Tattoo ideas

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

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White outline drawing of a black cartoon cat with a bow on its head, whiskers and a small round mouth, on a dark textured background.
Black cartoon cat with a bow outline
Black handwritten script reading "She's not afraid" with a small open heart beneath it, drawn as a lettering design on a white background.
"She's not afraid" script with a heart
Black ink line drawing of a stylised phoenix with spread wings and flowing tail feathers, shown as a tattoo design on white with no body placement.
Phoenix with spread wings line design
Black and grey neo-trad style flash of a woman with a towering updo, skulls, pearls and a lace collar.
Skull-adorned woman with pearls and lace
Black line drawing flash on paper of a conch, a fan shell and a nautilus shell, each decorated with clusters of blossom, with a pen on the left.
Seashells and blossom flash sheet
Symmetrical geometric line design in rust ink on kraft paper, showing a diamond with an inner eye shape, radiating rays and small sparkle marks.
Geometric diamond with radiating rays
Black tribal scorpion tattoo designs on a white background, shown as a flash sheet of four separate motifs.
Four tribal scorpion flash designs
Black ink pen drawing of a heart with a bow at the top, corset-style lacing down the centre and cross-stitched seams on each side, shown as a tattoo design sketch.
Laced heart with stitches and bow
Black flourished lettering design reading Not all who wander are lost, set in mixed capitals and swash letters on a plain white background.
Not all who wander are lost lettering
Pen and ink sketch of a hummingbird in flight with loose, feathered linework on cream paper, shown as a possible tattoo design beside a black fineliner pen.
Hummingbird sketch in ink
Ink sketch in a spiral notebook of a treble clef and 4/4 staff that flows into a double helix with piano key rungs, with faint pencil studies beside it.
Musical staff merging into a DNA helix sketch
Ink and colour drawing of a three-headed black cat with yellow eyes, seated beneath a hatched crescent moon and a small cross.
Three-headed black cat under a crescent moon
Black ink pen drawing of a mermaid seen from behind, with wavy hair raised above her head and a fishtail, shown as a tattoo design sketch with no body placement.
Mermaid with flowing hair, seen from behind
Black brush lettering design reading Fuck around and find out, with sweeping underlines, drawn on a plain white background, shown as a lettering design rather than a tattoo on skin.
Fuck around and find out lettering design
Black ink line drawing of a figure seen from behind, with antlers rising through wavy hair inside an oval hatched frame, above the words Sugar we're goin down.
Antlered figure with lyric lettering
Sheet of assorted temporary tattoo designs including koi, arrows, a hummingbird, a skull, owls and hearts, mostly black with some colour.
Assorted temporary tattoo designs sheet
White chalk line drawing of an anchor with a looping ampersand-style swirl on a black chalkboard background.
Anchor with ampersand design
Black line drawing of a hand with a cuff reading LOVE KILLS, holding up a card marked with a heart pierced by an arrow.
Hand holding a heart card with Love Kills
Pencil sketch of a small fairy seated with tall, swept wings and curling flourishes, drawn as a tattoo design on paper.
Pencil sketch of a fairy with wings
Pencil and ink drawing of a neo-traditional hourglass flanked by two roses, a small diamond and scrollwork, drawn on paper beside a pen.
Hourglass and roses tattoo design
Hand-drawn neo-traditional tattoo design of a woman's face framed by red snakes, a crown and a single eye, with dotwork ornament, on paper.
Female face with snakes, crown and eye
White ornamental lettering reading Serenity, with swirling flourishes above and below, on a plain black background, shown as a tattoo design.
Serenity lettering with flourishes
Black ink drawing of a compass rose with an arrowed star and a clockwork mechanism of gears at its centre, drawn on aged parchment.
Compass rose with clockwork gears
Black dotwork arrow design with a Virgo-style zodiac glyph and dotted constellation lines, drawn on pale green paper.
Dotwork arrow with constellation and Virgo symbol
Red pencil sketch of a neo-trad tattoo design showing a sugar skull woman with pinned curls, a profile of a man with a quiff, and a Vigilante script banner.
Sugar skull woman and profile man flash
Black fine line drawing of peonies, a lotus and leaves on tracing paper, a botanical tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Peony and lotus linework design
Black and grey dotwork drawing of a hamsa hand with an eye at its centre, flanked by two roses, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Hamsa hand with eye and two roses design
Two solid black eagle designs with outstretched feathered wings, shown as a blackwork tattoo flash sheet.
Two spread-wing eagle designs
Watercolour-style drawing of a tattoo design showing an anchor wrapped in rope, with a death's-head hawkmoth, two compasses, lightning flags and two revolvers.
Anchor with moth, compasses and revolvers
Two infinity symbol tattoo designs decorated with flowers, leaves and butterflies, one in pink and red colour and one in black line art, shown without a body placement.
Infinity symbol with flowers and butterflies
Collage of black tribal line designs showing a heart-shaped pair of penguins with swirling koru-style detail, drawn as stencil or flash artwork with no body part visible.
Tribal penguin and heart designs
Black line drawing of an ornate cross built from curling scrolls and swirls on a white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
Scrollwork cross design
Black line drawing of a symmetrical pinstripe-style flame ornament with tapering swirls and two open circular scrolls at the base, shown as a design on a white background.
Symmetrical pinstripe flame ornament
Fine line drawing of a deer head wearing a beaded chain, framed by peony blooms and leaves, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Deer and peony flower design
Solid black silhouette design of three hearts of different sizes linked by thin curling scroll lines, shown on a white background.
Three hearts with swirling scrolls
Black and white flash design of two arrows set on a diagonal, with solid black feathered fletching and dashed shafts, shown on a plain white background.
Two arrows tattoo flash design
Neo-traditional style flash design of Alice holding a white rabbit, with roses, mushrooms, lilies and a banner reading Follow the White Rabbit, shown without a body placement.
Alice with white rabbit banner design
White script lettering reading Be Brave above a horizontal arrow, shown as a tattoo design on a black background.
Be Brave script lettering with arrow
Pen sketch of a tattoo design showing a safety pin with a bow and two lettered ribbons, drawn on paper with no body part visible.
Safety pin and bow with lettered ribbons
Black brush-style lettering design repeating the word HAHA in staggered, overlapping rows, shown as a flash drawing with no body placement.
Haha brush lettering design
Black and white stippled flash design of a skull over crossed bones, an all-seeing eye in a triangle, a dollar sign, a hand and a 40 oz bottle on a banner, in dotwork style.
Skull, crossbones and 40 oz bottle design
Black single-line drawing of a sitting cat in profile, looking left, with a curled tail, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Minimalist sitting cat line drawing
Pen and ink tattoo design of a rose, ribcage, spine and pelvis with a blue insect wing, drawn in a botanical anatomical style.
Rose, ribcage and blue wing anatomy design
Three black Polynesian-style sea turtle tattoo designs on a white background, one with a plumeria flower on its shell and one with a sunburst centre.
Three Polynesian sea turtle designs
Black ink drawing of a sailing ship inside a laurel wreath, with the script words The Lady Daisy and a small star below, presented as a tattoo design.
Sailing ship with laurel wreath
Black line drawing flash sheet showing an AK-style rifle, a pixel sad face, a bag of pills labelled Soft Drugs, a unicorn head, a middle finger hand and two cartoon characters.
Flash sheet with rifle, pills and cartoon designs
Black linework drawing of a pair of legs in high heels, covered in traditional-style tattoo flash designs such as a heart banner, anchor, spider web and skull across the calves.
Traditional flash designs on drawn legs
Black ink drawing of the word hope in flowing hand-lettered script, with two feathered arrows passing beneath it, shown as a flash design on a white background.
Hope script lettering with two arrows

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