Tattoo ideas

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

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Black ink drawing of a wide-eyed owl holding a daisy, shaded with stippling and scalloped feather detail, sketched on white paper in a spiral sketchbook.
Owl and daisy ink drawing
Fine line black script reading Forever in my heart with a small heart motif on the side of a torso, ribs placement.
Forever in my heart script on ribs
Black fine line tattoo of an arrow running along the inner forearm, with a geometric arrowhead, dots along the shaft and a feathered fletching.
Fine line arrow on a forearm
Traditional style flash design of a woman with curled hair, two blue roses, an eyeball and a banner reading I only have eyes for you.
Pin-up woman with roses and eyeball banner
Black lettering tattoo in a serif typeface reading 'There is a light that never goes out', running diagonally along the inner forearm.
Quote tattoo along a forearm
Colour tattoo of planets, including a ringed planet and a banded planet, against a red swirling galaxy on a calf.
Colourful planets and galaxy on a calf
Black and grey tattoo of a kangaroo breaking through a torn Australian flag on the shoulder.
Torn Australian flag with kangaroo
Black and grey line drawing of two ornate lace-like designs, each with a central heart and eye motif and hanging chains and beads, shown as tattoo flash rather than on skin.
Ornate lace heart and eye design
Black and grey geometric tattoo on the forearm, with nested triangles, a central figure with wing-like shapes and a vertical arrow below.
Geometric triangles and arrow on a forearm
Tribal-style lion face design with swirling mane lines, filled with red speckled texture and black outlines, shown without any body placement.
Tribal lion face design
Small black block lettering reading FRECKLE with a thin arrow pointing to a real freckle on bare skin.
Word FRECKLE with arrow to a real freckle
White ink mandala, lotus and dotted chain tattoo running from the forearm across the back of the hand.
White ink mandala and lotus hand chain
Small colour tattoo of a pink lotus flower with a green stem on the upper chest, in a soft botanical style.
Pink lotus on the upper chest
Monochrome line drawing of a tattoo design with a large five-petalled flower, fern-like leaves, curling spirals and bold tribal bands in a Polynesian-inspired pattern.
Polynesian-style flower and tribal band design
Realism tattoo of palm trees silhouetted against a sunset over the sea, wrapping around the forearm and shown from three angles.
Palm trees and sunset on a forearm
Black fine line script reading La Vita e Bella on a plain white background, a lettering design drawn without any body placement shown.
La Vita e Bella in fine line script
Black tribal pattern tattoo with bands, chevrons and curved lines covering a person's thigh and down towards the knee.
Tribal band tattoo covering a thigh and knee
Black script lettering reading To The Moon with a long underline swash on a plain grey background, shown as a lettering design rather than a tattoo on skin.
To The Moon script lettering design
Colour realism tattoo of a peacock feather with a shaded iridescent eye, running from the calf down the ankle and onto the foot.
Peacock feather tattoo on an ankle
Bare legs in shallow surf with a hand resting on a knee, showing a black ornamental mandala band and floral linework on the forearm and wrist.
Mandala and floral tattoos on a forearm
Fine line black tattoo of two outstretched hands framing a sun, crescent moon and planets, including a ringed planet, on the inner upper arm.
Celestial hands with planets on upper arm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of the White Rabbit holding a pocket watch inside a diamond frame on a forearm.
White rabbit with pocket watch in a diamond
Black linework geometric unicorn tattoo rearing up on the ankle, made of straight faceted lines.
Geometric unicorn on the ankle
Back tattoo of a gnarled tree with teal cherry blossoms and shaded grey roots, in Botanical and Japanese style across the upper and lower back.
Blossoming tree across a back
Realistic colour tattoo of falling autumn maple leaves in orange, red, green and gold on the outer lower leg.
Autumn maple leaves down a lower leg
Fine line and watercolour tattoo on the forearm showing a small figure with yellow hair on a curved planet beside a dashed orbit, planets and blue and purple washes.
Small figure on a curved planet with watercolour sky
Close photograph of a small black abstract squiggle tattoo on a finger, shown against a dark, moody background.
Small black squiggle tattoo on a finger
Colourful full sleeve tattoo on an upper arm and forearm showing a sugar skull woman with roses, skulls and a church, in a neo-traditional style.
Day of the Dead sugar skull full sleeve
Black and grey fine line script reading nothing gold can stay with a small flower sketch, tattooed on the upper back beside the shoulder blade, with hair falling across the skin.
Nothing gold can stay script on upper back
Traditional style colour tattoo of a cartoon shark standing with arms raised, with a red splash behind it, on a lower leg.
Cartoon shark standing with arms raised
Five small black swallow silhouettes in a rising line on the inner forearm, with a hand resting against the chin in the background.
Five swallows in flight on a forearm
Fine line black constellation tattoo of connected dots and lines on the upper chest, near the collarbone.
Constellation tattoo on upper chest
Two palms turned up showing a small black fine line arrow with feathered fletching, a single eye, and the words THE DEVIL WON'T KEEP TIL MORNING in black lettering.
Arrow, eye and quote on palms
Traditional-style tattoo of three brown cartoon monkeys hanging upside down from a vine, running down the inner forearm, with covering hands and red accents.
Three cartoon monkeys on a vine down a forearm
Black and grey fine line molecule tattoo on one ankle and a shaded geometric circle tattoo on the other foot, worn with black heeled shoes.
Molecule and geometric ankle tattoos
Small black typewriter-style lettering reading werde, der du bist across the inner forearm, on a plastic-covered table.
Small German text on the forearm
Black and grey fine line script reading Memento Mori across the ribs in a black and white photo.
Memento Mori script on a rib cage
Black and grey Japanese-style tattoo sleeve with a dragon and cloud motifs covering a person's lower leg, shown in a street setting.
Black and grey Japanese-style leg sleeve with dragon
Two black and grey tattoos on forearms: an arrow with the script words Her Guardian on the left, and feathered wings with script lettering between them on the right.
Arrow and wings tattoos on two forearms
Small blue watercolour-style wave tattoo with black linework curling across the inner wrist, with a soft pink-tinged skin background.
Blue wave on a wrist
Back of a woman's neck and upper back showing a black and grey brushstroke-style flower tattoo with ink dots and a thin dotted line below it.
Black and grey flower on upper back
Black outline tattoo of a world map with continents on the inner forearm, shown with the sleeve of a light shirt rolled up.
Outline world map on a forearm
Black fine line tattoo of a sun and crescent moon with dotted chain garlands and small stars across the ribs, below the chest.
Sun, moon and dotted garland on ribs
Black and grey traditional anchor tattoo with a rope wrapped around the shaft, a heart at the centre and a flower at the base, on the inner wrist.
Anchor, rope and heart on the inner wrist
Black and grey peony tattoo inside a solid black circle on the calf, with soft shading in a Japanese-influenced style.
Peony in a black circle on the calf
Colour tattoo of overlapping teal and cream scales in a diagonal line across the top of a bare foot, with a single scale below, on sand.
Teal scales tattoo on a foot
Black and grey photo of a solid black silhouette of a cat tattooed on the neck behind the ear, in a blackwork style.
Black cat silhouette tattoo behind the ear
Black and grey realistic tattoo of a space scene with a ringed planet, swirling vortex and stars across a forearm.
Space scene with ringed planet on a forearm

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