Tattoo ideas

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

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Black and grey fine line lettering reading love, with the letter o replaced by a small square containing a star, on the forearm near the wrist.
Love script with star tattoo on wrist
Two matching forearm tattoos show interlocked wedding rings above the lettering What God Has joined Together and Let no man Separate Matt 19:6.
Matching wedding ring tattoos with scripture
Colour neo-traditional tattoo on a calf of a black cat with sugar skull face paint and skeletal ribs, above a red rose with orange flowers.
Sugar skull cat and rose on a calf
Traditional style tattoo of a grey gramophone releasing hearts, with a small house below and one red heart, on the front of a thigh.
Gramophone releasing hearts on a thigh
Large black and grey realism tattoo of a bare tree with an owl perched in its branches and a compass rose on a person's back.
Bare tree, owl and compass on a back
Black and white photo of a woman's bare back showing large symmetrical black tribal tattoos with spirals and fern-like motifs across the upper back and shoulders.
Tribal back tattoo in black and grey
Black and grey dotwork lotus mandala tattoo with dotted drop chains and diamond shapes, centred on a person's upper back.
Lotus mandala on upper back
Ink flash sheet with two arm wrestling figures, an anvil, a sketch of question marks and the words Forgot to be human, with splatter marks across the paper.
Arm wrestling figures and anvil flash sheet
Two hands held together, each with a small red lettered tattoo on a finger: a K with a heart on one and a Q with a heart on the other, shown in a fine red line style.
King and queen of hearts finger tattoos
Black and grey realism tattoo of a skull with pearls, roses and scrollwork across the top of a foot.
Skull and roses on the top of a foot
Neo-traditional tattoo of a moustached man in a bowler hat and a woman with pearls and earrings, beside a red rose, on an upper arm.
Man and woman portrait with rose on upper arm
Black linework geometric tattoos of triangles and circles on an arm, worn beside a brown leather hip bag with cream fringing at the waist.
Geometric arm tattoos with a fringed leather hip bag
Realistic colour tattoo of a large-eyed furry creature in a red hat, resting its chin on a hand, on a forearm.
Gizmo creature portrait on a forearm
Black and grey tattoo design of an infinity symbol with a heart on one loop and script lettering running along the strokes.
Infinity heart with script lettering
Black ink drawing of a tattoo design showing a musical staff ribbon forming a heart, with a treble clef, notes, stars and the words Music is Life.
Music staff heart with treble clef and script
Black and grey tattoo of a Totoro-style character framed by peony-like flowers and grape clusters on the upper arm and shoulder, with dotwork shading.
Totoro-style character with flowers on upper arm
Black and white symmetrical design inside a circle, with stylised creature forms, ovals and a central diamond, shown as a flat drawing rather than a tattoo on skin.
Symmetrical circular black and white design
Black ink line drawing of a surfboard, an acoustic guitar and a camper van above the handwritten words surf, jam, live in a van.
Surfboard, guitar and camper van sketch
Black and grey fine line mandala dreamcatcher tattoo with dangling feathers and beaded chains on a person's upper arm.
Mandala and feather dreamcatcher on upper arm
Neo-traditional tattoo of mountains, a lake and a pine tree inside an oval frame with pink and blue flowers, on a limb.
Mountain lake sunset in an oval frame
Back view of a woman with a faceted geometric bear tattoo in navy, purple and pink on her upper back near the shoulder blade.
Geometric bear on the upper back
Black serif lettering reading "we're all mad here" across the inner forearm, in a fine-line style.
We're all mad here lettering on a forearm
Black ink lace pattern design with flowers, a butterfly and swirling vines on a beige background, shown as a drawing with no body placement.
Black lace and floral design
Traditional style colour tattoo of two pink roses with green leaves, a bud and a curling stem on the side of a ribcage.
Two pink roses on the ribs
Pen drawing of an ornate lotus flower design with swirls, dots and circles on white paper, beside a black mechanical pencil, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Ornate lotus flower design drawing
Black fine line tattoo of a cat face with whiskers across the side of a finger, on a person with long wavy blonde hair.
Cat whiskers tattoo on a finger
Black and grey pen drawing of a bare, gnarled tree with exposed roots and a flock of birds lifting off from its branches, a tattoo design on a plain background.
Bare tree with roots and flying birds
Seven black line drawings of ornamental lotus flowers with paisley-style petals on a white background, shown as tattoo flash designs.
Seven lotus flower designs in black line work
Two matching black tattoos on feet, each with the word Always in flowing script and a solid stag silhouette with antlers.
Matching Always and stag tattoos on feet
Black typewriter-style lettering reading a short quote runs along a forearm, with a dark knit sleeve pulled over the wrist.
Quote in typewriter lettering on a forearm
Two wrists side by side, each with a small dark blue-black compass rose tattoo with a dotwork centre, placed on the inner wrist.
Matching compass tattoos on two wrists
Black line tattoo of a standing flamingo in fine line style on the forearm, photographed against a red patterned bedsheet.
Flamingo outline on a forearm
Small black anchor tattoo with a heart-shaped ring on the inner wrist, shown in fine line style on a person wearing a brown knit cardigan.
Small black anchor on the inner wrist
Pink handwritten script reading shine on on a plain white background, drawn as a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Shine on handwritten script design
Small black fine line lotus flower tattoo on the inner wrist, with pointed petals and no shading, against a grey background.
Small lotus flower on the inner wrist
Black and grey fine line tattoo of planets in a row down the inner forearm, including two ringed planets and a banded planet in the middle.
Solar system planets down a forearm
Black and grey traditional roses with bold outlines and leaves tattooed in a row across the stomach, above the navel.
Three black and grey roses across the stomach
Black script lettering reading Passion and Love with a pair of scissors tattooed across the fingers of a hand.
Passion and love with scissors on fingers
Black and grey realism tattoo of a diving eagle above a muscular horned figure, covering the side of the ribs.
Eagle diving over a horned figure on ribs
Black and grey botanical tattoo of lily-like flowers and leaves inside a dotted diamond outline on the upper thigh.
Floral tattoo in a diamond on a thigh
Colour tattoo of four stacked alphabet blocks spelling ISLA in Lettering style on the outer forearm of a person wearing a white t-shirt.
ISLA letter blocks on a forearm
Colour tattoo of a yellow and blue Seuss-style bird with swirling feathers and handwritten lettering on a thigh.
Seussian bird and quote on a thigh
Black and grey tattoo of an Art Nouveau style woman within a circular frame, covering the middle of a person's upper back.
Art Nouveau woman in a circle on upper back
Grey tribal style sea turtle design with spiral flippers and a patterned shell on a white background.
Tribal sea turtle design
Fine line script tattoo reading je t'aime across the side of a finger, with a ring on the next finger.
Je t'aime script on a finger
Pen sketch on graph paper of a single-line looped design with the word love in script beneath it, a possible fine line tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Looped line design with love script
Colour Neo-trad tattoo of pink roses, an orange marigold and green leaves on a vine across an upper arm.
Rose and marigold vine on upper arm
Blue and purple lotus flower tattoo with black outlines on a person's shoulder, in a botanical style.
Blue lotus flower on a shoulder

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