Tattoo ideas

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

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Solid black flash design of a flaming sun with wavy rays surrounding a pentagram inside a circle, shown without any body placement.
Flaming sun with pentagram design
Pencil line drawing of crossed ornate scissors and two combs with two roses, a flash design in a traditional style.
Crossed scissors and combs with roses
Black ink drawing of a sitting cat filled with ornamental tribal patterns on a cream background, suited to a blackwork tattoo design.
Sitting cat in tribal patterns
Black hand-lettered script design on a white background reading Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn, with looping flourishes and a swash capital L.
Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn lettering
Two circular black ink line drawings of a peony and a rose surrounded by leaves and foliage, on white paper beside black fineliner pens.
Peony and rose pen drawings in circles
Painted watercolour design of two red octopuses whose tentacles curl together to form a heart, drawn on pale paper with a blue wash behind them.
Two octopuses forming a heart
Black and grey drawing of two skulls, roses and an all-seeing eye in a triangle, shaded in neo-traditional style on paper.
Skulls, roses and all-seeing eye design
Black and grey drawing of a rose with hatched leaves and a faceted heart ringed with beads, shown as a neo-traditional tattoo design on paper.
Rose and jewelled heart tattoo design
Two pencil sketches of ornamental mandala-style flower designs on paper, drawn as tattoo designs with no body part shown.
Mandala flower and lace design sketches
Black script quote reading In you, I've found the love of my life and my closest, truest friend, with two interlocking outline hearts below, on a cream background.
Script quote with interlocking hearts
Hand-drawn tattoo flash of a geometric lotus mandala with a three-dimensional impossible triangle at its centre, shaded in red and blue ink.
Lotus mandala with impossible triangle design
Black fine line infinity symbol with three arrows and the word faith in script, shown as a design drawing and as a temporary tattoo on the inner wrist.
Infinity symbol with arrows and faith script
Black ink drawing of an ornate compass rose mandala with leaf and dot detailing, with the words Not all those who wander are lost beneath it.
Compass rose mandala design on paper
Flash design of a lion head in profile, filled with swirling tan, rust, slate blue, olive and brown linework on a white background, with no body placement shown.
Swirling lion head design
Black and grey fine line mandala flash drawing with layered petals and a geometric radial pattern, shown on tan paper with no body placement.
Radial mandala design on paper
Black and grey tattoo design drawing of the words WILD SPIRIT in hand-drawn capitals above a shaded feather, with no body placement shown.
Wild Spirit lettering with a feather
Drawing of a woman with long dark hair, shaded in grey, with purple, yellow and teal flowers woven through her hair, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Woman with flowers in long hair
Hand-drawn flash design of the word Love in dark swirling script, with two birds, a pink frangipani and vines. No body placement is shown.
Love script with birds and frangipani
Black and red lettering design reading Once upon a time in blackletter script, with a black feather dissolving into flying birds, drawn as a tattoo design on a pale background.
Once upon a time feather and birds design
Black line drawing of a dragon in a bold tribal-style outline, with a raised wing, coiled body and spiral tail, on a white background.
Tribal-style dragon design with curled tail
Black ink drawing of a three-headed dragon curled within a circle, with its body and wings filled with dense patterned linework, on a plain white background.
Three-headed dragon in a circle
Black line drawing of a symmetrical design with two mermaids, two seahorses, an octopus and leaves, shown as a tattoo flash style illustration.
Mermaids, seahorses and octopus design
Black and grey fine line design of five feathers above the lettering Under His wings you will find refuge, with Psalm ninety one verse four beneath it.
Five feathers with Psalm 91:4 lettering
Black line stencil of a butterfly over a geometric star design, held up on a clear transfer sheet by a hand with black nail polish.
Butterfly over geometric star stencil
Pencil drawing of a shaded balloon on a long thin string above the words let it go, on an off-white background, with no body part visible.
Shaded balloon sketch with let it go
Three black line drawing flash designs on paper: a lipstick with a bow, a skull and crossbones with a spider web, and a heart containing a lipstick.
Lipstick and heart flash designs
Drawn tattoo design of a crescent moon outlined in black with blue shading and black filigree swirls on the left side.
Crescent moon with blue shading and swirls
Fine line black ink drawing of a dreamcatcher with a rose, hanging feathers, beads, a heart pendant and a bow, shown on cream paper.
Dreamcatcher with rose and feathers design
Traditional style flash design of a skull pierced by a dagger, with a snake coiled around it and the words MAKE OR DIE beside it, drawn in black and mustard with halftone shading.
Skull, dagger and snake flash design
Black dotwork mandala design drawn on paper, with a radial centre, stippled petals and leaf sprays, in a geometric and botanical style.
Dotwork mandala with leaves
Black blackwork-style flash design of a central figure surrounded by a radiating ring of keyblades on a white background.
Radial keyblade design with central figure
Black ink line drawing of a weeping woman with curled hair, pearl beads and a cameo, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Weeping woman with cameo and pearls
Four solid black eagle silhouettes with spread wings on a white background, drawn as flash designs with no body placement shown.
Four black eagle designs in flight
Black ink flash design of three dragonflies stacked vertically, each with intricately patterned, scroll-filled wings on a white background.
Three ornate dragonflies in a vertical stack
Flash-style drawing of a sugar skull face on a matryoshka doll body, with red roses, a cross and a diamond on a black background.
Sugar skull matryoshka doll design
Single-line fine line drawing of a wolf head in profile facing left, with pointed ears and a flowing ruff of fur, in dark blue ink on white.
Wolf head in profile line drawing
Black line drawing of a fox in profile with intricate swirling filigree patterns, set inside a circular frame with a scalloped border.
Ornamental fox inside a scalloped circle
Line drawing of an anchor wrapped in rope, with a fish skeleton on the shaft, an eye at the centre and radiating rays behind, shaded in blue, purple and yellow.
Anchor with rope, fish skeleton and eye
Three tribal-style shark designs on a parchment background, in tan, sage green and black, shown as tattoo flash without any body placement.
Three tribal shark designs
Pencil and ink sketch of Medusa, a woman with snakes for hair, drawn on paper as a tattoo design.
Medusa sketch with snake hair
Black tribal flash design of three interlocking spirals inside bold swirling curves, shown as a drawing with no body placement.
Triple spiral tribal design
Traditional style flash design of a pink dagger with a crescent moon and wings, with ribbon banners reading MOON PRINCESS, printed on a dark grey sweatshirt.
Moon Princess dagger and banner design
Japanese-style flash of an orange lion dog among gold clouds and grey waves, with a pink peony and a small butterfly, intended for a back or sleeve tattoo.
Lion dog and peony flash design
Pencil drawing of a grey shaded paw print encircled by a red ribbon that forms a heart shape, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Paw print wrapped in a red heart ribbon
Black and grey pencil flash sheet of gothic designs including a girl with braids, a black cat in a bat-winged frame, a cat on a crescent moon, and a heart-framed pair of monster-style profiles.
Gothic flash sheet with cats, moon and portraits
Black and grey traditional style flash design of an anchor, a sailing ship, two pistols, roses and banners reading Loose Lips and Sink Ships, with no body placement shown.
Anchor, ship and pistols traditional flash
Black and grey drawing of a skeletal marching band drum major with a plumed hat and baton, beside lettering reading I am not afraid to keep on living.
Skeleton drum major with lettering
A hand outlines a grey shaded feather design in black marker on translucent tracing paper laid over a wooden table.
Shaded feather design drawn on tracing paper

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