Tentacle tattoo ideas

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

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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
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
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 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
Colour tattoo of a red octopus with yellow suckers on the top of a foot, with a second foot wearing a turquoise bead anklet beside it.
Red octopus tattoo on a foot
Man with crossed arms in a navy T-shirt showing a black and grey traditional-style sleeve, with a bird on the forearm and a rose on the lower arm.
Crossed arms with bird and rose tattoos
Black and grey traditional-style tattoo of an octopus with its tentacles wrapped around an anchor, placed on the outer thigh.
Octopus wrapped around an anchor on a thigh
Colour traditional-style tattoo on an upper arm showing a blue TARDIS police box with tentacles, a gold Dalek, a silver Cyberman and a planet against a space background.
Doctor Who TARDIS, Dalek and Cyberman on upper arm
Black and grey Traditional style tattoo of octopus tentacles rising from engraved waves beneath stars and clouds, on an upper arm.
Octopus tentacles rising from waves on an upper arm
Colour tattoo of a sailing ship, red sun, waves and an octopus across the side of a torso and upper thigh, in a Japanese and traditional style.
Sailing ship and octopus side piece
Black and grey tattoo of an octopus with tentacles wrapped around an anchor, in a traditional style, on the upper arm.
Octopus and anchor on an upper arm
Blue octopus with dotted suckers wrapped around a ship in a bottle, a traditional style tattoo on the outer thigh.
Octopus and ship in a bottle on a thigh
Traditional-style tattoo on a forearm of a green octopus with yellow suckers wrapped around a grey anchor, with pink roses and blue flowers below.
Octopus wrapped around an anchor with roses
Colour tattoo of Kodos, the green one-eyed alien from The Simpsons, with tentacles and the words 'Don't blame me I voted for Kodos' above, on a thigh.
Kodos from The Simpsons with lettering on a thigh
Colour tattoo of a green octopus with pink suckers among blue waves across a person's chest, in a traditional style, with tattooed arms visible at the sides.
Green octopus and waves on chest
Black and grey traditional tattoos on a man's upper arm and chest, including a panther head, a snake coiled around a woman's face, a cross and a stag head.
Traditional panther, snake and stag tattoos on arm and chest
Traditional style squid tattoo in green, orange and red with black outlines, shown from two angles on an arm.
Traditional squid on an arm
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 and grey back tattoo of a sailing ship, a lighthouse and a large kraken with tentacles rising through waves, in a traditional nautical style.
Kraken, sailing ship and lighthouse across a back
Realism colour tattoo on the upper arm showing a golden skull medallion above a bearded figure in a hat with tentacle-like facial hair.
Skull medallion and tentacled figure on arm
Traditional style tattoo of a brass diving helmet on a jellyfish body with the letter N, surrounded by shells on the upper arm and shoulder.
Diving helmet jellyfish on upper arm
Colour tattoo of an orange octopus with grey suckers and a cross-eyed expression on a lower leg, in a traditional style.
Orange octopus on a lower leg
Black line drawing of a sailing ship, tentacles, waves and an anchor with a banner reading I am the captain of my soul, shown as a traditional-style tattoo design.
Ship and anchor flash with captain banner