Tattoo ideas

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A sheet of ten black and grey rose drawings on a white background, shaded with fine hatching and stippling in a botanical realism style.
Ten black and grey rose flash designs
Drawing of a fox seen from behind, sitting with its head turned, filled with red, orange and purple swirling linework and a white-tipped tail on a white background.
Ornate swirl-patterned fox seen from behind
Pencil drawing of a crescent moon, a hand holding a wand and two ribbon banners with script lettering, shaded in yellow and black linework.
In the Name of the Moon banner design
Black ink and grey pencil drawing of a stylised cat with spider web patterns on its body and a curling tail, a design suitable for a tattoo.
Stylised cat with spider web and swirling tail
Black and grey pencil drawing of a jellyfish with a shaded, ridged bell and long flowing tentacles, shown on a cream background, in a realism style suited to a tattoo design.
Jellyfish pencil drawing
Black and grey ink drawing of a lion's head in profile within a starry night circle, with a Leo banner and flowers, shown as a tattoo flash design.
Lion profile with Leo banner and starry sky
Black and white yin yang design with two roses and swirling vines, drawn as a tattoo-style flash design with no body placement shown.
Yin yang with roses design
Black ink flash sheet of ten symmetrical ornamental designs with spirals, diamonds, chevrons and dots, drawn on white paper.
Ornamental flash sheet with ten motifs
Pencil-style line drawing of a woman with closed eyes, flowers in her hair, a songbird and orchid sprigs, designed as a fine line tattoo sketch.
Woman with bird and orchids sketch
Pen and ink flash drawing of an anchor with a ship's wheel across its shank, shaded with hatching and stippling on dotted paper.
Anchor and ship's wheel design
Pencil sketch of two ornate sugar skulls with flowers and curling swirls, drawn as a tattoo design in black and grey.
Sugar skulls with flowers and swirls
Flat blue design of a leaping dolphin with swirling wave and splash shapes, shown as a drawing rather than on skin.
Leaping dolphin with wave swirls
Black script reading dare to dream on a sepia background, with a feather at the bottom left that breaks up into flying birds towards the top right.
Dare to dream script with feather and birds
Blue line drawing of a symmetrical panda face flanked by two koi fish and lotus flowers, in a dotwork and Japanese-influenced style, shown as a tattoo design on a cream background.
Symmetrical panda with koi and lotus
Traditional style flash design of a woman in profile wearing a polka dot headscarf, with Victory script above and pink roses below, drawn on cream paper.
Victory portrait with roses flash
Pencil sketch of a winged skull with four roses and leaves, drawn as a neo-traditional tattoo design on a spiral sketchbook page.
Winged skull with roses sketch
Black and white pen drawing of a traditional-style design with stacked ribbon banners reading Ain't no woman like the one I got, an arrow and a heart, with no body placement shown.
Stacked ribbon banners with lettering and heart
Black line drawing of a tattoo design reading God is greater than the highs and the lows, with angular G, chevron and V shapes above the words.
God is greater than the highs and the lows
Black ink mandala design with a crescent moon, stars, snowy mountains and a pine forest inside a sunburst border, drawn on a beige background.
Mandala with mountains, pines and night sky
Black tribal spiral designs with curling patterns shown as armbands and shoulder pieces over grey body silhouettes.
Tribal spiral armband designs on body silhouettes
Red fine line design of a rose with leaves and a thorned stem wrapped around a knife, shown on a plain white background.
Rose wrapped around a knife
Black line drawing of a crescent moon filled with mandala motifs, a triangle border and small diamond accents, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Crescent moon with mandala and triangle border
Pencil and wash flash sketch of an ornate lace-patterned heart held by two hands, with a crown above and a dagger through it, partly tinted pink.
Lace heart with crown and dagger design
Pen and coloured pencil drawing of two koi fish circling a blue circle filled with white swirls and water splashes, a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Two koi fish around a swirling wave circle
Black line drawing of a dog face decorated in sugar skull style with ornamental eyes, a heart shaped nose ring and floral patterns, shown on white paper.
Sugar skull dog face design
Stippled dotwork illustration of a skull with diamond eyes, a compass rose on the brow, roses and flowers, and a ribbon banner, in peach on dark teal.
Skull with roses and compass design
Pencil drawing of a Cheshire Cat style grin and whiskered face with blue-green eyes, above the words we're all mad here, with no body placement shown.
Cheshire Cat grin with blue-green eyes
Pencil and ink line drawing of a bat with spread wings curling around an outlined heart, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Bat wrapped around a heart line drawing
Black line drawing of a running canine design with a swirled, flowing tail and solid black legs, in a bold blackwork style on a white background.
Running canine with swirling tail
Black linework drawing of a coiled dragon with a long, spiked body and a sweeping wing shaded with a grey splatter effect, on a white background.
Coiled dragon design with a grey wash wing
Flash sheet of bold black Japanese-style dragons and kanji characters labelled wealth, wisdom and love, with small red accents.
Dragons and kanji flash sheet
Traditional style flash drawing of a snarling black panther head with yellow eyes and an open red mouth, drawn on textured paper.
Snarling panther head flash
Six small heart designs in a grid of two rows and three columns, with outline and solid hearts in gold foil and black ink on a white background.
Six gold and black heart designs
Pencil sketch of an open hand with the words love, provoke, direction, promise and good luck placed above the fingers as a finger tattoo design.
Pencil sketch of a hand with finger words
Traditional-style flash drawing of a cartoon owl with large blue eyes, pink glasses and brown feathers, with no body placement shown.
Cartoon owl with pink glasses
Black stencil design of a gnarled, leafless tree with a skull in its trunk, shown on a white card against a dark green backdrop.
Gnarled dead tree with skull stencil
Black and grey flash drawing of a ribcage with a crab claw below, a flower rosette behind, the word Cancer and a short verse printed underneath.
Cancer zodiac ribcage and crab flash
Black line drawing of a butterfly whose wings are formed from musical staff lines and notes, with swirling flourishes around it.
Butterfly made of musical staves and notes
Traditional-style flash drawing of a ship in a heart framed by roses, with the words Beyond the Sea in black outline lettering.
Ship in a heart with roses flash design
Black fine script lettering reading Always on my mind and Forever in my heart, with two outlined hearts, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Script quote with two outlined hearts
Traditional style flash sheet with two portrait figures in the centre, surrounded by an eye, a hand holding a cigarette, a UFO, a bee and crystals, with slogan lettering.
Flash sheet with two portraits, UFO, eye and bee
Black tribal-style horse head design with flowing swirled mane on a white background, shown as a flash drawing with no body placement.
Tribal horse head design
Pencil sketch of decorative lettering reading Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday, with scrollwork and a banner, beside an eraser and two pencils.
Lettering sketch of a quote on a banner
Pencil sketch of a dreamcatcher with two shaded feathers and small birds, drawn on a spiral sketchbook page, suitable as a tattoo design.
Dreamcatcher and feathers pencil sketch
Sepia line drawing of a symmetrical paisley and leaf ornament tattoo design on a grid-paper background, with no placement shown.
Symmetrical paisley ornament design
Black script lettering on a white background reading 'La vita è un sogno', a tattoo design in a flowing calligraphic style.
Italian script quote 'La vita è un sogno'
Black ink drawing of a hummingbird built from ornate swirling linework and curls on a white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Swirling hummingbird tattoo design
Black ink line drawing of a side-facing skull wearing a feathered headdress with a heart-shaped pendant, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Skull in feathered headdress line drawing

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