Ship Tattoo Designs

[Lochlan]

For me I see a picture of a tattoo or a tattooer doing a tattoo of a certain image and sometimes they just stick with me. I almost get obsessed in looking at variations of that one image and love seeing peoples takes on them. So lately I have been looking at, watching, and searching for ship or boat tattoos. I tend to enjoy ones that stick close to traditional tattoos but enjoy many of the variations.

So here are some recent ones that I have been enjoying and wishing the quality of the pictures for some were better so I could really gaze at them.

Lets see your ship or boat tattoos and/or those that you enjoy looking at as well....

Snappy Gomez LST Tattoo Gallery- Ship

Mr. Frog LST Tattoo Gallery- Ship back piece in progress Do you have any updated pictures of this?

Erik Gillespie LST Tattoo Gallery- Ship, Anchor & Heart

[Shadow]

I love ship tattoos. Here is mine by Klem at Samuel O'Reilly's in Santa Cruz.

[Eights and Aces FLiP]

I did this n'.

FLiP

[hogg]

I love ship tattoos. Here is mine by Klem at Samuel O'Reilly's in Santa Cruz.

Every time I see a tattoo by Klem, I end up starting at it for a very long time.

[Draltattoo]

heres one i did recently on a buddy of mine

[Kev]

I have one on the back of my calf from Kevin Poon in my Gallery. Not sure how to link to it though (?)

Here you go: Calf ship tattoo picture by Kevin Poon

[kylegrey]

Greg Irons ships are some of the best in my opinion .Although this beautifully simple piece by Tokyo Hiro may just take the cake for me .

[nicky papers]

i have this on my my thigh from Mike Lucena. Done when he worked at Blackheart.

[Lochlan]

Here's a Nick Rodin from Blackheart tattoo picture of a ship...

[Lochlan]

here are some ship tattoos that have caught my eye in the LST gallery recently:

Miguel Olascuaga Ship Tattoo

Mr. Frog ship back piece tattoo

Olly Streeter Ship

[kylegrey]

Here's a Nick Rodin from Blackheart tattoo picture of a ship...

More and more i'm seeing the deliberate over lapping of , particulary traditional ,tattoos which is a really cool way to go .

[Juan Pardo]

Recently I painted this ships with skulls, I really like Samuel Briganti´s ships, really solid.

[RoryQ]

@Juan Pardo

Cool.

Your post made me google Samuele Briganti ship tattoos ... Really nice stuff also, he does appear to tattoo a lot of ships!

[Jennifer Stell]

Photo by stelltattooart • Instagram

This was on a dear friend, who wanted to take what was on her back, and get rid of a few things... but mainly she wanted a ship.... She sits so good...

Covered three stars on her shoulders with the eagle, and making the butterfly into a jollyroger... It's a work in progress but coming along nicely.

[Wedge]

Although I don't have a ship tattoo (yet), it's definitely in the future plans. I go back and forth between preferring black and grey or color with the ship tattoos, I've seen some great examples of both. I kind of like the black and grey stormy ship scenes which probably aren't true traditional.

[kylegrey]

Bill Loika is one of the best -

[Jack]

dat Amsterdam boat is slammin.

[David Flores]

Bill Loika is one of the best -

Those are great. Tattooer at the shop just got back from Amsterdam and was able to get a walk in tattoo from Bill Loika, he got a Mister Lucky smoking a joint.

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Although I don't have a ship tattoo (yet), it's definitely in the future plans. I go back and forth between preferring black and grey or color with the ship tattoos, I've seen some great examples of both. I kind of like the black and grey stormy ship scenes which probably aren't true traditional.

I have a battleship but not a clipper. I think the ships look better with color, but I think you could do some cool things in black in gray. I kind of like the stipple shaded black and grey look that people like Mike Adams are doing, gives traditional tattoos a rough tough black and gray look.

[Graeme]

Dave Cummings, PSC. I know this thread is mainly tall ships, but the water on this one is so rad that I have to share it.

[ProvidenceTattoo]

Done last week by Dennis Del Prete

[Steve]

This ship back piece by Tim Hendricks in the LST gallery is awesome:

http://www.lastsparrowtattoo.com/gallery/traditional-tattoos/11606-ryans-back-piece.html

[Catcook]

that's awesome!!!

[taylorspinney]

@kylegrey those tattered sails are great!

[Troy at Royal1]

Clean tattoo.

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Yes ,that Tim Hendricks ship backpiece is sweet.

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Nice. I'd like to see that one finished.

[kylegrey]

More Bill Loika -