Tattoo ideas

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

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Black and grey neo-traditional flash drawing of a woman wearing goat horns and two skulls, with a snake coiled around her arm, shown on paper.
Horned woman with skulls and snake flash
Neo-traditional flash design of a perforated triangular metal form overlapping gold and purple roses, green leaves and a red runic circle with blood drips.
Perforated pyramid with roses and runic circle
Black ink drawing of a lion head with a flowing, patterned mane, shown as a fine line tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Ornamental lion head drawing
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design showing an ornate owl perched below a peace sign, with feathers and paisley ornament, in black and grey on paper.
Owl, peace sign and feathers design
Black ink flash sheet of twenty cross designs in fine line, filigree and bold blackwork styles, with no body placement shown.
Sheet of twenty cross designs
Full-colour Japanese-style dragon design in blue and orange with orange flame-like fins, coiled and clawed, shown on a white background.
Coiled dragon design in blue and orange
Symmetrical botanical flash design of pink flowers, leaves and gold-brown stems drawn in fine line on a white background.
Pink floral botanical design sketch
Black hand-lettered quote design reading Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you, with a feathered arrow and a flowing underline, on a white background.
Keep your face toward the sunshine quote with arrow
Black ornamental design of two sleeping owls on a curled branch with leaves and a German phrase, drawn as a stencil style line design with no body placement shown.
Two owls on a branch stencil design
Black ink drawing of a heart whose lower point becomes an infinity loop, with the word love in script inside, shown as a tattoo design on paper with no body placement visible.
Heart and infinity design with love script
Black ink drawing of a lace-patterned floral tattoo design on tracing paper, with a marker pen at the top of the frame.
Lace-style floral design drawn on paper
Black and grey tattoo flash of a compass rose with a sun and moon face at its centre, drawn in bold linework.
Compass rose with sun and moon
Black ink drawing of a dreamcatcher with a tree of life inside its hoop, hanging feathers and beads, drawn in fine line on cream paper.
Dreamcatcher with tree of life and feathers
Black ink line drawing of a cactus with three arms and a cluster of flowers and leaves at its base, drawn as a traditional-style tattoo design on paper.
Cactus and flowers tattoo design
Eight pencil and ink drawings of chest piece tattoo designs, including mandalas, lace, a tiger, scrollwork and swallows with roses.
Chest piece design sketches collage
Black ink hand-lettered design reading Everything changes, with swirling flourishes on the capitals and tails, drawn on cream paper.
Everything changes lettering design
Black line drawing of a mandala-style lotus flower framed by curling leaf vines, with stippled dotwork shading, drawn on white paper as a tattoo design.
Mandala lotus with dotwork and leaf vines
Black filigree design of a butterfly with scrolled wing panels on a white background, shown as a flat drawing with no body placement.
Filigree scroll butterfly design
Flash sheet of twelve loose black ink sketches of cats in sitting, sleeping and stretching poses on a white background.
Sketched cats flash sheet
Hand-drawn fine line arrow design with flowing script lettering reading follow your arrow wherever it goes, drawn in black ink on white paper.
Arrow with script quote design
Two pen sketches of tattoo designs: a left panel with a skull, roses and geometric lines, and a right panel with a bull skull, moths and dotwork shading.
Skull and rose designs in pen sketches
Fine line drawing of a Wanderlust script word with an arrow and a blue watercolour planet with a ring, drawn as a tattoo design on white paper.
Wanderlust script with arrow and blue planet
Black and grey pen drawing of a hamsa hand with a lotus flower and dotted shading, sketched on grid paper with a hand holding the pen.
Hamsa hand and lotus design sketch on grid paper
Two black linework snail designs on pale paper, each with an ornate patterned shell, set over faint lotus outlines in a botanical flash style.
Two ornamental snail designs with lotus outlines
Black lettering flash sheet of short phrases in assorted script and serif fonts, including Vampire, Love Bites, Bitten and Join the pack, with no tattoo shown on skin.
Lettering flash sheet of vampire and werewolf phrases
Black line drawing of flowing decorative lettering surrounded by clouds, a crescent moon and a small star, a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Decorative lettering with moon and star doodles
Pencil drawing of an Egyptian-inspired winged cat holding an ankh pendant, shown as a flash design for a tattoo.
Winged cat with ankh pencil design
Black ink drawing of a butterfly made of swirling tribal-style curls, with a diagonal trail of small spirals and squares, drawn on plain paper as a tattoo design.
Swirl butterfly with dotted trail design
Black and white flash design of treble and bass clefs arranged in a radial pattern with swirling curves and dots, shown without any body placement.
Radial design of clefs and dots
A sheet of black line and solid silhouette botanical sprig designs with small oval leaves, shown as tattoo flash with no body placement visible.
Leafy sprig flash sheet
Flash design of a woman in profile wearing a red horned headpiece, with red roses and a banner reading Witches be crazy, in a neo-traditional style with no body placement shown.
Witch profile with roses and banner
Pencil-style drawing of a princess with long flowing hair, decorated with red and yellow roses, in a neo-traditional tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Princess with roses in her hair design
Coloured pencil drawing of a stylised green hummingbird in flight, with a red and yellow fading tail and water droplets on its wings, suitable as tattoo flash.
Green hummingbird with water droplets
Black lettering design on a white background reading "to the moon and back" in English, with the Arabic translation above it, in a Lettering style.
Arabic and English "to the moon and back" script
Pen and ink drawing of four owls stacked one above another in a vertical column, shown beside a black gel pen on white paper.
Four stacked owls in ink
Traditional-style flash design of a sugar skull woman with flowers in her hair, a COSTURERA banner, scissors and a spool of blue thread, drawn in cross-stitch chart form.
Costurera sugar skull with sewing kit
Black outline drawing of round glasses with a solid lightning bolt above them, shown as a flat design with no body part visible.
Round glasses and lightning bolt design
Black ink line drawing of a flowering plant with fern-like leaves inside an outlined light bulb, shown on a plain white background with no body placement.
Flowering plant inside a light bulb
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design with two butterflies, swirling scrolls and outlined stars arranged in a vertical column.
Butterflies, swirls and stars design
Solid black tribal flame design on a white background, shown as a flash drawing rather than on skin.
Black tribal flame design
Black and grey flash sheet of small hand-drawn tattoo designs, including hearts, eyes, stars, a moon and a skull, under the heading Stick and Poke.
Stick and poke flash sheet of small doodles
Drawn tattoo design of a meditating Buddha filled with galaxy colour, set above a lotus with black and grey moon phases, branches and dotwork around it.
Meditating Buddha with lotus and moon phases
Neo-traditional flash drawing of a pink scallop shell holding a white pearl, with green seaweed and teal dots, drawn on paper.
Pearl in a pink shell design
Black tribal flash design of a turtle with spiral and wave patterns, set along a long curved band, with no body placement shown.
Tribal turtle design in a curved band
Black brush-script lettering reading Feel the fear and do it anyway on off-white paper, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Brush lettering reading Feel the fear and do it anyway
Black ink hand lettering on white paper reading Grace wins, with flowing script for Grace and smaller capitals for WINS.
Grace wins hand lettering
Pencil flash design of an ornate compass rose with a fleur-de-lis point and True North lettering, shown in black and grey without any body placement.
Compass rose with True North lettering
Pen drawing of an ornate oval frame made from acanthus leaves and scrolls in brown ink on a grey background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Ornate scrolled oval frame design

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