Sunburst tattoo ideas

296 photos and flash · 30% Geometric, 25% Traditional · Forearm most common

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Black and grey line drawing of an Aquarius crystal ball held by skeletal hands, with a sunburst above and flowers and leaves below, shown as a tattoo design.
Aquarius crystal ball design with skeletal hands
Black and grey flash design of four arrows wrapped in a ribbon reading A MAN MUST MAKE HIS OWN ARROWS, with feathered shafts and radiating lines.
Four arrows with ribbon banner quote
Sheet of metallic gold, silver and black temporary tattoo designs showing arrows, a key, stars, chevrons and circular sunburst motifs on a white background.
Metallic arrow and key flash sheet
Black and grey pencil drawing of a tribal sun with radiating rays above bold Polynesian-style patterns, shown as a design with no body part visible.
Polynesian sun and tribal sleeve design
Neo-traditional flash design of a red-haired woman in a utility outfit, framed by angel wings, sunflowers, vines and a banner reading The Girl Who Waited, with no body placement shown.
The Girl Who Waited flash design with angel wings
Digital drawing of a purple butterfly with black swirls, dots and a grey sunburst, shown as a flash design with no skin visible.
Purple butterfly with black swirls
Fine gold line drawing of an eye with radiating rays, a sunburst centre and hanging geometric totem tassels on a black background.
Eye and totem design in gold line
Black and grey dotwork design of a multi-pointed star with a stippled centre circle, drawn as a flash-style tattoo design.
Dotwork star with a stippled sunburst
Black and grey tattoo design of a tooth framed by radiating lines, with the word WISDOM beneath it, in a traditional flash style.
Wisdom tooth with sunburst flash
Flash sheet of gold and silver foil temporary tattoo designs, including icosahedrons, arrows, a sunburst and lettering, with no body placement shown.
Metallic geometric flash sheet with lettering
Black and grey ink drawing of a crab gripping a spool of thread and needle, framed by sunburst rays and a looping thread, with the word Cancer beneath.
Crab with spool and needle, Cancer design
Black ink flash drawing of a planchette with a central eye, YES and NO lettering, a sunburst and acanthus scrolls, in a dotwork and blackwork style.
Planchette with eye and acanthus scrolls
Black line drawing of a tattoo design showing an AT-AT walker, a stormtrooper, an Empire emblem, roses and a rifle, with no placement shown on the body.
AT-AT, stormtrooper and roses flash design
Pencil drawing of a neo-traditional tattoo design with a skull, crown, flower, feathers, roses, death's head moths and an eye with a tear, shown on paper with no body part visible.
Skull, crown and moth flash design
Copper-coloured fine line drawing of a symmetrical moth with sunburst and zigzag wing patterns and an eye at its centre, on a dark brown background.
Copper line moth with geometric wings
Black and white flash drawing of an anchor wrapped in tentacles with a banner reading LOVECRAFT and H.P., in a traditional engraved style with no body placement shown.
Anchor with tentacles and banner design
Black and grey flash design of a ram skull with a serpent coiling around it, flanked by two blades and leaves, with the word Capricorn below.
Capricorn ram skull and serpent design
Red pencil sketch of a woman's face with closed eyes, a feathered headdress and roses, drawn as a tattoo design on a sketchbook page.
Woman with feather headdress and roses sketch
Black and white flash sheet of crescent-moon eyes, octopus tentacles, triangle borders and stripes, designed as temporary tattoo artwork.
Sheet of eyes, octopus tentacles and bands
Black line drawing of a teapot with a five-petal flower, sunburst lines and leaves, shown as a traditional style flash design on torn paper.
Teapot and flower flash design
Black ink lettering design reading I am the master of my fate, the captain of my soul, with a sunburst above and flourished script, on a textured off-white background.
Lettering quote: master of my fate
Two versions of a tattoo design drawing of a lantern lamppost with three banners reading COURAGE, DEAR and HEART, one in green and one in black and grey, in a fine line lettering style.
Lamppost with COURAGE, DEAR, HEART banners
Three black Polynesian-style sea turtle tattoo designs on a white background, one with a plumeria flower on its shell and one with a sunburst centre.
Three Polynesian sea turtle designs
Black and white line drawing of a palm tattoo design with symbols on the fingers, a sunburst eye and the words Deus Ex Machina, in a blackwork and geometric style.
Palm design with sunburst eye and numerals
White line drawing on a black background of a crescent moon framing a sunburst, with a row of dots and three feathers hanging below, as a tattoo design.
Crescent moon, sunburst and feathers drawing
Black and beige line drawing of an open eye with a detailed iris and short rays radiating outward, shown as a flash design.
Eye with radiating rays design
Black ink pen drawing of a hot air balloon with banners reading It's not about the destination and It's about the journey, surrounded by clouds, rays and an anchor, in a lettering style suited to a
Hot air balloon with journey banner design
Engraved illustration of a sword wrapped in grey ribbons in front of a gold globe and sunburst, drawn in a tattoo-flash style with no body placement shown.
Sword wrapped in ribbons over a golden globe
Black and grey line drawing of a skull with crab claws beneath a sunburst, set in an ornate gem frame with the word Cancer and a short line of text below.
Cancer crab and skull design
Fine gold line drawing of a bow and arrow with diamond ornaments on a dark background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Fine line bow and arrow design
Black and grey line drawing of an open lighter with a flame, framed by roses and a sunburst of rays, in a traditional flash style.
Open lighter and roses flash design
Fine line tattoo design of a vertical geometric arrow with chevrons, diamonds and dots in gold on a dark background.
Vertical geometric arrow motif in gold line
Six black line drawings of ornamental sacred hearts, some with flames, rays and roses, laid out on tracing paper as tattoo flash designs.
Sacred heart flash designs on tracing paper
Black and grey flash design of an all-seeing eye in a triangle above a skull, crossed bones, a candle and a twin-headed eagle, framed by scrollwork on a sunburst background.
All-seeing eye and eagle skull design
Black ink line drawing of a hot air balloon with banners reading It's not about the destination and It's about the journey, surrounded by clouds and sunburst rays, in a traditional style.
Hot air balloon and journey banners flash
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 design of a sailor in a cap kissing a woman with a finger waves hairstyle, framed by a rope circle with a red poppy and leaves.
Sailor and woman kissing flash
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
Black and white lotus flower with an eye at its centre, set within a circle of radiating lines above a row of small script-like glyphs, shown as a design rather than on skin.
Lotus with eye in a radiating circle
Black line drawing of the words HERE COMES THE SUN in hand-drawn lettering, with SUN inside a circle surrounded by a spiky sunburst outline, on a white background.
Here Comes the Sun lettering in a sun
Black ink drawing of a lighthouse within stippled clouds, with a compass rose below it on waves, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Lighthouse and compass rose design
Traditional-style flash design of a flaming heart with an eye, a dagger and red roses, framed by a sunburst and the Spanish banner text Sólo un corazón verdadero.
Flaming heart, eye and roses flash sheet
Black ink drawing of a tattoo design showing an anchor wrapped in rope and a serpent, with two sharks, bubbles and a sunburst behind, in dotwork and blackwork shading.
Anchor with rope, sharks and serpent design
Black and grey traditional flash drawing of an ornate dagger through a heart, with a Valentine banner, rays and a swallow.
Dagger, heart and swallow flash design
Stippled dotwork drawing of two open palms beneath a sunburst and a row of moon phases, with rosette shapes at the wrists, in black and ochre ink on cream paper.
Stippled hands with sun and moon phases
Overlapping gold foil temporary tattoo transfers on white backing, each showing a diamond ring with the words Team Bride inside an oval.
Team Bride diamond ring temporary tattoos
Black and grey dotwork flash design of an eye inside a triangle, framed by fish, a cross, an anchor and a heart within a circular mandala.
Eye in triangle mandala design
Black line drawing of an all-seeing eye inside a triangle, with leaves, rays above and a chain with a cross pendant hanging below, shown as a tattoo design.
All-seeing eye in a triangle with chains