A masterpiece of cat tattoo designs. The moon, the eyes, the cloud all indicate that this cat in the tattoo are from a magic world.
This horse tattoo design shows an excellent relief effect, mimicking ancient Greece.
This free tattoo design shows a well decorated elephant. The decorating style seems to be Indian. Maybe this tattoo is an elephant queen.
This free cougar tattoo design has a comic style.
This ankle tattoo design is like a Chinese knotting ,which is is a decorative handicraft arts. Archaeological studies indicate that the art of tying knots dates back to prehistoric times.
A cross tattoo design with very vivid colors. Berry, heraldry encyclopedia, talks about 385 kinds of different crosses. The vast majority are purely decorative and heraldic significance. The cross in this tattoo design probably represents the one used against vampires.
This Chinese dragon free tattoo design is mixed with a tree, which makes it like water and ink painting style. To the Chinese, the Imperial Dragon or Lung, is considered to be the primary of four benevolent spiritual animals, the other three being the phoenix, the unicorn and the tortoise. Having unrivaled wizdom and power the dragon symbolized the Emperors of China themselves, who were actually called dragons. Hsi, China's first emperor, was said to have a dragon's tail. Shen Nung, his successor was supposed to have been fathered by a dragon. The Chinese Emperor sat on a dragon throne, rode in a dragon boat and slept in a dragon bed. To distinguish the chinese imperial dragon from all other dragons, only the Imprial Dragon bore five claws.
This free tattoo design shows a lion which is cuter than it should be, more likely to be from a comic books. It is said that the earliest tattoos are originated from totem worship in ancient times, and gradually become a reflection of sexy and charming fashion. Modern tattoos are popular in the United States after the World War II. Widows often got inked in memory of their deceased husband. This trend made a come back in 70s of the last century.
This is another demon tattoo design. Compared to the previous one, this seems to be a young demon, kind of like a cat.
This free tattoo design shows a scorpion with its tail nailed on the wrist. The unique part of this tattoo is that the claws of the scorpion is designed to perfectly fit with the shape of hand. Scorpion symbols have been identified on Egyptian kings, and gods, like the famous movie The Scorpion King. Scorpions were thought to be healers of the living and protectors of the dead. Scorpion tattoos often feature the insect in its famous killing pose, with pincers extended and tail curved high. The drawing can be life-like or stylized, black and grey or color. It can also be part of a larger image.
This lion tattoo design must be the lion king. Compared to the previous one, this free tattoo design shows the dignity and power of a lion, especially the eyes. Some people say that the eyes of a lion are so deep that they look like filled with wisdom.
This free tattoo design looks like sun with thorns around it. It may symbolize the rose with horn. This tattoo also may have the symbolism in the penitentiary. Suffer for the sin, things like that.
This free tattoo design is possibly a vampire's ugly smiling face (why vampire? check out the teeth). In almost any vampire movie, vampires are all described as extemely handsome, pale, cold, gentle. This tattoo, however, violates the stereotype.
This tattoo photo was not taken very well - the reflection of the flash on the skin compromise the true beauty of this tiger tattoo. Still, we can appreciate some of the tattoo artist's techniques. For example, the mouth of this tiger is inked near the knees so that the mouth will open and close as you sit down and stand up.
Instead of a completed tattoo, here is a sketch of a free skull tattoo design. The tricky thing about tattoo sketch is sometimes you have to consider the curvature of the skin, especially when you want to get inked on the arm or leg.
Andy Shou's tattoo is always amazing - I am wondering how long it will take to finish this tattoo.
What a weird combination of things for this tattoo! Eyes, fingers, near feet. However, it does not seem weird when you put them all together. This tattoo artist is really gifted!!
Another free tattoo design sketch. Can you count how many Buddhas are there?
A typical American symbol eagle tattoo. The color of this tattoo is vivid, which is not very common maybe this kind of color does not stay long.
A very interesting tattoo idea - if you do not relate it to slavery :).
This free tattoo design is the Buddhist's version of keep fingers crossed. The prayer beads in the tattoo and the real ones around the neck is used to count the repetitions of prayers, chants or devotions.
This tattoo covers the whole hand, which is not common since people may tend to avoid shaking hands with you:) There are two skulls this tattoo, from difference angles.
A new tattoo from Andy Shou, as exquisite as usual. The halo and smoke around the Buddha strengthen the 3D effect.
This tattoo design is like something from comic books. A demon with two wings, a naked girl, and a snake or just the tail?
This cat free tattoo design is so exquisite - more like a statue, the shadow, the shape, the lines, looking really beautiful.
This guy must love his grandma so much to get her photo as a tattoo.
These are actually just two wings of an angel. The artist give this tattoo a low relief effect, or a bas-relief in French, which is derived from the Italian basso rilievo) or low relief is where the overall depth of a projecting image is shallow. The background is very compressed or completely flat, as on most coins, on which all images are in low-relief.
This free tattoo design contains a character with two faces - very similar to traditional Chinese dragons.
Another butterfly tattoo - this one is colorful.
This free tattoo design is a door knocker, which is an item of door furniture that allows people outside a house to alert those inside to their presence. A door knocker has a part fixed to the door, and a part (usually metal) attached to it by a hinge that may be lifted and used to strike a plate fitted to the door, or the door itself, making a noise. The struck plate, if present, would be supplied and fitted with the knocker. Such as this one.
This character in the free tattoo design is a mask of Guy Fawkes. There is this great movie: V for Vendetta, which is about a mysterious individual William Rookwood (Hugo Weaving) who wears a mask of Guy Fawkes to cover his face, and changes his name to only V. V's mission is to kill all the doctors who had tortured him at the detention center, and bring back justice to the country. More information about this movie can be found here.
This free tattoo design is a famous illusion - you can look it in many different ways.
This free tattoo design is the other side of the head of the previous post.
A good leg tattoo design can make your leg look even longer. The weird thing is why there is no leg hair:)
Another scorpion tattoo design - people just love them.
A very exquisite peony tattoo design from Andy. The peony is the only genus in the flowering plant family Paeoniaceae. They are native to Asia, southern Europe and western North America.
A kinda gross tattoo design with several snake heads. It is hard to figure out which part of the body this is :(
This tiger seems very surprised in this free tattoo design.
All full back free tattoo designs are like paint, only they are on human skin. The first impression is always whoa!
A cute tiger free tattoo design.
A spy tattoo?
