Tattoo ideas

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

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Black and grey fine line tattoo of a curled-up sleeping cat with soft grey shading, on the outer thigh.
Sleeping cat on a thigh
Black and grey shaded seahorse tattoo with a curled tail, placed on the ankle of a bare leg above a white shoe.
Seahorse tattoo on an ankle
Brown ink sun with a plain centre, pointed petal-like rays and dotted chevron details, placed on the inner forearm.
Sun design on the inner forearm
Black ink flash drawing of an angular helmet with a tall blade rising from its crown, shaded with hatched lines and white highlights.
Angular helmet with tall blade
Black and grey ornate feather tattoo with dotwork and triangle patterns across the top of a foot, with dark painted toenails.
Ornate feather tattoo across a foot
Traditional style tattoo of a PlayStation memory card with a banner reading MEMORIES, a pink flower and green leaves, on the thigh.
PlayStation memory card with MEMORIES banner
Side-by-side image with scarred skin on the left and a black and grey traditional rose with leaves and buds on an arm on the right.
Black and grey rose over scarred skin
Small fine line semicolon tattoo in dark purple ink on the inner wrist, shown against a printed book page.
Semicolon tattoo on the inner wrist
Black fine line script tattoo running across an upper arm, ending with an Om symbol.
Devanagari-style script line along the upper arm
Black script numerals 23 with thin black and grey swirling outlines tattooed on the inside of a wrist, in a Lettering and Fine line style.
The number 23 with swirls on a wrist
Black ink line drawing of a botanical lotus flower with a spiral stem and dot accents, shown as a tattoo design on paper with no body placement.
Lotus flower tattoo design sketch
Fine line black tattoo of three connected waves on a person's lower abdomen, just above the waistband of light blue denim jeans.
Three fine line waves on the lower abdomen
Colourful abstract tattoo of stylised figures in loose sketched black lines and watercolour-style washes of red, orange, green and turquoise, on a forearm.
Abstract watercolour figures on a forearm
Two small black fine line asterisk tattoos on the inner forearms of two people, held close together side by side.
Matching asterisk tattoos on two forearms
Black and grey drawing of a Japanese-style dragon coiling through clouds above a swirling wave, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Japanese dragon with clouds and swirling wave
Photograph of a botanical ivy tattoo in green ink with grey vine lines, running across a bare shoulder and down the upper arm, with a beach behind.
Green ivy tattoo across a shoulder and upper arm
Pink cross-stitch style rose with green leaves tattooed on the outer thigh, shown in three photographs against a patterned tiled wall.
Cross-stitch rose on a thigh
Colour traditional tattoo of three grey shaded dice surrounded by orange and yellow flames on the inside of a forearm.
Dice in flames on a forearm
Black and grey pencil drawing of a lion head facing forward, with a full mane and detailed shading, shown as a tattoo design.
Realistic lion head drawing
Black and grey tattoo covering a forearm, beside a bunch of keys on a chain and a gold-toned chain bracelet on the wrist.
Tattooed forearm with keys and chain bracelet
Traditional style tattoo of an open red book with a gold spine and yellow flower on a teal ribbon, on a limb, with a partial green plant tattoo at the top left.
Traditional open book with flower
Black script tattoo reading Who Says Dreams Have To Stay Just Dreams on the top of a foot, with grey bubbles and a shell.
Script quote with bubbles and shell on a foot
Black script lettering reading Dance like nobody's watching runs across the top of a foot on a red and white bedsheet.
Script quote on the top of a foot
Large colour tattoo across a person's back showing a woman's portrait, teal peacock feathers, purple peonies, a bird and a ladybird, in a realistic style.
Woman portrait with peonies and feathers on a back
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a ram skull above an animal face with a faded purple circle behind, on the outer thigh.
Ram skull and animal face on thigh
Black ink drawing of an ornate lotus mandala with dotted chain lines below, shown as a tattoo design on plain paper.
Lotus mandala with dotted chain design
Realistic coloured tattoo of a blue and purple dragonfly with shaded wings and a green-blue body on a lower leg.
Realistic blue dragonfly on a lower leg
Black linework drawing of a dreamcatcher with a crescent moon, a mandala flower and three feathers, shaded with dotwork, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Dreamcatcher with crescent moon design
Small black fine line Eiffel Tower tattoo on the side of the ribs, with the arm raised above it.
Eiffel Tower on the ribs
Black line drawing flash sheet of Star Wars motifs, including a stormtrooper with a bow, a lightsaber, a Rebel Alliance emblem, a moth, a droid, and a flower with an Imperial emblem.
Star Wars themed flash sheet
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a chandelier with dangling beads on the upper arm, photographed in black and white.
Chandelier tattoo on an upper arm
Small fine line tattoo of a pink heart with the word love inside, on the inner upper arm near the elbow.
Small pink heart with love lettering
Black and grey dotwork winged mandala tattoo with dangling teardrop chains across the chest, with hands holding fabric aside.
Winged mandala tattoo across the chest
Black tribal-style lion head design with a swirling, flame-like mane, shown as a flash drawing with no body placement visible.
Tribal lion head design
Black fine line script tattoo reading Give me strength when I'm standing and faith when I fall, across the back below the shoulder blade.
Script quote tattoo on the back
Black and grey Roman numerals XXIV.X.VIII tattooed in a lettering style across a forearm.
Roman numerals on a forearm
Colour cartoon turtle in a purple mask holding a bo staff, tattooed on the front of an ankle and lower leg.
Cartoon turtle with bo staff on ankle
Black and grey realism tattoo of a hummingbird in flight on the upper chest, with a printed stencil of the same bird taped alongside.
Hummingbird tattoo on upper chest
Small geometric tattoo of three diamonds, two dark grey and one red, on the outer thigh of a person in striped shorts.
Three diamonds on a thigh
Close photograph of a pink and black butterfly with black vine linework and small letters on the side of a torso, tattooed on the ribs.
Butterfly and vines on the ribs
Realistic colour tattoo of a foetus inside a bloody, torn wound on the abdomen, shown with pale skin tones, red blood and dark shading.
Foetus in a torn wound on the abdomen
Black and grey photo of a small fine line anchor tattoo on the inner wrist, worn beside a jewelled bracelet and a charm bracelet with a feather pendant.
Small anchor on the inner wrist
Black ink flash drawing of an ornate mandala-style crown with dotted and blackwork detailing, beside two smaller drop-shaped ornaments, on a white background.
Ornate mandala crown design with matching drops
Kraft card packet labelled TATTOOS with a window showing illustrated fruit designs: a watermelon slice, a pineapple and a bunch of bananas in pink, green and yellow.
Fruit temporary tattoo designs in a packet
Two wrists with matching fine script tattoos, one reading "to" with an infinity symbol and the other reading "and beyond" in blue with red accents, on the inner wrist.
"to infinity" and "and beyond" wrist script
Black and grey Celtic knot tattoo of interlaced hearts inside a circle, shaded to look three-dimensional, on the upper back.
Celtic knot heart in a circle on the back
Black tribal-style design of a fern frond with spiral and hatched motifs, drawn on a plain white background, with no body placement shown.
Tribal fern frond design in black
Small black fine line tattoo of planets and stars running down a forearm, with a ringed Saturn, while the wearer sits with a hand raised.
Planets tattoo on a forearm

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