Tattoo ideas

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

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Traditional flash design of a black stiletto shoe with a yellow and red cupcake-style platform, a dagger through a red heart, blood drops and the word HEARTBREAKER running up the heel.
Heartbreaker stiletto with dagger and heart
Black and grey pen sketch flash design of a mountain inside a diamond frame, with pine trees, ringed planets, stars and a compass star below.
Mountain and planets in a diamond frame
Black line drawing flash design of two eyes behind outstretched hands with solid black nails and one tear, showing no placement on the body.
Hands covering eyes with a single tear
Two ornate pen drawings of tattoo designs on paper, a mandala-style piece above and a lace-like collar design below.
Ornate mandala and lace collar designs
Black line drawing of an elephant head covered in ornamental swirls, two roses and a heart with a diamond, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Ornamental elephant head design
Black and grey dotwork flash designs pinned to a white wall, including hummingbirds, a heart, a hamsa hand, a scorpion, a ribcage and an eye.
Dotwork flash of birds, hearts and hands on a wall
Pencil sketch of an ornamental wolf head design with a hamsa hand, geometric triangles and filigree patterns across the face, drawn on paper.
Ornamental wolf head design sketch with hamsa hand
Traditional style flash design of an anchor wrapped in rope with a ship's wheel, two swallows and a laurel wreath, drawn on torn paper over wooden boards.
Anchor and ship wheel with swallows
Overhead view of many small temporary tattoo designs, including animals, flowers, lettering and simple line motifs, scattered around a silver tin marked SUPER.
Temporary tattoo designs around a metal tin
Black ink line drawing of an ornate heart with mandala-style patterns, leaves and trailing vines, drawn as a tattoo design on paper.
Ornate heart with vines and leaves
Pencil sketch of a lion's head in profile with its mane flowing into lotus and blossom flowers, drawn as a tattoo design on paper.
Lion and lotus flower design sketch
Black silhouette temporary tattoo transfer of a flying figure and children, shown partly out of its kraft paper 'temporary tattoo' packet.
Temporary tattoo transfer with flying silhouettes
Black ink drawing of an anatomical heart with a gramophone horn rising from its top and a hand crank on its right side, shaded with fine hatching on a white background.
Anatomical heart fused with a gramophone horn
Black script lettering design of the quote I'm going to make everything around me beautiful, with flourished capitals and no body placement shown.
Script quote lettering design
Pencil sketches of peony clusters with leaves on tracing paper, drawn as designs for a tattoo in a fine line botanical style.
Peony cluster tattoo sketches on tracing paper
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design showing two shaded koi fish within black tribal-style lines, with flowers and swirls, in black and grey.
Koi fish and flower tattoo design
Black line drawing of an interlaced Celtic heart knot with looping strands, shown as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Celtic heart knot line design
Blue and navy linework flash design of a fox head with flowing hair above a dark feathered winged figure, arranged in a circle on a white background.
Fox and winged figure in a circle
Black linework lion face design with a symmetrical, swirling mane on a white background, shown without a placement on the body.
Swirling lion face design
Pencil drawing of a stylised owl with closed eyes and a zigzag chest, perched on a black swirling branch.
Sleepy owl on a swirled branch
Black line drawing design of a cross and heartbeat line that becomes a heart, with the words Faith, Hope and Love beneath it.
Cross, heartbeat and heart with Faith Hope Love
Black ink lettering design of a feather and a flock of birds beside the script words Your Wings Were Ready But My Heart Was Not, on a white feathered background.
Feather, birds and script quote design
Watercolour and ink drawing of a howling wolf below a glowing moon with blue and pink washes, drawn on white paper as a tattoo design.
Howling wolf and moon watercolour design
Black line drawing of a tattoo design with an hourglass, three roses, a pocket watch and banners reading I wish time was on our side, in a traditional style.
Hourglass, roses and pocket watch tattoo design
Black and grey neo-traditional drawing of Medusa, with snakes woven through her hair and red accents, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Medusa portrait flash with snakes
Traditional-style flash drawing of a blue and yellow swallow with a trailing line, a small red heart and star motifs on a cream background.
Swallow and heart flash design
Black tribal-style dragon design with a curling tail, clawed feet and flame-like spines on a white background.
Tribal dragon design in solid black
Black line drawing of a tribal-style tattoo design across the shoulder blade and upper back of a sketched male figure seen from behind, with a katana hilt at the waist.
Tribal shoulder and back design sketch
Black ink drawing of a lion's head in profile facing right, with a flowing mane rendered in fine lines, shown as a tattoo design on white.
Lion head in profile line drawing
Line drawing of interlocking loops forming a heart shape, with teal and dark shading on a pale background.
Interlocking loop heart design
Pen and ink drawing of an ornate, flourished letter with scroll details on paper, with a faint pencil sketch of another letter behind it.
Ornate lettering sketch of a flourished letter
Black and white ink drawing of a butterfly with fine veined wings and dark round spots, shown as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
Black ink butterfly with dark eye spots
Black ink line drawing of a magnolia branch with several open blooms and buds, shown as a flash design on plain paper.
Magnolia branch line drawing
Painted traditional-style peony with green leaves on a bark-edged wooden slice, shown against a grey wall.
Traditional peony painted on a wooden slice
Three pencil sketches of the word Vegan in script lettering, decorated with leaves, a small heart and swirls, drawn on torn paper.
Vegan script lettering sketches with leaves
Pencil and coloured pencil drawing of an ornate oval mirror frame with blue flowers, a shell, a star and pearl chains, shown as a tattoo design on a clipboard.
Ornate mirror with flowers, shell and pearl chains
Symmetrical horned helmet design on a white background, with its shapes filled by a green and brown galaxy of stars and nebula.
Horned helmet with galaxy fill
Black ink flash design of a feather breaking into flying birds above the script words Your Wings Were Ready But My Heart Was Not, on a white feathery background.
Feather dissolving into birds with script quote
Black and white drawing of a stylised rabbit mask with long ears above the handwritten numbers 28:06:42:12, a design suitable as a black and grey tattoo, with no placement shown.
Black rabbit mask with numbers design
Black and grey ink drawing of an anatomical heart fitted with pipes, valves and riveted metal plates, shown without a body placement.
Mechanical anatomical heart drawing
Flash design of the words Mama Tried in ornate gold-brown lettering, with a revolver and pink and white flowers around it.
Mama Tried lettering with revolver and flowers
Three traditional style flash designs on stickers: a light blue car, a fiery banner with flowers, and a red and blue cross with roses.
Car, flames and roses flash designs
Black line drawing on paper of a fine-line tattoo design, a scalloped drape of shells and beads with dangling shell charms, intended for the chest.
Shell and bead drape design, line drawing
Black and white ornamental flash design of a wolf head with detailed linework, dotted shading and patterned feathers, with no body placement shown.
Ornate wolf head design in black ink
Black line drawing of a rearing horse built from triangular geometric facets on a plain white background.
Geometric rearing horse line design
Black handwritten script reading Spoilers on a plain white background, a fine line lettering design with no body placement shown.
Spoilers script lettering design
Black ink drawing of an ornamental cross design with filigree detail, leaf motifs and stippled dotwork shading, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Ornamental cross with leaves and dotwork
Traditional-style flash design of two swallows, a red rose, a red heart, a blue flower, a pocket watch and two sonic screwdriver-style objects, with banners reading All of Time and Space and Allons-y.
Swallows, rose and heart with banner scroll

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