Tattoo ideas

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Black ink drawing of a swirling tree with curled branches above the word Family in script lettering, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Swirling family tree with Family script
Black line drawing flash sheet of four infinity symbol designs, three of them with silhouetted birds flying away from the loop.
Infinity symbols with flying birds flash sheet
Pencilled neo-traditional tattoo design on paper showing a cat's head, a large rose, mandala-style flowers, a butterfly and a fan motif, with no body placement shown.
Cat, rose and mandala tattoo design
Line drawing of two ravens in green and blue ink, each with a column of runic characters across its body, shown as a tattoo design without placement.
Two ravens with runes
Pencil drawing of a roaring lion head in profile, with a full flowing mane and small beads hanging from the mane.
Roaring lion head in profile
Pencil flash sheet of a teapot, teacups, a cupcake, strawberries, a rose and a biscuit, drawn in a neo-traditional style with no body placement shown.
Teapot, teacups and strawberries flash sheet
Six black line-art cats on a cream background, shown sitting, walking and stretching, drawn as a fine line tattoo flash sheet with no body placement shown.
Six line-drawn cats in varied poses
Hand-lettered navy script reading 'the ocean cures all' stacked over three lines on a white background, a lettering design suitable as a tattoo stencil.
The ocean cures all lettering design
Drawing of a mermaid seated on a rock with her back to the viewer, long hair blowing sideways and a teal scaled tail.
Mermaid seated on a rock
Black line drawing of eight cartoon bees with striped bodies and wings, scattered across a white flash sheet.
Eight cartoon bees on a flash sheet
Black line drawing of the elephant-headed deity Ganesha wearing an ornate crown, with an om symbol on the forehead and a lotus flower beneath the trunk.
Ganesha with crown and lotus line drawing
Black and grey engraved drawing of an anchor with a twisted rope coiled around its shank, on a plain white background.
Anchor with rope wrapped around the shank
Black line drawing of a heart outline with swirling script letters inside, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Heart with swirling script lettering
Black ink drawing of an ornate hot air balloon filled with floral and geometric patterns, with two mandala flowers drawn on the page beside it.
Ornate hot air balloon ink drawing
Black ink drawing of a sitting cat built from angular geometric facets filled with fine parallel hatching, shown on a plain white background.
Geometric cat design in black ink
Black ink drawing of an ornate hourglass with mandala patterns, a lotus flower and dotwork shading, drawn on paper beside a black pen.
Ornamental hourglass with lotus design
Black line drawing of a geometric design of stacked dotted and solid triangles at the top, joined by a vertical line to arrowheads and a dotted tail at the bottom.
Stacked triangles and arrow line design
Black brush script lettering on a white background reading be strong and courageous, with the reference Joshua 1:9 beneath, shown as a lettering design with no body placement.
Be strong and courageous lettering design
Black line flash design of an eye within a cloud, with two crossed straight razors above and red rays and raindrops below, with no body placement shown.
Eye in a cloud with crossed razors
Black ink drawing of a symmetrical dotwork mandala tattoo design with leaves, acorns and geometric borders, shown on paper beside two fineliner pens.
Dotwork mandala design with leaves and acorns
Illustrated dreamcatcher design with a brown woven web, five hanging feathers in red, teal, brown and cream, and red and turquoise beads, on a plain white background.
Dreamcatcher with feathers and red beads
Black and grey ornamental drawing of a wolf head built from dense, intricate patterned linework, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Ornamental wolf head design
Black and grey dotwork flash design of a horned animal skull above a pair of scales holding a feather and a small object, with an ankh inside a downward triangle.
Horned skull and scales dotwork design
Black and white line drawing design of Jack Skellington's head and body set against a spider web with two bats, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Jack Skellington with spider web and bats
Black silhouette design of Peter Pan, Tinker Bell and two other flying figures above a dotted pixie dust trail, with never grow up lettering in the centre.
Peter Pan silhouettes with never grow up script
Pencil drawing of a deer skull with antlers wrapped in wildflowers, ferns and leaves, pegged to a line against a dark background.
Deer skull with antlers and flowers
Black and grey neo-traditional tattoo design on tracing paper showing a bearded man in a helmet beside a ship in a bottle, with flowers and a hand.
Bearded sailor and ship in bottle design
Two black ink flash drawings on pale pink paper: a dotwork peony in the upper right and a patterned moth with a flower body in the lower left.
Peony and moth tattoo flash designs
Black tribal phoenix design with flame-like spread wings and a small bird head at the centre, shown as a standalone drawing with no body placement.
Tribal phoenix with spread wings
Black ink line drawing of a bouquet of peonies, roses and leaves on white paper, a fine line botanical tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Peony and rose botanical bouquet drawing
Black line drawing of an elephant filled with mandala, paisley and dot patterns, shown as a flash design rather than on skin.
Mandala-patterned elephant design
Black line drawing of a mermaid with long curling hair and a fish tail, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Mermaid with wavy hair line drawing
Hand-drawn black ink design of a ship wheel and an anchor with script lettering reading be the one to guide me and but never hold me down, drawn across a spiral notebook.
Ship wheel and anchor script design
Orange and yellow fox design drawn in a circular frame of swirling linework, shown as a finished drawing and mid-drawing with a pen on a warm background.
Fox design in a swirling floral frame
Pencil sketch of a geisha with cherry blossom, clouds and a koi fish in Japanese style, drawn on pink paper as a tattoo design.
Geisha with koi and cherry blossom sketch
Pencil drawing of a feather quill pen with curling barbs and an ornate scrolled handle, shown in black and grey on textured paper.
Quill pen design in pencil
Black ink flash drawing of a sun with a sleeping face and moon phases above, with dotwork shading and hanging drops, on a sketchbook page.
Sun face with moon phases design
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design showing a lion's head in profile, a lamb, chain links, lilies and an anchor, in a realistic shaded style.
Lion, lamb and anchor design
Black line flash of a woman in a polka dot headscarf and sunglasses with a cigarette, above the words MONEY and TALK$, shown on a white background.
Money talks woman in headscarf flash
Black line drawing of a serpentine dragon with a curled tail and spiked back, shown as a flash tattoo design.
Black line serpentine dragon design
Neo-traditional style illustration of a dark-haired pin-up woman with a red rose in her hair, with blue line roses shown across her shoulder as a tattoo design.
Pin-up portrait with rose and shoulder roses
Solid black stylised lotus flower with pointed petals and a long curling stem, drawn as a tattoo design on a white background.
Stylised lotus flower with curling stem
Traditional style flash design of a black coffin with a skeleton hand emerging from it, flanked by grey flowers and olive leaves, with a WIDE AWAKE banner below.
Coffin with skeleton hand and banner
Sepia pencil drawing of a woman's profile framed by two roses, petals and clockwork gears, shown as a tattoo design.
Profile portrait with roses and clockwork
Black line drawing of a circular Tengwar script inscription, a Tolkien-style Elvish lettering design with no body part shown.
Tengwar ring inscription lettering design
Sheet of six vertical strips of metallic gold and silver geometric temporary tattoo designs, including chevrons, diamonds, triangles, a chain, leaves and a leaf pattern.
Gold and silver metallic temporary tattoo sheet
Black and grey line drawing of a lion head with an ornate mandala-style mane and patterned face, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Ornamental lion head line drawing
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design: a treble clef formed from twining stems with bell flowers, a calla lily and small blossoms.
Treble clef entwined with flowers

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