Skull tattoo ideas

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Black line flash sheet of traditional tattoo designs, most featuring the number 13, including a rose, skulls, a swallow, a butterfly, a dagger and a heart with a banner.
Thirteen themed flash sheet
Black filigree skull drawing on a white background, with scrolling leaves and lace-like linework across the cranium and jaw, shown as a flash design rather than on skin.
Lace-style skull design
Realistic colour tattoo of a human skull framed by pink roses and grey scrollwork on the upper arm and shoulder.
Realistic skull and roses on an upper arm
Black and grey skull tattoo with pink cherry blossom petals and red swirls on a person's upper arm, in a Japanese influenced style.
Skull and cherry blossom on upper arm
Black and grey skeleton mermaid with flowers in her hair and a small red heart, with a rainbow-coloured fish tail, tattooed on the side of a torso.
Skeleton mermaid with rainbow tail on ribs
Black and grey full sleeve tattoo of stacked skulls, wisps of smoke and a shadowed figure, shown on the upper arm, shoulder and forearm from three angles.
Skulls and smoke full arm sleeve
Black and grey skull tattoo with ornamental patterns and trailing vines on a man's shoulder and upper arm.
Ornate skull and vines on a shoulder
Two-panel photo of colour traditional tattoos on an upper arm and forearm, including a blue rose, a woman's face, a skull cross, a winged heart labelled Rocker and a shield reading Victory or Death.
Traditional rock-themed arm tattoos
Black and grey dotwork sugar skull surrounded by mandala and lotus florals on the outer thigh.
Sugar skull with mandala florals on thigh
Colour traditional-style tattoo on a forearm of a cartoon woman with round glasses and long brown hair, wearing a green jacket and holding a skull inside a circle.
Cartoon woman holding a skull on a forearm
Neo-traditional tattoo design drawn on paper showing a woman wearing an ornate crown, holding a skull, in grey shading with red accents.
Neo-trad woman with crown and skull design
Illustrated emblem in greys with red and orange accents, showing a deerstalker, magnifying glass, violin, skull, teacup and the banner Consulting Detective, drawn as a tattoo-style design.
Sherlock Holmes consulting detective emblem
Black ink flash design of a skull shaped teacup above two crossed cigarettes, in a traditional style with grey shading.
Skull teacup with crossed cigarettes flash
Black and grey skull hourglass tattoo with stippled shading and hatched linework on the inner forearm.
Skull hourglass on a forearm
Black and grey skull tattoo made of wavy parallel lines that create an optical illusion, shown on a limb.
Striped optical skull tattoo on a limb
Black ink flash sheet of traditional-style designs including hands, daggers, a skull, a rose and a candle, drawn on white paper.
Black ink flash sheet of hands, daggers and skulls
Black line drawing flash design of a banner reading Death before decaf, flanked by roses, with a teacup bearing a skull and crossbones, in a traditional style.
Death before decaf banner with roses and teacup
Black and grey sugar skull tattoo with a curled handlebar moustache, decorated with paisley and floral patterns, on skin.
Sugar skull with a moustache
Colour Japanese style tattoo of a stretched white cat with black skulls and red eyes over teal waves on the top of a foot, with a red crab on the ankle.
Stretching cat with skulls on a foot
Traditional tattoo on the inner upper arm showing a red rose, a hand holding an envelope marked R.I.P. and a skull on the wrist.
Rose, hand and envelope on upper arm
A colour tattoo of a skull formed from a striped flag with stars, blue eyes and a blood-spatter edge, on the inside of a forearm.
Flag skull tattoo on a forearm
Pencil sketch of a open-jawed skull framed by roses and sprigs of leaves, drawn as a tattoo design in black and grey with no body part shown.
Skull with roses and foliage pencil sketch
Black and grey realism tattoo of a pocket watch, skulls and a rose on both forearms, shown in a mirrored pair.
Pocket watch, skulls and rose on both forearms
Realism black and grey tattoo of a large skull across the chest and stomach, with the word INSOMNIA above it and further tattoos on the neck, upper arm and forearm.
Full torso skull and dark imagery tattoo
Black ink drawing of a skull inside an ornate scrolled frame, a design suited to a neo-traditional style tattoo.
Skull in an ornate baroque frame
Black and grey realism tattoo of a cherub above a skull merged with a woman's face, with hands holding a rosary, on a limb.
Cherub, skull and rosary realism tattoo on a limb
Traditional style tattoo of a grim reaper riding a motorcycle and holding a scythe, on the forearm, with a partly visible banner above.
Grim reaper riding a motorcycle on a forearm
Black and grey traditional cat skull tattoo with dotwork shading and bold outlines, on a limb with other tattoos partly visible at the edges.
Cat skull tattoo in black and grey
Black and grey sugar skull tattoos with floral and lattice detail on the middle and ring fingers of a hand, worn alongside silver rings.
Sugar skulls on two fingers
Black ink flash drawing of a skull with two stiletto heels and bare legs, drawn in bold outline with solid black fills.
Skull with stiletto heels
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a shaded skull and crossed swords within a flame-like black shape on the upper arm.
Skull and crossed swords on upper arm
Black and white flash design of a coffin with a central skull, flourishes and a block of lettering on a speckled background, in a lettering style.
Coffin with skull and lettering
Traditional style tattoos of roses, a top-hat skull and a red heart on the arms and thigh of a person wearing a gingham shirt and black skirt.
Traditional arm and thigh tattoos on a woman
Black and grey realism full sleeve tattoo on an arm, showing a skull with a daisy on the upper arm, an eye on the forearm and a cube pattern near the wrist.
Skull and daisy full sleeve with eye and cube pattern
Black filigree swirl tattoo on the side of a torso above the hip, shown in a black and white photo with blue jeans and a rhinestone skull belt buckle.
Black swirling filigree tattoo on side ribs
Small black doodle-style tattoos of symbols and objects cover both forearms and the back of the hands, which have dark nail polish.
Doodle-style symbol tattoos on forearms
Neo-traditional tattoo of a long-haired girl with skull-like face paint and a red rose outline on an upper arm.
Skull-faced girl and rose on upper arm
Black and grey realism chest tattoo of a snarling wolf head flanked by two figures in feathered headdresses, one a portrait and one a skull, on a man's chest.
Wolf with headdress portraits on chest
Black linework tattoo of roses, a skull and a diamond on a woman's thigh, with smaller floral tattoos on her upper arm.
Rose, skull and diamond thigh tattoo
Fine line black crystal tattoo on the side of a finger, beside rings, a skull and a quartz cluster.
Crystal tattoo on the finger
Black and grey realism tattoo of a skull with scrolling ornament and a shaded rose, sitting on the upper back.
Skull and rose on upper back
Black and grey dotwork tattoo on a forearm showing a tarot-style card labelled LA MORT with a skull, a hand holding the card edge, and a mandala below.
La Mort tarot skull and hand on forearm
Colour traditional tattoos on a woman's leg and forearm, including a heart, a chrysanthemum and a skull, shown against white bedding.
Traditional colour tattoos on legs and forearms
Black and grey pencil drawing of a shaded skull with a rose growing from its jaw and a triangle grid below, shown on white paper as a tattoo design.
Skull, rose and triangle design on paper
Black and grey flash design of a skull on a banner reading Kustom Way of Life, with a pin-up girl, fuel can, eyeball and engine parts, with no body placement shown.
Kustom Way of Life skull and pin-up flash sheet
Black and grey flash sheet of insects including a stag beetle, a scarab beetle, a death's head hawkmoth, a spider, a dragonfly and two wasps, drawn in ink linework.
Insect flash sheet with beetles, moth and wasps
Black linework sugar skull flash design with floral crown, ankh, heart-shaped eyes and a diamond eye, with no placement on the body shown.
Sugar skull design with ankh and hearts
Traditional style tattoo of a skull with a mountain, pine trees, sun and clouds on the top of its head, placed on the side of the ribs.
Traditional skull with mountain scene on the ribs