Tombstone tattoo ideas

24 photos and flash · 38% Traditional, 25% Lettering · Upper arm most common

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Black and grey traditional tattoo of a tombstone reading WISH YOU WERE HERE with a flower and a leaf at its base, on the upper leg.
Tombstone reading Wish You Were Here
Black and grey traditional flash sheet on a wooden table, showing video game themed designs including a castle, bomb, ghost, shy guy, tombstone reading GAME OVER and a pin-up figure.
Video game themed flash sheet in black and grey
Black ink tattoo on the inner forearm of a tombstone-shaped outline with a small cherub at the top, grass at the base, and the words EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL AND NOTHING HURT in capitals.
Tombstone quote tattoo on a forearm
Colour tattoo sleeve on an upper arm showing a haunted house, a white cat ghost with a green bow, a dark cat figure with a red bow, a bat and a tombstone against a blue sky.
Haunted house and cat characters on an upper arm
Flash sheet in a spiral notebook with black and red dotwork designs of a goblet, radio, crown, Deathly Hallows symbol, tombstone, eye, lighter and the words Avada Kedavra.
Harry Potter Deathly Hallows flash sheet
Black and grey flash sheet with four designs: a cracked tombstone reading HOPE, a dagger with Sad Truth, a noose with Sweet Dreams, and a rose with a basketball centre reading Still Ballin.
Four flash designs on a light background
Black and grey flash sheet of Addams Family themed designs, including a kissing couple in a heart, a young woman's face, a candelabra, a vintage car and a spider web.
Addams Family flash sheet in black and grey
Colour tattoo of a stitched blue ragdoll character with red hair and large eyes, holding a small tombstone-style design, shown on a forearm in three side-by-side photos.
Stitched ragdoll with red hair on a forearm
Colour neo-traditional tattoo on an upper arm showing a sugar skull girl with a blue bow, a sugar skull pony, angel wings, bats and a coffin against pink clouds.
Sugar skull girl with pony and bats on upper arm
Black and grey flash sheet of gothic tattoo designs including a moth, owl, ghost, coffin, dagger, cat and crossed bones, drawn in dotwork and bold outlines.
Black and grey gothic flash sheet
Colour tattoo on an upper arm and shoulder showing cartoon horror characters, a jack-o-lantern and an RIP tombstone in a graveyard scene.
Horror characters sleeve on upper arm
Realism tattoo on a forearm showing a graveyard scene with a pale zombie woman, a shambling figure, a dog, a skull and headstones in grey tones.
Zombie graveyard scene on a forearm
Black and white traditional-style flash sheet of sixteen designs, including playing cards, a dagger, dice, pizza, a skull with an eight ball, cobwebs, a coffin and a tombstone.
Black and white flash sheet with skulls and cards
Black and grey ink drawing of a skull with gothic castles in the eye sockets, pine trees on the left and small tombstones on the teeth.
Gothic castles inside a skull drawing
Black dotwork tattoo of a classical bust with a labyrinth on its head, on the upper arm, with a small tombstone reading TOO OLD TO DIE YOUNG above it.
Classical bust with labyrinth on upper arm
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a gravestone reading GENDER ROLES ARE DEAD on an arm, with grass along the base.
Gravestone reading Gender roles are dead
Black ink flash sheet of traditional-style designs including skulls, a cat, a rose, a dagger, an owl and a rabbit, many marked with the number 13, shown as drawings with no body placement.
Hand-drawn flash sheet with 13 motifs
Black and grey traditional style tattoos stacked down a man's upper arm: a burning car, a tombstone reading THE SYSTEM IS A DEAD END, a globe and a hand with a dollar sign.
Burning car, tombstone, globe and hand on upper arm
Traditional style tattoo of a grey tombstone with green grass and red shading, reading GET BUSY LIVIN' OR GET BUSY DYIN', on a limb.
Tombstone with GET BUSY LIVIN' slogan
Black and cream stippled drawing of a horned devil and a seated skeleton raising goblets, with a raven on a tombstone and the words Memento mori below.
Devil and skeleton drinking, memento mori
Black and grey realism upper arm tattoo of a haunted house with glowing eyes, a full moon, a tree, tombstones and banners with book titles.
Haunted house and tombstones on upper arm
Realistic colour tattoo of a screaming zombie face above a cracked tombstone and a green zombie head, sitting on a calf.
Screaming zombie and tombstone on a calf
Black and grey tattoo of Jack Skellington and Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas inside a swirling ornate frame, with a yellow-grey moon and a small ghost dog below.
Jack and Sally in an ornate frame
Colour tattoo of a Halloween graveyard scene with jack-o'-lanterns, a bare tree, bats and a haunted house across an upper arm.
Halloween graveyard scene on upper arm