Tattoo ideas

49,007 photos and flash · 24% Fine line, 17% Lettering · Forearm most common

What will it cost? Try the tattoo cost calculator
A kraft packet labelled TATTOOS shows a sheet of hand-drawn arrow designs in black with pink, mint and yellow-green accents.
Hand-drawn arrow designs on a tattoo sheet packet
Black line drawing of hand-drawn lettering reading Look for Beauty, Listen with Love, Live to Inspire, with a swirled butterfly, hearts and flourish dividers, shown as a tattoo design.
Look for Beauty lettering with butterfly
Hand-drawn A to Z alphabet sheet in bubbly graffiti-style lettering with black outlines and grey shading, shown as a design drawing rather than on skin.
Graffiti-style alphabet lettering sheet
Pencil drawing of two shaded roses with a leaf, a rosary of beads and an ornate cross, a traditional-style tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Roses and rosary with cross
Black outline drawing of a cross with a rose across its centre, shown as a tattoo design with no body visible.
Rose and cross line drawing
Black ink drawing of a standing lion, filled with paisley, mandala and swirl ornament, on white paper.
Ornate lion line drawing
Black line drawing of a front-facing elephant head filled with dense mandala-style patterns, suitable as a flash design for a tattoo.
Ornate elephant head line drawing
Green Celtic knotwork four-leaf clover design drawn on a plain white background, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Celtic knot shamrock design
Line drawing of a boxer dog head with a rose, pearl collar and scroll ornament, in a neo-traditional tattoo design style.
Boxer dog head with rose and scrollwork
Gold stylised sun design with wavy rays around an open centre, shown as a flash design on a plain white background.
Stylised sun with wavy rays
Pencil drawing of an owl in flight, with wings and body filled with swirls, dots and stylised lettering, shown as a tattoo design.
Ornate owl in flight design
Coloured pencil flash sheet of blue smoke-like spirit figures with large eyes and one red flame design, drawn as tattoo sketches.
Smoke and flame spirit designs on a sheet
Pencil drawing of an ornate pocket watch with Roman numerals and a scrolled leaf border, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Ornate pocket watch design with Roman numerals
Black crown design filled with white mountain and pine tree linework, with the lettering you my are king and PSALM 44:4, shown as a flat drawing with no body placement.
Crown with mountains and lettering
Black ink flash sheet of tattoo designs including a feather, antlers, mushrooms, a cleaver, an ear, an eye, a bird skull, balance scales with a brain, and a severed arm, drawn in dotwork and fine
Flash sheet of antlers, mushrooms and balance scales
Four hand-drawn fine line tattoo designs of spirals, loops and zigzags with dotted tails, drawn in dark ink on cream paper.
Four spiral and loop line designs
Black and grey dotwork drawing of a big cat's face framed by geometric spikes and dots, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Stippled big cat face in geometric frame
Flash sheet showing a colour floral skull with butterflies and ribbon, a black and grey skull with a spiked crown, and JANE lettering beside a deer silhouette.
Floral skull, misfit skull and deer flash sheet
Black fine line script lettering reading grace upon grace, with a small dot either side, drawn on a plain white background with no body placement shown.
Grace upon grace in fine script lettering
Black linework flash design of a raven with spread wings, decorated with spiralling Celtic knot patterns on its wings and body.
Celtic knot raven in flight
Black line drawing of a geometric lattice design inside a tall shape with pointed top and bottom, on a white background.
Geometric lattice design with diamonds
Four pastel flash designs on a pink background: a unicorn with a Wonderland banner, a scallop shell, lips with a glittery drip, and mushrooms in a circle.
Unicorn, shell, lips and mushroom flash designs
Black linework drawing of a neo-traditional anchor wrapped in rope, with flowers, leaves and cloud shapes, shown as a tattoo design on a warm background.
Anchor with rope and flowers design
Sheet of gold and silver foil temporary tattoo designs with hand-lettered phrases, diamond rings, a heart and a pink flower, shown on a white background.
Bachelorette flash tattoo mix pack
Framed white print of a dark blue Ogham-style vertical mark with the words Neart and Strength beneath it, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Ogham strength design in a frame
Black line flash design of a stitched spellbook with an eye on its cover, a banner reading It's all just a bunch of, and purple Hocus Pocus lettering.
Stitched spellbook with eye and banner flash
Solid black flash design of a deer skull with large antlers and two crossed rifles, shown on a plain white background with no body part visible.
Deer skull with antlers and crossed rifles
Pencil sketch of a mandala dreamcatcher with a shaded feather and trailing ribbons, drawn as a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Mandala dreamcatcher with feather sketch
Black and grey engraved skull design built from an octopus, fish, shells and an anchor, in a detailed flash style.
Sea creature skull with anchor
Black line drawing of a tattoo design with angular symbols above a horizontal rule and the italic words God is greater than the highs and lows, on a white background.
God is greater than the highs and lows lettering
Hand-drawn infinity symbol tattoo designs in black fine-line pen on paper, with script words such as love, faith, peace, hope and infinity.
Infinity symbol designs with script words
Pencil sketch of an abstract geometric design with overlapping angular planes, a spiral and small circles, drawn in black and grey as a possible tattoo design.
Geometric pencil sketch of an abstract animal head
Black and grey dotwork design of a teacup with rolling waves, a sailing ship, a storm cloud with lightning and rain, and flowers on the cup and saucer.
Storm in a teacup with a sailing ship
Black botanical flash design of a heart made from thorny vines with two roses, leaves and buds, with no body placement shown.
Rose and thorn vine heart design
White dotwork drawing of a ram skull with curled horns, two crescent moons and a starry triangle inside a circle, on a black background.
Ram skull with crescent moons in a triangle
Flash sheet of red and blue filigree ornaments, swirls, rosettes and crescent moon phases, with the word Marked in blue script across the centre.
Red and blue ornament and moon phase flash sheet
Black ink script lettering design with stippled shading, dots and swirling flourishes, drawn on white paper.
Script lettering design with dotwork shading
Hand-drawn black ink design of a realistic eye framed by ornate acanthus-style scrollwork, being inked with a brush pen on white paper.
Eye within ornate scrollwork design
Black line drawing of the word daydreamer in handwritten script with a long looping underline swash, shown as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Daydreamer script lettering design
Coloured pencil drawing of a skull formed from bare branches, with a blue bird perched on top, blue blossom, a green apple and no body placement shown.
Skull of branches with a bird and blossom
Black and grey pencil drawing of a dagger piercing a shaded rose with leaves, a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Dagger through a rose design
Black and grey pencil drawing of a tribal sun with radiating rays above bold Polynesian-style patterns, shown as a design with no body part visible.
Polynesian sun and tribal sleeve design
Purple line drawing of a skull framed by a lotus mandala and scrolling ornament, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Skull with lotus mandala and scrollwork
Tattoo design of two red roses framed by black tribal shapes and grey swirls on a white background.
Red roses with black tribal design
Black and grey traditional-style drawing of an anchor with a heart, a ribbon and a layered flower, shown on plain paper with no body placement visible.
Anchor and flower tattoo design
Pencil sketch of a volleyball design with the words one love in cursive script across its panels, drawn as a lettering concept with no body placement shown.
One love script on a volleyball sketch
Flash sheet of gold metallic temporary tattoo designs on white, including a mandala with a blue centre, palm trees, an anchor, triangles and the word breathe.
Gold metallic flash sheet with mandala and palms
Black ink tribal design drawn as a heart on an aged parchment background, filled with chevrons, spirals and dotted bands, shown as a flash design rather than on skin.
Tribal-patterned heart design

Ideas by style

Fine line Traditional Blackwork Japanese Dotwork Neo-trad Realism Lettering Botanical Geometric

Ideas by placement

Forearm Upper arm Shoulder Back Chest Ribs Thigh Calf Ankle Hand Neck

Popular subjects

Flower 8,605 Script 6,821 Leaves 6,438 Rose 4,399 Heart 4,105 Lettering 3,720 Bird 3,605 Feather 3,392 Quote 3,385 Swirl 3,253 Star 3,037 Dot 3,012 Text 2,685 Mandala 2,563 Wing 2,537 Word 2,200 Circle 2,163 Hand 1,970 Skull 1,900 Cat 1,806 Petal 1,805 Stem 1,695 Triangle 1,678 Outline 1,574 Arrow 1,573 Ornament 1,552 Banner 1,537 Eye 1,508 Woman 1,494 Moon 1,451