Skull tattoo ideas

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Flash drawing of a skull wreathed in daisies, with stippled white linework and yellow centres on a dark background.
Skull with daisy crown
Flash sheet showing a colour floral skull with butterflies and ribbon, a black and grey skull with a spiked crown, and JANE lettering beside a deer silhouette.
Floral skull, misfit skull and deer flash sheet
Coloured pencil drawing of a skull formed from bare branches, with a blue bird perched on top, blue blossom, a green apple and no body placement shown.
Skull of branches with a bird and blossom
Purple line drawing of a skull framed by a lotus mandala and scrolling ornament, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Skull with lotus mandala and scrollwork
Black and grey line drawing of a skull formed from carnations, orchids and poppies, shown as a botanical tattoo design with no body placement.
Floral skull line drawing
Black and grey drawing of a tattoo design showing a sugar skull with butterflies, roses and feathers, shown on paper with no body placement.
Sugar skull with butterflies and roses
Pen drawing of a shaded skull wrapped in roses and leaves, with a snake coiled at its base, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Skull, roses and snake design drawing
Pencil-style tattoo design of a shaded skull wearing a thorned vine crown, with a ribbon and rose below, framed by coloured rose and thorn corner ornaments.
Skull with thorn crown and rose
Black and grey dotwork drawing of a skull with a pompadour hairstyle, framed by lilies, roses and buds, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Skull with pompadour and lilies
Pencil and ink drawing of a split ribcage and spine with a pink rose and vines on one side, and an animal skull with a moth wing below, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Ribcage, rose and moth skull design
Black and grey ink drawing of a skull whose jaw and crown grow into twisted branches, with a forest scene in a circle, a deer, birds and orange falling leaves, shown as a botanical tattoo design with
Skull formed from a tree and forest
Two pen sketches of tattoo designs: a left panel with a skull, roses and geometric lines, and a right panel with a bull skull, moths and dotwork shading.
Skull and rose designs in pen sketches
Realistic tattoo design of a large skull framed by an ornate silver scrollwork border of roses, with sunflowers, butterflies and a lake landscape inside, shown as a flat design with no body placement.
Skull and roses in an ornate frame
Black ink flash drawing on pink paper showing a mountain range in a circle, an animal skull with an eye and rays, and a feather crossed with a sprig inside a dotted circle.
Mountains, skull and feather flash sheet
Black and grey ink flash design of a skull resting in a curved shell-like form, framed by wheat sprigs, with the word Virgo and a quotation beneath it.
Skull and wheat sprigs in a shell, Virgo design
Pen-and-ink drawing of a skull with roses and wildflowers over pastel watercolour splashes, shown as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
Skull and roses with watercolour splashes
Open sketchbook with hand-drawn flash designs of eyes in green ink and skulls and eucalyptus sprigs in blue and orange, set on denim beside dried flowers.
Eye, skull and eucalyptus flash sketches
Line drawing of a sugar skull with a mandala crown and flower ornaments, shaded from purple to pink, presented as a botanical tattoo design.
Sugar skull with mandala and flowers
Pencil drawing of a deer skull with antlers wrapped in wildflowers, ferns and leaves, pegged to a line against a dark background.
Deer skull with antlers and flowers
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
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 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
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
Pencil drawing of a skull framed by pink orchids on cream paper, a botanical design suited to a tattoo.
Skull with pink orchids
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
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
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 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
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
Black ink flash drawing of a skull wrapped in leaves above a large peony, with dotwork shading in the eye sockets, on white paper.
Skull and peony flash drawing
Black linework flash design of an ornate sugar skull flanked by roses and leaves on a cream background, in a traditional style, with no body placement shown.
Sugar skull with roses flash design
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design showing a horned skull with a pink rose, leaves, pearl strands and a small bird, with a pencil beside it.
Skull and pink rose tattoo sketch
Black and grey drawing of a sugar skull with diamond-shaped eyes, framed by two roses and leaves, in a neo-traditional style.
Sugar skull with roses design
Pen sketch of a birdcage with a songbird and roses in a fine line botanical style, drawn on paper as a tattoo design.
Birdcage, bird and roses design sketch
Pencil-style drawing of a deer skull with antlers wrapped in purple and yellow flowers and green ivy, on a cream background, shown as a tattoo design.
Deer skull with antlers and flowers
Painted flash design of two skeletons seated among pink cherry blossom branches and green bamboo leaves on a white background.
Two skeletons among cherry blossoms
Drawing of a skeleton in profile within an ornate scrolled cameo frame, with pink roses, spider webs and green leaves, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Skeleton cameo with roses in ornate frame
Four sugar skull designs in teal, magenta, purple and green, each decorated with flowers, scrolls and hearts on a white background.
Four coloured sugar skull designs
Black line drawing of a bird skull with roses, leaves and crystals, a neo-traditional tattoo design shown without a body placement.
Bird skull with roses and crystals
Illustrated skull design with feathers, a jewelled headpiece and a wreath of flowers and leaves on a pink background, shown as a drawn design rather than on skin.
Skull with feathers and flower wreath
Black and grey pen drawing of an ornate sugar skull wreathed in flowers and leaves, a flash design suited to a fine line or botanical style.
Ornate sugar skull with flowers
Black line drawing of a woman with long hair and closed eyes, showing a Japanese-style sleeve of cherry blossoms, a koi-like fish and a skull on her arm.
Woman with Japanese-style sleeve and skull
Coloured pen drawing of a skull formed from butterflies, a daisy, leaves and vines, a tattoo flash design.
Skull of butterflies and flowers
Black ink line drawing of a skull with botanical foliage, a bee in an oval frame and the words Taurus and let none be the noose, drawn as a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Skull, foliage and bee Taurus flash design
Black ink flash design reading One for the road, surrounded by feathers, a kookaburra, a moon, a sun, wattle, a fish, a bottle, an eye and animal skulls, drawn in fine line with stippled shading.
One for the road tattoo flash design
Colour illustration of a botanical sleeve design with a golden skull, pink roses, green vines and blue butterflies, shown beside a character with a tattooed upper arm and forearm.
Skull, roses and butterflies sleeve design
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design with a skull framed by roses, leaves, lace motifs and dotted chains, shown on paper with no body placement.
Skull, roses and lace design on paper
Black ink drawing of a deer skull with antlers entwined with flowers and leaves, pinned to a line on a paper sheet against a dark background.
Deer skull with flowers ink drawing