Tattoo ideas

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

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Black ink flash design of a palm tree with the words Less Monday and More summer set in brush script either side of the trunk.
Palm tree with "Less Monday, more summer" lettering
Black hand-drawn ampersand design with an arrow forming its lower tail, shown as a flash design on a white card against pale wood.
Ampersand with arrow tail design
Black linework alphabet sheet of capital letters A to Z in a decorative lettering style with solid dark fills, shown as a design rather than on skin.
Decorative uppercase alphabet lettering sheet
Watercolour-style drawing of the cartoon character Stitch sitting beside the word OHANA in thin handwritten lettering on a cream background.
Stitch sitting beside the word Ohana
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 flourished script reading Live Out Loud on a white background, a lettering design suitable for a tattoo with no body placement shown.
Live Out Loud script lettering design
Black and white flash design of the words Shine On You Crazy in bubble lettering set inside a solid diamond outline.
Shine On You Crazy lettering inside a diamond
Black script lettering reading Your Wings Were Ready But My Heart Was Not, with a feather and flying birds, drawn on a white feathered background.
Feather, birds and script quote design
Fine line cursive script reading nothing is permanent, drawn in dark ink across a pale textured background in a four-panel collage.
Nothing is permanent script lettering
Ornate black script letter decorated with botanical sprigs and a red ladybird, shown as a tattoo design on a beige background.
Ornate script letter with ladybird
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
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
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 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
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 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 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
Black ink lettering design on white paper, with a decorative blackletter-style word surrounded by scrollwork and foliage, beside a fine black pen.
Ornate lettering design in black ink
Hand-drawn lettering design reading Harry, Hermione and Ron in flowing script, with a lightning bolt, crown, glasses and small star doodles, drawn in brown ink on a sepia background.
Harry, Hermione and Ron name lettering design
Monoline drawing of an anchor with the word faith written down its shank, in brown ink on aged parchment, shown as a tattoo design.
Anchor with faith lettering
Black blackletter alphabet sheet showing uppercase and lowercase letters A to Z in a gothic lettering style, suitable as tattoo lettering reference.
Blackletter alphabet sheet
Flash design of a ship's wheel and an anchor wrapped in rope, with script lettering reading Be the one to guide me but never hold me down, in black ink on a pale background.
Ship's wheel and anchor with quote lettering
Black and white lettering design reading Harley-Davidson with a B and D emblem, a ribbon banner and ornate spires, drawn as a flash design with no body placement shown.
Harley-Davidson lettering with ribbon and emblem
Flash sheet of hand-drawn tattoo designs in a fantasy theme, including a bearded tree face, a moth, a hobbit-style door in a bottle and a witch hat over a city.
Fantasy flash sheet with tree, moth and bottle
Black design drawing of a row of spiral and angular symbols above the word UNFOUND in serif lettering on a white background.
Unfound lettering with spiral symbols
Hand-drawn flash sheet of infinity symbol tattoo designs with handwritten words such as love, faith and hope, in fine black linework.
Infinity symbol lettering designs
Black script lettering reading Always on my mind and Forever in my heart, with two outlined hearts beside it, shown as a design on a white background.
Always on my mind script with two hearts
Black and grey lettering design reading Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future, in a shaded and outlined traditional-style typeface on a beige background.
Every saint has a past lettering design
Flash sheet of western-style lettering designs, including NASHVILLE, OLD WESTERN and Bleeding Cowboy, with two revolver designs, in black ink on a tan background.
Western lettering flash sheet with revolvers
Grey brush-script lettering reading 'His beloved.' on a plain white background, a lettering design suited to a tattoo.
'His beloved' script lettering design
Black and grey pencil-style drawing of a feather dissolving into flying birds, with the script words sometimes you gotta fall before you fly running along the shaft, shown as a tattoo design.
Feather turning into birds with script
Black ink script lettering reading beauty from ashes on a white background, with the word from in small capitals between the two lines, shown as a lettering design for a tattoo.
Beauty from ashes script lettering design
Black line drawing of an anchor with a heart at its base and the script words 'hope anchors the soul' beneath it, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Anchor and heart with script quote
Black flowing script lettering spelling the word Lumos on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design in a lettering style.
Lumos script lettering design
Black and grey drawing of an ornate lettering tattoo design surrounded by leaves, flowers and ribbons, with no body placement shown.
Ornate botanical lettering design
Black single-line handwritten script spelling the word manifesto on a plain white background, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Manifesto in single-line script lettering
Black fine line drawing of an infinity symbol with the word love in cursive script inside the right loop, on a plain light grey background, in a lettering style.
Infinity symbol with script love
Black ink drawing of the word faith in fine handwritten script, crossed by a single vertical line, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Faith script with a vertical cross line
Black line drawing of an infinity symbol with the word sister written in flowing script along its loop, shown as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
Infinity symbol with sister script

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