Puma Tattoo Picture

Awesome puma black & gray ink design. We see this big cat padding softly toward us with a steady calm gaze. Excellent realistic design for this guy's upper arm tattoo.

Pheasant Tattoo Picture

The pheasant (sometimes called a ruffed grouse) is a large colorful bird, noted for its long tail feathers. Here we see a guy with two tattoos of the more-brightly-colored-male phesants on either side of his upper back. The birds are inked in green, blue and purple colors. Between them is a Chinese kanji characters, apparently this is a mirror image of the tattoo as the characters are reversed.

Meaning of a phesant tattoo. Good fellowship, ostentatiousness.

Cod Fish Tattoo Picture

A blue, green, brown and yellow cod tattoo. A nice perspective drawing with the head much closer to the viewer than the tail. A swirling blue and black ink pattern reflects the movement of the water.

Centiped Tattoo Picture

A unique tattoo design, done is black/dark brown ink. We see see a segmented centiped crawling on this person's leg.

Wolves Tattoo Picture

Awesome pair of wolf tattoos on this person's feet. Each wolf is snarling, bearing its pointy yellow teeth and staring intently. The wolf on the left (the person's right foot) is inked with its pointed red tongue lolling out of its moutn, to give it a crazed look.

The fur on both wolves is done with excellent shading to give it a wind-blown effect as if the beasts are lurching forward.

Meaning of a wolf tattoo: loyalty to the pack, fierceness, skillful hunter, lonesome (as in lone wolf).

Whale Tattoo Picture

An Old School design of a whale with a monocle on a beaded chain and top hat. Fanciful yellow waves surround the whale and a spurt of steam comes from its blowhole. Very nice outline work in black ink and shading in blue & black.

Squid Tattoo Picture

A cutie with a cute squid tattoo on her arm & a plush toy pink squid drapped over her shoulder.

Meaning of a squid tat: the squid is associated with grace, tenacity, stealth, evasiveness.

Spider Tarantula Tattoo Picture

Person with a large tarantula spider on the upper chest. A very realistic appearing tattoo with an accurate rendering of the leg bands, and a perspective shadow.

Meaning of a tarantula: power, danger, cuddliness (for some people), fear (for others), beauty.

Raven Tattoo Picture

A blue, black and white ink raven in flight tattoo. Very good job on both the black outline work and the shading and hightlights.
The raven made famous by Poe and the Baltimore football team is an elegant sleek bird.

Rat Tattoo Picture

A brown and pink rat tat. Usually considered vermin in the West, the rat is honored as one of the animals in the Chinese horoscope. Those who are born in the Year of the Rat (most recently the Eath Rat beginning in 2008) are creative, sly and ambitious. Though they can also be tight-wads and stingy. They get along well with those born in the year of the Ox, Monkey and Dragon, but not with those born in the year of the Horse.

Moth Tattoo Picture

There are sooooo many butterfly tattoos, but oh so few moth ones. This is a way cool moth with kanji character and geisha girl design in its wings. The fuzzy antennae & fatter body lets us know this is a moth. On the back of a girl's neck, done in red, black, yellow ink.

Morning Dove Tattoo Picture

Perhaps the dumbest of the bird species (though smarter than the now extinct dodo & passenger pidgeon) the morning dove plods on. This is a well done drawing of a dove perched on a branch--done in black ink.

Geese Tattoo Picture

An arm tattoo with four geese flying past a full moon. A possible meaning: nature's pattern of leaving and returning symbolized by the migration of birds.

Gecko Tribal Tattoo Picture

An ankle & leg tattoo done in tribal style of a gecko. Nice use of triangles and swirls in the body.

Fly Tattoo Picture

In general, not a popular tattoo design, but this is nice tattoo due to the bright red, blue, green and orange patches of color on its wings.

Fun fact: in Spanish a fly is called a mosca. You are probably more familiar with the related diminutive term: mosquito.

Deer Fawn Tattoo Picture

A cute fawn tattoo design. It has large blue eye and many small blue stars.

Deer Buck Tattoo Picture

An outstanding rendition of a large buck's head--a six pointer in terms of the number of parts of its antlers. There is a large green wreath with yellow berries surrounding it. Very nice detail work.

Crow in Flight Tattoo Picture

An awesome black ink tattoo design of a flying crow. This tattoo is placed on this guy's side. Beautiful detail work on the wings and head of the crow.

Crow on Branch Tattoo Picture

On this woman's shoulder is a large black crow, with blue and pink highlights. It is on what appears to be an olive tree branch. A partial orange sun is seen in the background. Nice contrast between the jet black body of the crow and the delicately done leaves and twigs.

Crane Tattoo Picture

A wonderful crane on this person's upper arm. The bird appears to be doing a celebration dance. Feathers are difficult to render correctly, and this tattoo artist had done a very good job. Also nice use of white ink for the highlights.

Coelacanth Fish Tattoo Picture

Ah, the coelacanth! This fish was believed to be extinct. There was a facinating story about how it was discovered back in 1938 in South Africa. The fish was thought to have died out at the end of the Cretaceous period, and was seen as the missing link between modern fish and tetrapods.

This tattoo is a nice honor to this fascinating species. Done in blue ink.

Clownfish Cartoon (Nemo) Tattoo Picture

The clownfish, what a delightful little sea creature. They have a special relationship with sea anemone: they are one of the few fish that are not poisoned by the anemone, so they can hide in them.
The tattoo is done in the typical bright orange and white colors. Nice black ink outline and a good rendering of its smiling mouth and a couple of bubbles.

Chickadee Tattoo Picture

Girl with a chickadee bird on her back/shoulder. The bird is very nicely tattooed using no solid outlines, but rather cloudy-like patches of blue, black and yellow ink. Wonderful!

Cat in Yin Yang Symbol Tattoo Picture

An original design of a curled up cat in the shape of a yin yang sign. Simple, wonderful!

Cardinals Tattoo Picture

Mrs & Mr. Cardinal on feet. The cardinal is one of the most dapper and State-Bird-Popular of our feathered friends.

Bunny Tattoo Picture

A couple of bunny/rabbit tattoo designs. The first is a cute little critter with some "crossbones style" carrots. The second is a cartoon style rabbit.

Bluejay & Cardinal Birds Tattoo Picture

A very beautifully done tattoo with a bluejay and a red cardinal on a bare branch. There are some bright blossoms in orange, pink and purple.

Interesting fact (and possible meaning behind why someone would get at least a cardinal tattoo): The cardinal is the state bird of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia, & West Virginia. The blue jay is not a state bird of any of the 50 states. This is probably due to the fact that, unlike the cardinal, the blue jay is a bully type bird, and also has a grating call.

Birds Tattoos Pictures

A redbird with dice on this woman's shoulder

A brightly colored bird

A bird made up of musical symbols

Birds are a popular choice of tattoos. The meaning of a bird tattoo may be one of freedom, joy, a love of making music, or having a flair for feathery fashion design. These are reasons women may like bird tattoos.

Men, on the other hand, prefer raptor type birds such as hawks, falcons and eagles. These birds express power and skill as a hunter.

Bees Tattoo Picture

A girl with a bumblebee

A guy with a bee with a heart on it.

Bear Tattoos Pictures

Bear Tattoos Pictures

Bear Tattoos Pictures

Bear Tattoos Pictures

Bear Tattoos Pictures

Bear Tattoos Pictures

A bunch of bear tattoo design. A walking bear, a bear with a red heart. An innuit style blue bear, a stylized bear and a big bear sitting down.

Bat Tattoos

A nice collection of bats tats. A black bat on the wrist. A vampire bat flying with the moon in the background. A pair of black ink batman style logos.

Foot with Ants Tattoo Picture

Six black ants on a foot. Nice black ink tattoo design with shadows to give the little insects some depth. There's also some script.

Reason for getting an ant tattoo: 1) admire their industrious nature, 2) admire their loyalty, even giving up their lives to protect their hive, 3) think they are cute., 4) as an homage to Atom Ant, or the movie Antz, or to one's aunt.

Feminine Anchor Design with Eye Tattoo

Girl's arm with an achor that has an eyeball with eye lashes. Nice shading and bold colors make this an Old Style design.