil flash drawing of a swan and a skull-like head inside a cracked scrolled frame, a neo-traditional design shown on paper rather than skin.
Swan in a cracked ornate frame
Black ink drawing of a skull built from hand-lettered quotation text on a cream background, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Skull formed from hand-lettered text
White lettering on a black background forming a skull outline, with the words Beautiful Disaster, Perfectly Imperfect, Love Hate, Live Fast Die Pretty and Sinner Saint.
Skull made of lettering
Realistic drawing of a cracked grey skull with a red rose at its side and black ink dripping from the jaw, shown as a tattoo design on a plain grey background.
Skull and red rose design
Traditional-style flash design of a colourful sugar skull with crossed bones, yellow and red roses and a banner reading Calavera.
Sugar skull with crossed bones and roses
Black and grey realism style flash design of a skull wearing a feather headdress, with a rope, banner and arrow below, not shown on skin.
Skull in feather headdress with banner
Charcoal-style drawing of a skull wearing a black paisley bandana, with a dagger through the jaw, a rosary and a cross hanging below, as a tattoo design.
Skull in bandana with dagger and rosary
Black ink dotwork drawing of a layered mandala flower above a bird skull, shown as a tattoo design on paper for a placement that is not visible.
Mandala flower over a bird skull design
Black and grey flash design of a skull inside an astronaut helmet, with a ringed planet and small stars above.
Skull in astronaut helmet flash
Pencil sketch of two ornate sugar skulls with flowers and curling swirls, drawn as a tattoo design in black and grey.
Sugar skulls with flowers and swirls
Pencil sketch of a winged skull with four roses and leaves, drawn as a neo-traditional tattoo design on a spiral sketchbook page.
Winged skull with roses sketch
Stippled dotwork illustration of a skull with diamond eyes, a compass rose on the brow, roses and flowers, and a ribbon banner, in peach on dark teal.
Skull with roses and compass design
Black stencil design of a gnarled, leafless tree with a skull in its trunk, shown on a white card against a dark green backdrop.
Gnarled dead tree with skull stencil