Tattoo ideas

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

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Black and white blackletter alphabet sheet showing upper and lower case letters A to Z in an ornate lettering style.
Blackletter alphabet lettering sheet
Pencil sketch of two crossed arrows with the words BE, AND, STILL and KNOW set around the crossing point, a lettering-led tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Crossed arrows with 'Be still and know' lettering
Black and grey flash sheet showing three arrow designs, two with script wording such as aim in life and keep aiming, with no body placement shown.
Three arrow designs with script quotes
White cursive lettering reading Stay Strong with a small outlined heart on a black background, a black and grey lettering design.
Stay Strong script lettering with a heart
Black ink line drawing of a segmented serpent biting its own tail in a circle, with the lettering Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration set around the edge.
Circular serpent design with quote lettering
Black lettering design of a two-line quote about an anchor and wings, with a hanging chain, a small anchor and a bird silhouette, shown on a plain white background.
Anchor and wings quote lettering design
Black script lettering reading "it is well" with a line over the word "it" on a plain white background, shown as a lettering design.
"it is well" script lettering design
Black and grey flash sheet of three script lettering designs reading Amor, Baby Girl and Princess, with small star accents between them.
Script lettering flash: Amor, Baby Girl, Princess
Black and white flash sheet of bird designs, including flying birds, perched birds on a swirling branch, a swallow-style pair, a hummingbird and script reading freedom, take me far, and we only part
Bird flash sheet with script phrases
Black line drawing of the words HERE COMES THE SUN in hand-drawn lettering, with SUN inside a circle surrounded by a spiky sunburst outline, on a white background.
Here Comes the Sun lettering in a sun
Pencil sketch of an ornate swash design with shaded ribbon-like forms and curling scrolls, drawn on off-white paper.
Pencil sketch of an ornate scroll flourish
Black ink handwritten script reading Wait and hope with a long sweeping underline, drawn on a white card over a dark wooden surface, in a lettering style suited to a tattoo design.
Script lettering reading Wait and hope
Black hand-lettered design reading Embrace the Journey, with a looping script for Embrace and a swash-flourished The above a serif capitals JOURNEY, shown on a plain white background.
Embrace the Journey lettering design
Fine line script lettering design reading focus on the good, drawn in black on a plain white background.
Focus on the good script lettering
Traditional-style flash design of dice, a green bottle and a can in flames above a banner reading Roll the Dice, with no body placement shown.
Roll the dice flash with flames and banner
Two matching black linework heart designs with ornate swirls, one reading Big Sis and the other Lil Sis in script, shown as a flash sheet.
Matching big sis and lil sis heart designs
Black linework flash design of a gramophone inside an ornate oval frame, with leaves and a banner reading Music is a place to be, drawn on tracing paper.
Gramophone in an ornate frame with banner
Black single-line design of the word love forming a heart outline, with a volleyball drawn in the letter o, on a grey gradient background.
Continuous line love heart with volleyball
Hand-drawn pencil sketch of the words Once upon a time in ornate script with swirling flourishes, a lettering design for a tattoo.
Once upon a time lettering sketch
Black ink drawing of a stylised calligraphic script design with curling flourishes on a plain grey background, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Black ink calligraphic swirl design
Pen drawing of a shaded feather with the script words free yourself, live your dreams above it, as a tattoo design on paper.
Feather with 'free yourself' script design
Pencil sketch of an interlocking script monogram in black and grey, drawn as a lettering design for a tattoo.
Interlocking script monogram sketch
Two pencil sketches of ornate lettering designs, one reading HOPE and one reading FAITH, with flourishes around each word.
Hope and Faith lettering sketches
Five temporary tattoo designs on white squares: a black lotus, a magenta elephant above Námáste script, a black Om symbol, a black circle with a white Om, and magenta Námáste lettering.
Lotus, elephant and Om temporary tattoo designs
Black linework flash sheet of Irish-themed tattoo designs, including a shamrock, harp, pipe, horseshoe, pot of gold and banner lettering, shown on a flat, unmarked white sheet.
Irish-themed traditional flash sheet
Black and grey pencil design of symmetrical blackletter-style lettering with four wolf heads and flowing ornamental lines, drawn as a flash design for a tattoo.
Symmetrical blackletter lettering with four wolf heads
Black tribal-style lettering design with curling swirls and tapering spikes, shown as a standalone flash design on a white background.
Tribal swirl lettering design
Tattoo design of an infinity symbol with the words Love and Family in script, decorated with a green feather, leaves and purple and teal butterflies.
Infinity symbol with love and family script
Black ink handwritten word brave with a line and arrow beneath it, drawn as a tattoo design on a white background.
Brave script with arrow design
Black line drawing of the word King with a crown and the word Queen with a crown, both in flowing script, presented as a pair of flash designs.
King and Queen script with crowns
Colour flash design of a blue and pink bird on a flowering branch with the script Never Clip My Wings and two music notes.
Bird on a branch with Never Clip My Wings script
Pen sketch of a head and shoulders in profile outline, with the words We're all stories in the end, Just make it a good one, eh? lettered inside the shape in a hand-drawn script.
Profile outline with lettered quote
Black fine line design of an ECG heartbeat trace that spikes once then runs flat, with the words SLEEP FOREVER in serif capitals below, on a plain grey background.
Flatline heartbeat with SLEEP FOREVER lettering
Black line drawing of an infinity symbol with the word glee in cursive script at the right loop, shown on a white background as a tattoo design.
Infinity symbol with script 'glee'
Black ink flash drawing of an anchor wrapped in rope with the word SAILORS in ornate lettering across it, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Anchor and SAILORS lettering design
Black fine line script letters b and k joined by a thin connecting line and a solid heart, shown as a tattoo design on a light grey background.
Script letters b and k with a heart
Black ink drawing of a compass rose inside a pocket watch case with a calligraphic quote beside it, shown as a tattoo design.
Compass in a pocket watch case with quote
Collage of black fine line infinity symbol designs with script words and birds, shown as temporary tattoos on a wrist and forearm.
Infinity script temporary tattoo designs
Black ink drawing of the hand-lettered words and if not he is still good, framed by a wreath of leaves, ferns and small flowers, shown as a design with no body placement.
Hand-lettered quote in a leafy wreath
Black ink drawing of decorative script lettering with shaded capitals, swirling flourishes and a leaf motif, drawn on paper beside a black fineliner pen.
Script lettering with flourishes
Black line drawing flash design of a banner reading Death before decaf, flanked by roses, with a teacup bearing a skull and crossbones, in a traditional style.
Death before decaf banner with roses and teacup
Black and grey pencil drawing of a woman in a cap with script lettering, a hand raised to her mouth and a rosary, a tattoo flash design with no placement on the body.
Pencil portrait of a woman in a script-embroidered cap
Black line drawing of overlapping circles of varying sizes above the words You are Loved by so Many and so Much and By no One more than ME, on a white background.
Overlapping circles with quote lettering
Black ink line drawing of a pine tree, a deer and hatched hillside with a banner reading Prone to Wander, on aged paper.
Prone to Wander pine and deer design
Colour flash design of a steel anchor wrapped in banners reading Just Keep Swimming, surrounded by cartoon sea creatures on a blue background.
Anchor with Just Keep Swimming banners
White script lettering on a black background reading We're all stories in the end, just make it a good one, set inside a police box outline, shown as a lettering flash design with no body placement.
Police box with script quote design
Black ink flash design of a hummingbird feeding from a scrolled flower, with music notes and script lettering along the stem.
Hummingbird and flower scroll with music notes
Black linework design of the word LOVE in an elegant serif script, with the O looped into the flowing L and a curled flourish on the E, drawn on a plain white background.
Stylised LOVE lettering design

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