Tentacle tattoo ideas

256 photos and flash · 19% Realism, 17% Dotwork · Upper arm most common

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Black and grey octopus tattoo with swirling tentacles on the top of a foot, resting on a wooden surface.
Octopus tattoo on the top of a foot
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design showing a jellyfish with a large eye in its bell and a woman's face among its trailing tentacles, with no body placement visible.
Jellyfish with an eye tattoo design sketch
Black ink flash drawing of a skull with octopus tentacles curling around its crown and sides, with black ink dripping from the jaw.
Skull with octopus tentacles
Colour neo-traditional tattoo on an upper arm showing a red heart with a gold crown inside a yellow starburst, beside a cartoon sea witch with purple tentacles.
Heart, crown and sea witch on upper arm
Black and grey drawing of a skull wrapped in octopus tentacles with a ship's anchor behind it, shown as a design on a dark background.
Skull, anchor and tentacles design
Neo-traditional purple octopus tattoo with curling tentacles, shaded in violet and blue, on the calf.
Purple octopus tattoo on a calf
Black line drawing of octopus tentacles with suckers curling up out of a teacup, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Octopus tentacles rising from a teacup
Colour tattoo of a jellyfish in blue, purple and teal, with swirling ornamental detail in the bell, on a forearm.
Jellyfish tattoo on a forearm
Teal and blue jellyfish tattoo with soft, wash-like shading and trailing tentacles on a forearm, with the hand raised at the top of the frame.
Jellyfish tattoo on a forearm
Colourful neo-traditional octopus tattoo with tentacles curling down a forearm, shaded in pink, purple, orange, blue and green.
Rainbow octopus on a forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a sailing galleon in heavy seas with crashing waves, wrapping around a forearm.
Galleon and waves on a forearm
Black and grey octopus tattoo with shaded tentacles curling across a forearm, set against a gold wallpaper with a black botanical print.
Octopus tattoo on a forearm
Black and grey engraved skull design built from an octopus, fish, shells and an anchor, in a detailed flash style.
Sea creature skull with anchor
Two photos of a colourful jellyfish tattoo in pink, red, blue and purple on the side of a ribcage, with painterly shading and trailing tentacles.
Watercolour-style jellyfish on ribs
Three jellyfish tattoos in a row on a limb, glowing bright blue under ultraviolet light against a dark background.
Three jellyfish tattoos under UV light
Octopus tattoo with swirling outlines and lavender wash shading, spreading across the upper back.
Ornamental octopus tattoo on the upper back
Greyscale pencil drawing of an octopus with its tentacles wrapped around a human skull, shown on paper on a wooden desk.
Octopus wrapped around a skull drawing
Red pencil sketch of an octopus with curling tentacles and suckers, drawn as a tattoo design with no placement on the body shown.
Octopus with curling tentacles sketch
Black and grey jellyfish tattoo with flowing tentacles on the lower leg, shown in outline with light shading.
Jellyfish tattoo on a lower leg
Pencil drawing of a traditional-style tattoo design showing a kraken's tentacles wrapped around a sailing ship inside a rope-edged oval.
Kraken attacking a sailing ship design
Teal jellyfish tattoo with soft watercolour-style shading and trailing tentacles on the upper arm of a woman in a red lace top.
Teal jellyfish on an upper arm
Flash sheet of nine jellyfish drawings in grey pencil shading, with small dots scattered between them, shown without a body placement.
Jellyfish flash sheet in grey pencil
Fine line tattoo of three jellyfish on the inner forearm, two with grey-black bells and one smaller with a darker bell, trailing long reddish tentacles.
Three jellyfish on a forearm
Black and grey tattoo of an elephant head merged with octopus tentacles on the forearm, drawn in blackwork and stippled dotwork shading.
Elephant and octopus on a forearm
Black and grey octopus tattoo with shaded tentacles wrapping from the ankle onto the top of the foot.
Octopus tattoo wrapping an ankle
Black ink drawing of a skull with knotted octopus tentacles on white paper, shaded with fine hatching and stippling.
Skull and tentacles design drawing
Small blue and black octopus tattoo with curling tentacles on skin, with a silver coin held beside it for scale.
Blue octopus tattoo beside a coin
Black ink flash design of a woman's face framed by flowing hair, feathers and an octopus tentacle, drawn in blackwork linework with no placement shown.
Woman with feathers and an octopus tentacle
Fine line jellyfish tattoo with a soft blue wash across the ribs and back, with a short script word along the lower ribs.
Jellyfish tattoo across ribs and back
Black and grey pen drawing of a human skull with octopus tentacles wrapping around and below it, on a textured pale background.
Skull and octopus tentacle design
Pencil sketch of a cartoon octopus with a bow and eyelashes, its tentacles shaded with suckers, drawn as a tattoo design on sketchbook paper.
Cartoon octopus with bow design
Pencil sketch of an octopus with curling tentacles and suckers, drawn on a sketchbook page beside a pen and a spiral notebook.
Octopus design in pencil on a sketchbook
Black and grey realism sleeve tattoo on an upper arm showing a pocket watch, a sailing ship in rough sea with a tentacle, and a dotwork mandala.
Pocket watch, ship and mandala sleeve
Teal jellyfish tattoo with soft, watercolour-like shading on a woman's calf, shown with tan strappy heels.
Teal jellyfish tattoo on a calf
Back of a person's neck and shoulders showing a black and grey octopus tattoo with dotted shading, with a colour rose tattoo on the upper arm at the left.
Octopus tattoo across the upper back and neck
Colourful neo-traditional tattoo of a green frog and orange octopus tentacles on the side of a neck, set against a teal wash.
Frog and octopus on the neck
Black and grey octopus tattoo with stippled shading on a bare stomach, sitting to the side of the navel.
Octopus tattoo on the abdomen
Colour tattoo of a green octopus with red-tipped tentacles on the outer thigh of a person sitting on a striped sofa.
Green octopus tattoo on a thigh
Pencil sketch of a mermaid woman with octopus tentacles, starfish and a shell bodice, drawn as a tattoo design rather than shown on skin.
Mermaid with octopus tentacles sketch
Full sleeve realism tattoo in black and grey with blue tones, showing a grinning cat, pocket watches, a girl and film strip portraits across the upper arm and forearm.
Full sleeve of clocks, cat and portraits
Colourful realistic octopus tentacle tattoo wrapping over a person's shoulder and upper back, shown from behind.
Colourful octopus tentacles across shoulder and back
Black linework drawing of octopus tentacles curling up and out of a teacup, a fine line tattoo flash design with no body placement shown.
Octopus tentacles rising from a teacup
Colour traditional-style tattoo of a red octopus with grey shading and a yellow eye, wrapping across the upper arm of a man in a blue vest top.
Red octopus tattoo on upper arm
Neo-traditional full sleeve tattoo on an arm showing a red-sailed ship in a lightning storm above an octopus and sharks in green sea.
Pirate ship and octopus full sleeve
Colour realism tattoo of an orange jellyfish with red trailing tentacles and a teal wash behind it, on the side of a torso over the ribs.
Orange jellyfish with teal wash on ribs
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
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of a grinning shark head rising from a purple cupcake beneath a parasol, with bubbles, on the outer thigh.
Shark cupcake with parasol on thigh
Black and grey blackwork octopus tentacle tattoo with rows of ringed suckers running down the outer upper arm of a person in a white t-shirt.
Octopus tentacle tattoo on an upper arm