Tattoo ideas

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Black and grey dotwork drawing of a symmetrical owl with an eye on its brow, an hourglass across its chest and clockwork gears at the base, shown as a tattoo design.
Owl with hourglass and clockwork gears
Black ink flash sheet in a traditional style showing two female heads with daggers, barbed wire, clasped hands, a sailing ship and birds.
Traditional flash sheet with ship, daggers and barbed wire
Black line drawing of an A to Z blackletter alphabet sheet, with each capital letter shown in ornate gothic script on a white background.
Blackletter alphabet sheet, A to Z
Painted design of a skeletal mermaid with a fishbone tail, holding a shell with a pearl, shown on a white background with no body placement visible.
Skeletal mermaid holding a shell
Black and grey traditional style drawing of a bird diving head first with raised wings and a small yellow eye, shown as a tattoo design.
Diving bird flash design
Black ink drawing of a hand whose fingers and knuckles are replaced by eyeballs, with dripping lines below, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Hand of eyeballs with dripping lines
Three black outline drawings of lightning bolts on a white background, a line drawing design with no shading.
Three lightning bolt outlines
Black flowing script lettering reading Let your Life Speak on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design.
Let your Life Speak script lettering
Pencil sketch of a traditional style anchor tattoo design, wrapped in rope with a heart, scrollwork and two flowers.
Anchor with rope and flowers sketch
Black line drawing of Bender, the Futurama robot, holding a cigar, with flowers, leaves and a LETS GO ALREADY banner in a traditional flash style.
Bender robot banner flash design
White line design of a wizard hat with scattered stars and spiral swirls on a plain black background.
Wizard hat with stars and spirals
Neo-traditional flash drawing of a queen and a skeleton king on playing cards, with a red rose and red hearts, in black and grey with red accents.
Queen and skeleton king playing card design
Black traditional-style swallow design with a sunburst and wavy lines, printed on a grey t-shirt laid flat on a wooden background.
Traditional swallow with sunburst and waves on a grey
Black ink lettering design reading thankful and grateful, joined by a horizontal arrow with a feathered tail and open head, drawn in a hand-lettered script style.
Thankful and grateful arrow lettering design
Pencil drawing of a lily flower with curling vine swirls, a tattoo flash design in black and grey shading.
Lily with swirling vines in pencil
Seven red-brown henna-style design motifs on a white background, including two peacocks, paisley shapes and lotus forms, shown as a tattoo flash drawing.
Henna-style motif flash sheet
Black ink drawing of an abstract swirling symbol with a spiral top and curled tail on a white background, captioned Hakuna Matata in serif type.
Black swirl symbol with Hakuna Matata caption
Colourful Japanese-style koi fish design in orange and gold on a deep blue background, framed by teal wave and cloud swirls.
Koi fish with swirling waves
Black and white ornate panda face design with mandala-style patterned linework, shown as a flash drawing with no body placement.
Ornamental panda face design
Two versions of a stylised flame design with spirals, a Greek key motif and wave lines, one in black outline and one in rainbow colour, shown as a tattoo flash design.
Flame and spiral design in line and colour
Traditional flash sheet of coloured designs including a flask with a LET'S COOK ribbon, scales with BETTER CALL SAUL, and a gas mask, all with black outlines on cream paper.
Flash sheet of TV-themed designs with quoted phrases
Black ink drawing of four stacked heart outlines with handwritten script words beside them, sketched on lined paper in a lettering design.
Stacked heart outlines with script words
Black cursive script reading fearless on a plain white background, a lettering tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Fearless in script lettering
Black and white traditional-style dagger design with three banners reading WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE SCARY MOVIE, shown as a sticker on a wooden surface.
Dagger and banner with scary movie lettering
Black and grey ink drawing of an ornate owl perched on a branch, with dense patterned feathers and large round eyes, designed as a tattoo flash.
Ornate owl on a branch
Pencil drawing of a hamsa hand design with an open eye at its centre, surrounded by leaf sprigs and scalloped dotted outlines, with soft pink shading on the fingertips.
Hamsa hand with eye and botanical filigree
Black and grey fine line drawing of a dandelion with seeds blowing away, two birds in flight, and script wrapping up the stem, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Dandelion seeds blowing away with birds
A butterfly design in purple, blue and teal with black borders and spotted wing edges, shown on a white card beside a ruler.
Purple and teal butterfly design
Black line drawing of a wolf's face seen from the front, with sketched fur strokes and no shading, shown as a tattoo design on white.
Wolf face line drawing
Black silhouette of a leafy tree with spreading roots, with the word Family and a quote about branches and roots set beside the trunk.
Family tree with roots and quote
Traditional flash design of a one pint bottle holding two sailing ships, with a banner reading A Sailor's Grave over a skull and crossbones, flanked by red stars and green leaves.
Bottle with ships and a sailor's grave banner
Traditional-style flash design of two swallows above a red heart with flames and a LOVE banner on an orange background, shown without a body placement.
Swallows, heart and LOVE banner flash
Hand-drawn mandala flower design in dark ink on cream paper, with layered petals, dotwork fills and a central geometric rosette.
Hand-drawn mandala flower design
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design with three skulls, roses and three scrolling banners reading See, Hear and Speak no evil, drawn in black and grey shading.
Skulls, roses and no evil banners design
Hand-drawn brown ink design of a bare tree with branching limbs and spreading roots, shown on a plain white background.
Bare tree with spreading roots
Sepia-toned shaded drawing of a fleur-de-lis with raised, highlighted edges on a tan background, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Shaded fleur-de-lis design
Pencil drawing of an hourglass with two shaded roses, thorny vines and leaves, with a scrolled ornament in the top right corner, shown as a black and grey tattoo design.
Hourglass with roses and thorny vines pencil design
Greyscale pencil drawing of three realistic roses and an open pocket watch with a beaded chain, a realism tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Three roses and a pocket watch in graphite
Black lettering design reading believe in a serif face with dictionary pronunciation marks, a script line reading to have faith in, and square brackets, on a white background.
Believe dictionary-style lettering design
Coloured neo-traditional tattoo design drawn on paper, showing a hand reaching towards a planchette with an eye, framed by purple and red roses and leaves.
Ouija planchette, hand and roses design
Pencil and ink line drawing of a chrysanthemum in a Japanese style, shown as a tattoo design on paper with no body part visible.
Chrysanthemum line drawing design
Pencil-style tattoo design drawn on paper showing a hairless cat in profile beside a cluster of blossoms, in black and grey neo-traditional linework.
Hairless cat profile with blossom sprigs
Black line drawing of a striped bee with hatched wings holding a banner that reads HAPPY, shown as a tattoo design.
Bee with a HAPPY banner
Black and grey flash drawing of a dreamcatcher with a hanging feather, a comb and ornate scrollwork on either side, with no body placement shown.
Dreamcatcher with feather, comb and scrollwork
Colourful line drawing of a peacock feather overlapping a circular mandala, shaded in magenta, purple, teal and yellow, shown as a tattoo design without skin.
Peacock feather over a mandala
Solid orange bee design with striped abdomen, antennae and spread wings on a white sheet, resembling a tattoo stencil or transfer.
Bee design on white transfer sheet
Black and white starfish design with curling scrolls and dotted lines along each arm, drawn as a tattoo flash in a blackwork and dotwork style.
Starfish with scrollwork design
Traditional style flash sheet showing a black heart with a pink rose and teal leaves, beside two black and gold hearts with a YOU SUCK banner and arrows, with no body placement shown.
Rose heart and banner hearts flash sheet

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