Tattoo ideas

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

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Black tribal tattoo covering a lower leg, with a central spiral motif, bold geometric shapes and a band around the ankle, shown in blackwork style on the calf.
Black tribal calf tattoo with spiral centrepiece
Black and grey realism tattoo on the forearm of a man with swept-back hair in a dark jacket, his hands gripping the lapels beneath a banner reading THE KING IS DEAD.
Black and grey portrait with banner on forearm
Black and grey tattoo of a rugged mountain range with hatched peaks and valleys, covering the upper arm.
Mountain range on an upper arm
Realism style tattoo on a forearm showing a grey metallic capsule with red lenses and a red nautical star.
Metal capsule and red star on forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a pin-up woman in stockings and heels, lying on the side of a ribcage.
Pin-up woman in stockings on the ribs
Black and grey realism forearm sleeve tattoo with a red Fight Club label at the wrist, showing a face, figures on a street and a cityscape.
Realism forearm sleeve with Fight Club card
Black line drawing of a dreamcatcher with a web pattern, feathers, beads and flowers, shown as a flash design for a tattoo.
Dreamcatcher with flowers line drawing
Upper arm tattoo of a city skyline with a tram and a moon, in black and grey with teal and yellow accents and ink splatter.
Cityscape with tram and ink splatter on upper arm
Botanical flash design of a purple peony above a red peony, with grey-brown leaves and a green stem, shown on a white background with no body placement.
Two peonies with grey leaves
Black lettering reading Victim with a line through it above Survivor, with a coloured pencil and pink eraser, tattooed on a forearm.
Crossed-out Victim and Survivor lettering with pencil
Colour tattoo of a stylised phoenix with orange, yellow and red shading and a swirling tail, on the back of a person's neck.
Stylised phoenix on the back of a neck
Black line drawing of an ornate filigree design with scrolls, foliage and pointed leaf motifs, shown as a flash sheet with no body placement.
Ornate black line filigree design
Neo-traditional colour tattoo of a wolf with crystal shards and an orange moon, on the upper arm.
Wolf with crystal shards on upper arm
Black script lettering reading Come together on the inner forearm, with a dark elastic band just below it.
Come together script on a forearm
Colourful jellyfish tattoo on a forearm, with a red bell, long trailing tentacles and a teal watercolour-style background.
Red jellyfish on a forearm
Gold metallic temporary tattoo of a scallop pattern on the upper thigh, seen through a rip in light blue jeans.
Gold metallic scallop motif on a thigh
Black and grey fern frond tattoo on the upper back of a model in a sheer lace gown with a deep V back.
Fern tattoo on upper back
Black sun burst with a pentagram in a circle at its centre and the words I EXORCISE NOT EXERCISE arranged around it, drawn on a plain light grey background.
I exorcise, not exercise sun and pentagram
Colour full sleeve tattoo on an upper arm and forearm, showing soot sprites, a hilltop castle, a girl with a cat and a bathhouse scene in a landscape of clouds and hills.
Studio Ghibli inspired full sleeve
Pencil sketch of a skull with a serpent coiling out of its jaws and looping down to a broken tail, drawn in grey shading on white paper.
Skull and serpent pencil design
Black feather design with curling swirls and dots on pale skin, drawn in a fine outline style with no visible body placement.
Feather with swirls and dots on skin
Fine line black tattoo of seven chakra mandalas running down the spine of a woman's back, placed in a vertical column.
Seven chakra symbols along the spine
Realistic coloured tattoo of a red cardinal perched on a thin branch on the upper thigh, with white lace fabric at the top of the frame.
Red cardinal perched on a branch
Colour realism tattoo on a lower leg showing a man's face with clamped eyelids, orange CLOCKWORK lettering and an orange slice.
Realistic portrait with Clockwork lettering on calf
Pencil drawing of a vertical clockwork design with two clock faces, meshing gears and ornate filigree scrollwork, shown in black and grey.
Clockwork design with gears and pocket watches
A bronze-brown mandala-style tattoo on the lower calf of a foot resting on sand, with a layered silver chain anklet and coin charms.
Mandala tattoo on a calf with silver anklet
Colour forearm tattoo of a geometric star over a galaxy sky, with green aurora light and black pine trees at the wrist.
Geometric star and pine forest on a forearm
Three small fine line elephant tattoos, one on a shoulder and two on forearms, each elephant with a small red accent.
Matching elephant tattoos on shoulder and forearms
Black and white photo of three lines of fine cursive script tattooed across a person's upper back near the shoulder blade.
Three lines of script across upper back
Black and white flash design of a fish made from swirling, bubbled linework, with a long curling tail, shown without a body placement.
Swirling fish tattoo design in black
Black silhouette of a sailing ship against a blue, orange and yellow watercolour-style sunset, with a crescent moon, tattooed on the upper arm.
Sailing ship and crescent moon on an upper arm
Four black line drawing designs of the Deathly Hallows triangle, circle and line symbol paired with the word Always in script lettering, with one version adding small stars.
Deathly Hallows symbol with Always lettering designs
Black and white photo of two women seen from behind, each with a small fine line cross tattoo on the nape of the neck.
Matching small cross tattoos on the neck
Colourful galaxy tattoo on the inner forearm, with magenta and purple nebula clouds, blue wash and small white stars.
Magenta and blue galaxy on a forearm
Close-up photograph of the words Still I Rise in black script lettering tattooed on skin.
Still I Rise script tattoo on skin
Woman seen from behind with a black and grey geometric dotwork back tattoo, including a mandala and a lotus motif at the lower back.
Geometric dotwork back piece with lotus
Fine line tattoo of a butterfly wing in black hatching beside a purple semicolon, placed on the ankle.
Butterfly wing and semicolon on an ankle
Close-up of a hand holding a turquoise mug, with a small fine-line red bow tattoo on a finger and a silver flower ring on another.
Small red bow tattoo on a finger
Two side-by-side photos of a teal puzzle piece tattoo with fine black script, one reading like mother and the other reading like daughter, on skin.
Teal puzzle piece with 'like mother' script
Black and grey butterfly tattoo trailing diagonally across the lower back, with shaded wings and small butterflies in a cluster.
Butterfly trail across the lower back
Black ink tattoo of a plumeria flower, a butterfly and a tribal-style swirling band on the lower leg, in a botanical style.
Plumeria and butterfly on a lower leg
Colour Japanese style koi fish tattoo with blue water splashes on the top of a foot.
Koi fish with water splash on a foot
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a world map with two compass roses and dashed route lines, across the forearm.
World map with compass roses on a forearm
Colourful watercolour-style owl tattoo with loose black linework and blue, orange, red and purple washes on a forearm.
Watercolour owl on a forearm
Black and grey tattoo of three butterflies, stars and swirling lines across an ankle and the top of a foot.
Butterflies and stars on an ankle and foot
Realistic colour tattoo of two pink roses above a shaded grey skull with red accents, on the outer thigh.
Roses and skull on a thigh
Black linework lotus tattoo with blue, pink and purple watercolour splashes across a person's upper back.
Lotus with watercolour splashes on upper back
Realism-style tattoo of a hundred dollar banknote on a forearm, with a figure in sunglasses and a cigarette in place of the portrait.
Hundred dollar bill tattoo on a forearm

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