Tattoo ideas

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

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Colourful sugar skull tattoo design with roses, gem-set eyes and ornate scrollwork on a black background, shown as a flash drawing.
Sugar skull with roses and gem eyes
Four solid black bat silhouette designs stacked vertically on a white background, each with distressed, cracked white speckling across the wings.
Four bat silhouette designs
Line drawing of a shaded skull with black tribal swirls and spiky beige rays behind it, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Skull with tribal swirls flash design
Traditional flash drawing of a sailing ship inside a rope-edged star with an anchor behind it, shown on a stained paper background.
Nautical star with anchor and sailing ship
Black lettering design of three Chinese characters with the English words live, laugh and love printed beneath them, shown on a plain white background with no body placement.
Live laugh love in Chinese characters
Shaded black and grey skull drawing with purple, blue and green watercolour splashes and drips, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Watercolour skull design
Black line drawing sheet of four star and swirl tattoo designs on white paper, with outlined and filled stars linked by curling flourishes.
Star and swirl tattoo design sheet
Hand-drawn grey lettering design reading IF NOT NOW WHEN, with the words stacked and shaded in pencil on paper.
If not now when lettering design
Line drawing of an elephant with its trunk raised, built from purple, lavender and grey triangular facets, shown as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Geometric elephant design in purple
Black ink and watercolour drawing of a butterfly whose wings and body are formed from pink flowers and leaves on a peach background.
Butterfly made of pink blossom
Black line drawing of two facing profiles meeting at an interlaced heart knot above a flowing chin line, shown as a tattoo design on white.
Two facing profiles with a knotted heart
Black ink flash design of a dandelion seed head and drifting seeds above dotwork mountains framed in a circle, with dandelion leaves at the base.
Dandelion seeds and mountains in a circle
Black and grey line drawing of a Celtic knotwork design shaped like an S, with interlaced bands and pointed tips at each end, drawn as a tattoo stencil.
Interlaced knotwork S-shaped design
Black line drawing of a slender vine with curling scrolls and small five-petal flowers on a white background, a botanical tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Black vine with swirls and small flowers
Black line drawing of overlapping Mickey and Minnie Mouse head outlines, with a red polka-dot bow on Minnie's ear and the word LOVE in script beneath, on a cream background.
Mickey and Minnie silhouettes with LOVE
Pastel illustration of a sugar skull with a pink bow, a flower on the forehead and heart-shaped eyes, on a cream background with pink flowers.
Pastel sugar skull with pink bow
Flash design of a solid black Gemini zodiac symbol surrounded by green and black nautical stars on a white background.
Gemini symbol with nautical stars
Pencil sketch design of a howling wolf whose fur becomes a feather, with small birds rising from its tip, shown with no body placement.
Howling wolf dissolving into feather and birds
Flash-style drawing of a large key wrapped in two banners reading Courage is the Key, with a heart-shaped lock, a compass and bubbles, in traditional-style colour outlines.
Key with Courage is the Key banners
Black ink drawing of a tribal-style crescent band with a shaded flower on a grey background, shown as a tattoo design.
Tribal crescent band with flower
Realistic pencil sketch of a single feather curving from top right to bottom left, shown in black and grey on a white background, suitable as a tattoo design.
Realistic pencil feather sketch
Greyscale pencil drawing of a front-facing lion head with a full, flowing mane, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Realistic lion head drawing
Black line drawing of an ornate birdcage with two birds, one flying and one perched, beside roses and leaves, shown as an unshaded tattoo design sketch on paper.
Birdcage and roses tattoo design
Black tribal-style design of an ornate cross framed by spiky, feathered wings on a white background, shown as a flash drawing.
Winged cross tribal design
White line drawing of two crossed arrows with the word adventure written in script along the shaft, on a black background, as a tattoo design.
Crossed arrows with adventure script
Black script lettering on a white background in a flowing calligraphic style, with a large decorative initial letter, set out as a design for a lettering tattoo.
Calligraphic script quote design
Black dotwork drawing of a symmetrical geometric design with a flower of life at its centre and stacked circles above and below, shown on cream paper.
Dotwork geometric design with flower of life
A cream flash sheet of many small black line drawings, including keys, skulls, hearts, a syringe, an eye, a pyramid and a hamburger, in a fine line style with no body placement shown.
Small flash sheet of black line tattoo designs
Solid black heart design on a white background, with spiral scrolls inside, a small crown above and a keyhole in the right lobe.
Heart with spirals and keyhole design
Pencil sketch of a cross entwined with a thorned vine and a rose, drawn on graph paper, in a botanical style suited to a tattoo design.
Rose and thorned vine on a cross
Black ink line drawing of a round, smiling cartoon bat with its wings wrapped around its body, shown as a tattoo design.
Chubby bat with wrapped wings
Black ink drawing of a tribal-style phoenix with spread wings and a long flowing tail, sketched on lined paper.
Tribal phoenix design in black ink
Black line-and-solid design of a cluster of triangles above a crescent moon filled with a mandala pattern, shown on a white background with no body placement visible.
Triangle cluster above a mandala crescent
Japanese style flash design of three yellow chrysanthemums with green leaves set against black and grey clouds, with no body placement shown.
Yellow chrysanthemums on clouds
Black lettering design showing the words True Love above the Chinese characters for true love, with the pronunciation jen ai written below.
True love in Chinese characters
Line drawing of a profile skull wearing a feathered headdress with beaded bands, braids and ribbons, in pale blue and pink ink on cream paper.
Skull in feathered headdress in profile
Traditional flash sheet of six Star Wars designs: Chewbacca, C-3PO with a STAY COOL banner, Darth Vader, Yoda, an AT-AT walker and R2-D2, with roses and leaves.
Star Wars characters traditional flash sheet
Pencil drawing of a Japanese-style dragon coiling above chrysanthemum flowers, with wind lines, designed as a tattoo piece.
Japanese dragon with chrysanthemums
Black linework flash design of an ornate hourglass with a candle inside and a peony, drawn on grey paper.
Hourglass and peony design sketch
Neo-traditional flash design of a sugar skull framed by curly blue hair, yellow and pink flowers, red hearts and a green cross, with no body placement shown.
Sugar skull with flowers and curly hair
Black linework drawing of a sun with a spiral centre and pointed rays on a white background, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Spiral sun design
Black and grey pencil drawing of a tattoo design showing an owl holding a heart padlock and key, flanked by roses and leaves, in a neo-traditional style.
Owl with padlock, key and roses design
Black ink drawing of a curling ocean wave inside an inverted triangle, with fine hatched linework and stippled spray.
Wave curling inside an inverted triangle
Flash design of crossed swords, axes, a game controller and a Pokeball around a banner reading Gamer Forever, shown on a dark textured background.
Gamer Forever weapons emblem
Illustrated design of a woman with a sugar skull face, a feather headdress, roses, butterflies and a skull, drawn in a mixed black, grey and colour style.
Sugar skull woman with feather headdress
Black ink drawing of a skeletal hand with sprigs of flowers and leaves rising from the wrist, in a botanical flash style.
Skeletal hand with botanical flowers
Black ink drawing of a pair of scales of justice with a floral and vine-entwined stem and base, shown as a tattoo design on plain paper.
Floral scales of justice design
Black ink line drawing of a dragonfly with swirling blackwork patterns filling its wings, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Dragonfly with swirled wings

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