Tattoo ideas

Hand Tattoo Designs

34 original hand designs, drawn in-house. Place any of them on a photo of your own skin.

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This set of 34 hand designs, by the numbers

Styles represented
illustrative (14), dotwork (6), chicano (3), linework (2), neo traditional (1), stick and poke (1)
Black-and-grey vs colour
94% black-and-grey, 6% colour
Most often drawn with
skeleton hand, eye, heart, memento mori

Counted from the 34 designs shown on this page. Every one was drawn for InkCraft — none are scraped or reposted. Free to reference with a link to this page.

What a hand tattoo can mean

The meanings this motif carries on the pages that argue them. Each line is that page's own reason for including it.

Faith tattoos
Dürer’s drawing, by way of mid-century American flash. Direct, devotional, and strongly associated with memorial work as well as with faith.

See it on your skin before you commit

InkCraft places any of these designs on a photo of you — scaled, wrapped and shaded to the placement you pick.

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