Tattoo ideas

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

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Colour Japanese style tattoo of a black and white cat with red peonies, teal leaves and black clouds on a forearm.
Cat and peonies on a forearm
Black and grey botanical bouquet tattoo of roses, peonies and small flowers with leaves, placed on a woman's upper back between the shoulder blades.
Vintage floral bouquet on upper back
Black and grey drawing of a hoopoe in flight, with dense ornamental patterns across its wings, body and crest, shown as a tattoo design.
Ornamental hoopoe bird in black linework
Traditional style flash drawing of a dark anchor wrapped in gold rope, with two red stars, on a cream background.
Anchor with rope and two stars
Close-up of a small fine line black script word tattooed on the inner forearm, with the hand resting in a white jeans pocket.
Small script word on the inner forearm
Close-up of three small black outline triangles in a diagonal row on the inner forearm, in a simple geometric fine line style, with a white watch on the wrist.
Three outline triangles on a forearm
Neo-traditional tattoo of two cats nuzzling inside an oval frame, with purple flowers and teal leaves, on a calf.
Two cats and purple flowers on a calf
Black ink sketch of a barn owl in flight with spread wings, drawn in fine line and dotwork shading, while a hand holds a pencil beside it.
Barn owl in flight sketch
Fine line black tattoo of a feather inside an infinity symbol with the words life and love, sitting on the inner forearm.
Infinity feather with life and love on forearm
Two matching fine line tattoos on inner forearms near the wrists, one blue rose and one red rose, each with green stems forming an infinity symbol.
Matching blue and red rose infinity tattoos on wrists
Watercolour-style blue and teal wave tattoo with white highlights across the inner forearm.
Blue watercolour wave on a forearm
Black tribal-style eagle head design in profile with bold flowing feather lines, shown as a flash drawing on a white background.
Tribal eagle head design in profile
Three views of a black and grey realism full sleeve tattoo on an arm, showing a skull, feather-like shading and fine geometric patterns from shoulder to wrist.
Black and grey skull and feathers full sleeve
Blue ink design of two peonies with leaves on a white background, drawn in a botanical style with detailed shading and no body placement shown.
Blue peony and flower tattoo design
Traditional colour tattoo of a woman with dark wavy hair holding a skull, framed by red roses, on the upper arm.
Woman, skull and roses on upper arm
Black ink flash drawings on tracing paper showing a pirate captain with a clock, a horned villainess, a raven and a figure with a skull, with no tattoo placement shown.
Pirate, horned figure and raven flash sheet
Two women seated on a sandy beach seen from behind, with a gold mandala-style design on the lower back of the woman on the right and small white markings on the other woman's upper arm.
Gold mandala tattoo on a lower back at the beach
Black and grey dotwork geometric tattoo of five circles with triangle symbols and petal shapes on the inner forearm.
Dotwork geometric mandala on forearm
Painted tattoo design of a sailing ship rising from a teacup under storm clouds and lightning, beside a red rose, shown as a framed drawing.
Ship in a teacup with storm clouds and rose
Traditional style tattoo of a dagger piercing a shaded rose with leaves, with an orange and black hilt, on an upper arm.
Dagger and rose on an upper arm
Black and grey brush script reading Be Authentic on a plain white background, shown as a lettering design rather than on skin.
Be Authentic brush lettering design
Two people holding hands outdoors, with a black and grey traditional rose tattoo on one forearm and geometric patterned tattoos on the other arm.
Couple holding hands showing forearm and upper arm tattoos
Black and grey realism tattoo of a ship's wheel with radiating light rays behind it, on the calf.
Ship's wheel with light rays on a calf
Black script tattoo reading Love Never Fails beside an ornamental interlocking knot motif on a shoulder.
Love Never Fails script with ornamental knot
Multicoloured star trail tattoo running across a person's back, with small outlined and filled stars in pink, purple, teal and red.
Star trail tattoo across the back
Black fine line tattoo of a cat's nose, mouth and whiskers across the side of a finger.
Cat whiskers tattoo on a finger
Neo-trad tattoo of a teapot with a blue peony and swirling grey and blue steam, placed on the outer thigh.
Blue peony teapot with steam on a thigh
Colour tattoo of a yellow rubber duck wearing a white sailor hat and dog tags, sitting in a blue water splash on the calf.
Rubber duck in sailor hat on a calf
Black and grey realism tattoo of a stethoscope curled into a heart shape on the upper arm.
Stethoscope forming a heart on an upper arm
Bold black tribal tattoo with flame-like spikes running vertically down a forearm.
Black tribal design on a forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a rose, a human skull and a clock face with Roman numerals, placed on the shoulder and upper back.
Realistic rose, skull and clock on a shoulder
Black and grey geometric forearm tattoo of angular houses, brickwork and windows, shown from three angles on the forearm.
Geometric houses forearm sleeve
Fine black dot tattoo of a star constellation with faint connecting lines on the inner wrist and forearm.
Small star constellation on a wrist
Small infinity symbol tattoo on the inner wrist, outlined in black with soft rainbow watercolour fills and blue splashes.
Infinity symbol with watercolour wash on wrist
Fine line black tattoo of an infinity symbol with the word faith in script and a bird in flight on the wrist.
Infinity symbol with faith and bird on wrist
Black-outlined geometric butterfly with soft yellow, blue and pink watercolour washes on the top of a foot, with green painted toenails.
Geometric butterfly on a foot
Close-up of a black script tattoo reading Wanderlust across the upper chest, with a silver key pendant necklace and white top beside it.
Wanderlust script on the upper chest
Three black hummingbird silhouettes with soft pink, purple and teal wing shading, tattooed on the inner upper arm.
Three hummingbirds in flight on upper arm
Close-up of a small fine line fish outline tattoo in black ink on the top of a foot, near the base of the toes.
Small fish outline on the top of a foot
Black script lettering reading don't blink on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Don't blink script lettering design
Realistic black and grey roses with red-tinged petals and thorny stems tattooed along a person's ribs.
Black and grey roses on the ribs
Black and brown cartoon tattoo of a top-hatted, moustached man in striped trousers carrying a dollar money bag and flying notes, on the lower abdomen.
Monopoly-style money man on abdomen
Black geometric butterfly tattoo made of straight fine lines on the upper arm of a person wearing a white vest top.
Geometric butterfly on upper arm
Black handwritten script lettering reading who cares on a plain white background, a fine line lettering design with no body placement shown.
Who cares script lettering design
Black and grey dotwork and geometric mandala tattoo on the top of a foot, with a drawn mandala design on paper in the background.
Dotwork mandala tattoo on the top of a foot
Black fine line and dotwork tattoo of a tent beneath pine trees and a crescent moon in a dotted night sky, on the back of a knee.
Tent under pines and a crescent moon
Two matching black outline triangle tattoos, one on each ankle, shown with white sneakers and a flip flop on a wooden deck.
Double triangle outline tattoos on ankles
Black and grey tattoo of two swallows in flight with small stars and dots, sitting on the side of a torso.
Two swallows with stars on skin

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