Sun tattoo ideas

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

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A small colour sun tattoo with a black outline and spiky rays sits on the inside of a wrist, in a traditional style.
Small sun tattoo on the wrist
Colourful neo-traditional tattoo of a sunrise over green hills and a tree, framed by golden vines with blue and purple flowers, on a lower leg.
Sunrise landscape with flowers on a calf
A woman sits on a dark blanket on sand beside an orange book, showing a dark sunburst tattoo on her upper arm.
Sunburst tattoo on upper arm at the beach
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of a rooster head with a yellow sun and wheat stalks on the back of a hand.
Rooster head with sun on the back of a hand
Tattooed hands cradling a black cat against a dark background, with a colourful eye and dagger design on one hand and small finger tattoos.
Tattooed hands holding a black cat
Close-up of a fine line black sun tattoo with a circle, short rays and dots on the outer thigh, above a black knee-high sock.
Small sun outline on a thigh
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
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of an owl perched on a branch before an orange sun, with orange flowers and yellow leaves, on the upper arm.
Owl with sun and flowers on upper arm
Black koala silhouette on a forearm, filled with an orange sunset, a pale sun and mountain peaks in colour.
Koala silhouette with sunset on a forearm
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
Black ink blackwork tattoo of a sun with rays, clouds and a curling wave inside a circle, on the inner forearm.
Sunburst and waves on a forearm
Two mirrored sun face tattoos with radiating rays on the backs of two hands pressed together, in dark grey ink on a wooden floor.
Mirrored sun faces on two hands
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
Black henna-style yin yang sunburst with swirling vine linework on the back of a hand, shown underwater in a pool.
Yin yang sunburst design on a hand
Full back tattoo in traditional style showing a black snake coiled between red roses, sun faces, dripping apple and blue waves, with forearm and upper arm tattoos visible.
Traditional back piece with snake, roses and sun faces
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
Colour traditional-style tattoo on a thigh showing a cartoon woman in a red polka dot bandana and glasses, flexing one arm in front of an orange sun, with a red rose below and a quote in black
Cartoon flexing woman and rose on a thigh
Two fine line black tattoos on the inner wrists, a sun with a face on the left wrist and a crescent moon with a face on the right wrist.
Sun and crescent moon wrist tattoos
Traditional colour tattoo of a shark's open mouth framing a palm tree, red sunset and sea, on a calf.
Shark mouth with beach sunset on a calf
Two script lettering tattoos with small orange sun designs, one reading You are my sunshine on the upper back and one reading My only sunshine on the upper arm.
Matching sun and sunshine lyric tattoos
Black linework tattoo of mountains, radiating sun rays, clouds and rolling waves in a circular frame on a forearm.
Mountains, sunburst and waves on a forearm
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
Traditional style tattoo of a heart reading I'll never let my youth cave in, with a desert scene inside, on a forearm.
Heart lyric tattoo with desert scene
Black tribal-patterned tattoo of a lion head within a sun motif, covering the upper arm of a man in a white jersey.
Lion head in sun on upper arm
Realistic tattoo of the solar system's planets stacked in a vertical line down the inner forearm, with a lace sleeve and white background.
Solar system planets stacked down a forearm
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
A man in a beige waistcoat with rolled gingham sleeves shows a dark black and grey sun design on each forearm.
Dark sun tattoos on both forearms
Black lettering tattoo on a forearm reading The sun will rise and we will try again, with a small black linear symbol beneath the text.
Quote tattoo on a forearm
Black outline tattoo of a rainbow with rays, a sun, a star, a heart and curved stripes on the inner forearm.
Rainbow, sun, star and heart on a forearm
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
Fine line black sun and yin yang tattoo with small stars on the top of a foot, with rainbow light falling across white bedsheets.
Sun and yin yang tattoo on a foot
Purple plumeria flowers with a black-outlined sun and tribal bands tattooed across a person's upper back, photographed from behind.
Plumeria and sun on upper back
Full back tattoo of a phoenix in Japanese style, with red and orange flames on its head and wing, black and grey feathers, and a small colour sun low on the lower back.
Phoenix across a full back
Back view of two legs with black blackwork tattoos forming a cathedral skyline, striped sun and arched bridge across the thighs and knees.
Black landscape design across both thighs and knees
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 and grey fine line tattoo on the inner forearm, split into two bands with a mountain, sun and sunflower above and a sunflower, waves, stars and crescent moon below.
Mountain, sunflower and moon forearm bands
Black and grey fine line solar system tattoo running down a forearm, with a sun featuring a face, planets on dashed orbits and Saturn at the base.
Solar system with sun on a forearm
Fine line black crescent moon tattoo on one calf beside a black sun tattoo on a second calf, in a sepia photograph.
Moon and sun on two calves
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
Blue sun tattoo with spiky rays and the word sunshine in script on the side of the neck, behind the ear.
Sun and script on the neck
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
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a sun with radiating rays and overlapping circles on the inner wrist of a hand held up against a pale wall.
Small sun and rays on the inner wrist
Mountain landscape tattoo with an orange sun, teal sky and black-and-grey scrollwork on a limb, in a neo-traditional style.
Mountain landscape with sun and scrollwork on a limb
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