Tattoo ideas

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

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Four pastel nautical designs on a flash sheet: an anchor with a dolphin, a seahorse with a telescope, a compass rose with a clock face, and a ship's wheel with a lantern.
Vintage nautical flash sheet
Coloured pencil drawing of a neo-traditional tattoo design showing a vintage microphone wrapped in a banner with roses and leaves, not shown on skin.
Microphone and roses tattoo design
Black ink handwritten script design reading Happiness on a white background, drawn as a tattoo lettering sketch with no body part visible.
Happiness handwritten script lettering
Black line drawing of a geometric mandala with lotus petals, with smaller ornamental motifs above and below, shown on a white sheet beside a ruler.
Mandala and lotus ornament design
Pencil and marker drawing of a stitched scarecrow figure wearing a wide-brimmed witch hat, two gas masks and a rope noose, shown in black and grey shading.
Scarecrow in a witch hat and gas masks
Flash sheet of black crescent moon designs in filigree, star, sparkle and striped patterns, with the script words Blue Moon beside a larger moon.
Crescent moon designs flash sheet
Traditional-style illustration of a cartoon princess in a cameo frame, with a tiger tattoo on her upper arm and Arabic script on a banner below.
Cartoon princess with tiger tattoo on banner
Black handwritten script on a white background reading go where you feel the most alive, a lettering design in a Lettering style.
Go where you feel the most alive lettering
Black and white ornate cross design with swirling tribal-style detail and a red gem at the centre, shown as a standalone flash drawing with no body placement.
Ornate cross with red centre design
Vintage traditional flash sheet showing daggers, snakes, an eagle with a Death Before Dishonor banner, a rose, and a demon head, with handwritten pay in advance lettering.
Traditional flash sheet with daggers, snakes and an eagle
Black dotwork drawing of a moth with a crescent moon above it, set within dashed geometric construction lines, shown as a tattoo design on white paper.
Dotwork moth with crescent moon and geometric lines
Black line drawing of an ornate heart-shaped padlock with a keyhole and scrollwork, layered in front of two cogs, shown as a tattoo design.
Heart padlock with cogs design
Pencil sketch of a compass rose with swirling wisps around its central star, drawn as a tattoo design on plain paper with no body placement shown.
Compass rose with swirling wisps
Fine line black script lettering reading Courage, dear heart with the attribution CS Lewis beneath, drawn on a plain white background.
Courage, dear heart script lettering design
Pencil drawing of a shaded rose inside a dreamcatcher ring with hanging feathers and a smaller dreamcatcher below, shown on paper.
Rose dreamcatcher tattoo design
Pencil and coloured drawing of a shaded skull with a dagger, smoke wisps and a red rose with leaves, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Skull, dagger and red rose design
Traditional style butterfly design in red, yellow, teal and green with black outlines, shown as a drawing with three red drops beneath it.
Traditional butterfly flash with red flowers
Illustrated design of a black cat head with a half-visible skull, red poppies across the face and a small golden halo above, shown without skin.
Black cat skull with red poppies
Black tribal-style design of a woman with flowing hair entwined with a winged dragon, drawn in bold solid linework on a white background.
Tribal woman and dragon design
Black linework flash design of a stag head with antlers, a moth and overlapping geometric triangles, drawn on layered tracing paper.
Stag head and moth with geometric triangles
Black silhouette of a small bird with a plus sign and a pansy flower in outline, shown as a botanical flash design on a cream background.
Bird and pansy flash design
Black ink lettering design reading Long Live the Adventure, set in a circle on white paper beside a camera, passport and pens, in a lettering style.
Long Live the Adventure lettering design
Black and grey dotwork drawing of a sunflower-style mandala with a crescent moon at its centre, shown as a design on white paper with no body placement visible.
Sunflower mandala with crescent moon
Black ink flash drawing of a planchette with a central eye, YES and NO lettering, a sunburst and acanthus scrolls, in a dotwork and blackwork style.
Planchette with eye and acanthus scrolls
Pencil sketch of two overlapping Mickey and Minnie Mouse head outlines on white paper, with Minnie's bow coloured pink.
Mickey and Minnie head outline sketch
Watercolour-style drawing of a tiger head with black linework and pink, blue and orange washes, shown as a design on white paper.
Watercolour tiger head design
Flash design of a white unicorn with a rainbow mane standing on a pink-frosted cupcake with sprinkles and a strawberry, drawn in colour on a pink background.
Unicorn on a rainbow sprinkle cupcake
Bold black brush-style Devanagari-style script lettering on a plain white background, shown as a standalone design with no skin visible.
Black Devanagari-style script lettering
Black line drawing of an anchor with two crossed arrows on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design without any body part visible.
Anchor with crossed arrows
Traditional style flash drawing of a pale hand with pink fingertips, wrapped in three yellow banners reading COLD HANDS, COLDER and HEART, with dripping red and white details at the wrist.
Hand with COLD HANDS, COLDER, HEART banners
Black and grey tattoo design of an infinity symbol with the words Stay and Strong in script, and a feather dissolving into flying birds.
Infinity symbol with feather and birds
Black and grey line drawing flash of a UFO, bees, flowers, an FBI badge, a cigarette packet, a mobile phone and a banner reading Mulder, it's me.
UFO, bees and FBI badge flash with banner
Pencil drawing of an owl with scaled feathers and an olive branch with leaves and fruit, shown in black and grey shading.
Owl among olive leaves in pencil
Black line drawing of a tattoo design showing an AT-AT walker, a stormtrooper, an Empire emblem, roses and a rifle, with no placement shown on the body.
AT-AT, stormtrooper and roses flash design
Fine line drawing of a hand with black painted nails, with the words SNAP OUT OF IT wrapped across the fingers as a hand tattoo design.
Hand with SNAP OUT OF IT lettering
Coloured drawing of a green man face formed from leaves in green and blue tones, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Green man face made of leaves
Black ink drawing of the Starfleet insignia filled with zentangle-style doodles, flowers and a white star, with the words To Boldly Go across the lower part.
Starfleet insignia with doodle fill
Black ink infinity symbol drawn as a single bold, tapered line on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design.
Infinity symbol design
Pencil drawing of a symmetrical geometric mandala design with petal shapes, swirls and dots, shown on a sketchbook page.
Symmetrical mandala flash design
Colourful neo-traditional flash drawing of a rainbow, lollipop, hearts, stars and flowers with the words Sugar, spice and everything nice, held up by a hand with glittery nail polish.
Sugar, spice and everything nice flash design
Solid black silhouette design of an anchor with a flock of birds flying up from its shank, on a white background, suitable for a blackwork tattoo.
Anchor with birds taking flight design
Black and grey pencil drawing of a pocket watch with Roman numerals, flanked by two roses and strands of pearls, in a neo-traditional style.
Pocket watch with roses and pearl chains
Pencil drawing of a tribal and knotwork emblem design with a central diamond motif, shown as a tattoo design on plain paper with no body part visible.
Tribal knotwork emblem tattoo design
Traditional flash design of an anchor, red heart and clasped hands holding a cross, with a TRUE LOVE banner, in red, yellow, grey and black.
True love anchor and clasped hands flash
Pencil and coloured drawing of an infinity symbol with the words Love and Family in script, with green and purple feathers and small birds, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Infinity design with love and family script
Traditional style flash design of a hand holding a lipstick above a Femme Fatale banner, with pink roses and pearls on a teal background.
Hand with lipstick and roses flash
Black handwritten script design reading live to better the lives of others on a plain white background.
Handwritten quote about living to better others
Black line drawing of a seahorse filled with intricate doodle patterns of dots, scales and swirls, shown on a plain white background with no body placement.
Zentangle seahorse line design

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