Tattoo ideas

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

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Traditional style flash drawing of a red sacred heart with a flaming cross on top, framed by purple flowers and green leaves on a cream background.
Flaming sacred heart with cross and flowers
Coloured drawing of a tattoo design showing two galaxy-filled Sailor Moon silhouettes on crescent moons, an orange and pink moon brooch above, and black and grey mandala flowers below.
Sailor Moon crescents and mandala flowers design
Black and grey pencil drawing of a sphynx cat with a third eye and winged eyes, beside a snake and roses, as a tattoo design.
Sphynx cat with snake and roses design
A grid of fifteen black ornamental heart designs on a white background, filled with dots, swirls, paisley shapes and flowers, shown as a flash sheet with no body placement.
Grid of fifteen ornamental heart designs
Black line drawing of the words HERE COMES THE SUN in hand-drawn lettering, with SUN inside a circle surrounded by a spiky sunburst outline, on a white background.
Here Comes the Sun lettering in a sun
Black crescent moon with white star cut-outs along its inner edge and a trail of small black stars falling beneath it, shown as a flash design on a plain white background.
Crescent moon with falling stars design
Black ink lotus flower design with curling scrolls drawn on pale paper, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Lotus flower with swirling scrolls
Black ink drawing of a lighthouse within stippled clouds, with a compass rose below it on waves, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Lighthouse and compass rose design
Black line drawing of two stacked spider chrysanthemums with curled, spiky petals, in a Japanese-style tattoo flash design.
Two chrysanthemums in line drawing
Black paw print line design with grey, green, blue and red accents in the toe pads, drawn on plain white paper with no body part shown.
Paw print design with coloured toe accents
Black blackwork-style dragon design with patterned wings that break apart into flying crows, drawn on a tan parchment background.
Dragon dissolving into flying crows
Teal hatched illustration of a swallow in flight on a white background, presented as a tattoo design.
Swallow in flight, teal illustration
Cartoon collage of eleven tattoo designs, including a PIN and password on the chest, an Apple logo on an upper arm, and the words Mrs Christian Grey on a ribbon.
Eleven badly judged tattoo ideas illustrated
Colour illustration of a botanical sleeve design with a golden skull, pink roses, green vines and blue butterflies, shown beside a character with a tattooed upper arm and forearm.
Skull, roses and butterflies sleeve design
Black ink flash sheet on aged paper showing a teapot, a winged key, a sorting hat, a trunk, round glasses and a triangle with a circle and vertical line.
Flash sheet of six small designs
Traditional style flash design of a purple Hylian shield with a gold triangle emblem, a blue hilted sword, two red roses and a banner reading It's dangerous to go alone, coloured on paper.
Hylian shield, sword and roses flash
Pencil sketch of an ornate swash design with shaded ribbon-like forms and curling scrolls, drawn on off-white paper.
Pencil sketch of an ornate scroll flourish
Black and grey tattoo design drawing of an eye inside an ornate triangle, with a fan shell and dotted chains below, in a dotwork and geometric style.
Eye in triangle with shell and dotted chains
Black outline traditional flash design of an open envelope with a heart on the flap and two flowers with leaves, on tracing paper laid over a wooden surface.
Envelope with heart and flowers flash
Black ink handwritten script reading Wait and hope with a long sweeping underline, drawn on a white card over a dark wooden surface, in a lettering style suited to a tattoo design.
Script lettering reading Wait and hope
Black hand-lettered design reading Embrace the Journey, with a looping script for Embrace and a swash-flourished The above a serif capitals JOURNEY, shown on a plain white background.
Embrace the Journey lettering design
Fine line script lettering design reading focus on the good, drawn in black on a plain white background.
Focus on the good script lettering
Pink line drawing of a woman with flowing hair and two roses tucked into it, in a realism-leaning style, shown as a tattoo design.
Woman with roses in her hair
Black and grey dotwork drawing of an elephant head inside a hamsa hand frame, with an om symbol, flowers and leaves.
Elephant within a hamsa hand design
Black and grey drawing of a mermaid with long flowing hair, her scaled tail curving around to form a circular design with bubbles rising beside her.
Mermaid within a circle
White line drawing of a butterfly with ivy leaves and branches in its wings and a tree of life inside a circle on its body, shown on a dark grey background.
Botanical butterfly with tree of life body
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design with a skull framed by roses, leaves, lace motifs and dotted chains, shown on paper with no body placement.
Skull, roses and lace design on paper
Traditional-style flash design of dice, a green bottle and a can in flames above a banner reading Roll the Dice, with no body placement shown.
Roll the dice flash with flames and banner
Flash sheet titled Choose Your GOT Tattoo, showing twelve black line drawings of Game of Thrones house sigils and Valyrian phrases.
Game of Thrones house sigil flash sheet
Sheet of six Iron Man temporary tattoo designs in red and gold, showing the armoured hero in different poses and a glowing arc reactor, with no body part visible.
Iron Man temporary tattoo sheet
Greyscale realistic drawing of a perched owl beside a rose, leafy branch and open pocket watch, a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Owl, rose and pocket watch on a branch
White line drawing of several crossed arrows with feathered fletching and geometric arrowheads on a plain blue background, suited to a tattoo design.
Crossed arrows with feathers
Blue linework drawing of an ornate stag head with antlers, surrounded by geometric dotwork patterns on a pale background.
Ornate stag head design
Coloured illustration of an ornate sun with a human face, its rays filled with dotwork and paisley-like patterns, shown as a design drawing rather than a tattoo on skin.
Ornate sun face with dotwork rays
Black and grey pencil drawing of a heart-shaped keyhole lock framed by roses and lace ornament, a flash design for a tattoo.
Lock, roses and lace ornament design
Traditional style flash design of a grinning skull with flames, crossed pistols, spade symbols and a banner reading Diablo, drawn in black, cream and red.
Skull with flames, pistols and banner
Pencil drawing of a black and grey tribal design with bands of triangles, chevrons and diamond lattice, shaped to curve over a body.
Black and grey tribal pattern design sketch
Coloured pencil drawing of a fox with a compass and green ribbon, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Fox and compass design
Two matching black linework heart designs with ornate swirls, one reading Big Sis and the other Lil Sis in script, shown as a flash sheet.
Matching big sis and lil sis heart designs
Black line drawing of a heart formed from interlaced ribbon-like Celtic knotwork, with no placement shown on skin.
Interlaced heart knot design
Greyscale illustration of a skull with a cracked clock face on its crown, Roman numerals and red accents in the eye sockets, shown as a tattoo design.
Skull and clock face design
Fine line flash design of two hands pressed palm to palm, with black painted nails, drawn in black ink on a plain off-white background.
Fine line drawing of two hands pressed together
Two identical navy circles with cream spiral swirl linework, shown side by side on a textured linen background.
Navy circle with cream swirl design
Colourful illustration of three decorated sugar skulls with pink roses, leaves and scrollwork on a black background, shown as a design rather than on skin.
Three sugar skulls with roses
Black linework flash design of a gramophone inside an ornate oval frame, with leaves and a banner reading Music is a place to be, drawn on tracing paper.
Gramophone in an ornate frame with banner
Black ink drawing on paper of a radial mandala made from looping continuous lines, spirals, dots and an Om symbol, shown as a tattoo design sketch.
Radial mandala of loops, spirals and an Om symbol
Black and grey pencil drawing of a large-eyed cartoon owl with patterned feathers, perched on a curled branch, as a tattoo design.
Cartoon owl perched on a branch
Solid black silhouette of an anchor with a rope wrapped around its shaft and arms, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Anchor with coiled rope design

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