Tattoo ideas

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

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Black line drawing of a lion's head in profile facing left, with a flowing mane outlined in bold strokes, shown as a tattoo design without skin.
Lion head in profile line drawing
Black line drawing flash design of a banner reading Death before decaf, flanked by roses, with a teacup bearing a skull and crossbones, in a traditional style.
Death before decaf banner with roses and teacup
Purple line drawing of a barn owl, a long-haired face, a banner and ornate script lettering, shown as a tattoo flash design with no body placement.
Owl, portrait and lettering flash design
Black ink line drawing of a lion head with a flowing mane, set in a crescent moon and beside a rosary and cross, drawn on paper as a tattoo design.
Lion head with crescent moon and rosary
Pencil drawing of a realistic lion head with a wind-swept mane ending in curling swirls, a design suited to a tattoo, shown with no body placement.
Lion head with flowing mane
Pencil sketch of a hummingbird feeding from a lily, a black and grey tattoo design with a scrolling tail and leaves.
Hummingbird feeding from a lily
Black line drawing of an anchor whose shank forms part of an infinity symbol, shown on a plain white background.
Anchor and infinity symbol design
Black ink line drawing of a bat with spread wings and claws curled in front of an outlined heart, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Bat with outstretched wings and a heart
Pen line drawing on graph paper of a fern frond, several feather and frond designs, a swirl and a hummingbird head, suitable as fine line tattoo flash.
Fern fronds, feathers and hummingbird sketch
Black ink line drawing of a honeysuckle sprig with trumpet-shaped blooms, curling tendrils and leaves on a white background, a design suited to a fine line botanical tattoo.
Honeysuckle sprig line drawing
Black ink drawing of a small fairywren with a raised tail and white wing patch, perched on a thin branch with green leaves.
Fairywren perched on a leafy branch
Black and grey pencil drawing of a woman in a cap with script lettering, a hand raised to her mouth and a rosary, a tattoo flash design with no placement on the body.
Pencil portrait of a woman in a script-embroidered cap
Black ink fine line drawing on grey paper of a radial mandala of looping lines, spirals, an eye and dotted rays, with no placement shown.
Radial line-loop mandala design
Black line drawing of overlapping circles of varying sizes above the words You are Loved by so Many and so Much and By no One more than ME, on a white background.
Overlapping circles with quote lettering
Black ink line drawing of a pine tree, a deer and hatched hillside with a banner reading Prone to Wander, on aged paper.
Prone to Wander pine and deer design
Black and grey illustration of a raven with a small red eye, its feathers dripping ink above an ink bottle labelled INK with its lid beside it.
Raven dripping ink over an ink bottle
Brown ink drawing of a songbird in flight, its body formed from a treble clef and musical notes, with wings made of staves and notes drifting behind it.
Bird made of musical notes and a treble clef
Traditional style flash design of a dark perfume atomiser bottle with a red rose on its front and a coral spray cloud, shown on a pale background.
Perfume atomiser with rose, traditional flash
Colour flash design of a steel anchor wrapped in banners reading Just Keep Swimming, surrounded by cartoon sea creatures on a blue background.
Anchor with Just Keep Swimming banners
Black line drawing design of a butterfly with ornate swirling wings that trails into a musical staff with notes and scrolls, with no body placement shown.
Butterfly with musical staff and swirls
Dotwork design of stippled mountains and a rising sun inside a geometric triangle, drawn in black ink on cream paper with no body placement shown.
Stippled mountains inside a triangle
Grid of twelve dark red Chinese character tattoo designs, each with an English label such as Music, Long Life, Peace and Mother.
Twelve Chinese character tattoo designs
White script lettering on a black background reading We're all stories in the end, just make it a good one, set inside a police box outline, shown as a lettering flash design with no body placement.
Police box with script quote design
Pencil sketch of a open-jawed skull framed by roses and sprigs of leaves, drawn as a tattoo design in black and grey with no body part shown.
Skull with roses and foliage pencil sketch
Black line drawing of a winged dragon with a lattice-patterned wing and a coiled, knotted tail, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Winged dragon line design
Black line drawing of an open birdcage with two roses, a bird flying out, a feather and a padlock, in a fine line style with no body placement shown.
Open birdcage with roses and a flying bird
Black fine line drawing of a stylised swallow with curling tail swirls and a trailing vine of leaves, shown as a tattoo design on white.
Swirling bird and leaf vine line design
Black dotwork drawing of a mountain, pine trees and a small cabin inside a diamond shape with geometric ornament below, shown as a tattoo design on white paper.
Mountain cabin landscape in a geometric diamond
Black line drawing of a circular mandala with scrolled leaf flourishes above and below, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Black mandala design with scroll flourishes
Black ink drawing of a wolf head in profile wreathed with poppy flowers, shaded with dense hatching, as a tattoo design.
Wolf head with poppies
Coloured pencil sketch of a neo-traditional style woman's face with curly hair, pearl necklace, drop earring and a spider, drawn as a tattoo design with script lettering below.
Woman portrait with spider and pearls sketch
Greyscale drawing of a realistic wolf head framed by bold black tribal bands, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Wolf head with tribal blackwork bands
Black ink flash design of a hummingbird feeding from a scrolled flower, with music notes and script lettering along the stem.
Hummingbird and flower scroll with music notes
Black and white crest design with a letter H, the number 221B, a TARDIS, a pentagram, a bird and a banner reading Not all who wander are lost.
Crest with TARDIS and quote banner
Fine line drawing of three overlapping roses in black ink with light hatched shading, shown as a botanical tattoo design.
Three roses in fine line
Black linework design of the word LOVE in an elegant serif script, with the O looped into the flowing L and a curled flourish on the E, drawn on a plain white background.
Stylised LOVE lettering design
Flash sheet of four black and grey tattoo designs: crossed arrows with a diamond, crossed arrows with a rose, solid crossed arrows, and crossed feathered arrows with letters and dots.
Crossed arrow tattoo flash sheet
Black ink drawing of a skull inside an ornate scrolled frame, a design suited to a neo-traditional style tattoo.
Skull in an ornate baroque frame
Black and white flash design of a stylised gecko covered in circles, dots and swirls, shown on a plain white background.
Patterned gecko tattoo design
Flash sheet of stylised dragon head designs in black, red, purple, brown, blue, green and teal, with a large black spiral dragon at the centre.
Dragon head designs around a spiral dragon
Black line drawing of five treble clefs radiating from a central swirl in a star-like pattern, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Five treble clefs arranged in a star
Black line drawing on tracing paper of a woman's profile framed by poppies, lilies and swirling hair, a botanical tattoo design sheet.
Woman profile with poppies and lilies design
Black and white yin yang design in a circle, with a paw print in each of the two halves, drawn as a flash design.
Yin yang with paw prints
Solid black stencil-style design of two figures in silhouette, filled with an American flag pattern of stripes and stars, with no body placement shown.
Stars and stripes figures silhouette
Black line drawing of a dove in flight with spread wings and a tapering tail, shown on a plain white background, suitable as a tattoo design.
Dove in flight line drawing
Black line drawing of a sitting cat with whiskers and a curled tail on a plain white background.
Sitting cat line drawing
Black tribal-style dragon design with spread wings, coiled body and clawed feet, drawn as a flash sheet image without a body placement.
Tribal dragon with spread wings
Hand-drawn ink design of a winged sheep across three banners reading A teenage vow in a parking lot, til tonight do us part, with grey shading and brown and yellow wash accents.
Winged sheep with lyric banners

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