Sun tattoo ideas

977 photos and flash · 28% Fine line, 17% Dotwork · Forearm most common

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Dotwork meerkat standing on a wireframe cube with a red sun behind it, tattooed on a calf and partly coloured with multicolour squares.
Meerkat on a cube on a calf
White line drawing of planets, a ringed Saturn, a sun with rays, stars and dotted clusters on a black background, shown as a fine line tattoo design.
Celestial space motifs flash sheet
Traditional style tattoo of a woman in profile wearing peace sign sunglasses, with a white rose and teal leaves, on the upper arm.
Traditional woman profile with rose on upper arm
Small fine line tattoo of a palm tree on a grey island above a red sun setting over water, on a forearm.
Palm tree island sunset on a forearm
Black and grey photograph of a large tribal tattoo with a sun motif covering the shoulder, upper arm and upper chest.
Polynesian-style tribal sleeve on shoulder and chest
Black line tattoos on the inner forearm: a geometric egg-shaped sun motif, a semicircle with rays and a small mark, and a sun with an arrow, heart and banner in fine line style.
Three geometric line tattoos on a forearm
Colourful watercolour-style tattoo of a glowing orange and yellow orb with pink, purple and blue streaks across a woman's shoulder and upper chest, with a few small dots to the side.
Watercolour splash with glowing orb on shoulder
Black tribal design of a hibiscus, two plumeria flowers and curling spirals, shown as a drawing with no body placement visible.
Hibiscus and plumeria tribal design
Black ink flash design of a smiling sun with a face and a crescent moon decorated with mandala patterns, with dangling ornaments below, in fine line and dotwork style.
Sun and crescent moon with mandala detail
Black and white flash drawings of a yin yang with floral and geometric patterning and a sun with rays around a crescent moon with a face, with no body placement shown.
Yin yang and sun and moon tattoo designs
Black line drawing of a hand-drawn sun with rays, with the words LIFE IS TOUGH BUT SO ARE YOU lettered inside the circle, shown as a tattoo design on white.
Line drawn sun with lettered quote
Close photo of a small fine line sun outline tattoo with a circle and short rays on the top of a foot, near the big toe.
Small sun outline on a foot
Black blackwork flash design of outstretched wings framing a pentagram set within a flame-like sun, with no body placement shown.
Winged pentagram emblem
Traditional style tattoos of red roses, a panther head and a sun with a face cover the thigh and calf of a person's legs, with a small tattoo on one finger.
Traditional roses, panther and sun on legs
Black and grey tattoo of a rayed sun with three small stars on the upper arm.
Rayed sun with three stars on an upper arm
Black ink sun with a face and rays behind a woman's ear on the left, and a smaller crescent moon with a face in the same spot on the right.
Sun and moon behind the ear
Colour tattoo of a stylised Mesoamerican-style face with an eye and red circles, in traditional style, on the outer thigh.
Aztec-style eye motif on a thigh
Two small fine line tattoos in black ink, a sun on the left and a crescent moon on the right, each on skin beside a woven string bracelet.
Sun and crescent moon tattoos
Two clasped hands on a pebbled beach, showing a small black outline sun tattoo on the back of one hand and a small black crescent moon tattoo on the other wrist.
Sun and crescent moon tattoos on clasped hands
Pencil drawing of a hatched mountain peak under a sunburst with swirled clouds on either side, shown as a tattoo design on plain paper with no body part visible.
Mountain peak with sunburst and clouds
Traditional flash drawing of a three-masted sailing ship with grey sails and a red pennant, set in a rope oval with grey clouds, a red sun and blue waves.
Sailing ship in a rope frame with setting sun
Black blackwork tattoo of a pentagram inside a circle with flame-like rays, on the ankle of a leg wearing a silver sequinned high-heeled shoe.
Flame-ringed pentagram on an ankle
Colour tattoo of cartoon characters, including a figure in a top hat and a small figure with a black bob, in a bold illustrative style on a calf.
Cartoon characters under an umbrella on a calf
Black and grey realism tattoo of a Buddha face with lotus flowers and a hand on the upper arm and shoulder of a person wearing a black vest top.
Buddha and lotus flowers on upper arm
Two black ink mandala tattoos in a side by side photo: a sun with chain drapes on the chest, and a crescent moon with chain drapes on the upper back.
Sun and crescent moon mandala tattoos
Black and white drawing of a sun with a solid black circle and wavy, flame-like rays, with thin outlined rays between them, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Black sun with flame-like rays
Colour tattoo of a sailing ship, red sun, waves and an octopus across the side of a torso and upper thigh, in a Japanese and traditional style.
Sailing ship and octopus side piece
Blue line drawing of a rayed sun with the words You are my sunshine written in script and capitals inside it, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
You are my sunshine lettering in a sun
Black and grey botanical tattoo of a tree of life inside a circle, with a sun on the left, on the side of the ribs.
Tree of life and sun on the ribs
Traditional colour tattoo on a thigh showing the outline of Louisiana filled with a skull, with teal flowers, leaves and an orange sun.
Louisiana state outline with skull and flowers
Two bare ankles on sand, one with a tiny black fine line crescent tattoo and the other with a tiny black sun-like symbol tattoo, both on the ankle.
Small crescent and sun tattoos on two ankles
Two matching black fine line knot tattoos on the inner wrists, with a small celestial stack of sun, moon, star and sparkle motifs below one of them.
Matching knot tattoos on two wrists
Small black and grey tattoos of a starburst sun with a face and a crescent moon with a star, placed on two fingers of a hand.
Sun and crescent moon on fingers
Brown ink sun with a plain centre, pointed petal-like rays and dotted chevron details, placed on the inner forearm.
Sun design on the inner forearm
Traditional colour tattoo of a teal and pink umbrella held by a hand above an orange sun, with an In Omnia Paratus banner below, on a limb.
Umbrella over a sun with motto banner
Black ink flash design reading One for the road, surrounded by feathers, a kookaburra, a moon, a sun, wattle, a fish, a bottle, an eye and animal skulls, drawn in fine line with stippled shading.
One for the road tattoo flash design
Black tribal-style sun design with a stylised face, swirls and triangular rays, shown as a drawing with no body placement.
Tribal sun face design
Pencil sketch of a flaming sun behind a crescent moon, with script lettering across the moon and stars scattered below, drawn as a tattoo design.
Sun and crescent moon with script lyric
Flash sheet of metallic gold and silver temporary tattoo designs, including two sunbursts, triangles, chevrons, a looping band and two hearts with arrows.
Metallic sun, triangle and heart flash sheet
Fine line black tattoo of small planets, a sun and ringed Saturn-like planets scattered across a shoulder.
Solar system tattoo on a shoulder
Fine line sun with a black and white yin yang at its centre, tattooed on the top of a bare foot, with small black stars on the second foot beside it.
Sun and yin yang tattoo on a foot
Black and grey dotwork design in a circle showing a sun on the left, a mountain range and pine trees, and a crescent moon with stars on the right.
Sun and moon over mountains in a circle
Black traditional-style swallow flying over waves and a sun, printed as a graphic on a grey vest top against a teal wooden background.
Traditional swallow over waves design
Black fine line tattoo of a sun, crescent moon and dotted chains on the inner wrist, with the words Psalms and 148:3 beside them.
Sun and moon wrist tattoo with Psalms text
Black and grey sun tattoo with a face, radiating rays and dotted chains hanging below, placed centrally on the chest.
Sun with face on chest
Black ink dotwork drawing of a jackal-headed Anubis figure with an ankh on a forearm-like shape, set among geometric lines and sun motifs.
Anubis head and ankh dotwork design
Light grey flame-rayed sun emblem with a central circle and a blade running through it, drawn on a black background as a tattoo design.
Flame sun emblem with a central blade
Black ink blackwork tattoo of a sun with flame rays and a mandala-style floral design across a thigh, with a thin chain draped over the skin.
Sun, flames and mandala on a thigh