Snake tattoo ideas

372 photos and flash · 32% Traditional, 15% Realism · Forearm most common

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Full back tattoo in traditional style showing a black snake coiled between red roses, sun faces, dripping apple and blue waves, with forearm and upper arm tattoos visible.
Traditional back piece with snake, roses and sun faces
Colour tattoo of the Hogwarts school crest with a lion, a snake and ribbon banners, shown on the forearm.
Hogwarts crest with banners on forearm
Black ink eye tattoo on a finger with a dotted mandala flower on the back of the hand and a red and yellow snake tattoo at the side.
Eye, mandala and snake on the hand
Black and grey tattoos on two forearms, showing a shaded rose and leaves on the left arm and a banner, snake and skull on the right forearm.
Rose and banner lettering on forearms
Black traditional-style tattoo of a skull with a serpent coiling down the forearm, ending in a small skull at the tail.
Skull and serpent on a forearm
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 medical alert tattoo on the inner wrist, showing a red cross, blue ring and grey caduceus with the word DIABETIC beneath.
Diabetic medical alert caduceus on a wrist
Lower leg covered in black and grey traditional tattoos, including a snake, a dagger and roses, with a black cat sitting beside it on a carpet.
Traditional leg sleeve with black cat on carpet
Traditional style flash drawing of a black coiled snake with an open mouth, showing fangs and red and yellow accents, with no body placement shown.
Coiled snake with open jaws
Close-up of a thigh with colourful traditional tattoos of a yellow rose, a snake and an eye, partly covered by black lace-up shorts.
Traditional rose and snake on a thigh
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
Two traditional style dagger tattoos on calves: the left has a teal and red snake coiled around the blade, the right has a red rose with green leaves.
Daggers with snake and rose on two calves
Traditional-style tattoo on a forearm of a red star of life with a white snake wrapped around a rod, flanked by grey scrolls reading DIABETIC and TYPE.
Diabetic alert star of life on forearm
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
Full back tattoo in traditional style showing an eagle, a coiled snake, a sailing ship on waves and red roses, placed on the back.
Eagle, snake and ship across a full back
Traditional colour tattoo on a thigh of a hand shake with a snake biting the wrist, above the words Trust No One.
Snake and handshake with Trust No One lettering
Traditional style tattoo of a green and black snake with red markings coiled around red roses and green leaves on a forearm.
Snake coiled around roses on a forearm
Traditional coloured tattoo of a woman with bobbed black hair, a blue headband and a gold feather, framed by red and yellow snakes, on the upper arm.
Flapper woman with snakes on upper arm
Colour traditional tattoo of an orange, green and yellow striped snake coiling around a cream skull on the forearm.
Striped snake coiled around a skull on a forearm
Traditional style flash design of a tarot card with three swords, a watchful eye, a heart and roses, with no body placement shown.
Three of Swords tarot flash design
Traditional colour tattoo of Medusa with teal and yellow snakes wrapped around her head, on an upper arm.
Medusa portrait with snakes on upper arm
Traditional style flash sheet of repeating tattoo designs, including daggers through skulls, swallows, pin-up women, hearts, roses and a scorpion, on a tan background.
Traditional flash sheet with skulls, hearts and pin-ups