Tattoo ideas

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

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Black line drawing of a mermaid with flowing hair and an ornamental scaled tail on a white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Mermaid line drawing design
Colour tattoo of a cartoon baby panda holding a red balloon on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Baby panda holding a red balloon on a wrist
Full colour neo-traditional Alice in Wonderland sleeve covering the forearm and upper arm, with the Cheshire Cat, playing cards, roses and a green hedge maze.
Alice in Wonderland arm sleeve
Black line drawing of a tattoo design with a tape measure, thread spool, sewing needles and roses in a botanical style, shown without a body placement.
Sewing tools and roses tattoo design
Black brush-stroke line drawing of a sitting cat with its tail curled around its feet, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Sitting cat line drawing
Full arm sleeve in Japanese style with cream peonies, red and green flowers and dark wave patterns, shown on the upper arm and forearm.
Japanese peony arm sleeve
Black and grey realistic skull tattoo on the side of a torso, framed by bold black brushstroke bands and a realistic eye beneath it.
Realistic skull with brushstroke bands on ribs
Two black crown tattoos in fine line style on the backs of clasped hands, with a striped strap watch on one wrist and a gold bracelet watch on the other.
Two crown tattoos on clasped hands
Fine line and dotwork tattoo on a calf showing a bearded face in a red dotted balloon, with a paper plane above and a small house with a red heart below.
Surreal balloon face and house on a calf
Two small black semicolon tattoos in fine line style on the inner wrists of two people whose raised hands are visible in a car.
Matching semicolon wrist tattoos
Black and grey tattoo of a large-eyed owl perched on a bare branch, placed on the top of a person's shoulder.
Owl on a branch on the shoulder
Close photo of a realistic blue and teal bird in flight tattooed on the outer upper arm, with grey shading and black linework.
Blue bird in flight on an upper arm
Blue watercolour-style flower tattoo with soft petal washes and darker centre strokes on the inside of a wrist, shown beside a painted version on paper.
Blue watercolour-style flower on wrist
Black and grey ornate cross tattoo with scrollwork arms and a flower motif at the centre, shown on the back.
Ornate cross on the back
Fine line black tattoo of a vertical dot, zigzag line and looped shapes on the back of a person's neck.
Fine line loops and dot on the nape
Colour realism tattoo of a sunset beach with palm trees and plumeria flowers across the upper arm.
Sunset beach and palm trees on an upper arm
Colour tattoo on a calf of a black and grey vintage car with an orange SPEED LIMIT sign and orange paint splashes behind it.
Vintage car and speed limit sign on a calf
Close-up of a red stamp-style VOID tattoo with blue-grey lettering beneath it on an upper arm.
Red VOID stamp tattoo on upper arm
Black flowing script reading Saudade with a small leaf sprig at the lower right, shown as a standalone lettering design on a white background.
Saudade script lettering with leaf
Two forearms with black linework tattoos in a botanical illustration style, showing a lemon slice, a sprig of leaves and seeds, each labelled fig 1 to fig 5.
Fig 1 to fig 5 botanical tattoos on forearms
Black and grey swallow in flight beside purple and grey chrysanthemums and leaves across an upper arm and shoulder.
Swallow and chrysanthemums on an upper arm
Fine line tattoo of a small outlined elephant raising its trunk to spray red, teal and purple swirls, placed on the side of the torso.
Outline elephant with coloured swirls on the side
Colour traditional-style tattoo of a cupcake with bat, bone, skull and crescent moon motifs on the inner forearm.
Halloween cupcake on a forearm
Sketchy black and grey tattoo of a gnarled tree trunk with a single red heart hanging by a thread, placed on the side of the ribs.
Hanging red heart on a cracked tree trunk
Black and white illustration of four swallows in flight, shaded in a realistic style, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Four swallows in flight
Three photographs of pocket watch tattoos on forearms: a realistic black and grey watch with a bee, a traditional watch with a red rose, and a coloured watch with a cracked dial.
Pocket watch tattoos on forearms, three examples
Photograph of a soft coral watercolour-style rose tattoo on the side of a woman's back, beside her backless sparkly white gown.
Coral rose tattoo on a bare back
Black and grey wrist tattoo of the word give above a tree stump with a red heart, set among outlined grass, on the forearm.
Give word above a stump with red heart
Black and grey botanical tattoo design of dandelion seeds, daffodils, a rose and a sunflower with script lettering, shown on a white background.
Dandelion, daffodils, rose and sunflower with script
Colour tattoo of an ornate lotus mandala with hanging ornaments and blue, purple and pink watercolour splashes on a forearm.
Lotus mandala with watercolour splashes on a forearm
Neo-traditional tattoo of a grey anchor wrapped in rope and entwined with red roses, teal flowers and green leaves, on the calf.
Anchor with roses and rope on a calf
Small black semicolon tattoos in fine line style sit on a wrist, the back of a hand and behind an ear, with two people in the frame.
Semicolon tattoos on wrist, hand and behind ear
Black line tattoo of a tree with roots on the upper back of a woman in a forward fold, in fine line botanical style.
Tree with roots tattoo on upper back
Colour traditional tattoo on a thigh of a Barcelos-style rooster with dotted patterns, a red rose with a cross through it and green leaves.
Barcelos rooster and rose on a thigh
Black hand-drawn lettering design of phrases arranged in the shape of a cross, shown as a flash-style tattoo design on a white background.
Text cross lettering design
Colourful watercolour-style New York skyline tattoo with the Empire State Building on a forearm, in blue, purple, pink and teal.
Watercolour New York skyline on a forearm
Black script lettering reading 'We loved with a love that was more than love' runs along the inside of a forearm in a lettering style.
Script quote along a forearm
Black and grey half skull with red and black splatter and handwritten equations, tattooed on the outer thigh in a realism and abstract style.
Half skull with equations on thigh
Black and grey realistic lion tattoo running down a forearm, showing the face, mane and front paws in fine shading.
Realistic lion portrait on a forearm
Black line drawing of an eight-point compass rose inside a ring, surrounded by curling spiral and swirl linework, shown as a tattoo design with no body visible.
Compass rose within a circle of spirals
Colour tattoo of a pink origami crane with a black and orange lotus on the inner forearm, with traditional-style tattoos visible above it.
Pink origami crane and lotus on a forearm
Yellow and green sunflower tattoo on a forearm, seen in a mirror selfie with a cream top and floral shorts.
Sunflower tattoo on a forearm
Three solid black silhouette swallows in flight on a white background, shown as a tattoo design sheet.
Three swallows in flight silhouette
Black ink line drawing of a tribal-style dragon with a raised head, spiked back and a curling tail, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Tribal dragon line drawing design
Fine line black script tattoo reading "Smile" on the side of a woman's torso below her shoulder, shown in a close photo of her bare back.
Small script word "Smile" on a ribcage
Black linework tattoo of a figure with flowing hair on the side of a torso, above black studded lace-up trousers.
Linework tattoo on side above lace-up trousers
Black and grey line drawing of two stacked dreamcatchers with hanging feathers, beads, small flowers and a flock of birds, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Dreamcatcher with feathers and birds design
Black and grey lion head tattoo across a man's upper back and shoulder, realistic on the left and geometric with dotwork shading on the right.
Half realistic, half geometric lion on shoulder

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