Traditional tattoo ideas

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Drawn koi fish tattoo design in a Japanese style, with black scales, orange-gold fins and a red gill, beside the headline The Meaning Behind Koi Fish Tattoos.
Koi fish tattoo design with headline
Two traditional style colour tattoos on forearms, one showing a bottle with a CONSTRUCT banner and flowers, the other showing scissors with a CREATE banner and flowers.
Construct bottle and create scissors on forearms
Two matching traditional tattoos of hands linking little fingers in front of an orange sun, one on each person's upper arm near the elbow.
Matching pinky promise hands over an orange sun
Traditional style owl tattoo with black and grey feathers, red-brown accents and green leaves on the inner forearm.
Owl and leaves on a forearm
Traditional style flash design of two matching banners reading society, with a vintage bus, a compass, red roses and a bare tree, in colour.
Society banners with bus, compass and roses
Traditional style colour tattoo on an upper arm showing a corked bottle with a sunset and palm trees, a red rose and green leaves, with an anchor and banner above.
Palm tree bottle and rose on an upper arm
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a planchette with a crescent moon and three flowers on the thigh, beside a heron leg and a feather.
Planchette with crescent moon and flowers on thigh
Colour traditional style sleeve tattoo on an arm showing a Route 66 sign, a red heart with an engine, a chequered flag, a flaming hot rod, playing cards, dice and a lighter.
Route 66 and hot rod sleeve on forearm
Black and grey compass rose tattoo with N, E, S and W letters and a dotted outer ring, shown on the inner arm in a black and white photo.
Compass rose tattoo on inner arm
Traditional style rose tattoo design drawn in red and yellow with bold black outlines on a white background.
Red and yellow rose tattoo design
Traditional style colour tattoo of a teal teacup with red roses, leaves and the words Death Before Decaf on the forearm.
Teacup and roses on a forearm
Colour tattoo of Jiminy Cricket in a blue top hat holding a red umbrella, drawn in a bold cartoon style with dark outlines on skin.
Jiminy Cricket cartoon tattoo
Neo-traditional tattoo of a woman in a black wide-brimmed hat with red roses and a lace collar, on a lower leg.
Woman in wide-brimmed hat with roses
Black and grey tattoo design of a spread-winged eagle holding a scroll banner reading LIVE TO RIDE, with a blank lower banner and no body placement shown.
Eagle with Live to Ride banners
Colour traditional-style tattoo of a globe on a stand with mountains and trees, a red flower and an arrow, on a lower leg.
Globe with mountains and a red flower
Traditional style colour tattoo of a sailor pin-up woman holding a ship's wheel above an anchor, placed on the upper arm.
Sailor pin-up with ship's wheel on upper arm
Traditional tattoo of a bob-haired woman in boxing gloves and a yellow vest, framed by laurels and a KNOCK OUT banner, on a lower leg.
Boxer pin-up with gloves on a calf
Black and grey traditional flash drawing of a snarling wolf head with bared fangs, beside a shaded rose and leaves, shown as a design with no body placement.
Snarling wolf head with rose
Traditional colour tattoo of a Polaroid camera ejecting a landscape print, framed by red flowers and green leaves on the thigh.
Polaroid camera with red flowers on a thigh
Flash design of a cross made of five skulls wearing cartoon-style hairstyles and glasses, with banners reading Ghosts N Crooks and Appetite for Mystery, in a traditional style.
Skull cross with banners and cartoon-gang hair
Two black and grey traditional swallow tattoos on the inner wrists, one larger than the other, with a checkered floor in the background.
Two swallows on inner wrists
Black and grey anchor tattoo with a coiled rope on the lower leg, shaded with stippled dots and bold outlines in a traditional style.
Anchor and rope on a calf
Two colour pineapple tattoos with black outlines and green leafy crowns, one on each ankle, shown beside red canvas trainers and brown sandals.
Twin pineapple tattoos on both ankles
Colour tattoos of roses, a cat and a butterfly in a traditional style on the thighs and calves of a person wearing denim shorts and layered chains.
Roses, a cat and a butterfly on both legs
Two colour swallow tattoos in a traditional style, with teal wings, pink bodies and orange heads, placed symmetrically on a person's upper back.
Two swallows on upper back
Japanese style dragon tattoo in red, orange and cream over dark green-black scale ground, across a hip and thigh with a white cloth wrapped around the waist.
Red and green dragon on hip and thigh
Colour tattoo of Bart Simpson in a grey lace-edged heart with the words Eat my shorts, on the side of a hip.
Bart Simpson heart tattoo on hip
Black and grey traditional style tattoo of two roses with leaves on the outer thigh.
Two roses on a thigh
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a striped lighthouse inside an oval rope frame with waves and a flower, on the forearm.
Lighthouse in rope frame on a forearm
Flash design of a skull made from a pizza slice with dripping cheese, pepperoni eyes and a banner reading Small Steps, in a traditional style.
Pizza skull with Small Steps banner
Traditional style colour tattoo on the top of a foot showing a glass, a grey microphone, a teal flower and two orange banners reading YEAH and SCHENCE.
Banner tattoo with glass and flower on foot
Traditional style tattoo of a skull wearing an eyepatch, with gold coins and a banner reading Goonies Never Say Die, on a limb.
Skull with eyepatch and banner on a limb
Shaded matchbox tattoo in black and grey with red match heads sticking out of the top, on a patch of skin.
Matchbox with red match heads
Traditional-style pin-up flash drawing of a woman with a cross, the words FAITH and HOPE, and a chequered neck design, painted on a board.
Pin-up face with FAITH and HOPE tattoos
Black and grey tattoo of a lace-cuffed hand gripping a dripping snake head, shown in two close-up photographs, one above a LUCKY banner.
Snake-headed hand with lace cuff
Traditional style flash design of Jack Skellington's grinning face above a banner reading The Nightmare Before Christmas, framed by red roses, a bat and spider web linework.
Jack Skellington with roses and banner
Traditional style colour tattoo of a halved avocado with its pit, pink flowers and a banner reading Let's Avocuddle on the calf.
Avocado with banner and pink flowers
Colour tattoo of a swallow carrying a heart envelope, with green leaves and a curling vine, in a traditional style on the lower back.
Swallow carrying a heart envelope
Pencil sketch of a cracked skull framed by roses, rose buds and leaves, drawn on spiral notebook paper as a tattoo design.
Cracked skull with roses pencil design
Traditional colour tattoo of a red A-frame tent with pine trees, a moon and a green lantern, placed on a calf.
Camping tent with lantern and pine trees on a calf
Colour tattoo of a blue Star of Life with a red heartbeat line and the script words So Others May Live, on a person's upper back near the shoulder blade.
Star of Life and heartbeat on upper back
Close view of a green and red moth tattoo with bold black outlines on the back of a woman's neck, with a second tattoo visible on her upper arm.
Green moth tattoo on the back of the neck
Black and grey traditional style tattoo of a big-eyed alien holding a knife, with a small flower, leaves and lettering, on a lower leg.
Alien with knife on a calf
Black ink flash drawing of two swallows in flight, one carrying a small key, rendered with dense dotwork shading on the wings and bodies.
Two swallows, one carrying a key
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a rose and a skull with scale detail on a woman's forearm.
Rose and skull on a forearm
Black line drawing of a three-masted sailing ship with billowing sails above a cluster of roses and leaves, in a traditional flash style.
Sailing ship above a cluster of roses
Colour and grey tattoo of a leg lamp in a wooden crate with a red ribbon reading A MAJOR AWARD, on a calf, in a traditional style.
Leg lamp in a crate with a banner
Colour tattoo of a teacup with red floral pattern and green leaves on the shoulder, with a small black bird and script above on the upper chest.
Teacup and bird on shoulder