Tiger tattoo ideas

223 photos and flash · 35% Realism, 17% Japanese · Upper arm most common

What will it cost? Try the tattoo cost calculator
Black ink Japanese-style tiger design climbing downward with a curled tail, beside the kanji 虎, printed on orange textured paper.
Tiger with kanji on orange paper
Colour tattoo of a cartoon tiger standing upright, forming a heart with its paws, with bold black outlines on the side of the ribs.
Cartoon tiger forming a heart on ribs
Realistic colour tattoo of a tiger's face across the upper back, with amber eyes, orange and black fur and pale whiskers.
Tiger face on upper back
Two photographs on a magazine page show a bare male torso with a black and grey Japanese style tiger with red accents on the ribs and a dragon and cloud sleeve on the upper arm.
Japanese tiger and dragon sleeve on torso
Mixed colour tattoo of Calvin and Hobbes lying in grass beside a dark tree on the inner upper arm, with the quote 'I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up'.
Calvin and Hobbes quote on upper arm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a tiger's face framed by jungle leaves, running down the forearm.
Realistic tiger portrait on a forearm
Black line drawing sheet of many Thai sak yant designs, including yantra grids, tigers, a rooster, pagodas and Thai-style script, with no placement on the body shown.
Sheet of Thai sak yant tattoo designs
Traditional colour tattoo of a snarling tiger head flanked by red roses, placed on the front of the neck.
Traditional tiger head with roses on neck
Black and grey realism drawing of a snarling tiger face with bared fangs and detailed whiskers, pinned to a white wall.
Snarling tiger face drawing
Traditional style tiger tattoo across a man's back, with bold black linework, grey shading and red accents around the mouth and paw.
Tiger across a back
Black ink drawing of a snarling tiger with bold striped shading, crouched on rocks, shown as a tattoo design on plain paper.
Snarling tiger on rocks design
Black and grey tiger head with clouds tattooed on the back of a hand, held with another hand against dark clothing.
Tiger and clouds on the back of a hand
Realism-style tiger tattoo wearing an ornate armoured collar, with swirling clouds and a scroll panel of characters across a man's chest.
Snarling tiger and clouds across the chest
Black and grey realism tiger head tattoo wrapped around the middle finger of a hand resting on a wooden table.
Tiger head on a finger
Two neo-traditional tattoos of snarling big cat heads, an orange tiger and a black panther with green eyes, on a pair of thighs.
Tiger and panther heads on thighs
Black and grey realism sleeve on a forearm and upper arm showing a wolf head, a tiger face and a rose on the hand.
Wolf, tiger and rose arm sleeve
Pencil and blue pen drawing of a tiger above a woman's face with feathers, arrows and scrollwork, a neo-traditional tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Tiger and woman portrait tattoo design with feathers
Realistic tattoo of a grey tiger head with blue orchids and green leaves across the upper back.
Tiger head and blue orchids on upper back
A black and grey realism tattoo of a tiger walking towards the viewer with bamboo leaves, covering a person's back.
Tiger and bamboo across a full back
Colourful watercolour-style tiger head tattoo with pink, orange, yellow and green splashes across the upper back.
Watercolour tiger head on upper back
Black and grey tattoo of a snarling tiger head with bared fangs and bold shading, photographed on skin.
Snarling tiger head tattoo
Black ink pen drawing of a tiger walking towards the viewer, built from faceted geometric hatching and framed by a thin circle.
Geometric tiger pen drawing
Hand-drawn tiger design looking back over its shoulder, with black ink on the head and shoulders shading to purple, blue and green on the body, legs and tail.
Tiger design with black, purple, blue and green stripes
Three-panel drawing of a black ink design of a cat curled up with a tiger's head, shown being brushed in progressively in a Japanese-influenced style.
Sleeping cat and tiger design in ink
Full back tattoo in Japanese style showing a green dragon and an orange tiger among pink cherry blossoms and clouds.
Dragon and tiger back piece with blossoms
Colour tattoo of a roaring orange and black striped tiger with a small red and orange bird beside it, on the side of a torso below a black top.
Tiger and small bird on the side ribs
Colour tattoo of a tiger with black shaded stripes, creeping head first down the side of the ribs, with its tail curling above the shoulder line.
Tiger crawling down the ribs
Full body Japanese style tattoo across a torso, arms and thighs, showing a scowling figure with a blade among red flames and a tiger on the arm.
Full body Japanese tattoo with a fierce figure
Realistic coloured pencil drawing of a woman's face blended with a tiger's head and stripes, shown on paper as a tattoo design.
Woman and tiger portrait design
Neo-trad style tattoo design drawn on paper, showing a roaring tiger above a coiled snake with leaves and a lotus-like flower in red and grey shading.
Roaring tiger and snake design sketch
Black and grey realism tattoo of a tiger's head on the middle finger of a hand with dark glitter nail polish.
Tiger head tattoo on a finger
Black and grey realism tattoo of a tiger's eyes and striped face within a feather outline, on the side of the ribs below a black top.
Tiger eyes inside a feather on the ribs
Black ink line drawing design of a striped tiger seen from behind, sitting and looking up at small stars, on a white background.
Tiger seen from behind under stars
Colour tattoo of a cartoon boy riding a red wagon with a striped tiger behind him, over an orange flame trail, on the upper arm.
Cartoon boy and tiger on a red wagon
Black and grey butterfly tattoo on upper back with tiger faces shaded into the wings, with a touch of blue on the right wing.
Tiger-wing butterfly on upper back
Colour traditional style tattoos on a person's thighs and hand, showing a tiger head, a red rose, a framed portrait and a pocket watch, photographed in a car.
Traditional tattoo sleeve on legs and hand
Japanese style tattoos on a pair of thighs, with a black linework dragon and flower on the left and a shaded black and grey tiger with maple leaves on the right.
Tiger and dragon tattoos on both thighs
Black and grey realism tattoo of a tiger's head on a forearm, with an ornate mandala design near the wrist, shown in three photographs side by side.
Tiger head and mandala on a forearm
Realism tattoo of a greyscale tiger head framed by pink, red and purple flowers and small blue butterflies on the upper arm.
Tiger head with watercolour flowers on upper arm
Colour tattoo of a cartoon cat in an orange and black tiger-stripe costume with a red bow, on the forearm.
Cartoon cat in tiger costume on forearm
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a tiger head with a cigarette and a curling smoke line, on a section of skin.
Tiger head with cigarette
Colour realism tattoo of a tiger's head in profile with purple and blue flowers and painterly splashes, shown on an upper arm.
Tiger head and flowers on an upper arm
Colour tattoo of a tiger cub sitting in water with a small fish, with a butterfly above, on a person's upper back.
Tiger cub with butterfly on upper back
Realism tattoo of a tiger's face with bright blue eyes and black and grey fur markings, across the inner forearm.
Tiger eyes tattoo on a forearm
Colour realism tattoo of a tiger walking through green bamboo and white flowers, tattooed on a limb and shown as two side-by-side views.
Realistic tiger in jungle foliage on a limb
Fine line black tattoo of a cartoon boy with spiky hair hugging a striped tiger, on a section of skin.
Cartoon boy and tiger tattoo
Full back tattoo of an orange and black tiger battling a red and cream snake among clouds, in Japanese style, with further tattoos on both arms.
Tiger and snake full back piece
Small colour cartoon tiger tattoo with black outlines and orange stripes, shown on bare skin.
Cartoon tiger tattoo on skin