Sunburst tattoo ideas

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

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Black ink mandala design with a crescent moon, stars, snowy mountains and a pine forest inside a sunburst border, drawn on a beige background.
Mandala with mountains, pines and night sky
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a radiating sun with concentric circles, centred on the upper back.
Radiating sun on upper back
Fine line and dotwork starburst tattoo in black ink on the inside of a person's ankle, above a grey sock and a dark sneaker.
Starburst tattoo on an ankle
Black and grey fine line hamsa hand tattoo on the forearm, with ornamental patterns and a shaded eye at its centre.
Hamsa hand with an eye on a forearm
Black and grey line drawing of a ribcage with roses and leaves beneath a sunburst, with the word Virgo and a short quote, shown as a tattoo design.
Ribcage and roses with Virgo lettering
Black and grey dotwork mandala tattoo covering the shoulder blade and upper arm of a person photographed from behind.
Mandala tattoo across shoulder and upper arm
Colourful neo-traditional tattoo of an eye with sunburst rays and mandala petals on the upper arm.
Eye with sunburst and mandala on upper arm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a cat's head with an eye above and a crescent moon below, framed by sunburst rays on an upper arm.
Cat with all-seeing eye and crescent moon
Black and grey tattoo design drawing of a skull wearing a feather headdress, with an eye motif on the forehead band and a stippled, engraved finish.
Skull in feather headdress flash design
Black and grey flash design of a skeletal mermaid holding a skull and a flower, with dotwork sunburst rays and stippled waves inside an oval frame.
Skeletal mermaid with skull and sunburst
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a tree inside a circle with radiating lines and a mandala at its base, on the upper back.
Tree and mandala in a circle on upper back
Black and grey engraving-style tattoo of a bat and a firefly with dotted arcs and dashed lines on a forearm.
Bat and firefly with dotted geometry on a forearm
Two people seen from behind with matching black and grey fine line sun and crescent moon tattoos on their upper backs.
Matching sun and eclipse tattoos on upper backs
Black and grey blackwork tattoo of mountains, pine trees and a lake inside a sunburst and leaf frame, with a flower at the base, on the thigh.
Mountain lake scene with sunburst and flower
Black and grey botanical tattoo on the upper arm showing a crowned crane with a fan-shaped crest, surrounded by ferns, poppies and wildflowers.
Crowned crane and botanicals on upper arm
Black and grey rooster tattoo with stippled shading on the forearm, with other tattoos of foliage and holly visible around it.
Rooster tattoo on the forearm
Full sleeve tattoo of stylised birds, leaves and geometric motifs with dotwork shading, running from the upper arm down to the forearm.
Sleeve of stylised birds and leaves
Black and white drawing of a hamsa hand tattoo design with blackwork outlines and dotwork detailing on a white background.
Hamsa hand design
Two tattoo photos: on the left, a black and grey eye inside a triangle with sunburst rays in dotwork shading; on the right, a colour eye within a ribbon frame surrounded by teal and yellow flowers on
Eye in triangle tattoos, dotwork and neo-trad
Black ink flash design of a braided woman holding a goat, with a sunburst eye above her head and flowers at her shoulders, suited to a dotwork and botanical style.
Braided woman with an eye, flowers and a goat