Torso tattoo ideas

51 photos and flash · 18% Blackwork, 16% Realism · Ribs most common

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Painted Japanese style design of a green snake coiling around pink and yellow lotus flowers over dark swirling clouds, shown on a flat back torso cutout.
Snake and lotus back design on a painted torso
Blue line drawing of a torso covered in traditional flash designs including a rose, skull, diamond, heart, anchor, snake, candle and ship.
Torso covered in traditional flash motifs
Solid black ankh with an Eye of Horus beneath it on the side of a person's ribs, with a hand resting on the stomach.
Ankh and Eye of Horus on the ribs
Black and grey geometric mandala tattoo covering a man's chest, abdomen, shoulders and neck, in dotwork and blackwork style.
Geometric mandala across chest and torso
Close photo of a black and pink dinosaur tattoo with small birds around it, placed on the side of the torso near the navel.
Pink dinosaur tattoo with scattered birds on torso
Black and grey photo of a shirtless man with black tribal and spiral tattoos on his chest and shoulders and a sleeve on his arm, wearing a cap pulled low.
Tribal and sleeve tattoos on a muscular torso
Black and grey ram skull tattoo with curled horns across the lower abdomen, with further tattoos visible on the upper arms.
Ram skull tattoo on lower abdomen
Close view of a black script lettering tattoo on the right side of the ribs, above a gold waist chain, with a beige bralette visible at the top of the frame.
Script lettering tattoo on the ribs
Black and grey winged emblem tattoo with a central figure, spread across the left ribs of a bare torso.
Winged emblem on the ribs
Line drawing of a traditional-style tattoo design on a torso, with an eagle, a LOYALTY banner, a ship, a skull and flags, shown in black outline.
Eagle, ship and LOYALTY banner torso design
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
Black and grey feathered wing tattoo with fine hatching and scattered ink splatter across the side of the ribs.
Feathered wing tattoo on side of torso
Small star tattoos in a vertical line down the chest and upper midriff, worn beside a neon geometric bandeau bikini top.
Vertical star line across the chest
Black and grey blackwork tribal tattoo covering one side of a torso, extending across the chest, ribs and upper arm, with the other side left bare.
Tribal blackwork across chest, ribs and arm
Black and white photo of a thin single line tattoo running from the wrist up the inside of a forearm, in a fine line style.
Single fine line along a forearm
Black and grey photo of a small fine line GRL PWR lettering tattoo on the side ribs, below a lifted grey sweater and above jeans.
GRL PWR lettering on the ribs
Black and grey Japanese style dragon tattoo coiling from the upper back down the side and onto the ribs of a bare torso.
Black and grey dragon coiling down back and side
Man with a full chest and sleeve Japanese style tattoo of peonies, koi, a lion and clouds on a dark background.
Full torso and sleeve Japanese tattoo with peonies and koi
Black and grey diptych of a shirtless man with two bold chevron stripe tattoos, one running down the side of his ribs and one from the shoulder down the upper back.
Chevron stripes along ribs and back
Traditional colour tattoo of stacked toy pirate figure parts, including a skull hat, eyepatch head and sword torso, running down a forearm.
Stacked pirate minifigure parts on a forearm
Black mandala tattoo with scrolls and pointed petals curving across the side of the ribs on a bare torso, in black and grey.
Mandala tattoo on the side ribs
Black and grey sketch tattoo across a man's upper back showing two hands holding a wooden cross above an anatomical heart with thin wire-like lines.
Hands holding a cross above a heart on back
Black and grey photograph of a large snake tattoo coiling around a torso, circling the navel and running down the side onto the ribs.
Snake wrapping around a torso
Black and grey script tattoo reading Live nothing but love across the upper chest of a shirtless person, shown in lettering style.
Script quote on upper chest
Torso with a large colour neo-traditional tattoo of glowing honeycomb hexagons and organic swirls across the chest and ribs, with sleeve work on the upper arms.
Colourful honeycomb and organic torso tattoo
Black and grey realism tattoo of a horned dinosaur skull on a bare female figure holding a flower, across the upper arm.
Skull-headed figure holding a flower on upper arm
Small black script tattoo on the side ribs of a woman in a white crochet bikini top, with foliage and pale stone behind her.
Script tattoo on ribs in white crochet bikini
Black and grey blackwork tattoo of tribal patterns on the shoulders and upper arms, with fine script lettering across the chest and a forearm lettering piece, on a shirtless torso.
Chest script and tribal shoulder tattoos on a torso
Fine line black tattoo of a small origami crane on the left side ribs of a person in a red jacket and black bra.
Origami crane on the ribs
Black and grey tattoo of a bare winter tree beside the navel, with a shaded moon above it, across the torso.
Bare tree and moon on torso
Black and grey sun tattoo with a face, radiating rays and dotted chains hanging below, placed centrally on the chest.
Sun with face on chest
Black tribal blackwork tattoo with a large spiral and geometric bands across a person's left side ribs and waist.
Tribal spiral tattoo on the side ribs
Black and grey tattoo of a dismembered humanoid figure with drips of ink, running across the ribs of a bare torso.
Dismembered figure on the ribs
Bold black tribal tattoo in a Polynesian style covering a man's upper arm, shoulder and chest, with his face cropped out of frame.
Polynesian-style tribal sleeve and chest
Black geometric band tattoo on the upper arm of a woman in black lace lingerie, with her face cropped out of frame.
Geometric arm tattoo, woman in black lace lingerie
Japanese style tattoo covering the chest, ribs and both arms, with pink cherry blossoms, an eagle and koi fish on a dark cloud background.
Japanese torso and sleeves with blossom and eagle
Man's torso, neck and arms covered in black blackwork tattoos, with a honeycomb pattern of hexagons and pentagons and a dotwork gradient around the navel.
Honeycomb blackwork torso piece
Pen drawing of a tattoo design on a woman's torso in a bikini, showing a Japanese style dragon and mermaid along the ribs and hip.
Dragon and mermaid design on a torso
Five monarch butterfly tattoos on a person's ribs, shown side by side in daylight and under UV light, where the orange and black wings glow.
Monarch butterflies along the ribs
Realistic colour tattoo on a side torso made to look like torn skin, revealing a blue sky with clouds and black swallows in flight across the ribs.
Torn skin revealing sky and swallows on ribs
Shirtless man with a realistic black and grey skull and red sunburst tattoo across his chest and stomach, with geometric linework and red and grey sleeves on both arms.
Skull and geometric full torso and sleeve tattoo
Black and grey realistic tattoo of a skull merged with a Roman numeral clock face and gears, across the side of a torso on the ribs.
Skull and clock mechanism on the ribs
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a torso in a square frame, with a hand on the hip and black underwear, on the outer thigh.
Line drawing of a torso in a square frame on a thigh
Fine line black tattoo of a LEGO minifigure's separated parts, from helmet to legs, running down the forearm.
LEGO minifigure parts on a forearm
Colourful painterly tattoo of a Rubik's cube forming the head of a faceless figure, with paint drips, across an upper arm and shoulder.
Rubik's cube head figure on an upper arm
Black and grey tribal tattoo with spirals and cross motifs running in an S-curve down a bare back and side.
Tribal spiral tattoo down a back and side
Black and grey lettering reading DON'T LAUGH with a small downward arrow, tattooed on the lower abdomen above a black waistband, with larger black and grey tattoos higher up the torso.
Small Don't Laugh lettering on the lower belly
Realism-style black and grey tattoo of a large skull and eye across a man's chest and stomach, with a snake and flowers on the shoulder and arm.
Black and grey skull and eye torso tattoo