Skull tattoo ideas

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Pencil sketch of a skull with a serpent coiling out of its jaws and looping down to a broken tail, drawn in grey shading on white paper.
Skull and serpent pencil design
Realistic colour tattoo of two pink roses above a shaded grey skull with red accents, on the outer thigh.
Roses and skull on a thigh
Black and grey realistic full sleeve tattoo on an upper arm and forearm, showing a shaded rose above a skull with smoky background shading.
Rose and skull full sleeve
Realistic skull with two red roses and smoky shading, tattooed along the side of the ribs.
Skull and roses on the ribs
Black and grey sugar skull tattoo of a skeletal figure with a flower headpiece and ribcage, shaded across the upper arm.
Sugar skull figure with flowers on upper arm
Realism style tattoo of a shaded grey skull with red roses, leaves and grey scrollwork across the upper arm and shoulder.
Skull and red roses on an upper arm and shoulder
Realism tattoo of an owl with an orange eye and a skull on a man's upper arm and shoulder, with the words POWER and WISDOM and red sketch lines.
Owl and skull upper arm tattoo
Realism colour tattoo on the upper arm showing a golden skull medallion above a bearded figure in a hat with tentacle-like facial hair.
Skull medallion and tentacled figure on arm
Black and grey skull beneath a crown, with two red roses and ink splatter tattooed across an upper arm.
Skull, crown and roses on upper arm
A numbered poster of twenty coloured sugar skull illustrations, with decorative patterns, flowers and a few non-skull motifs, headed 20 Free and Awesome Sugar Skull Graphics.
Twenty sugar skull graphic designs
Glowing UV-reactive tattoo of a skull with a serpent coiled down through it, shown in blue-white on a forearm.
Skull and serpent on a forearm under UV light
Ink and grey wash drawing of a skull melting into drips with wisps of smoke above, shown as a tattoo design without any body placement.
Dripping skull with smoke design
Neo-traditional colour tattoo of a cartoon bird wearing a purple bow with a small skull, with feathers and music notes, on the upper arm.
Colourful cartoon bird on upper arm
Red and cream vector illustration of a skull wearing a patterned headband with a peace symbol, framed by feathers, a tomahawk, a pipe and a dreamcatcher.
Skull with peace signs, dreamcatcher and tomahawk
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
Realistic grey skull with red cherry blossom outlines on a lower leg, shaded in black and grey with a cracked skin texture.
Realistic skull and cherry blossoms on a calf
Black and grey neo-traditional bat tattoo with lace wings, a skeletal ribcage and a crescent moon across the upper chest and shoulders.
Bat with lace wings across chest
Realism tattoo on a calf of a woman's face, half skull, with a clock face with Roman numerals behind her head and a blue and orange butterfly wing over one eye.
Clock and skull portrait on a calf
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design showing stacked skulls framed by tribal-style swirls and linework on a white background.
Stacked skulls tribal design
Black and grey lettering flash design reading From dust you were made unto dust you shall return, with a stippled skull beside the words.
Lettering flash with skull and dust quote
Colour tattoo of a deer skull with antlers and a green eye inside a red-outlined triangle, on a calf in a neo-traditional and realism style.
Deer skull and eye in a triangle
Black and grey realistic drawing of a woman in profile wearing a wolf headdress, smoking a pipe, with skulls and swirling smoke at the bottom.
Woman with wolf headdress and skulls
Colourful neo-traditional tattoo of two sugar skulls with red roses, green scrollwork and blue and pink flowers on a limb.
Sugar skulls and roses on a limb
Black and grey realism tattoo of a sailing ship in stormy clouds inside an ornate oval frame with a skull below, on a calf.
Sailing ship in ornate frame on a calf
Realism colour tattoo on a forearm showing a shaded grey skull with two bees above and a pink rose below.
Skull, bees and rose on a forearm
Black and grey flash design of a top-hatted gentleman and a skull joined by a banner, shown twice in mirrored, upside-down orientation.
Double-ended skull and gentleman design
Black and grey pen drawing of a skull built from guitars, headphones, a microphone and trailing cables, with no body placement shown.
Skull made of guitars, headphones and microphone
Realism tattoo of a snarling skull wrapped in dark flames and smoke, with red and grey shading, on the calf.
Skull with flames on a lower leg
Black ink drawing of a human skull with octopus tentacles coiling over the cranium, jaw and sides of the face, shaded with fine hatching and stippling on a white background.
Skull wrapped in octopus tentacles
Colourful sugar skull design surrounded by magenta flowers, gold leaves and swirling stems, drawn as a tattoo flash design with no body part shown.
Sugar skull with magenta flowers
Flash design of a watercolour-style skull with a butterfly, leafy branches and a Roman numeral clock, drawn in ink on a white background.
Skull, butterfly and clock design
Black line flash sheet of small geometric motifs including skull faces, spirals, zigzags, diamonds, squares and asterisks, with no body placement shown.
Geometric motif flash sheet in black line
Traditional style colour tattoo of a grim reaper holding a scythe in front of an orange sun, on the calf.
Grim reaper with scythe on a calf
Realistic tattoo on the upper arm of a stitched, bleeding doll-like figure in a striped top, with a smiley face and a graveyard behind it, in black, grey and red.
Stitched doll with graveyard on upper arm
Full sleeve realism tattoo on an arm with horror-style portraits, a skull mask, a silhouetted figure and orange flames, with lettering at the lower wrist.
Horror-themed realism sleeve with fire background
Black and grey realism sleeve tattoo on an upper arm and forearm, showing a long-haired man pointing, with smoke, potion bottles, a snake and a skull.
Black and grey portrait sleeve with skull and snake
Traditional style tattoo of a shaded grey skull framed by red roses and green leaves on the forearm, with another red rose near the wrist.
Skull and red roses on a forearm
Realism tattoo of a shaded grey rose above a skull with glowing orange eye sockets and nose, on the calf.
Skull and rose on a calf
Black and grey traditional style tattoo of a hooded grim reaper holding a glass object with wisps of smoke, on a calf.
Grim reaper with smoke on a lower leg
Black and grey pencil drawing of a flaming skull with a large eye in its forehead and a toothy grin, a tattoo flash design.
Flaming skull with eye tattoo design
Black ink blackwork tattoo of a sugar skull built from a bicycle, chainrings and a chain, on a calf.
Sugar skull made of bicycle parts on a calf
Black and grey realism tattoo of a skull peeling back stitched skin with a stylised SOX logo, across the upper arm and shoulder.
Skull with stitched skin on upper arm
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
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of a stitched purple cat character with a heart eyepatch, a grey mouse and a heart balloon on an upper arm.
Stitched cat with heart balloon on upper arm
Colour neo-trad tattoo of sugar skulls, red roses and a purple flower across the upper arm and shoulder.
Sugar skulls and roses on an upper arm
Realistic grey skull with a red-rimmed eye and black scrollwork on an upper arm tattoo, with a red rose at the lower edge.
Skull with rose and scrollwork on upper arm
Realistic cat head with fangs resting on a skull, with red brushstrokes and black and teal ink splashes, tattooed on a lower leg.
Cat and skull with red and black splashes on a leg