Tattoo ideas

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

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Two side-by-side photos of black lettering tattoos on the back of a neck, reading you see all my light and and you love my dark, in a serif typeface.
Two-line quote tattoo on the back of the neck
Black ink blackletter alphabet sheet showing capital letters A to Z with decorative swashes on a cream background, shown as lettering flash.
Blackletter uppercase alphabet flash
Small black script tattoo near the right shoulder blade of a woman with her hair in a bun, wearing a white dress with a pearl-trimmed back and bow.
Small script tattoo on upper back and shoulder
Two photos of black ink lettering tattoos: one on the back of a lower leg, one on an ankle, with the words shown upside down in the frame.
Upside-down words on leg and ankle
Colour tattoo of a green leafy bundle with white flowers and a banner reading I found within me an invincible summer, on a person's upper back near the shoulder blade.
Leafy banner with quote on a shoulder blade
Black ink script quote with a small leaf sprig and a circular Gallifreyan-style design on the forearm.
Quote script and circular design on forearm
Black line lettering design stacking the letters A, an ampersand, C and E vertically on a white background, in a bold lettering style with no body placement shown.
Stacked A, ampersand, C and E lettering design
Fine line black script reading we're all mad here on a forearm, with green palm fronds behind the arm.
Fine line script quote on a forearm
Black and grey script lettering with two shaded roses and leaves running down the side of a ribcage.
Script lettering with roses on ribs
Black ink lettering tattoo of a handwritten medical chart, with labels such as Time, BP, HR and Meds and a heartbeat trace, across the inside of a forearm.
Medical chart fields on a forearm
Red handwritten script tattoo reading Let's Rock on the inner wrist and forearm, shown in a lettering style.
Let's Rock script on a wrist
Black fine line tattoo on the inner forearm, drawn like a handwritten note with a smiley face, the words Get tattoo with the second word struck through, and ruled lines beneath.
Handwritten note tattoo on forearm
Black linework flash sheet showing the word Sprinkles set in many lettering styles, including Dutch serif, script, curved and hand-drawn forms.
Sprinkles lettering variations on a flash sheet
Hand-drawn tattoo flash design of a barn owl wearing a pendant, with a banner reading No Power Over Me, shaded in pen and blue and orange watercolour wash.
Barn owl with banner reading No Power Over Me
Two wrists showing matching black script tattoos that read Every atom of me and & Every atom of you, in a lettering style on the inner forearms.
Matching script wrist tattoos
Neo-traditional tattoo on a forearm showing a grey California state outline with a bear, orange poppies, green leaves and a Dreams banner.
California poppies and state outline on a forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo on a forearm showing small feet, butterflies and a script name in fine lettering.
Script name, feet and butterflies on a forearm
Black and grey rabbit mask tattoo with red hand-lettered quote and red splatter marks on an upper arm, shown in a realism and lettering style.
Rabbit mask and red lettering on upper arm
Black and grey realism upper arm tattoo of a haunted house with glowing eyes, a full moon, a tree, tombstones and banners with book titles.
Haunted house and tombstones on upper arm
Black and grey tattoo of the words Carpe Diem beside a shaded feather that breaks into flying birds, on the outer thigh.
Carpe Diem script with feather and birds
Black and grey shaded swallow tattoo with the word Dad in script beneath it, on the inside of a wrist.
Swallow and script word on wrist
Black handwritten script reading listen to your soul on a plain white background, a lettering tattoo design with thin, even linework.
Listen to your soul in handwritten script
Black script reading too beautiful for earth with a shaded grey angel wing, tattooed on the inside of a wrist.
Too beautiful for earth script and wing on a wrist
Black and grey realism style cross tattoo with two banners on the upper arm, one reading 1946-2011 and the other reading Grandad.
Cross with banners and dates on upper arm
Pen sketch of a tattoo design showing a skull, roses and a banner reading Dead men tell no tales, in a neo-trad lettering style.
Skull and banner lettering design
Black and teal fine script quote with swallows, swirls and a purple and teal butterfly tattooed across a person's upper back.
Swallows, swirls and script quote on upper back
Black script reading 'She believed she could... so she did' runs along the side of a foot above a pink running shoe and the figures 26.2 near the heel.
Quote and pink running shoe on a foot
Fine line black script tattoo reading soror mea amica mea across the side of the ribs, above a faint healed band of skin.
Fine line script phrase on the side ribs
Six black script lettering designs of the words Stand up, in varied flowing and bold handwritten styles, shown as a tattoo flash sheet.
Stand up script lettering designs
Forearm tattoo of the words Made in Oregon in green script inside a black outline of the state of Oregon.
Made in Oregon script in a state outline on forearm
Black and grey photo of two inner wrists, one with the word past and the other with the word future, both in a simple serif lettering style.
Past and future lettering on wrists
Fine line black script reading Take these broken wings and learn to fly, curving down the ribs beside a small bird silhouette.
Script quote and bird on ribs
Colour tattoo of a feather with the words Strength lies within in black script, across the calf, in blue, orange and grey shading.
Feather with script lettering on a calf
Drawing of an infinity symbol tattoo design with fine black script reading life and love, a blue, pink and teal feather, and small birds flying off, on white paper.
Infinity feather with life and love script
Black and grey tattoo on a forearm spelling COEXIST, with the letters replaced by a rounded ear, a figure in a wheelchair, braille dots, crossed sticks and a cross, in front of green and orange floral
Coexist lettering on a forearm
Collage of small black fine line tattoos drawn from classic books, shown on upper arms, forearms, shoulders and backs.
Literary tattoos on arms and backs
Black script lettering runs down the spine of a woman with her hair in a bun, shown from behind on the upper back.
Script lettering down the spine
Two photographs: black script reading I solemnly swear that I am up to no good on the side of a torso, and black lettering reading Mischief Managed with flourishes on a forearm.
Script quote and lettering tattoos on skin
Black and grey realism arm tattoo with a sugar skull, a treble clef, the word Ambition in script and a rose made from banknotes, on the upper arm.
Sugar skull, treble clef and money rose sleeve
Black script tattoo on a person's upper back reading Your Wings Were Ready But My Heart Was Not, with a feather and a flock of birds rising from it.
Feather and birds with script quote on upper back
Neo-traditional colour tattoo of a lantern with an eye in a triangle and a banner reading WHERE WILL THIS ROAD LEAD, on the forearm.
Lantern with eye and banner on a forearm
Black script tattoo reading Sisters inside an outlined heart, on the ankle of a person's lower leg.
Sisters script in a heart on an ankle
Black typewriter-style lettering reading Fear, display none, on a person's forearm, with a fine code-like phrase across the skin.
CSS display none lettering on forearm
Two photos of matching black script tattoos with a quote and interlocking outline hearts, one on the forearm near the wrist and one on the ankle.
Matching sister quote and interlocking hearts
Handwritten sketch of the word faith in cursive script, crossed by a horizontal bar to form a cross, drawn in black ink on lined paper as a tattoo design.
Faith script with a cross bar sketch
Pencil sketch of three looping script lettering designs reading Big Sister, Middle Sister and Little Sister, each with small heart accents.
Big, middle and little sister script designs
Collage of three fine line tattoos: two thin black bands around a forearm near the wrist, an outline map of Australia on skin, and Roman numerals XCVI VI VIII on a forearm.
Three fine line tattoos on arms and skin
Two handprints in grey ink on the side of a torso, with script lettering above and below them.
Two handprints with script names on the side

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