Tattoo ideas

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

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Black and grey ink drawing of a horned owl with spread wings, its chest set with a mandala and geometric ornament, styled as a tattoo design.
Owl with spread wings and geometric ornament
Traditional style flash drawing of a woman with bobbed curls, a red striped headscarf with a feather, red cheeks and lips, and a pearl necklace, shown on a gold background.
Traditional flapper head with red headscarf and feather
Pen drawing of a treble clef and scattered musical notes arranged in a heart outline, a tattoo design sketch on lined paper with the words my tattoo written below.
Treble clef and music notes in a heart shape
Sheet of twelve dark red Chinese character designs on white, each labelled in English with words such as Music, Peace, Mother and Father.
Chinese character tattoo flash sheet
Fine line pen sketch of a small seated elephant raising its trunk towards three musical notes, drawn on plain paper as a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Elephant with musical notes fine line sketch
Black ink line drawing of a lion head with a mandala-style pattern filling the mane and face, drawn on plain paper as a tattoo design.
Mandala lion head line drawing
Design reading YOU'RE ALREADY DEAD, with each letter formed from bones such as ribs, vertebrae and a skull, in white on a black background.
You're Already Dead bone lettering
White dotwork crescent moon filled with mandala-like patterns, drawn on a plain black background as a tattoo design.
Dotwork crescent moon with mandala pattern
Traditional-style flash sheet of four cartoon characters with scroll banners, flowers and a large red rose, drawn in bold outlines and bright colour.
Cartoon character flash sheet with roses and banners
Black ink drawing of two wolf heads facing each other over a geometric diamond and wireframe design, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Twin wolf heads with geometric linework
Black tribal-style design of a bird with outstretched wings, filled with white scrollwork and swirls on a plain white background.
Spread-wing bird with scrollwork
Neo-traditional style flash drawing of a deer head with antlers, leaves and two red arrows piercing the neck, on a splattered parchment background.
Deer head with arrows and antlers
Pencil sketch of an ornate key with the word Honesty in cursive script across its shaft, drawn on paper as a tattoo design.
Honesty key pencil sketch
Black ink pen drawing of a skull and crossbones on paper, with hatched shading in a traditional tattoo style.
Skull and crossbones pen drawing
Temporary tattoo sheet design showing black and white zebras carried by clusters of red heart balloons, with a LOVE heart balloon bunch and a Your Name Here placeholder.
Zebras with heart balloons tattoo design sheet
Black linework flash design of a robot head inside circular blackletter-style lettering reading YOU ARE WHO YOU CHOOSE TO BE, drawn on cream paper.
Robot head with circular quote lettering design
Black line drawing of overlapping geometric diamond outlines around a solid black kite shape, shown as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Overlapping geometric diamonds with solid black centre
Black and grey drawing of a skull wrapped in octopus tentacles with a ship's anchor behind it, shown as a design on a dark background.
Skull, anchor and tentacles design
Black ink drawing of a dotwork-edged insect with delicate wings and a scrolled dagger, sketched on textured paper with no body placement shown.
Insect and ornate dagger design
Black linework drawing of Medusa with snake hair and a pale teal wash, a design suitable for a neo-traditional tattoo.
Medusa with snakes, drawn design
Drawn tattoo design of a barn owl with stippled red roses, geometric lines and watercolour splashes on cream paper.
Owl and roses design with watercolour splashes
Handwritten script lettering reading Even so, it is well with my soul in navy ink on white, a lettering design in a Lettering style with no body placement shown.
Script lettering of a hymn phrase in navy
Black tribal-style flash design showing two turtles, a gecko, a lizard and a small spiral motif on a white background.
Tribal turtles, gecko and lizard flash sheet
Blue pencil sketch of a faceted teardrop gem with swirling ribbon and leaf flourishes and a row of beads, drawn as a tattoo design.
Sketch of a faceted gem with ribbon swirls
Black ink line drawing of New Zealand's two islands filled with roses, ferns and swirling linework, on white paper.
Floral map of New Zealand in line work
Black line drawing of a butterfly at the start of a swirling musical staff with notes and scrolls, shown as a tattoo design on a grey background.
Butterfly and music staff swirl design
Coloured Japanese-style flash design of a roaring tiger among bamboo and swirling clouds, with a small frog holding a leaf in the lower right corner.
Tiger and bamboo flash with frog in rain
Hand-drawn lettering design reading 'Bind my wandering heart to thee' in black marker on pale blue paper, a lettering sketch with no body placement shown.
Hand-lettered 'Bind my wandering heart to thee' design
Black line drawing of a triskelion, three interlocking spirals arranged in a triangle, shown as a standalone tattoo design on a white background.
Triskelion triple spiral design
Pencil drawing of an open lily with shaded petals and a bold black swirling vine, shown as a botanical tattoo design with no body placement.
Lily with swirling vine design
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design: an infinity symbol with the words be strong believe in cursive script, with small birds flying across the lines on lined paper.
Infinity symbol with 'be strong believe' script and birds
Fine line botanical drawing in dark ink on tracing paper, showing a crescent moon formed from roses, peony-style blooms, small blossoms, leaves and berries.
Crescent moon of roses and blossoms line drawing
Colour flash design of a cartoon kitty, a care bear, a pastel pony, cupcakes and a lollipop on purple clouds, with no body placement shown.
Cartoon cupcakes and pastel characters design
Black line drawing of a bull skull with an ornate floral pattern on the forehead and teal feathers hanging from each side, shown as a standalone design.
Bull skull with feathers design
Four tribal-style playing card suit designs, a spade, heart, diamond and club, drawn in black and red on a white background.
Tribal playing card suit designs
Black and white drawing of a symmetrical geometric star design with pointed blades and hexagon shapes, shown as a flash design rather than a tattoo on skin.
Geometric blade star design
Flash drawing of a skull wreathed in daisies, with stippled white linework and yellow centres on a dark background.
Skull with daisy crown
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design with a battered helmet, a rose and leaves in black and grey shading, with lettering across the top.
Helmet, rose and lettering design
Black tribal-style flash drawing of a spiral sun with spiked rays and diamond shapes on a plain white background.
Tribal spiral sun design
Black hand-lettered word love in a flowing script above a horizontal line broken by a small heart, drawn on a plain white background as a tattoo design.
Love script with heart divider
Black and grey lotus flower design with mandala patterns, dotwork shading and hanging diamond pendants, printed on a white backing in clear packaging.
Lotus mandala design with dotwork
Hand-drawn lotus flower in purple and teal ink linework over a watercolour wash, with the words Be enlightened beneath it, shown as a design rather than on skin.
Lotus flower with Be enlightened text
Black line drawing flash design of an anchor wrapped in rope beside a ship's wheel, with the words Guide me in your truth and Anchor me in your love.
Anchor and ship wheel with quote lettering
Black brush lettering design reading take the risk, in a loose script style on a white background, with no body placement shown.
Take the risk brush lettering design
Blue ink drawing of a radial mandala with teardrop petals, dotted rings and a central circle, shown on cream paper with no body placement.
Blue ink mandala design
Black ink drawing of a front-facing owl built from fine ornamental linework, with mandala-style patterns on its body, shown as tattoo flash on white paper.
Ornamental owl line drawing
Collage of black cross flash designs around a black and grey photo of a small thin cross tattoo on the back of a neck.
Cross designs with a small neck cross photo
Watercolour design of the sun, Saturn, Jupiter, Earth and smaller planets against pink and blue clouds, drawn as a tattoo design with no body part shown.
Watercolour solar system with sun and planets

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