Tattoo ideas

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

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Black dotwork tattoo of a skeleton holding a staff on a house boat over rolling waves, with five stars above, on a forearm.
Skeleton with staff on a house boat
Black and white tribal-style frog design with swirling patterns cut into its body and limbs, shown as a standalone drawing with no body part visible.
Tribal-style frog design
Black and grey realism tattoo of a seated angel with large feathered wings and a halo across the upper back.
Seated angel with wings and halo on upper back
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a hanging wooden sign reading Gone to market, placed on the top of a foot.
Gone to market sign on a foot
Hand-drawn black ink lettering reading Ph 1:6 with a semicolon-like mark and a cross, circled on lined notebook paper, shown as a tattoo design sketch.
Hand-drawn Ph 1:6 lettering with a cross
Black cursive script lettering tattoo wrapping diagonally around the outer thigh, shown in a close photo of a bare leg in shorts.
Black script lettering around a thigh
Black dotwork mandala tattoo on the inside of a wrist, with a fine-lined star-like centre and dotted border.
Black mandala tattoo on a wrist
Fine line geometric rose tattoo in black ink on the forearm, built from overlapping angular petals that spiral into the centre.
Geometric rose on a forearm
Cartoon black cat with pink ears and a pink star collar, surrounded by stippled dotwork stars, tattooed on the upper back.
Black cat and stars on upper back
Colour tattoo on the outer thigh of a lamp with a fringed yellow shade and a fishnet-stockinged leg in a high heel, beside a red armchair.
Fishnet leg lamp and red sofa on a thigh
Black tribal-style line drawing of a phoenix with spread wings and a long curling tail, above the script words Still I rise, on a white background.
Phoenix with Still I rise script
Traditional style flash design of a mermaid with a ship's wheel, a red rose and a banner reading FOLLOW ME, drawn in colour with bold outlines.
Mermaid with ship wheel and rose banner
Pencil drawing of a horned owl perched among leaves and berry branches, a botanical tattoo design shown on grey paper with no body placement visible.
Owl and berry branch design
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a striped popcorn bucket labelled corn, with popcorn pieces and a speech bubble reading pop, on the forearm.
Popcorn bucket and speech bubble on an arm
Traditional-style colour tattoo of a pin-up woman with knitting needles in curled hair and a banner reading I love yarn, on the upper arm.
Pin-up knitter with I love yarn banner
Drawn ornamental collar design with a lace-like geometric pattern and a large oval gemstone at the centre, shown on paper.
Lace and gemstone collar design
Handwritten black script reading "with you, I am home." in a fine line lettering design on a cream background, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Handwritten "with you, I am home" script
Fine line black outline tattoo of a shark swimming across the side of a thigh, with a blue top visible above it.
Shark outline on the thigh
Black fine line tattoo of a geometric cat head in profile above a small heart and the script word meschats, on the outer ankle.
Geometric cat and script on an ankle
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a winged sugar skull with a bird head on the centre of the chest, below a grey top.
Winged sugar skull across the chest
Colourful tattoo of a pink and yellow dinosaur with a small green figure and a butterfly, on the upper arm.
Pink and yellow dinosaur on upper arm
Sketchy black linework winged bird with a red heart and red and black lettering tattooed along the side of a ribcage.
Winged bird and lettering on ribs
Fine line black script lettering with a small aeroplane silhouette tattooed across the ankle and lower leg.
Script lettering and aeroplane on ankle
Teal and green winged heart tattoo design with a crown above and a keyhole in the centre, shown as flash on a white background.
Winged heart with keyhole and crown
A hand uses a black fineliner pen to draw an intricate black mandala design on white paper, with no tattoo on skin shown.
Black ink mandala being drawn by hand
Black and grey dotwork lotus tattoo on the centre of a chest, with a fine line and loop beneath it, partly covered by a black lace top.
Lotus tattoo on the chest
Two matching cartoon tattoos on the inner wrists of two people, one of Woodstock and one of Snoopy, each holding a red heart in black outline.
Matching Snoopy and Woodstock wrist tattoos
Black and grey pencil drawing of a swallow in flight, with a treble clef and music notes woven into its wings and body, shown as a tattoo design on plain paper.
Swallow in flight with musical notes
Black fine-line tattoo of crossed diagonal lines with Roman numerals XXIII and XXX and the symbols greater-than-or-equal and identical-to, on the inner forearm.
Crossed lines with Roman numerals on a forearm
A fine black single-line tattoo running vertically along the raised forearm of a person with silver-white hair against a plain white background.
Single black line tattoo on a raised forearm
Maroon and black butterfly tattoo with fine line swirls on the upper arm, with a beaded chain draped across the skin.
Maroon butterfly with swirls on an upper arm
Black botanical tattoo of three silhouetted birds perched on a thin vine with curls and leaves, on the upper back.
Three birds on a curling vine on the back
Black and grey blackwork tattoo of three stylised female figures in patterned robes on the outer thigh, one holding a sword and one holding a tablet marked LEX.
Three stylised figures on a thigh
Greyscale pencil drawing of a tattoo design showing a rose, a compass, rosary beads and a cross, with the word Survive on a banner, in a realistic style.
Rose, compass and rosary with Survive banner
Traditional style tattoo of a blue shark with bared teeth biting a diver's yellow flipper, with red blood splashes, on skin.
Shark biting a diver's fin
Black and grey lettering tattoos across the fingers and back of both hands of a man in a tweed suit and tie.
Lettering tattoos on fingers and hands
Close-up of a realistic grey lion head tattoo on the back of a hand, with long pale ombre nails and yellow slides visible in the background.
Realistic lion head on the back of a hand
Black ink script lettering reading wibbly wobbly timey wimey on the calf, with a small word tattoo on the ankle above a black high-top trainer.
Lettering tattoo on a calf
Black and grey lotus mandala tattoo with dotwork shading and hanging petal edging, placed on the chest beneath the breast.
Lotus mandala under the breast
Colourful sugar skull tattoo design with roses, gem-set eyes and ornate scrollwork on a black background, shown as a flash drawing.
Sugar skull with roses and gem eyes
Four solid black bat silhouette designs stacked vertically on a white background, each with distressed, cracked white speckling across the wings.
Four bat silhouette designs
Black and grey realism tattoo of a feather on the side of a woman's ribs, with a grey top pulled to one side.
Shaded feather on the ribs
Line drawing of a shaded skull with black tribal swirls and spiky beige rays behind it, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Skull with tribal swirls flash design
Two matching black tattoos on the inner wrists: the word Beauty in flowing script on one wrist and BEAST in angular blackletter capitals on the other.
Beauty and Beast wrist lettering
Black and grey fine line tattoo of an elephant head with an ornate headdress on the middle finger of a hand.
Ornate elephant head on a finger
Small black silhouettes of birds in flight forming a loose line across the lower back, above white denim shorts.
Flock of birds on the lower back
Black and grey lotus flower tattoo with shaded petals and a long thin stem, placed on a person's back.
Lotus flower on the back
Small fine line Hello Kitty tattoo on the top of a foot, standing on a bathroom scale with pink handwritten text reading 'You are more important than this number'.
Hello Kitty tattoo on a foot

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