Dotwork tattoo ideas

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Black ink dotwork mandala design with lotus-like flowers, swirls and leaf motifs, touched with red watercolour, drawn on paper beside a red pencil.
Dotwork mandala leaf design
Black ink drawing of a heart made of curling vines and teardrop dots, with a plain white heart at its centre, shown as a flash design without a body placement.
Swirling heart design in black linework
Black ink dotwork drawing of a honeybee with stippled shading, set on a hexagonal honeycomb grid, shown as a tattoo design sketch.
Honeybee over a honeycomb grid
Black ink drawing of a symmetrical mandala with lotus-like petals and dotwork shading, shown on paper beside a hand wearing a silver ring.
Mandala flash design on paper
Black ink drawing of a wide-eyed owl holding a daisy, shaded with stippling and scalloped feather detail, sketched on white paper in a spiral sketchbook.
Owl and daisy ink drawing
Black ink flash design of a lion skull with a windswept mane, dotted accents and leaves beneath, with the word Leo and a short line of text below.
Lion skull with flowing mane and leaves
Black dotwork drawing of a skull framed by a mandala and scrolling ornament, a tattoo design with no placement shown.
Skull within a dotwork mandala
Detailed sepia ink drawing of a snarling wolf's head biting over a horned ram's head on a cream background, a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Wolf biting a ram's head, ink drawing
Black line drawing of a lotus mandala with a draped dotted chain, shown as a tattoo design on white paper beside pencils.
Lotus mandala with dotted chain design
Black and grey sugar skull tattoo design with rose-filled eye sockets, flowers, a cross and scrollwork, shown as a drawing with no body part visible.
Black and grey sugar skull with roses
Black and grey drawing of a compass rose with two shaded roses at its centre, shown on paper as a tattoo design.
Compass rose with roses design
Black line drawing of a vertical geometric tattoo design, stacking triangles, diamonds, chevrons and a small circle along a central line, with grey dotwork shading on some shapes.
Vertical geometric stack design
Black ink drawing of a symmetrical mandala design with leaf sprigs, dotted chains and droplet shapes, drawn on white paper with fine liner pens beside it.
Mandala design with leaves and dotted chains
Pen and ink lettering design of an ornate numeral five with dotwork shading, hatching and swirling flourishes, drawn on paper beside pens and a ruler.
Ornate numeral five lettering design
Black and grey traditional flash design of a torch with a swirling flame and an eye on the globe-shaped holder, with no body placement shown.
Torch with flame and eye design
Black and grey pencil and ink drawing of a rose set within a dotwork mandala, with feathered leaves, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Rose and mandala design on paper
Three black and white geometric dotwork tattoo designs drawn on white, built from stacked triangles, diamonds and dotted shading.
Three geometric dotwork design sketches
Black linework compass rose tattoo design with a central ornate monogram, dotwork flourishes and a long pointed arrow-style needle, drawn on a pale paper background.
Ornate compass rose design with central monogram
Black ink flash drawing of a woman's portrait with a flower crown, braided hair, crescent moon earring and geometric collar, in a neo-traditional style.
Female portrait with flowers and geometric collar
Gold and black line drawing of a bee with honeycomb and floral patterns across its wings, head and abdomen, shown as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
Honeycomb and floral bee design
Pen drawing of a chimpanzee wearing a skull as a hat, with a brain and wispy tendrils above, shown as a tattoo design in black and grey stippling.
Chimpanzee with skull and brain drawing
Six black line drawings of ornamental sacred hearts, some with flames, rays and roses, laid out on tracing paper as tattoo flash designs.
Sacred heart flash designs on tracing paper
Black and grey flash drawing of a slick-haired man's face with a banner reading Don't tell me that I'll be fine, framed by two stippled roses.
Man's face with banner and roses design
Line drawing flash design of a dotwork-shaded snake coiled around two pink roses, with planetary symbols and the Latin phrase Omnia Vnvs Est beneath.
Snake with roses and planetary symbols
Three black ink flash drawings on grey paper: a wolf head framed by peonies and leaves, a mandala-patterned wolf head in dotwork, and a partly visible third design.
Wolf heads with flowers and mandala designs
Black ink dotwork drawing of an observatory dome among pine trees beneath a starry sky, set in a diamond shape on white paper beside two fineliner pens.
Observatory under a dotwork night sky
Black and grey dotwork design of a stag with large antlers, framed by roses and leaves, shown on a white background.
Stag and roses dotwork design
Black ink drawing of an ornate calligraphic letter with floral and leaf filling and stippled dotwork outlines, shown on white paper beside a quartz cluster and a fine liner pen.
Ornate floral lettering design in fine ink
Black ink dotwork drawing of the elephant-headed deity Ganesha within a geometric mandala, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Ganesha mandala dotwork design
Black ink drawing of a horned wolf with a third eye resting above a stippled skull, with a feather beside it, in a dotwork style.
Horned wolf and skull design
Flash sheet of seven vertical geometric arrow designs in black linework and dotwork on a cream background, with no body placement shown.
Geometric arrow flash sheet
Black ink drawing of four stacked flowers joined by a thin vertical line and dots, shown as a tattoo design on grey paper.
Four stacked flowers on a vertical line
Black ink dotwork and line drawing of a woman's profile with hummingbirds, a mandala, feathers and a compass rose, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Woman with hummingbirds and mandala design
Black and grey neo-traditional tattoo design of an owl with a sugar skull face, flanked by small flowers on a plain background.
Owl and sugar skull design
Black and grey dotwork drawing of two snakes forming an infinity symbol inside a circle, shown as a tattoo design on white.
Two snakes forming an infinity symbol in a circle
Black ink flash drawing of a dragon head with densely patterned scales, spiky frills and a red eye, suitable as a design for a tattoo.
Patterned dragon head in pen and ink
White dotwork design of a six-pointed symmetrical swirl ornament with scrolls and curls on a black background, shown as a flash-style drawing rather than on skin.
Dotwork six-point swirl ornament design
Black and grey drawing of a symmetrical mandala tattoo design with a central flower, leaves and dotwork, shown on cream paper with no body placement.
Mandala flower design in black and grey
Black and grey dotwork flash design of an ornate central motif with crescent moons and geometric diamonds on a white background.
Ornamental dotwork design with crescent moons
Gold ink drawing of an ornate geometric mandala with dotted chains and drop shapes on dark paper, shown as a tattoo design rather than a tattoo on skin.
Gold mandala design with dotted chains
Black line drawing of a lotus flower with crescent moons, flowers and dotted triangles in a circular fine line design, shown on white paper beside a Micron pen.
Lotus and moon phases design on paper
Black and grey neo-traditional design of a cat's face inside a heart-shaped dotted and lace-edged frame, printed on a cream tote bag.
Cat in a heart-shaped ornate frame
Two square white cards on a wooden table, each showing a gold radial mandala design with petal shapes and dotted borders, drawn as a tattoo flash style design.
Gold mandala designs on two white cards
Three pencil and ink flash drawings of roses inside triangular frames, drawn on translucent paper, with botanical and geometric detailing.
Three triangle framed rose designs on tracing paper
Pencil and ink design drawing of a leaping antlered hare decorated with purple dahlia flowers, drawn in dotwork shading on tracing paper.
Leaping hare with antlers and purple dahlias
Hand-drawn neo-traditional tattoo design of a woman's face framed by a mandala of red spades and hearts, shown on paper with no body placement visible.
Woman's face within a red and black mandala
Black and grey stippled line drawing of a dreamcatcher design with a butterfly, roses and feathers, shown on a white background with no body placement.
Dreamcatcher with butterfly and roses
Black line drawing of a standing cat with its tail raised, filled with swirls and dots in a blackwork style on a cream background.
Ornamental cat design