Tattoo ideas

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

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Black and white photo of a small, thin-lined outline heart tattoo on the back of a neck, in fine line style.
Small outline heart on the back of the neck
Small black and grey shaded tattoo of a top hat and a bow tie on the side of an ankle, in a close photo of a foot.
Top hat and bow tie on an ankle
Fine line script lettering design reading focus on the good, drawn in black on a plain white background.
Focus on the good script lettering
Neo-trad style tattoo of a quill pen with a blue feather and flying birds on the forearm, with a script lettering band at the wrist.
Quill pen and birds on a forearm
Two black script quote tattoos on the shoulders of two people's backs, one reading Together forever, never apart and the other reading Maybe in distance but never in heart.
Matching script quote tattoos on two shoulders
Black script lettering on a forearm reading "Don't let the past make your dicisions, for today", shown in a black and grey tattoo.
Script quote on a forearm
Traditional style tattoo of three red roses with green leaves and bold black outlines across the upper chest.
Three red roses across the chest
Fine line script tattoo reading be happy, with a thin wavy line beneath it, on the upper arm.
Be happy script on upper arm
Pink line drawing of a woman with flowing hair and two roses tucked into it, in a realism-leaning style, shown as a tattoo design.
Woman with roses in her hair
Black and grey dotwork drawing of an elephant head inside a hamsa hand frame, with an om symbol, flowers and leaves.
Elephant within a hamsa hand design
Black and grey drawing of a mermaid with long flowing hair, her scaled tail curving around to form a circular design with bubbles rising beside her.
Mermaid within a circle
Neo-traditional colour tattoo of a fierce goddess with a jewelled crown and tongue out, with skulls below, on the outer thigh.
Goddess with skulls on a thigh
Black lace-pattern bow tattoo centred on the upper back, shown in a blackwork style, with a small line of script to the left.
Lace bow tattoo on the upper back
Small black fine line semicolon tattoo on the inner wrist of a raised hand with dark painted nails, above a grey knitted sleeve.
Semicolon tattoo on the inner wrist
Black outlined fish hook tattoo with the year 2008 and a small red heart, sitting on the side of the ribs.
Fish hook with 2008 and red heart on ribs
White line drawing of a butterfly with ivy leaves and branches in its wings and a tree of life inside a circle on its body, shown on a dark grey background.
Botanical butterfly with tree of life body
Colour tattoo of a smiling sun and a blue crescent moon with faces, outlined in black with orange rays and small stars, on skin.
Sun and crescent moon with faces
Black and grey shaded tattoo of a deer's head with large antlers on the outer thigh, in a realistic style.
Deer head with antlers on a thigh
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design with a skull framed by roses, leaves, lace motifs and dotted chains, shown on paper with no body placement.
Skull, roses and lace design on paper
Black and grey eye inside a triangle with radiating lines on a woman's chest, shown in a mirrored photo.
Eye in triangle tattoo on chest
Colour neo-trad tattoo of a sloth in a top hat, monocle, bow tie and smoking a pipe, framed by roses and swirling smoke on the upper arm.
Sloth in top hat and monocle on upper arm
Traditional-style flash design of dice, a green bottle and a can in flames above a banner reading Roll the Dice, with no body placement shown.
Roll the dice flash with flames and banner
Black and grey botanical sleeve on an upper arm and shoulder, showing bleeding hearts, strawberry plants, flowers and leaves in fine detailed linework.
Bleeding heart and strawberry plant sleeve
Colour tattoo of an open-jawed alligator among reeds and pink lotus flowers in water, in a neo-traditional style on the foot.
Alligator with lotus flowers on a foot
Black and grey compass rose tattoo with fine lines and N, E, S and W markings on the centre of a bare lower back, with hands visible at the edges of the frame.
Compass rose tattoo on the lower back
Black ink elephant covered in geometric patterns, tattooed on the side of a person's ribs.
Ornate patterned elephant on the ribs
Black outline tattoo of a skull with a snake coiling around it, on the forearm, in a traditional style.
Skull and snake on a forearm
Fine line black tattoo of a golden ratio spiral within nested rectangles on the forearm.
Golden ratio spiral on a forearm
Small dotted-outline ghost tattoo with grey shading and pink cheeks, set among traditional colour tattoos on a lower leg.
Dotted ghost on a calf
Colour tattoo of a yellow-gold towel with black lettering reading The Terrible Towel, A Pittsburgh Original, across the forearm.
The Terrible Towel forearm tattoo
Flash sheet titled Choose Your GOT Tattoo, showing twelve black line drawings of Game of Thrones house sigils and Valyrian phrases.
Game of Thrones house sigil flash sheet
Two views of a colourful neo-traditional fox tattoo on a forearm, framed by wheat stalks, orange flowers and a jewelled necklace.
Fox with wheat and flowers on a forearm
Sheet of six Iron Man temporary tattoo designs in red and gold, showing the armoured hero in different poses and a glowing arc reactor, with no body part visible.
Iron Man temporary tattoo sheet
Fine line tattoo of a stretching cat with watercolour pink, green, purple and orange fills and a small pink heart, placed on a limb.
Stretching watercolour cat with heart
Black fine line tattoo of an ornate anchor with scrollwork on the ankle, with the foot shown in a black suede heeled shoe.
Ornate anchor tattoo on an ankle
Pale white outline of a butterfly tattoo on the neck and upper chest of a person wearing an open denim shirt, in a fine line style.
Butterfly outline tattoo on the neck
Greyscale realistic drawing of a perched owl beside a rose, leafy branch and open pocket watch, a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Owl, rose and pocket watch on a branch
Black ornate cross tattoo on the upper back of a woman with her blonde hair in an updo, shown in a three-photo collage with a close-up of the cross.
Ornate cross tattoo on upper back
Fine line black arrow tattoo with geometric triangular arrowheads on the side of the ribs, beside a light speckled tank top.
Small arrow tattoo on the ribs
White line drawing of several crossed arrows with feathered fletching and geometric arrowheads on a plain blue background, suited to a tattoo design.
Crossed arrows with feathers
Black and white photo of a fine line tulip tattoo with a long looping stem on the side of a ribcage.
Fine line tulip on the ribs
Black and grey octopus tattoo with fine hatched shading wrapping over the hip and down the thigh of a person in dark blue underwear.
Octopus tattoo across hip and thigh
Black and grey realism tattoo of a detailed eye with long lashes on an upper arm, with a figure tattoo to its left.
Realistic eye tattoo on an arm
Small solid black airplane tattoo on the inner wrist of a raised hand, against a plain grey background.
Small airplane tattoo on the inner wrist
Black script lettering reading God is within her, she will not fall, tattooed on the upper chest near the collarbone.
Script quote on upper chest
Shaded grey cross with a rainbow monarch butterfly tattoo across its lower arm, placed on the upper back.
Cross and butterfly on upper back
Blue linework drawing of an ornate stag head with antlers, surrounded by geometric dotwork patterns on a pale background.
Ornate stag head design
Single-colour brown monkey design with a curled tail on the lower abdomen of a tanned person in a bikini, shown on a beach.
Brown monkey design on a lower abdomen

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