Traditional tattoo ideas

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Traditional-style flash drawing of a swallow in flight with a rope-wrapped anchor, roses and vines on a blue patterned background.
Swallow and anchor flash design
Traditional style crescent moon tattoo with a purple rose and gold roses and leaves on a teal fill, placed on the lower leg.
Crescent moon with roses on the lower leg
Traditional-style tattoo of a grey shaded anchor with a yellow ribbon wrapped around it, on the inner forearm.
Anchor with yellow ribbon on a forearm
Traditional style colour tattoo of a pink lipstick with gold case and pink flowers with green leaves on a forearm.
Lipstick and pink flowers on a forearm
Traditional colour tattoo on a thigh showing a red snake, a blade, a lightning bolt, a red rose and a banner reading They Make A Master Of Death.
Snake, rose and banner on a thigh
Traditional tattoo of a red lantern with a banner reading There is a light, with card suit symbols and script above, on the back of a hand.
Lantern and banner on the back of a hand
Black and grey traditional-style anchor tattoo wrapped in rope with two starfish, script lettering on the shank and 6:19 on the crown, on the side of the torso.
Anchor with rope and starfish on the side
Black and grey dotwork traditional tattoo of crossed scissors wrapped in two banners with lettering, placed on the outer thigh.
Scissors and banners on a thigh
Colour tattoo of a bat symbol with red roses filling the wings and a black centre, on the inside of a forearm, in a traditional style.
Bat symbol with roses on a forearm
Black and grey traditional-style rose with two smaller flowers and leaves on the stomach, with a partly visible tattoo on the forearm.
Black rose with flanking flowers on the stomach
Traditional style flash drawing of a woman in profile with dark curled hair and two red flowers with green leaves, shown on a sheet of paper.
Profile woman with red flowers in hair
Traditional style colour tattoo of a snarling wolf head with a sheep head in front, dripping red blood, on the inner forearm.
Wolf and sheep head on a forearm
Colour tattoo of a red three-headed dragon curled inside a circle with black outlines, across a person's upper back.
Red three-headed dragon in a circle on a back
Traditional tattoo of a pink heart with a dotted outline and a grey banner reading Myself, on the inner forearm.
Pink heart with banner on a forearm
Colour traditional tattoo of three red roses with green leaves running diagonally across the side of a person's back.
Three red roses with green leaves on the back
Pencil drawing of a crescent moon, a hand holding a wand and two ribbon banners with script lettering, shaded in yellow and black linework.
In the Name of the Moon banner design
Two raised legs in black platform sandals show traditional tattoos of red roses, a skull and a sun on the thighs and calves, against floral wallpaper.
Traditional tattoos across both legs
Black linework anchor wrapped in rope, with pink roses and blue flowers, tattooed on the forearm.
Anchor with pink roses and blue flowers on forearm
Traditional black and grey tattoo of a crescent moon with a smiling face and a black cat sitting on it, on the upper arm.
Crescent moon and black cat on upper arm
Two photos of a traditional-style tattoo of a red rose inside a black-outlined triangle with green shading, on the upper back between the shoulder blades.
Red rose in a triangle on the upper back
Two wrists with matching black crown tattoos, one reading One Life and the other One Love, with the hands clasped together.
Matching crown tattoos reading One Life and One Love
Neo-trad tattoo of an ornate hand mirror and a red rose on the upper thigh, with a dotted pearl chain hanging below.
Ornate hand mirror and rose on a thigh
Pen and ink flash drawing of an anchor with a ship's wheel across its shank, shaded with hatching and stippling on dotted paper.
Anchor and ship's wheel design
Colour Traditional-style tattoo of a grey anchor with a green and blue feather wrapped around it, on the calf.
Anchor and feather on a calf
Traditional style tattoo of a sailing ship with XXX beneath it on the back of a hand, with a skull and red flowers continuing up the wrist.
Sailing ship and skull on a hand
Black and grey anchor tattoo with three banners reading a quote, shaded in a traditional style on the side of the ribs.
Anchor and quote banner on ribs
Colour tattoo of a peach with a green leaf on the inner forearm, drawn in traditional style with bold black outlines.
Peach on a forearm
Traditional colour tattoo on an upper arm showing a dagger with a green glow, a red rose, green leaves and a blue banner reading GERONIMO, set against black rays.
Dagger, rose and Geronimo banner on upper arm
Traditional style flash design of a woman in profile wearing a polka dot headscarf, with Victory script above and pink roses below, drawn on cream paper.
Victory portrait with roses flash
Pencil sketch of a winged skull with four roses and leaves, drawn as a neo-traditional tattoo design on a spiral sketchbook page.
Winged skull with roses sketch
Black and white pen drawing of a traditional-style design with stacked ribbon banners reading Ain't no woman like the one I got, an arrow and a heart, with no body placement shown.
Stacked ribbon banners with lettering and heart
Colour traditional tattoo of a red-rimmed eye with blue tears on a leg, with a butterfly above it and a green creature below.
Eye with tears and butterfly on a leg
Solid black traditional-style tattoo of a skull in profile, with the word HAHA inside the brain area, on a lower leg.
Skull in profile with HAHA on a calf
Black and grey raven with an eye on its wing, perched on tree roots that run down the calf, in a traditional style tattoo.
Raven with eye and roots on a calf
Black and grey traditional style tattoo of a cabin, pine trees, mountains and rain clouds on a person's upper back near the shoulder blade.
Cabin and mountain landscape on the upper back
Traditional style flash drawing of a snarling black panther head with yellow eyes and an open red mouth, drawn on textured paper.
Snarling panther head flash
Traditional style anchor tattoo wrapped in rope on the top of a foot, with Roman numerals on the shank.
Traditional anchor and rope on a foot
Colour traditional tattoo of a largemouth bass leaping through teal waves on a forearm, with bold black outlines.
Largemouth bass through waves on a forearm
Traditional-style flash drawing of a cartoon owl with large blue eyes, pink glasses and brown feathers, with no body placement shown.
Cartoon owl with pink glasses
Traditional colour tattoo of two bears framed by red and orange flowers and antlers, shown on a limb.
Two bears, antlers and flowers on a limb
Black and grey floral tattoo of peonies, anemones and leaves across a shoulder, with soft shading in the petals.
Black and grey floral bouquet on a shoulder
Traditional-style flash drawing of a ship in a heart framed by roses, with the words Beyond the Sea in black outline lettering.
Ship in a heart with roses flash design
Traditional style tattoo of an open envelope with a red heart and red and yellow flowers with green leaves, on the top of a foot.
Envelope, heart and flowers on a foot
Traditional style flash sheet with two portrait figures in the centre, surrounded by an eye, a hand holding a cigarette, a UFO, a bee and crystals, with slogan lettering.
Flash sheet with two portraits, UFO, eye and bee
Two hands with traditional style tattoos, bold black lettering across the finger knuckles and coloured banner designs on the backs of the hands.
Knuckle lettering and banners on both hands
Black and grey compass rose tattoo with N, E, S and W lettering on the inner forearm, in a traditional style with shaded points.
Compass rose tattoo on a forearm
Colour tattoo of a phoenix with spread wings and flowing tail, with red hibiscus-style blooms, across the inside of a forearm.
Phoenix with flowers on a forearm
Traditional swallow tattoo with red roses and green leaves wrapping around a forearm.
Swallow and roses on a forearm