Tattoo ideas

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

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Black and grey engraving-style tattoo across a person's back, showing a crossbow, a noose, a snake, a hunter with a musket, a horned figure with a horn and a hound, with text lines.
Engraved collage of crossbow, noose and hunter on back
Colour Japanese style tattoo of a black and white cat with red and gold shide streamers and grey clouds, placed on the outer thigh.
Cat with shide streamers and clouds on a thigh
A labelled chart of eleven black line and solid symbols on a teal to yellow gradient, including a pentagram, spiral, triquetra, tree of life and Eye of Horus.
Pagan and occult symbol reference chart
Small black and grey scorpion tattoo with shaded body and raised tail, sitting on the side of a person's ribs below a dark top.
Small scorpion tattoo on the side ribs
Greyscale drawing of a snarling winged creature with clawed hands gripping a ribbon scroll, with a blue police box in front, shown as a tattoo design.
Winged creature with police box in ribbon scroll
Watercolour-style pansies and pink petals tattooed on the side of a neck, in a soft botanical style.
Pansies and petals on the side of the neck
Close crop of a torso showing a fine line black script tattoo reading paciencia on the side ribs, above light denim shorts.
Fine line script phrase on the ribs
Black fine line tattoo on the side of the ribs of a heart formed from treble clef lines, with piano keys across the lower half and two dots beside it.
Musical heart with piano keys on the ribs
Black dotwork pine tree tattoo running up the forearm, with a solid dark crown and a fine trunk line fading into stippled shading.
Pine tree on a forearm
Black linework flash design of an eye inside a triangle, framed by outlined roses and leaves in a neo-traditional style.
Eye in triangle with roses design
Ink drawing of a symmetrical mandala with layered petals and dotted detail, shown as a tattoo design on cream paper.
Radial mandala design drawn in ink
Black dotwork flash sheet showing a rose, a snake, a dagger, a praying hand, an angel, a cross and church buildings, shown as tattoo designs with no placement on the body.
Dotwork flash sheet of churches, snakes and hands
Solid black silhouette of the state of Ohio with tree roots spreading beneath it, drawn as a design on a plain white background.
Ohio silhouette with roots
Hand-coloured flash sheet of kawaii sweets, including cupcakes, an ice cream cone, candies, a lipstick and cat designs, drawn in marker on white paper.
Kawaii sweets flash sheet in marker
Black linework geometric mandala sleeve tattoo covering a person's upper arm and forearm, with a dark floral shirt in the background.
Ornamental mandala arm sleeve in black linework
Two side-by-side photos of solid black band tattoos encircling the ring finger, one thick and one fine, in a blackwork and fine line style.
Black band rings on the ring finger
Black and grey realistic angel wings spread across a woman's upper back, with an ornate vertical spine piece and a dark floral tattoo on her upper arm.
Angel wings and spine tattoo on a back
Black script tattoo reading 'i am not afraid to walk this world alone' on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Handwritten quote on a wrist
Black and grey realism sleeve on an upper arm and shoulder, showing two roses and a pocket watch with Roman numerals.
Roses and pocket watch sleeve
Two forearms with fine dashed-line tattoos encircling the wrists, in a minimal fine line style on the inner forearm.
Thin dashed line tattoos on two forearms
Colour tattoo on a forearm showing Finn and Jake from Adventure Time stretching their arms toward each other, with the script Homies help homies. Always.
Finn and Jake quote on a forearm
Black and grey photograph of a fine-line ornamental tattoo with a lattice centre, curled details and dots, placed on the upper arm near the shoulder.
Ornamental lattice tattoo on upper arm
Black serif lettering reading two lines of latitude and longitude figures, N 34° 4' 54" and W 118° 6' 2", tattooed on the back of a person's neck.
Coordinate lettering on the back of the neck
Two matching fine line tattoos on the inner wrists, one showing a row of dots with a ringed planet and the other a scatter of small dots, in black ink.
Planet and star dot tattoos on wrists
Black linework flash design of a compass rose with two roses in a botanical and geometric style, shown without a body placement.
Compass rose with two roses
Black and grey mandala tattoo with dotwork detail on a woman's stomach, sitting below a black lace bra and above black briefs.
Mandala tattoo on the stomach
Colour neo-trad style swallow tattoo with blue and red wings patterned with a flag design, and Rebel Within script above it, on a person's upper back.
Swallow with Rebel Within script on upper back
Colour tattoo of lavender sprigs, red flowers and green grass in a painterly botanical style on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Lavender and wildflowers on a forearm
Black and grey photo of a small mountain range tattoo with solid black peaks on the left ribs of a person wearing a black bandeau.
Small mountain range tattoo on the ribs
Solid red heart tattoo with pale 1D lettering on the back of a lower leg, above a leopard print shoe.
Red heart with 1D on a calf
Fine line tattoo of a green and black laurel wreath on the ankle, with leaves curving around an open base.
Small laurel wreath on an ankle
Fine line unalome with a pink lotus flower tattooed centrally on a torso above a navel piercing.
Unalome and lotus on the midriff
Black and grey photo of a small solid airplane silhouette tattoo on a forearm, with a knit sleeve and a window seat in the background.
Small airplane tattoo on a forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a chickadee in flight across the upper chest.
Chickadee in flight on the chest
Colour tattoo of a unicorn head in profile with a fine black outline and soft watercolour washes in pink, purple, blue and green on skin.
Watercolour unicorn head tattoo
Black and grey realism tattoo on the back of a screaming woman with birds breaking into flight, with handwritten lyrics running down the left side.
Screaming woman and birds on back
Circular pastel tattoo of a bare tree with stained-glass style panels in pink, purple and blue, with dotted accents, on an upper arm.
Pastel tree in a circle on an upper arm
Black calligraphic line drawing of a butterfly with curved antennae and sweeping wings on a white background, shown as a design rather than on skin.
Stylised butterfly line drawing
Small solid black silhouette of a figure on the lower leg near the ankle, with a leg in lace platform heels against a dark street at night.
Silhouette figure tattoo on a calf
Colour traditional tattoo of a woman with peacock feathers and a rose in her hair, wearing beaded necklaces, on the lower leg.
Traditional woman with peacock feathers on a calf
Full colour back piece of a peacock in flight with peacock feather eyes and pink magnolia blossoms, shown across the back and lower back.
Peacock and magnolia back piece
Colour tattoo on a thigh showing a pink rose with green stem under a glass dome, with two black silhouettes facing each other, in a bold neo-traditional style.
Rose in a glass dome with two silhouettes on a thigh
Hand-drawn sketch of a wolf head with blue shading, grey pencil hatching and red and teal watercolour splashes on white paper.
Sketched wolf head with watercolour splashes
Red tribal-style butterfly design with bold wings and the Greek letters delta, sigma and theta set between them, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Red tribal butterfly design with Greek letters
Black lettering tattoo on the inner forearm reading a bachelorette party quote, with a small red lips motif, in a lettering style.
Bachelorette quote with red lips on a wrist
Close view of a fine line black script tattoo reading be still and know on the inner forearm, with a striped sleeve at the top of the frame.
Fine line script quote on inner forearm
Colour realism tattoo of a dancing Ganesha with a red hibiscus flower on a thigh, set against a purple and orange watercolour wash.
Dancing Ganesha on the thigh
Small black fine line tattoo of a triangle enclosing an eye, on the inner forearm of a woman with her back to the camera.
Small triangle tattoo on a forearm

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