Stippling tattoo ideas

28 photos and flash · 89% Dotwork, 46% Geometric · Forearm most common

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Hand-drawn black ink mandala design on white paper, with radiating petal shapes and dotwork shading, beside a pen and ruler.
Black ink mandala design with dotwork
Black ink drawing of an anatomical heart with a faceted geometric lower half and dotwork shading on the right side, drawn on white paper beside a pen.
Geometric anatomical heart sketch
Black and grey geometric mandala tattoo in dotwork shading covering a forearm, with fine white linework over dark stippled areas.
Geometric mandala dotwork on a forearm
Black dotwork sun tattoo with a stippled centre and pointed rays, centred on the upper back.
Dotwork sun on upper back
Black ink drawing of a geometric feather design with hatched and stippled panels, shown on plain cream paper with no body placement.
Geometric feather design in black ink
Black and grey dotwork mandala tattoo on the back of a neck, with a radial floral pattern and stippled shading.
Black and grey mandala on the back of neck
Dotwork drawing of a moth with spotted wings in black ink, set over a red mandala of petals and scalloped rings on cream paper, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Moth over a red mandala design
Black and grey geometric mandala tattoo with bold negative-space shapes and dotwork shading covering a forearm.
Geometric mandala forearm tattoo
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a leaning tree with a triangle and arc linework on the inner forearm, with the paper stencil design beside it.
Stippled tree and geometric lines on a forearm
Two black ink heart designs on white paper: an anatomical heart with peony flowers in dotwork, and a geometric heart in fine line hatching.
Anatomical and geometric heart designs on paper
Black and grey dotwork tattoo on a forearm with solid black bands and a thin white stripe, fading into stippled dots towards the wrist against a dark background.
Dotwork gradient band on a forearm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo on a forearm, showing a large circle and bands of stippled shading that darken towards the wrist.
Dotwork circle and gradient bands on forearm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of an isometric stepped island with palm trees on the inner forearm.
Isometric island with palm trees on a forearm