Skull tattoo ideas

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Black and grey flash sheet of nine traditional-style tattoo designs, including a rose with a banner, a skull with crossed shovels, a boombox and two bold character heads.
Black and grey traditional flash sheet
Traditional flash sheet of tattoo designs in bold colour, including a skull with crossbones, a hand with flowers, a snake and heart, mushrooms and a frog.
Traditional flash sheet with skull, hand and snakes
Traditional style full sleeve tattoo on an upper arm and forearm, with a ship, swallows, a shark, a pin-up and banner lettering, shown in three photographs.
Traditional sailor full sleeve in three views
Traditional style colour tattoo on a forearm of a grim reaper holding a scythe, a rose and a banner reading MISOGYNY, with DEATH TO above.
Grim reaper and rose with banner on forearm
Black and grey traditional style flash sheet showing a shield with three horses and an eagle at the top, with a swallow, key, dagger, rose, skull, bicycle and other small designs below.
Traditional flash sheet with horses, eagle and dagger
Flash-style drawing of a flaming skull wearing a vest top above a banner reading LOOKS LIKE SHIT, in red and navy line work with a small star below.
Flaming skull in a tank top with banner
Colourful traditional-style sugar skull tattoo with red roses on a woman's upper back, seen from behind.
Sugar skull and roses on upper back
Flash-style design of a white skull in a headwrap with an earring over crossed bones, with a small red swallow, on a black background.
Skull, crossed bones and swallow design
Traditional style tattoo of a grey key with a red ribbon banner and skull-shaped bow on the forearm, with red script across the banner.
Key with skull bow and banner on a forearm
Black and grey traditional style tattoo of a skeleton in a jacket riding a motorcycle across the forearm, with the handlebars gripped and a trailing shadow behind.
Skeleton rider on a motorcycle on a forearm
Four black and grey traditional moth designs drawn on a sheet, one with a skull on its body and a crescent moon above it.
Four traditional moth designs on flash sheet
Black and grey pencil drawing of a woman with sugar skull face paint, pin-up and skull motifs, and a corset, shown as a neo-traditional tattoo design.
Sugar skull pin-up figure drawing
Traditional-style colour tattoo of a woman in profile wearing a feathered headdress and a skull, shown in two close-up photographs on a limb.
Woman in feather headdress with skull
Colour tattoo of a cartoon white cat with a pink bow, holding a pistol in each hand and wearing a skull-printed top, on a leg.
Cartoon cat with two pistols and skull top
Black and grey traditional tattoo covering a stomach, with a panther head, roses, a skull, a spider web and a pin-up head.
Traditional stomach piece with panther, roses and skull
A black and white flash sheet with red accents, showing traditional tattoo designs themed around the number thirteen, including a cat, skull, dagger, heart and eye.
Thirteen themed traditional flash sheet
Traditional style flash design of a red rose and a black ink sugar skull with green leaves and rainbow lines, drawn on a tan background with no body placement shown.
Sugar skull and rose design on tan background
Traditional style tattoo of a skull wearing a flat cap and bandana with a cigarette, above and below the words WORKING CLASS, on a forearm.
Skull in flat cap with cigarette
Traditional style flower and rose tattoos cover a person's forearms, upper arms, thighs and calves, with their hands resting on a seated dog.
Floral tattoos on legs and arms with a dog
Black and grey traditional grim reaper skull tattoo with a scythe and floral wreath on the upper arm.
Grim reaper skull with scythe on upper arm
Traditional flash design of a one pint bottle holding two sailing ships, with a banner reading A Sailor's Grave over a skull and crossbones, flanked by red stars and green leaves.
Bottle with ships and a sailor's grave banner
Traditional style colour tattoo on a forearm showing a purple yarn skull with crossed knitting needles and orange banners reading KNIT FAST and DIE WARM.
Yarn skull with knitting needles on a forearm
Black and grey traditional tattoo on a forearm showing a skull within an ace of spades, banners reading Life is a gamble, roses, a crown and dice.
Ace of spades skull with dice and roses on forearm
Traditional style colour tattoo of a grey mouse in a red cape holding a stick, beside a hanging lantern, a cockroach and purple blossoms, on the thigh.
Mouse warrior with lantern and flowers on a thigh
Colourful sugar skull tattoo with a red rose above the eyes, on the top of a foot, in a traditional style with bold black outlines.
Sugar skull and rose on a foot
Woman seen from behind in a backless lace dress, with traditional-style red roses and a skull tattooed on her upper arm and forearm, holding a white bouquet on a beach.
Rose and skull arm tattoos at a beach wedding
Traditional-style sugar skull tattoo with a red rose, grey leaves and a small diamond shape on the forearm.
Sugar skull and red rose on a forearm
Traditional style tattoo of a reptile skull with open jaws and teeth, surrounded by leaves and a pocket watch, on the inner forearm.
Reptile skull and leaves on forearm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of two skulls facing each other above a rose, on a forearm.
Two skulls and a rose on a forearm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of an animal skull with long canine teeth, with an arrow running vertically through it, on a person's lower leg.
Animal skull pierced by an arrow on a calf
White line drawings on a black background of traditional tattoo flash, including a skull with a dagger, a horseshoe, an anvil, roses, an envelope reading I HATE YOU and a spider web.
Traditional flash sheet with skull, dagger and horseshoe
Black and grey traditional anchor tattoo with roses, leaves and a banner on a thigh.
Anchor, roses and banner on a thigh
Sheet of black line drawings of traditional tattoo designs, including roses, skulls, swallows, snakes and anchors, arranged as a character grid.
Traditional tattoo flash glyph sheet
Black and grey flash design of a skeleton pin-up in a polka dot headscarf, flexing one arm, with a We Can Do It banner beneath in a traditional style.
Skeleton pin-up with We Can Do It banner
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design with three skulls, roses and banners reading see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil, in realistic greyscale shading.
Three skulls with roses and see, hear, speak no evil banners
Heavily tattooed forearms crossed over a white t-shirt, with a Japanese-style koi fish and red flowers on one forearm and a traditional skull and crossbones on the upper arm.
Koi fish and skull tattoos on crossed arms
Black and grey traditional skull tattoo wearing a top hat on skin, being worked on with a tattoo machine by a gloved artist.
Skull in top hat being tattooed
Colour neo-traditional tattoo on an upper arm showing a dog in a blue hooded robe with clasped hands, framed by yellow and red roses and a winged skull.
Dog in hooded robe with roses and skull
Colour flash design of a burning pirate ship above an octopus wrapped around an anchor, with skeleton arms and a skull and crossed swords at the top.
Pirate ship, octopus and anchor sleeve design
Colour tattoo of a turquoise sugar skull with red and orange marigolds and green leaves on a woman's upper back and shoulder, in a traditional style.
Sugar skull and marigolds on a shoulder blade
Close-up of a colourful sugar skull tattoo with a red rose above it, covering the top of a foot.
Sugar skull with rose on a foot
Rear view of a person on a skateboard with a large traditional-style mushroom and skull tattoo on the back, script across the shoulders, and panda and figure tattoos on the calves.
Back, arm and leg tattoos on a skateboarder
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
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
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
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
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
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