Whale tattoo ideas

114 photos and flash · 33% Dotwork, 16% Fine line · Forearm most common

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Black line drawing of a humpback whale rising beside curled wave scrolls, shown as a standalone design with no body part visible.
Humpback whale with swirling waves
Nautical flash sheet of line-art designs in navy and red, including a lighthouse, swallow, whale, anchor, jellyfish and squid on a cream background.
Nautical tattoo flash sheet
Colour drawing of a whale filled with a purple, blue and pink galaxy of stars on a pale background, shown as a standalone tattoo design with no body part visible.
Galaxy-filled whale drawing
Black and grey traditional flash of a skull above a trident and anchor rope, framing a ship, a whale and a banner reading Sea Shepherd.
Skull, trident and whale in a rope frame
White line drawing of a whale built from stylised waves on a navy background, with a tiny boat and figures in the sea, drawn as a flash design.
Whale formed from waves and a small boat
Black ink drawing of two whale tails rising from stylised waves on white paper, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Two whale tails with waves
A grid of fifteen continuous single-line drawings of sea creatures, including a dolphin, sea turtle, seahorse, shark and orca, in black on white.
Fifteen single-line sea creature designs
Overhead view of many small temporary tattoo designs, including animals, flowers, lettering and simple line motifs, scattered around a silver tin marked SUPER.
Temporary tattoo designs around a metal tin
Solid black blackwork design of a leaping orca with a white patch behind the eye and a curved tail, on a white background.
Leaping orca design
A black and white flash sheet of nautical designs including anchors, a lighthouse, a whale, a compass star, a ship's wheel, a sailing boat and a sailing ship.
Nautical flash sheet of anchors, waves and ships
White line drawing of a whale tail fluke on a dark navy background, with mountains, waves and a whale scene filling its shape, shown as a design with no body placement.
Whale tail filled with mountains and sea
Black and grey dotwork drawing of a humpback whale set against an outlined geometric crystal shape, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Humpback whale within a geometric crystal
Black tribal-style design of a whale with ornamental linework and swirls, shown as a standalone drawing on a white sticker background rather than on skin.
Tribal whale design in black ink
Illustrated flash design of a black and yellow orca with an orange tail, crossed by a beige banner reading IF YOU LOVE ME LET ME GO, on a cream damask background.
Orca with a banner reading If you love me let me go
Watercolour tattoo design of an orca swimming among purple splashes, stars and soft pink clouds, shown on paper without a body placement.
Orca among purple watercolour clouds
Drawn tattoo design of a black whale tail rising from blue watercolour waves, with five black birds and a dotted pink circle, shown on a white background.
Whale tail, waves and birds design
Black line drawing of a ship in a glass bottle above an octopus and a whale, with a rose at the base and ribbon banners, in a traditional style.
Ship in a bottle with octopus and whale
Pen and pencil drawing of two orcas swimming head to tail, with their backs and fins filled in swirling black linework.
Two orcas in swirling fine-line pattern
Black ink drawing of a whale swimming through stippled waves beneath a starry night sky, set inside a circle, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Whale in a circle of waves and stars
Black and grey geometric whale drawing with small blue accents on paper, beside a forearm with a black and grey rose tattoo.
Geometric whale design beside a rose forearm tattoo
Black silhouette of a leaping whale with the words Do what is right, not what is easy set in white distressed lettering across its body, drawn in a vintage woodcut style.
Whale with Do What Is Right quote
Flash sheet of eight retro patch-style designs in Traditional style, including a panther, a sailor, a duck, a whale, a penguin and a Road Queens speedway emblem, with no body placement shown.
Retro patch-style flash sheet of animals and sailors
Sheet of thirty black single-line drawings of animals and sea creatures in a fine line style, shown as tattoo design flash on a white background.
Single-line animal designs sheet