Tattoo ideas

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

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Black line drawing of a tattoo design with curling scrolls, small dots and a solid star with an open centre, shown on a plain white background.
Swirling flourish with a star
Green shamrock tattoo design made of interlaced ribbon with heart-shaped leaves, outlined in black with yellow-green shading, shown as a drawing without a body placement.
Interlaced shamrock with heart-shaped leaves
Black and grey pencil drawing of an ornate pocket watch with Roman numerals, acanthus scrollwork and a beaded chain, shown as a tattoo design.
Pocket watch with scrollwork design
Black ink flash design of a feather dissolving into small birds, with the words stay strong in fine script looping through an infinity symbol.
Feather, birds and infinity script reading stay strong
Six black and white line drawings of ornate sugar skulls with floral, rose and heart patterns on a mint green background, shown as tattoo flash designs.
Six sugar skull designs on mint green
Black line drawing of a heart framed by an ornate henna-style mandala pattern on a white background.
Heart-shaped henna-style mandala design
Black handwritten script reading "you can do this" in a brush lettering style on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design.
"You can do this" script lettering design
White ambigram lettering reading witch on a black background, a design that also reads the same when turned upside down.
Witch ambigram lettering design
Black line drawing of the words you are my anchor in handwritten lettering, above an anchor whose shank forms a heart, suitable as a lettering and anchor tattoo design.
You are my anchor lettering with anchor and heart
Black line drawing on paper of a traditional style tattoo design with roses, playing cards, a pocket watch and an ornate mirror frame.
Roses, playing cards and pocket watch design
Black and white drawing of a tattoo design with interlocking arcs, fern fronds, diamond motifs and stippled shading, suited to a large back or sleeve piece.
Black and white tribal leaf and geometric pattern
Pencil and red ink sketch of a skull with a rose in its open jaw and leaves below, drawn as a tattoo design on paper with no body part shown.
Skull and rose design sketch
Black and grey hand-lettered tattoo flash design of an anchor with rope and the words If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land, drawn on a sketchbook page, with no body part shown.
Anchor with hand-lettered quote design
Black line drawing of a sugar skull face with a diamond on the forehead, a lily in flowing hair, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Sugar skull woman with lily, line drawing
Coloured pencil sketch of a cartoon pin-up character with pigtails, holding a mallet and a pistol, with a red heart on the thigh and playing card letters beneath, drawn as a tattoo design.
Cartoon pin-up sketch with mallet and pistol
Pencil drawing of a stylised swallow in flight with ornamental scrollwork and dot patterns across the wings and body, designed as a tattoo.
Ornate swallow flash drawing
Black ink line drawing of a stylised butterfly with flowing wings and curled swirling antennae on a plain white background.
Black line butterfly design
Black lace-patterned fairy silhouette with sweeping wings and a flowing dress, shown as a design drawing on a white background with no body placement.
Lace-winged fairy silhouette
Black tribal-style hummingbird design with a long beak, outstretched wings and forked tail feathers, shown as a stencil on a white background.
Tribal-style hummingbird design
Black and grey realism drawing of a lion wearing a patterned knit beanie, set against a circle filled with geometric triangles, as a tattoo design.
Lion in a knit beanie with geometric backdrop
Pencil sketch of a curling fish or mermaid tail with scalloped scales and fanned fins, drawn in black and grey on a sketchbook page.
Curling fish or mermaid tail pencil sketch
Repeating pattern of blue traditional swallows with red chests and yellow tails, alternating with white nautical stars outlined in black on a pale yellow background.
Swallows and nautical stars repeat pattern
Black and grey peony flash drawing with three blooms of different sizes and dark leaves, in a neo-traditional botanical style, on white paper.
Three black and grey peony designs
Black and grey sketch of a kitten's face framed by leaves, with a jewelled pendant on its forehead and beaded chains below, shown as a tattoo design drawing.
Kitten with leaves and beaded pendant design
Black and grey pencil drawing of an ornate compass rose with a lace-edged mandala border, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Compass rose tattoo design
Traditional flash design of a red rose with green leaves, a tan banner reading AMORE and small black stars, shown without a body placement.
Traditional rose with Amore banner
Black line flash sheet of five designs: a sun and moon, a paisley swirl, a round geometric mandala, a crescent moon with zigzags and a large mandala sun, with no body placement shown.
Sun, moon and mandala flash sheet
Pencil sketch of a wolf howling up towards a large full moon, drawn on paper with faint construction guidelines.
Howling wolf and moon sketch
Red ink sketch on aged paper of a pocket watch wrapped in two roses, drawn as a tattoo design in a traditional style.
Pocket watch and roses design sketch
Black line drawing of a woman's face in sugar skull style, with a rose at the upper left, a spiderweb over the forehead and long flowing hair, shown as a tattoo design on cream paper.
Sugar skull portrait with rose and spiderweb
Japanese-style flash drawing of a black and white cat holding a sword, with a woman's head and pink flowers on its body, set beneath a gold halo.
Cat with sword and woman's head design
Black and grey tattoo design of a cross with feathered wings and a ribbon banner reading John 3:16.
Winged cross with John 3:16 banner
Monochrome lettering design shaped as a skull, reading Beautiful Disaster and Sinner Saint, shown as a flash-style artwork with no body placement.
Lettering skull design in white on black
Flash design of a blue police box surrounded by black and white cogs and two circular emblems, one with an ornate spiral knot and one with concentric rings.
Blue police box with cogs and circular emblems
Two black line drawings of a round winged ball with feathered wings, one with wings raised high and one with wings spread wide, drawn on aged tan paper.
Two winged ball designs in black line
Black ink drawing of a lotus flower on a vertical unalome line with small dots and a diamond, shown as a fine line tattoo design on plain paper.
Lotus and unalome line design
Black ink line drawing of a scroll banner reading FAITH, HOPE & LOVE within a handwritten scripture quote from 1 Corinthians 13:13, in a lettering style.
Banner lettering with 1 Corinthians 13:13
Ink drawing of a script lettering design with swirling flourishes and leaf shapes on white paper, being traced with a fine liner pen.
Script lettering with flourishes on paper
Black ink line drawing of a stylised dragon head with flowing tail-like lines and a small circle below, on white paper, shown as a fine line tattoo design.
Stylised dragon line drawing design
Line drawing of a Wanderlust banner across a globe with blossoms and leaves in a neo-traditional style, shown as a tattoo design on tracing paper with no body placement visible.
Wanderlust globe and flowers flash design
Pencil sketch of a symmetrical mandala design with layered lotus-style petals, dotted rings and a central flower, drawn on paper.
Pencil sketch of a mandala design
Black fine line drawing of a geometric wolf head in profile, built from linked triangles, shown as a tattoo design on white paper.
Geometric wolf line drawing
Coloured flash design of a green skull-faced woman with purple hair, roses, foliage and crossed bones, drawn on paper.
Skull-faced woman with roses and crossed bones
Black line drawing of a hand with a chain around the wrist, black-tipped nails and the words NEVER TALK in spaced capitals, a fine line tattoo design.
Hand with chain and NEVER TALK lettering
Black and grey neo-traditional drawing of a snarling tiger head surrounded by blossoms and fruit, shown as a tattoo design on paper rather than on skin.
Tiger head with blossoms design
Black ink line drawing of a lion head in profile with a flowing mane, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Lion head line drawing in profile
Black and grey drawing of a fish with a sailing ship and waves in its body and a skeletal tail, a neo-traditional style tattoo design on paper.
Ship-filled fish with skeleton tail design
Hand-drawn design of two red poppies with black outlines and yellow centres, with German script reading Alle, die Sie benötigen, ist Liebe between them.
Two red poppies with German script

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