Tattoo ideas

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

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Realistic tattoo of a blue TARDIS police box with a dark roof, placed centrally on a person's upper back.
TARDIS police box on upper back
Black ink drawing of a crescent moon tattoo design filled with curling swirls and hatched shapes, shown as a stencil-style sketch on white paper.
Crescent moon with ornamental swirls
Top-down outline of an airplane with ornamental filigree inside, set against purple radiating rays, tattooed on the outer thigh.
Airplane with purple rays on a thigh
Yellow rose with green leaves and the words Strength and Courage on a forearm, drawn with black outlines and light grey shading.
Yellow rose with Strength and Courage on forearm
Black and grey fine line lettering runs vertically down the centre of a person's back, seen from behind, with hair in a loose bun.
Vertical script down the spine
Fine line black script reading inhale the future exhale the past with a flock of small birds above it, on a person's shoulder and upper chest.
Script quote and birds on a shoulder
Close-up of a neck behind an ear with the words never lose yourself in black script lettering running diagonally across the skin.
Never lose yourself script on the neck
Colour tattoo of a tiger paw print with a tiger face and black stripes in each toe pad, shown on skin.
Tiger paw print tattoo
Flash sheet of greyscale fairy wing tattoo designs, with varied vein patterns, feathered edges and butterfly-style wings, shown on a white background.
Fairy wing designs flash sheet
Colour tattoo of a monarch butterfly with a swirling music staff, notes and treble clef on the side ribs, in fine black linework.
Monarch butterfly and music staff on ribs
Black and grey arm sleeve with a rose on the shoulder and a script tattoo on the ribs, on a reclining woman in a black lace bralette.
Arm sleeve and side script tattoos
Colourful realistic maple leaf tattoo cascading from the upper back down towards the lower back, in red, orange, green and purple.
Autumn maple leaves across a back
Black and grey realism portrait of a smiling woman between two flags, with blackletter lettering reading Only Judy Can Judge Me, on a thigh.
Portrait of a smiling woman with lettering on thigh
Black and grey realism tattoo of Darth Vader's helmet and upper body on a person's calf below the knee, with a faint scar above it.
Darth Vader tattoo on a lower leg
Black and grey botanical tattoo of a pine cone with shaded scales, on the forearm of a person wearing a grey velvet sleeve.
Pine cone tattoo on a forearm
Two matching fine line outline pizza slice tattoos with pepperoni circles, one on each bare foot, resting on a wooden floor.
Matching pizza slice tattoos on feet
Colourful owl tattoo with black linework and watercolour-style pink, yellow, green and purple splashes, perched on a branch on the thigh.
Watercolour owl on a thigh
Black ink drawing of a round cat face with a large bow and ornamental swirls filling one side, on a cream background.
Cat face with bow and swirl pattern
Colour tattoo of a white and magenta chrysanthemum with green leaves in Japanese style on the outer thigh.
Chrysanthemum on the outer thigh
Black panther tattoo on the upper arm, with blue glowing outlines visible under ultraviolet light.
Black panther tattoo on upper arm under UV light
Black and grey tattoo of a cat's face inside an ornate frame on the upper thigh, beside a hand holding a pale blanket printed with skull faces.
Cat in an ornate frame on a thigh
Colour geometric tattoo on the inner forearm of a figure with a checkered red and orange top, a stippled dotwork sphere and a faceted teal tail.
Geometric figure with faceted tail on forearm
Fine line botanical arm tattoo of a bird, teal leaves and flowers across the upper arm and forearm, with a pink flower on the lower arm, beside a yellow dress.
Botanical arm tattoo with bird and flowers
Dark brown dotted henna-style ornament with a central medallion across the top of a foot, with a dotted vine running up towards the ankle and dots on the toes, in a sepia photograph.
Dotted henna-style ornament on a foot
Two black and grey tattoos: a Millennium Falcon linework design on the forearm and a dotwork Death Star on the lower leg.
Millennium Falcon and Death Star tattoos
Two matching black compass rose tattoos in fine line style sit on the inner wrists of two people, one on the left forearm and one on the right.
Matching compass tattoos on two wrists
Black and grey peony tattoo with stippled dotwork shading and dark leaves, sitting on the upper arm.
Peony tattoo on the upper arm
Black and grey flash drawing of a sugar skull couple, a woman with a flower in her hair and a man in a top hat and bow tie, framed by roses and leaves, shown without a body placement.
Sugar skull couple flash design
Purple plumeria flowers with a black-outlined sun and tribal bands tattooed across a person's upper back, photographed from behind.
Plumeria and sun on upper back
Colour realism portrait of a bald man with the lettering I'D RATHER BE A BLIND MOTH, tattooed on the lower leg.
Realism portrait with quote on calf
Colour tattoo of an anchor wrapped in rope, with a blue starry fill and watercolour splashes of a bird, on the outer thigh.
Anchor with rope on a thigh
Realistic butterfly tattoo with pale grey wings edged in orange and black spots, shaded to look three-dimensional on the top of a foot.
Realistic butterfly tattoo on a foot
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of an anatomical heart made of cactus, topped with a flower bloom, on the upper arm, shown in two side-by-side photos.
Cactus heart with flower on an upper arm
Colour tattoo on an upper arm showing a woman in profile wearing a yellow helmet beneath a black umbrella with dripping ink, in a loose painterly style.
Umbrella and woman in yellow helmet on upper arm
Full back tattoo of a phoenix in Japanese style, with red and orange flames on its head and wing, black and grey feathers, and a small colour sun low on the lower back.
Phoenix across a full back
Close photograph of two lines of black blackletter-style lettering tattooed across a person's ribs, with a shop interior visible behind.
Two lines of blackletter text on ribs
Black fine line script reading i carry your heart with a small heart flourish on the outer side of a foot near the ankle.
Script reading I carry your heart on a foot
Four-panel photo of a realistic black and grey compass, rope and old map tattoo across the forearm.
Compass and map on a forearm
Black and grey realism style tattoo of an infinity symbol entwined with thorned vines and two shaded roses, placed on the chest.
Infinity symbol with roses and vines
Black and grey dotwork flower tattoo with a long stem and leaves running down the stomach towards the navel.
Dotwork flower with stem on the stomach
Traditional style tattoo of a snarling grey wolf with orange eyes and bared fangs covering the front of a man's neck.
Snarling wolf head on the neck
Traditional style colour tattoo on a upper back of a woman in profile with dark curled hair, an orange flower and pearls, framed by an ornate gold hand mirror with a rose.
Woman profile in a hand mirror on a back
Fine line black and grey mountain range tattoo across the left ribs, with a hand resting over the skin.
Mountain range along the ribs
Two forearms with script quote tattoos, one reading Together forever, never apart and the other maybe in distance but never in heart, with a small pink heart.
Matching quote tattoos on two forearms
Fine line black tattoo of a dandelion releasing seeds across the upper back, with a hand with blue nail polish resting on the shoulder.
Dandelion seeds drifting across a shoulder blade
Colour tattoo of a moth, peonies and anemones covering the upper arm and shoulder, in a painterly neo-traditional style.
Moth and peony sleeve on an upper arm
Black and grey tattoo on an upper arm of an astronaut standing on a rocky surface and holding a cratered moon-shaped balloon on a string.
Astronaut with a moon balloon on upper arm
Two hands with small black dotwork tattoos of a circle and a dotted triangle on the middle fingers, in a Hand placement.
Dotted circle and triangle tattoos on two fingers

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