Tattoo ideas

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

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Two people cropped at the midriff, each with a black buck symbol tattoo on the lower abdomen, one in a pink bikini and one in a red star-patterned bikini.
Black buck symbol tattoos on two midriffs
Black linework tattoo of a woman's face in wavy hair with a smaller face below and a crescent moon, with purple and orange accents, on the upper back.
Sketched woman's face with moon on upper back
Black ink mandala band tattoo wrapping the wrist, with a solid black stripe and a small fine line ring tattoo on one finger.
Mandala wrist band tattoo
Black script lettering of Psalm 23:4 across the side of a person's ribs, with the face not shown.
Psalm 23:4 script on the ribs
Black and white photo of a small fine line heart tattoo with baseball stitching on the inner wrist, above a checked flannel cuff.
Baseball heart on the inner wrist
Black tribal butterfly tattoo with swirling patterns and small blue dots, on the top of a foot, in blackwork style.
Tribal butterfly on the foot
Close photo of a bold black tribal sleeve tattoo covering a man's arm from the shoulder down the forearm, with his bare torso visible beside it.
Black tribal sleeve on an arm
Full colour realism sleeve on the upper arm showing a red lily at the shoulder, a red rose and white daisies below.
Lily, rose and daisy sleeve
Fine line black script reading Believe, looped within an infinity symbol with a small cross hanging from it, on the inner wrist, next to an orange wristband.
Believe script and cross on a wrist
Soft watercolour-style orange rose tattoo on the side of a woman's back, beside a white embellished backless dress.
Painterly rose tattoo on a side of back
Watercolour-style tattoo on the inner forearm with teal and pink splashes and black script reading Sangre, sudor y gloria.
Watercolour splash with script on forearm
Black stencil of a stylised heart with an inner swirl on transfer paper, laid over a grey shaded background.
Heart and swirl stencil
Black and grey shaded drawing of a lion cub inside a circle, with the words Remember who you are curved around the lower edge.
Lion cub design with 'Remember who you are'
Traditional-style flash drawing of a red heart with feathered wings spreading on either side and a scalloped lace edge, shown without a body placement.
Winged heart design with lace trim
Black ink fine line drawing of an ornate treble clef with decorative scrolls and a lattice detail at the top, shown on cream paper.
Ornate treble clef with scrollwork
Close-up of a black script tattoo reading Believe with a small outlined star above it, on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Believe script tattoo with a star
Black and grey peony tattoo with a bud and leaves on the inner forearm, framed by outlined triangles and dotted lines, in a dotwork and botanical style.
Peony and bud with geometric triangles on a forearm
Black tribal-style phoenix with outstretched wings and flowing tail feathers, drawn as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Tribal phoenix design in flight
Black and grey realistic octopus tattoo wrapping across a person's forearm and wrist, with a patterned wall behind.
Octopus tattoo on a forearm
Black ink drawing of a flowing swirl tattoo design with a small cat silhouette curled at its base, shown as a flash sheet design.
Swirling scroll with cat silhouette
Black fine line dreamcatcher tattoo with feathers on the side of a hip, beside a navel piercing and black bikini bottoms.
Dreamcatcher tattoo on a hip
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a heartbeat trace with an outlined heart at its centre, on the side of the body.
Heartbeat line with a heart on the side
Gold and blue metallic ornamental designs on a forearm and the back of a hand, with bangles and rings worn alongside.
Metallic ornamental designs on forearm and hand
Black and grey realism tattoo of two roses with script lettering and a small cross on the side of the ribs.
Black and grey roses with script on ribs
Black and grey realism full sleeve tattoo on an upper arm and forearm, showing a skeleton, an all-seeing eye in a triangle, snakes and a horned figure.
Black and grey skeleton and horned figure sleeve
Black and grey realistic flash design of praying hands wrapped in a rosary beneath a scroll banner reading INRI.
Praying hands with rosary and INRI scroll
Abstract elephant head tattoo with red and teal splashes and black linework on the inner forearm, with a small pink star near the wrist.
Elephant head with splashes on a forearm
Flash sheet of drawn designs including crossed knives, a coiled snake, a dog's head, a bottle labelled Kingpin and a beetle, in navy and orange on cream.
Flash sheet of knives, snakes and objects
Watercolour-style tattoo of a tabby cat in orange and red washes with black linework on the forearm.
Tabby cat on a forearm
Colour tattoo of an anthropomorphic hare in a blue coat holding a teacup and saucer, shown on the upper arm in a painterly realism style.
Hare in a blue coat holding a teacup
Colour chest tattoo with grey Celtic knotwork borders, flowers, leaves and an animal, placed across the upper chest.
Colourful Celtic knot chest piece with flowers
Black and grey lettering tattoo on the inner forearm reading We are all broken, that's how the light gets in, set in a typewriter-style font.
Quote tattoo on a forearm
Black and grey realistic octopus tattoo across a shoulder and upper back, with tentacles curling over the shoulder blade.
Octopus tattoo across a shoulder
Traditional style tattoo on a forearm showing a three-masted sailing ship above a grey sperm whale rising from teal sea, with birds and clouds.
Sailing ship and whale on a forearm
Upper arm tattoo of a bare tree with a loose blue watercolour-style canopy, black branches and an orange and blue splash at the base.
Blue watercolour tree on an upper arm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a sailing ship in stormy clouds inside an ornate oval frame with a skull below, on a calf.
Sailing ship in ornate frame on a calf
Woman seen from behind with a large black and line-work back tattoo showing a city skyline, a black cloud, a heart, a pencil, a shark-like jaw and a closed-eyed face.
Large back piece with skyline, cloud and face
Solid black cross tattoo with two parallel lines running across the wrist, in a black and grey geometric style on a clenched hand.
Cross and parallel lines on a wrist
Black and grey realism tattoo of rifles topped with helmets and a smoky sky, shaded across the upper arm.
Rifles and helmets memorial on an arm
Black ink drawing of a vertical tribal-style design with a large central spiral and two smaller curled spirals joined by tapering lines, shown on a white background.
Vertical spiral tribal design
Two photographs of legs with black handwritten lettering tattooed on the calf and ankle, reading I'm fine and save me.
Handwritten words on calf and ankle
A gloved tattooist works on a black and grey Japanese-style tattoo of clouds and flowing lines on a person's skin.
Japanese-style cloud tattoo being inked
Small colour tattoo of a red ladybird on a sprig of red flowers and green leaves, botanical style, on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Ladybird and red flower sprig on a wrist
Black and grey scrollwork band tattoos wrap around two fingers of a hand, one wide and one thin, beside coral and teal painted nails.
Scrollwork ring tattoos on two fingers
Teal rose tattoo with black swirling linework shaped like a treble clef, in a botanical fine line style on skin.
Teal rose with treble clef swirl
Colour traditional tattoo of a Dalek on the calf, with bold black outlines and an orange and yellow glow behind it.
Dalek tattoo on a calf
Close view of a desiccated, mummified hand with dark blue-grey tattoo marks of abstract curling shapes across the fingers.
Blue-grey markings on mummified fingers
Pencil drawing of a woman in powdered 18th-century style hair, with a sailing ship and octopus tentacles rising from her head.
Woman with a ship and tentacles in her hair

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Flower 8,605 Script 6,821 Leaves 6,438 Rose 4,399 Heart 4,105 Lettering 3,720 Bird 3,605 Feather 3,392 Quote 3,385 Swirl 3,253 Star 3,037 Dot 3,012 Text 2,685 Mandala 2,563 Wing 2,537 Word 2,200 Circle 2,163 Hand 1,970 Skull 1,900 Cat 1,806 Petal 1,805 Stem 1,695 Triangle 1,678 Outline 1,574 Arrow 1,573 Ornament 1,552 Banner 1,537 Eye 1,508 Woman 1,494 Moon 1,451