Tired of traditional tattoo design styles? Or are you looking for a truly distinctive art style for your next tattoo? It’s time to try the popular and always trending watercolor tattoos. The skin is used as a canvas to produce artistic paintings like those placed in a museum. It has to be said that the tattoo styles are amazing, and their designs are the same as traditional tattoos, covering a variety of design types, and the options for watercolor tattoos may be endless.
Watercolor tattoos are amazingly beautiful enough to be eye-catching anytime, anywhere. This kind of tattoo seems to be someone using a brush to draw patterns on the skin or splashing colored ink irregularly on the skin. Some people like to include some black as a base shade in their watercolor tattoo design. Others choose to combine multiple colors to become the focal point of the tattoo, thereby completely removing the black ink and contour lines, trying to make the tattoo design look softer. Check out these ideas and get inspired, blend your creativity into your favorite design, and make this watercolor tattoo meaningful to you
Quote watercolor tattoo
Traditional quote tattoo designs look monotonous? Need some design aesthetics? Then this kind of watercolor quote tattoo with watercolor ink as the background and beautiful font is suitable for you.
Feather watercolor tattoo
Watercolor feather tattoos usually do not use black lines to depict outlines. Therefore, feather tattoos designed in this style look very real and beautiful.
hot air balloon
Hot ball tattoos are one of the most favorite tattoo designs for travel lovers, and this kind of tattoo usually uses watercolor style designs. This tattoo also symbolizes the spirit of yearning for freedom and love of adventure.
Ice and Fire Phoenix
The phoenix symbolizes rebirth and an urgent desire for a new life. And this tattoo is creative, not only uses watercolor style but also has two phoenixes, one is fire and the other is ice. At the same time, this tattoo also implies balance.
Creative dream catcher
Dream catcher tattoo is one of the representatives of traditional tattoos. When it is redesigned with watercolor style, it has a brand new style and different feeling. This kind of tattoo is very suitable for women.
carp
Carp is very important in the tattoo culture of Eastern countries, and this kind of tattoo is also one of the popular design elements. People who wear carp tattoos expect that this tattoo will bring good luck to them. This idea uses watercolor style for design, making this tattoo look lifelike. At the same time, we also strongly recommend that if you want to choose a carp tattoo, consider this style first.
Starry sky
There are many types of watercolor tattoo designs, even limitless. You can use this style to design anything you like. Of course, please make sure the tattoo is meaningful to you.
forest
The watercolor style design of the woods tattoo makes it look not monotonous at all.
aurora
The aurora element is very suitable for designing with watercolor tattoos, so as to show its charm. This tattoo is one of the best gifts for astronomers.
whale and flower
The design of the watercolor whale tattoo can remove the obvious outline and it looks cute. And the tattoo has added flower elements to make it more feminine.
When excellent tattoo artists proposed this style of design, they created a brilliant idea and launched a new genre of tattoo art. Taking tattoo art to a whole new level, standard traditional tattoos no longer represent all of tattoo art, and they are no longer the best choice in the eyes of young people.
lion
The tattoo is creative and uses three different tattoo styles. Watercolor is used as the background color, traditional tattoos and geometric aesthetics together make up this tattoo. Make it look suitable for women while being cool.
Paper crane
The paper crane tattoo means to convey blessings to yourself and others. Usually this kind of tattoo design must have a clear and tough outline, but the addition of watercolor style gives it another visual experience. This tattoo is unique.
landscape
Is a certain scene in your life impressive to you? Well, it can be used as a design element for tattoos. If you want to show the scene perfectly, watercolor tattoos are a good choice.
Cherry tree
Cherry blossom trees have a very important place in Japanese tattoos. The cherry blossoms have a pleasant fragrance and look beautiful when they bloom. And cherry blossoms also represent romantic and beautiful blessings.
dragon
Usually dragon tattoo designs look almost all majestic. Traditional dragon tattoos are not liked by women, but when using watercolor styles to design dragon tattoos, everything becomes different. While retaining the cool style, it even looks cute.
Dandelion
Dandelion is one of the most used elements to design watercolor tattoos. The original color of dandelion is single, but watercolor gives it a distinctive appearance, which we can understand as a creative design method. This tattoo symbolizes the yearning for freedom.
starfish
Watercolor style is very suitable for designing things from the sea. So when you see this starfish tattoo, you will understand why this tattoo design is so beautiful and amazing.
Sea turtle
I believe you are no stranger to turtle tattoos. This type of tattoo is one of the most types of tattoos designed in a watercolor style. The rich color combination will make it look real.
sunflower
How to make sunflower tattoos more creative? This idea is one of the best design methods.
Moon phase
The moon phase tattoos that use watercolor to fill colors make the process of moon change more obvious and beautiful.
The watercolor tattoo design has been loved by everyone from the beginning and has won the attention of many people. In my opinion, this kind of tattoo will continue to be popular and become another eternal classic. The popularity of this tattoo style has led to the influx of thousands of artists, who will design unique new watercolor tattoos every day.
rabbit
Exquisite rabbit tattoos require a detailed design, so this tattoo uses thin lines as the main design style. However, in my opinion, this is not enough. It should be cute and dreamy, so this rabbit tattoo uses a watercolor style to fill it with a beautiful background color.
geometry
How to make geometric tattoos more creative and interesting? First, the unique tattoo outline is very important, and secondly, the choice of color and the style of filling are equally important.
tree
Usually trees are used to design family tattoos or meaningful tattoos. But traditional tree tattoos are ordinary and not sufficiently attractive. So, use some watercolor style design for it to make it look different and eye-catching.
hummingbird
Hummingbird tattoos have many meanings, usually it represents strength and the days of overcoming suffering. In different cultures, it also represents happiness, blessings and peace. Hummingbird is one of the ancient tattoo design elements. When we choose this tattoo, if we want to make it creative and unique, the watercolor style is worth considering.
Cat
The design of cat tattoos can be endless. Each tattoo style has its own different styles, so getting a unique design is the key. We don’t want all cat tattoos to be nearly the same, right?
map
For those who love to travel, if they are thinking about the next tattoo design, then the map tattoo seems to be one of the best choices. Choose a watercolor background for this tattoo to add more personalization. You can even mark some places or countries on the map tattoo to show others your footprints.
hand
This tattoo is interesting, using curves designed in watercolor style, connecting two hands.
arrow
Gradient watercolor curves surround the arrow, making this tattoo full of power.
Creative light bulb
In fact, this tattoo is composed of two things. Light bulbs and balloons, unleash your thoughts and get more creativity.
Soft flower
Flower tattoos are women’s favorite tattoos and are chosen by most people. Therefore, when designing this kind of tattoo, the first thing to think about is how to make flower tattoos look more unique.
As with other tattoo styles, you can use anything you like as the basis for watercolor tattoo design. Of course, among the many designs, there are also some of the most popular design elements. For example: animals, flowers, feathers, quotes, roses, natural plants, sunflowers, tigers, geometric figures, butterflies, koi and so on. I think that almost everything used to design watercolor tattoos looks great.
Jellyfish
The color combination of this jellyfish tattoo is perfect. The blue watercolor represents the sea, while the purple jellyfish looks charming and dreamy.
lotus
The gradual pink watercolor makes the lotus tattoo look lifelike, and it is also meaningful. The design idea of this tattoo is very simple, anyone can make another creation based on this design.
abstract
The use of watercolor tattoos for abstract design looks like a different visual experience. This tattoo is subtle in both the design and color matching.
Infinity symbol
Infinite symbol with special creativity, and the color is filled with watercolor. This type of tattoo is not common, and if you are looking for a design of this type, then it will be worthy of reference.
King and Queen symbols
Couple tattoos that use watercolor to fill the color look more eye-catching.
Mermaid
The color selection and creative design of this mermaid tattoo make it look really dreamy.
eye
Although the main color of the tattoo is black ink, the watercolor design style makes it look cooler.
Watercolor background
For music lovers, it is proud to use music scores as tattoos. In order to make it look more eye-catching, using watercolor colors as a background is a smart way.
fox
The watercolor fox tattoo without black line outline is so amazing.
deer
Cute animal tattoos are one of women’s favorites, so we have every reason to make it look more beautiful and creative.
Of course, watercolor tattoos also have some shortcomings that cannot be ignored. Watercolor tattoos fade much faster than traditional black ink, and the creation process is relatively complicated. Even some simple watercolor tattoos tend to cost more than ordinary tattoos. Nevertheless, the beauty of watercolor tattoos is worth every penny and time spent, right?
dragonfly
Are you looking for a charming dragonfly tattoo? I think this idea can help you.
flame
The flame tattoo symbolizes strength and symbolizes hope for the future life. And use watercolor style design and color filling to make it more eye-catching.
natural
Watercolor style natural scenery tattoos never disappoint.
Thin line watercolor tattoo
Watercolor colors add another artistic touch to this thin line tattoo.
Wolf
This wolf tattoo is amazing and looks more feminine.
Note
Let the lovely notes come alive.
Find your favorite design in these ideas. If you can, please recreate it with your ideas. Don’t worry about the maintenance of watercolor tattoos. Its maintenance methods and difficulty are the same as traditional tattoos. Although this kind of tattoo will fade faster, it is very easy to completely restore the worn color.