Tattoo ideas

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

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Two carved wooden arm and hand boards showing traditional-style tattoo designs of skulls, a heart with a dagger, a goat, a cat and flowers, in black and cream.
Carved arm boards with skull, goat and cat designs
Flash sheet of five designs showing a black stylised glyph decorated with pink cherry blossom, some with green leaves and branches, drawn in a botanical style.
Cherry blossom on a stylised glyph flash sheet
Black lettering design of the Chinese characters for family above the English word Family, on a plain white background, with no body placement shown.
Chinese characters for family
Black and grey traditional flash design of a grim reaper lying on its front talking on a telephone, with a scythe and the words when death calls.
Grim reaper on a telephone with script
Traditional style flash sheet in navy line work showing an anchor with rope, a swallow in flight, a three-masted sailing ship and a cluster of roses on a white background.
Nautical flash sheet with anchor, swallow, ship and roses
Black ink drawing of an eye inside a triangle, set against a circular mandala and an ornate face, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
All-seeing eye in a triangle with mandala
Black handwritten lettering design reading "Choose to chance the rapids" above an ampersand and "dare to dance the tides" on a white background.
Handwritten quote design in two lines
Black and white flash design of a skull in a sombrero, flanked by roses and crossed daggers beneath a diamond, with blackletter text reading Pierce the Veil.
Skull in sombrero with roses and daggers
Black linework design of a stylised phoenix with spread wings and flared feathers, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Stylised phoenix with spread wings
Black monoline script reading forever and always with a loose heart outline below, shown as a lettering design for a tattoo.
Forever and always script with heart
Black tribal-style dragon tattoo design with spiral patterns on its body and wings, drawn on a white background, with no placement shown.
Tribal dragon design with spiral patterns
Black ink line drawing of a raven in profile, filled with swirling and scrolling ornamental patterns on a beige paper background.
Ornamental raven line drawing
Black ink drawing of a feather filled with dotwork and swirling line patterns, with small words written along the vanes, drawn on white paper in a sketchbook.
Feather with doodle pattern design
Pencil and ink sketch of a pocket watch with Roman numerals, surrounded by leaves and scrolls, drawn as a neo-traditional tattoo design with no body part shown.
Pocket watch with leaves and scrolls
White line drawing of a hooded grim reaper holding a scythe, with the words A WASTED LIFE IS WORSE THAN DEATH above and below, on a black background.
Grim reaper with scythe and slogan
Traditional style flash drawing of a black dagger piercing two red and orange roses with black leaves and a rose bud.
Dagger and rose flash design
Pencil sketch of a compass rose inside a rope-edged circle decorated with dots, with a feather hanging from a chain below, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Compass rose and feather design sketch
Black and white drawing of a moth with solid black wings, white eyespot markings and thin antennae, shown as a tattoo design.
Black moth with eyespots
Ink line drawing of two feathers with teal and pink watercolour washes, shown as a tattoo-style design on white paper.
Two feathers in ink and watercolour
Traditional flash drawing of three swallows in blue, red and orange, one with a small orange flower and green leaves, and one holding a cream scroll banner.
Three swallows in traditional flash
Hand-drawn star design filled with orange and yellow zentangle patterns, set on a purple watercolour background with hearts and a dotted border.
Zentangle star design with hearts
Black hand-drawn outline of a bow above the handwritten words 'a girl without a bow is not a girl' on a cream background, shown as a flash-style design.
Bow and handwritten quote design
Symmetrical black line drawing of a lion head in an ornamental fine line style with mandala-like patterns in the mane and face, shown on a plain white background.
Ornamental lion head line drawing
Black and grey line drawing of an interlaced dragon with shaded scales, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Interlaced dragon design
Hand-drawn yin yang design with a coloured sun on one side and a starry moon on the other, with the words live by the sun and love by the moon.
Yin yang sun and moon design with lettering
Black dotwork drawing of ornate skeleton keys fanning out from a filigree circle, photographed on white paper.
Ornate skeleton keys around a filigree circle
Black and grey flash sheet of cartoon ghosts, a skull, a moon, a heart, a mountain and stars, with the lettering Sad Ghosts Forever and Stay Nice.
Sad ghosts flash sheet
Black line drawing of an ornamental cat face framed by roses, leaves and swirling stems, in the style of a tattoo design.
Ornamental cat face with roses
Gloved hands press a blue and purple transfer stencil of a dome and rain-like design onto a forearm ahead of tattooing.
Transfer stencil being applied to a forearm
Black and grey pencil drawing of a long serpentine dragon with a feathered head, segmented body plates and scaled sections, shown as a tattoo design.
Serpentine dragon line drawing
Line drawing flash design of an elephant head within a mandala frame, with flowers and dotwork petals, drawn on tracing paper.
Elephant and mandala flash design on tracing paper
Coloured flash design of a star fruit with a green leaf on top and a pale blue banner reading One Sky, One Destiny across it, drawn in a bold traditional style.
Star fruit with banner reading One Sky, One Destiny
Hand-drawn flourished script monogram of interlocking letters in dark ink on a sepia background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Flourished script monogram design
Black ink line drawing of an infinity symbol with the word love in script, a feather at the lower right and a second script word on the right loop, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Infinity symbol with feather and script
Engraved-style drawing of a hummingbird in flight among red roses, leaves and scrollwork on a white background, shown as a tattoo design.
Hummingbird and roses flash design
Traditional-style flash design on paper showing two oval portraits with honeycomb, bees, a flying saucer and an atom, above two scrolled banners in colour.
Two illustrated portraits with banners and bees
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design showing a woman with closed eyes surrounded by roses, buds and leaves, drawn in black linework on paper.
Woman and roses tattoo sketch
Blue pen sketch of a crystal cluster with flowers and sparkles, drawn as a tattoo design in a neo-traditional style, shown beside real stones on a sketchbook page.
Blue crystal cluster with flowers and sparkles
Sheet of metallic gold geometric temporary tattoo designs, including diamond, triangle and chevron bands on a pale grey background, with no body placement shown.
Metallic gold geometric temporary tattoo sheet
Black ink line drawing of two tulips among slender grass stems and leaves on a plain white background, a botanical flash design with no body placement shown.
Tulips and grasses in pen and ink
Pink and purple butterfly tattoo design with black linework, a web-like wing pattern and curled swirls, drawn on a pale background.
Pink butterfly with swirling tail design
Black and grey flash design of a triangle with POWER, COURAGE and WISDOM on banners, with a sword and shield beside it.
Triangle with Power, Courage and Wisdom banners
Three temporary tattoo designs on white paper backing: a green cactus with three flowers, an ice cream cone with cherries and a lollipop, and a blue unicorn.
Temporary tattoo designs: cactus, ice cream and unicorn
Black ink line drawing of a chickadee perched on a stack of three patterned teacups with a teabag tag and saucer, in a fine line style.
Chickadee perched on stacked teacups
Black line drawing of a centaur archer with a drawn bow and arrow, shown as a tattoo design on white paper, with no body placement visible.
Centaur archer line drawing
Black and grey flash drawing of an ornate anchor combined with a cross, with shaded oval panels and scrollwork, shown without any body placement.
Ornate anchor and cross design
Black ink drawing of a bouquet of daisy-like flowers, leaves and sprigs on pale pink paper, drawn in a botanical style.
Daisy and leaf bouquet drawing
Black ink line drawing of a mermaid with scaled tail and curling waves, sketched on paper beside two fineliner pens, a tattoo design for fine line work.
Mermaid with curling wave tail line drawing

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