Tally marks tattoo ideas

27 photos and flash · 52% Fine line, 19% Lettering · Forearm most common

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Fine black fine-line tattoo on the inner wrist reading "we're alright though" in typewriter lettering, with a safety pin and five tally marks beneath it.
Quote and safety pin on the inner wrist
Black ink tattoo on a lower leg showing the numbers 13.1 and 26.2 with tally marks, plus 50, 100 and Tri in a handwritten lettering style.
Race distance tally on a lower leg
Black and grey traditional flash sheet of a cathedral with onion domes, compass roses, a skull, an anchor, crossed bones and barbed wire motifs on a white background.
Traditional flash sheet with cathedral and nautical motifs
Fine line tattoo of three short vertical strokes on the upper back, near the shoulder and base of the neck.
Three vertical lines on the upper back
Black and grey photo of a forearm with fine script lettering reading a quote about playing a dangerous game, with three short marks below.
Script quote on a forearm
Fine line outline tally marks on the inside of a wrist, beside temporary tattoo sheets showing Roman numerals and a feather.
Fine line tally marks on a wrist
Black fine line geometric tattoos on the side of the ribs: a triangle with tally marks, a circle with an arrow, and a square enclosing a circle and a shaded triangle.
Triangle, circle and square geometric tattoos on ribs
Fine line black tattoos on both forearms, one reading peace will win and the other fear will lose, each with an arrow and tally marks.
Matching quote and arrow forearm tattoos
Black and white flash sheet of tattoo designs on a phone case, including a fox head, compass, bird, spider webs, playing card suits and a rope knot.
Black ink flash sheet with spider webs, compass and fox
Black fine-line tally marks, four upright strokes crossed by a fifth, tattooed on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Tally marks on a forearm
Black ink tally mark tattoo of four upright lines crossed by a diagonal on a forearm, with coloured tattoos of a bow and a fish nearby.
Tally marks on a forearm
Black and grey vertical arrow tattoo with a solid arrowhead, tally-style marks along the shaft and feathered fletching, photographed on plain skin.
Vertical arrow tattoo with tally marks
Black tally marks in simple strokes on a forearm, with another person's hand holding the wrist.
Tally marks on a forearm
White dotwork drawing of a stag skull with antlers, a crescent moon, crossed holly sprigs and vertical tally marks on a black background, shown as a design rather than on skin.
Stag skull with crescent moon and holly
Black fine line tattoo of a Norse-style compass with rune-like marks, an arrow and a small skull on a forearm.
Norse compass, arrow and skull on forearm
White line drawings of traditional tattoo flash motifs, including an eagle, skulls, a hand, a bear and a skeleton, on a black fabric tapestry hung against a white wall.
Traditional flash sheet on black fabric
Black and grey traditional flash sheet showing a swallow with roses, a butterfly, a tiger head, a snake, a skull in a beanie, a woman with a rose in her hair and an eye.
Traditional flash sheet with swallow and tiger
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a vertical row of short horizontal strokes on the upper back, with the word imagine in script on the nape of the neck in the left photo.
Vertical tally-style lines on upper back
Black line-drawn tattoo flash sheet with food, objects and lettering motifs, including a steak, pizza slice, pie, revolver and the word MEAT, on a pale grey background.
Tattoo flash sheet of food and text motifs
Close photo of a fine line tally mark tattoo in black ink on the pale inner forearm, with four upright strokes crossed by a fifth and two further strokes.
Tally marks on the forearm
Brown linework design on a forearm showing a standing figure beside a tall cylindrical object and three small round creatures, with spirals, a star and tally marks on the hand.
Figure and creatures on a forearm with hand spirals
Fine line purple tally marks on the inner wrist, with three tiny star shapes on the palm near the heel of the hand.
Tally marks and tiny stars on wrist and palm
Close view of a person lying in white bedding, showing three small fine line tick marks on the inner forearm and a small letter and short script on the ribs, in black ink.
Fine line marks on forearm and ribs
A black and white flash sheet with red accents, showing traditional tattoo designs themed around the number thirteen, including a cat, skull, dagger, heart and eye.
Thirteen themed traditional flash sheet
Black fine line tally marks tattooed in a curved row across the back of a neck, below dark hair.
Tally marks across the back of the neck
Close-up of three small groups of tally marks in black fine-line ink on the inner forearm, with a dark patterned top visible behind the arm.
Tally marks on the inner forearm
Black and grey photo of a small tally mark tattoo of four vertical lines and a diagonal strike on the inside of an ankle, above a laced canvas shoe.
Tally mark tattoo on an ankle