Stipple tattoo ideas

28 photos and flash · 89% Dotwork, 36% Geometric · Forearm most common

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Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a stylised woman's face with a rose, rosebuds and leaves above it, on the thigh.
Geometric portrait and rose on thigh
Black ink design of a crowned, winged figure cradling a stippled globe, framed by a circle, two stars and a line of lettering beneath, with no placement shown.
Crowned winged figure holding a globe
Black ink tattoo of a sun with a serene face, curling rays and dotted stipple, plus a small star, on the side of the ribs.
Sun face with swirling dotted rays on ribs
Colour tattoo of a cluster of purple and pink crystals with black dotwork stipple at the base, on the ankle.
Purple crystal cluster on an ankle
Black ink drawing of a floating island with stippled mountains, pine trees, a lone figure and a light bulb in a dotted cloud, shown on paper as a tattoo design.
Floating island with mountains and light bulb
Black and grey dotwork peony tattoo with leaves across the nape of the neck and back of the head, on a person with a shaved undercut.
Peony tattoo on the nape and back of head
Black ink drawing of a woman's face framed by a circle, with flowing hair, winged leaves, jellyfish-like tendrils and stippled shading, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Woman with jellyfish and winged hair in a circle
Black and white pen drawing of a faceted crystal built from dotwork stippling, with a straight line cutting diagonally across it and a black fineliner pen above.
Stippled faceted crystal design on paper
Black dotwork drawing of ornate skeleton keys fanning out from a filigree circle, photographed on white paper.
Ornate skeleton keys around a filigree circle
Black and grey dotwork and fine line tattoo on the inner forearm, showing a rectangular panel of quartz crystals above stippled geological layers.
Crystal cluster over layered strata on a forearm
Black and grey dotwork armband tattoo on a forearm, with stippled shading fading into a dark treeline-like edge and a small dot above it.
Dotwork band with treeline on forearm
Colour tattoo of a purple witch hat on a broomstick with a pink star and teal stippled dotwork background, on a limb.
Witch hat and broomstick with stippled background
Black ink line drawing of a rose with stippled centre and leaves inside a geometric wireframe, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Geometric rose line drawing
Dotwork design of stippled mountains and a rising sun inside a geometric triangle, drawn in black ink on cream paper with no body placement shown.
Stippled mountains inside a triangle
Black dotwork compass rose tattoo with a stippled sun-like halo and four arrowed points, on the inner upper arm.
Dotwork compass on inner upper arm
Black and grey botanical tattoo of a dandelion seed head with drifting seeds across the inner forearm, in fine stippled dotwork.
Dandelion seeds blowing across a forearm
Two black ink dotwork drawings of palm trees on a beach scene, sketched on translucent paper beside a fine liner pen, shown as tattoo design artwork.
Dotwork palm trees design drawings
Black dotwork drawing of a symmetrical geometric design with a flower of life at its centre and stacked circles above and below, shown on cream paper.
Dotwork geometric design with flower of life
Black dotwork drawing of three interlocking triangles on pale paper, beside a black fine liner pen, shown as a tattoo design.
Interlocking triangles in dotwork
Dotwork drawing of a moth with spread wings set within overlapping outline triangles, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Moth within overlapping geometric triangles
Black ink line drawing of a rose bud with leaves, small flowers and dotwork shading, drawn on paper as a tattoo design.
Rose bud with leaves and dotwork shading
Forearm tattoo of black dotwork stipple fading upward into a solid black band near the wrist, with a thin strip of unmarked skin between the band and the stipple, photographed with the hand raised.
Dotwork gradient and black band on forearm
Black stippled paw print tattoo on the ribs, with a heart-shaped gap of bare skin in one of the toe pads.
Paw print with heart on the ribs
Black ink flash drawing of a molecular structure with two hexagonal rings inside a dotwork stippled circle, with dotted line ends, shown on cream paper.
Stippled molecule design
Promotional sheet of tattoo-style drawings showing a koi carp with a ribbon and a Tattoo Art banner, plus stipple and outline brush samples, with no body placement.
Tattoo-style brush samples with koi carp design