Sun tattoo ideas

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Embroidered traditional-style design of a green cactus growing from a skull above a red sun and mesa silhouettes, with the words DON'T BE A PRICK, shown in a wooden frame against a brick wall.
Cactus and skull design in a wooden frame
Flash sheet of small black line-drawn stick and poke tattoo designs, including arrows, stars, a diamond, an eye, a cross and a sun.
Stick n poke tattoo ideas flash sheet
Black ink dotwork drawing of a sun with stippled rays, leaf-shaped petals and a crescent moon, shown as a design on grey paper with no body placement.
Sun and crescent moon design
Black line drawing of a ship in a glass bottle above an octopus and a whale, with a rose at the base and ribbon banners, in a traditional style.
Ship in a bottle with octopus and whale
Black ink drawing of a yin-yang circle, with a stippled starry night sky and a city skyline on one half and a sun on the other.
Yin-yang with night sky, city and sun
Fine line black ink drawing of a mountain range with a circle behind the central peak, on a plain white background.
Mountain range with circle sun design
Pen drawing on paper of a sun, a crescent moon and an ornate chained mandala-style design, held up in a room with people in the blurred background.
Sun, moon and ornate chain design on paper
Black ink dotwork and fine line drawing of a sphynx cat head with a third eye, set beneath a dotted sun with radiating rays.
Sphynx cat with third eye and sun
Black tribal sun flash design with eight flame-like rays radiating from a central point, drawn on white paper.
Tribal sun design in black ink
Painted tattoo design of a sailing ship rising from a teacup under storm clouds and lightning, beside a red rose, shown as a framed drawing.
Ship in a teacup with storm clouds and rose
Pencil-style drawing of a tree of life inside a circle, with a sun on the left and a crescent moon on the right, shown as a black and grey tattoo design.
Tree of life with sun and moon design
Black line flash sheet of five designs: a sun and moon, a paisley swirl, a round geometric mandala, a crescent moon with zigzags and a large mandala sun, with no body placement shown.
Sun, moon and mandala flash sheet
Solid black flash design of a flaming sun with wavy rays surrounding a pentagram inside a circle, shown without any body placement.
Flaming sun with pentagram design
Hand-drawn lettering design reading Harry, Hermione and Ron in flowing script, with a lightning bolt, crown, glasses and small star doodles, drawn in brown ink on a sepia background.
Harry, Hermione and Ron name lettering design
Black linework flash design of a crescent moon and sun with sleeping faces, set within a mandala and hanging feathers, drawn on pale paper.
Crescent moon and sun mandala design
Black ink drawing in a dotwork and fine line style of the state of Oregon filled with mountains, pine trees and a sun with dotted rays, on a cream background.
Oregon outline with mountains, pines and sun
Seven black and white feather line drawings, several filled with dotted, swirled and sun-like patterns, shown as possible blackwork tattoo designs with no body placement visible.
Seven ornamental and plain feather designs
Flash sheet of four traditional-style portraits of princesses, each with a red banner bearing a name, set against a cream background.
Four princess portraits with name banners in traditional
Black and grey pen drawing of a yin yang symbol with a rayed sun, crescent moon, swirling clouds and waves, presented as a tattoo design.
Yin yang with sun and moon
Black and grey flash sheet of twelve pagan symbols labelled in white text, including a pentagram, triskelle, crescent moon, green man and raven.
Pagan designs flash sheet
Coloured drawing of a ram skull with grey horns, a red gemstone eye set in pearls, red roses and leaves, and an orange sun behind, in a neo-traditional style.
Ram skull with roses and a rising sun
Black tribal flash design of a sun with a spiral centre and an eight-pointed star behind it, shown as a solid black stencil-style drawing.
Tribal sun and star design
Black line drawing of a bold, graffiti-style word with a rising sun, clouds, flowers, feathers and a bird, designed as a lettering piece for a tattoo.
Bubble lettering with sun, clouds and flowers
Black and white pen drawing of a yin yang symbol with a sun in the light half and a crescent moon and stars in the dark half, held up in a sketchbook.
Yin yang with sun and starry moon design
Black and white yin yang symbol set inside a sun with spiralling rays, shown as a tattoo flash design without placement on the body.
Yin yang inside a sun design
Hand-drawn black ink sun with wavy rays surrounding the words radiate love in script, on a tan kraft paper background.
Sun with radiate love lettering
Three dark line-drawn semicolon designs on white: a single semicolon, a trinity of three semicolons around a central dot, and a sun-like spiral of semicolons.
Semicolon designs in three arrangements
Traditional style flash design of a black kraken with yellow eyes wrapping around a sailing ship, with a red sun and banners reading Kraken's Revenge on a starred cream background.
Kraken's Revenge sailing ship design
Black ink flash sheet with six traditional-style designs: a crescent moon with clouds, a rose with a banner, a dagger with a banner, a silhouette and skull, a sun with a banner, and a heart inside a
Six black ink flash designs on a sheet
A flash sheet of black brush-style Chinese characters in four rows, each with a small English translation beneath it, shown without any body placement.
Chinese character flash sheet in black ink
Black and grey circular tribal design with a hibiscus flower, palm tree, island outlines and sun-ray motif, shown as a drawn flash design.
Circular tribal design with hibiscus and palm tree
Four sheets of gold, silver and black metallic temporary tattoo designs, including chains, diamond bands, arrows, feathers and a hamsa hand.
Metallic temporary tattoo sheets
Black monoline flash design in a circle showing a crescent moon and stars on the left, a tower with a keyhole motif in the centre, and a sun with waves on the right.
Moon, sun and tower in a circular line design
A grid of twelve flat, outlined flash designs in blue, red, green and light blue, including a snake and dagger, a MOM heart, a skull, a ship and a diamond.
Grid of twelve flat flash designs
Black ink drawing of a traditional-style sleeve tattoo design on paper, with a skull, sun, nautical star, compass rose and playing cards, shown as an elongated arm-shaped outline.
Sleeve design with skull, sun and nautical star
Traditional style flash sheet showing a ship in a rope frame, a globe with a 30 degree banner, flowers, a hand with a bracelet and a geisha head with roses.
Traditional flash sheet with ship, globe and flowers
A grid of cross stitch chart designs in traditional tattoo flash style, including swallows, hearts, roses, a pin-up, a cherry pair and lettering, on a grey background.
Sheet of cross stitch tattoo-style flash designs
Flash sheet of gold and silver geometric tattoo designs including a hamsa hand, crossed arrows, dreamcatchers, a sun, chevrons and a feather border.
Metallic gold and silver temporary tattoo designs sheet
Black ink linework drawing of a sun with a closed-eyed face and a crescent moon, with dotwork rays and stars, drawn on paper as a tattoo design.
Sun and crescent moon face design
Black sun burst with a pentagram in a circle at its centre and the words I EXORCISE NOT EXERCISE arranged around it, drawn on a plain light grey background.
I exorcise, not exercise sun and pentagram
Two black ink flash designs of mountain landscapes with pine trees, one within a half circle and one within a diamond, drawn in dotwork and fine line hatching.
Mountain and pine landscape designs
Tall red and yellow banner design of a sun with a face, a sword, a coiled red snake and hibiscus flowers, with the words Unbowed Unbent Unbroken on a ribbon.
Sun, sword and snake banner design
Line drawing of a rayed sun with a dark centre above a crescent moon, joined by dotted lines and small star motifs, on a black background.
Sun and crescent moon with stars design
Black and white flash sheet of song lyric lettering designs with small icons such as a heart, planet, wings and arrow, in mixed script and block fonts.
Lyric lettering flash sheet in black
Vertical flash sheet of black and grey engraved designs, including a skull with candle, an eye, crossed bones, hands, scales and a plague doctor, with Latin lettering.
Vertical sheet of occult and engraved motifs
Red line drawing flash design of a seated bodhisattva figure within a halo, surrounded by rays, clouds and lotus flowers, in a Japanese-influenced style.
Seated bodhisattva with halo and lotus
Character map sheet of black tribal tattoo-style designs, including butterflies, hearts, dragons, suns and scorpions, arranged in a grid of labelled cells.
Tribal tattoo design font specimen sheet
Three black tribal-style sea turtle designs on a white background, one with a plumeria flower and lei border, one with a central leaf motif, and one with a sunburst pattern.
Three tribal sea turtle designs