Tattoo ideas

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

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Black and white flash design of two eyes with diamond-cut irises, dripping tears and the words Cover Your Crystal Eyes, with no body placement shown.
Crystal eyes with tears and lettering
Fine line script design reading love, with curled flourishes on each side, shown on a plain white background.
Love script with swirls
Pencil drawing of a traditional-style dagger with the name Rumplestiltskin on the blade and a banner reading All Magic Comes With a Price, drawn as a tattoo design.
Dagger and banner reading All Magic Comes With a Price
Dark grey infinity symbol design with the words you and me written in script within its loops, on a white background.
Infinity symbol with you and me script
Black brush-script lettering reading grateful with a small outlined heart on a white background, a tattoo design with no body shown.
Grateful lettering with heart
Bold black hand-lettered word Smile in a flowing script style, drawn with marker on a cream background, shown as a tattoo design.
Smile hand lettering in black ink
Black ink script lettering samples with flourishes, including phrases such as Adaggio and Love Catalogue, and a full lowercase and numeral alphabet along the bottom.
Script lettering specimen sheet
Black ink handwritten script reading dreaming is believing, running diagonally across cream paper, drawn as a lettering design.
Dreaming is believing in flowing script
Black linework drawing on a white board of an infinity symbol with the word love in script and three small birds above it.
Infinity symbol with script love and three birds
Traditional style flash design of a smiling pin-up woman in boots and gloves riding an oversized black moustache, with Best Ride lettering and Giddy Up beside it.
Pin-up woman riding a giant moustache
Black line drawing of an infinity symbol with the words love and life written in looping script across it, shown on white paper.
Infinity symbol with love and life script
White fine line script reading Remember why you started on a plain black background, shown as a lettering design for a tattoo.
Remember why you started script lettering
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design with the words we were, AND IN THAT MOMENT I SWEAR and infinite woven into an infinity symbol, shown on plain paper.
Infinity loop with lettered quote design
Hand-drawn blue ink design of the word Faith in ornate script lettering with swirling flourishes on cream paper, beside a blue felt-tip pen.
Faith script lettering with flourishes
Black ink decorative script alphabet showing upper and lower case letters with swirling flourishes, in a lettering style, on a white background.
Decorative script alphabet sheet
Black flash design of two swallows in flight above the words we only part to meet again, set in black lettering on white.
Two swallows above a quote
Black brush-script lettering of the word Grace with a full stop, drawn as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Grace lettering design
Pencil drawing of ornate script lettering with swirling flourishes and a shaded banner, shown on paper beside a black fineliner pen.
Script lettering design with flourishes
Black fine line handwritten script reading just imagine, with a small outlined heart beneath, drawn on a plain white background.
Just imagine script with small heart
Hand-drawn script lettering design reading Mind on my money, money on my mind, in black ink on cream paper, being traced by a hand holding a pen.
Script lettering sketch on paper
Black ink drawing on white paper of a stylised calligraphic lettering design with curling flourishes running diagonally across the sheet.
Calligraphic swirl design on paper
Pin-up style drawing of a woman in a red polka dot headscarf flexing her bicep, with Girl Power script tattooed on her upper arm.
Pin-up woman flexing with Girl Power script
Black and grey flash sheet of anchor designs with script quotes, including a large engraved-style anchor with rope and a small anchor beside the words I refuse to sink.
Anchor and lettering tattoo flash sheet
Grey flowing script lettering reading then sings my soul on a white background, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Then sings my soul script lettering
Black line drawing of an upright cross with the words 'my GOD'S NOT DEAD' set in a thin, hand-lettered typeface on the crossbar, shown as a flash design.
Cross design with 'my God's not dead' text
Fine line drawing on white paper of the words PIZZA NEVER DISAPPOINTS arched around a pizza slice, drawn in black ink with a fine liner pen beside it.
Pizza never disappoints slice design
Black ink pen drawing of a long cursive lettering line with swash tails on cream paper, a flash design for a lettering tattoo.
Cursive lettering line design on paper
Fine line black ink design of the word love in cursive script with two small birds perched on a leafy branch, drawn on lined paper.
Love script with two birds on a branch
Black fine line handwritten script reading Salt in the air, Sand in my hair on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Salt in the air, sand in my hair script
Black script lettering chart showing upper and lower case letters A to Z in a flowing copperplate style on a white background.
Script alphabet A to Z chart
Black line drawing flash of a pocket watch with roses, leaves and a chain, with a script banner of lettering beneath, styled as a traditional tattoo design.
Pocket watch and roses with script banner
Black line flash sheet of Harry Potter themed tattoo designs, including the Deathly Hallows symbol, round glasses, a lightning bolt and quoted lettering.
Harry Potter themed tattoo design sheet
Black fine-line script lettering reading Love never fails on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Love never fails in fine script
Black line drawing of an infinity symbol with the word forever in script and MAROONER in block capitals above it, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Infinity symbol with forever script and block text
Fine line handwritten script design reading be happy for this moment, this moment is your life, with a small outlined heart, shown on a plain white background.
Handwritten quote with small heart
Red and cream woodcut-style drawing of a top hat with the words WE ARE ALL MAD HERE lettered across its crown, with radiating lines either side.
We are all mad here top hat
Black linework lettering design on a white background reading And so the adventure begins, with flourished capitals and underlines.
And so the adventure begins lettering
Hand-lettered black text reading too weird to live, too rare to die, with a flock of black bats, on a yellow background; a lettering design that could be used as a tattoo.
Lettering design with bats on yellow
Black brush-script lettering of the word fearless on white paper, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Fearless brush lettering design
Black flash-style design of a lotus flower with curled scrolls and the word namaste in lettering beneath it, shown on a white background with no body placement.
Lotus with namaste lettering design
Black ink pen drawing of a sailing ship on rough waves with a dangling anchor and the script words a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor, on white paper.
Sailing ship and anchor with quote
Black line drawing of a heart outline containing blackletter-style lettering that reads Family, with a large decorative initial F, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Family lettering in a heart outline
Black ink design of a flock of small birds flying upward above the word freedom, with the letters m and o raised at the end, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Birds rising above the word freedom
Two versions of a black and purple lettering design with a cross arc, a heart and the words God, hearts made us friends and sisters, shown with no body placement.
Lettering design reading God and sisters
Hand-drawn black ink lettering sheet of the numbers 0 to 9, an exclamation mark and an ampersand, in a decorative lettering style suitable as tattoo flash.
Hand-drawn numerals and symbols sheet
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design showing a woman's head in profile with three ribbon banners reading DARLING, YOU'LL BE and OKAY, drawn on a notebook page.
Ribbon banners reading Darling, You'll Be Okay
Hand-lettered black ink design reading You Are Enough inside a double circle on white paper, in a script lettering style.
You Are Enough lettering in a circle
Fine line script lettering design reading ..and in time, this too shall pass. in black ink on a plain white background.
Script quote lettering design

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