For some, picking a tattoo spot means picking a spot that is easy to cover up. That thought doesn’t really matter to some people.
When men get tattoos that people will see, they don’t have to get big pictures on their backs like paintings or designs that cover their legs.
Instead, a man might choose a small tattoo to draw attention to the rough parts of his hands, like strong fingers or calluses that show he likes doing fun things.
One letter, a word that moves with the sinews, a pattern on a finger, or something else can be tattooed on the hand. It’s important to keep the tattoo strong so it looks good for years to come.
Small areas can have big effects, especially if the hand can be easily seen. People who know a lot about tattoos know that even a small one can make a big difference. One of the main ways we communicate is through our hands, and a tattoo on one of them says “brave and fearless.”
This gallery shows unique examples of small tattoos on the hands. It should help you understand the variety of styles you can choose from. People will notice your hands right away, and they should give them an idea of who you are. This place should give you a lot of ideas.
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Little Hand Tattoos
These small double anchor tattoos are a popular nod to North American classic tattoos. They remind us of a time when sailors, like outlaw bikers, liked to show that they were different by getting bσdy art.
A lot of small hand tattoos aren’t as detailed as this cool axe. Both the haft and the head of the axe have a nice amount of coloring. The straight line makes the work interesting.
People like getting crowns as small hand tattoos because they look good and can be made to look different from other tattoos. This is a nice example of a solid black crown. The jewelry makes the piece stand out from how solid it is otherwise.
A rustic minimalist version of the classic dog’s paw tattoo. These small tattoos are also becoming increasingly popular on the ankles and feet as well.
The swallow is another nod to traditional tattoo art from North America. The simple Sailor Jerry-style color scheme used to fill out the bird as it flies across the man’s hand makes this piece look great.
This intricate compass is effective in such a small space. This type of tattoo can sometimes be difficult to pull off given the toughness of the hand to do quality line work and shading.
A simple, clean set of crossed anchors. You might think they look like a pair of buttons that got thrown around in your top drawer.
The simple crossed lines on this man’s palm don’t show how hard this tattoo is. It might be hardest to get a tattoo on your palm anywhere. If you’re thinking about getting a tattoo on your hand, make sure you know all about color loss and aftercare. Some artists won’t even think about doing them.
Another paw tattoo; look at the small pads of the foot that are a little smudged or discolored. This happens a lot with hand tattoos. You can either let it “age” naturally or get it fixed, which might cost more.
This delicate flower is nicely rendered for such a small tattoo. It looks likely that it’s held up through the aftercare process with no drop out.
For that part of the hand, “F𝔦ght to Live” has a nice style, and the words fit well along the curve. There are red accents that go with the main part and will blend in with your skin as you age.
The free double hand tattoo has been changed to look cool. This piece is very well made with great use of line work and shadow. Also, notice that the right hand doesn’t have a leaf because he has a tattoo on that hand.
You’ve done a great job with this small animal realistic piece. It’s very skillfully and carefully done, and the shading on the wing and tail feathers really makes them stand out. The artist spent a lot of time making this piece of hand art.
This is really pretty cool. It’s hard to give a hand tattoo a lot of depth, but the artist did a great job of adding two skulls inside the four-leaf clover by using a nice mix of grayscale shading and sharp black lines.
This tribal-inspired piece of art combines the Eye of Horus, which in Ancient Egyptian mythology stood for renewal and life, with another piece of text to make a full-color picture. A single, narrow gauge needle would have been used for this.
This full axe has a lot of great details. Strong shading is used on the double-bladed head, but the most important shading is done along the haft to make small, realistic wood grain and leather binding for the grip.
This is a well-executed Chicano style font in four parts. The linework here is extremely sharp, giving the lettering a calligraphy feel.
Some people think that the number 13 in tattoos is bad luck, so they “flip” the writing. People often get the number 13 tattooed as a sign of being different from everyone else. This comes from a time when tattoos weren’t as common as they are now. Tattoo shops now promote their work by offering “lucky 13” days, “flash days,” and “walk-in-only” days to bring in new customers, build their business, or get noticed on social media.
Avant-garde and ironic tattoos are often used in hand ink. This can be anything from the funny moustache to this example – the bike guy rolling along with a bike tattoo on his hand.
It wouldn’t have been fun to carve these big Nordic runes into this man’s skin. It looks like a strong work of art on both hands. To make this idea happen, you would have needed a calm hand and a single needle. But the line work is amazing, and it was well worth the trouble.
Wow. This deer head is a well-drawn realist tattoo. The sweeping antlers are a great flourish of clear line work. Little hand tattoos of this kind are rare – it’s difficult to navigate such detail in a hand tatt.
Anubis, the Ancient Egyptian god who looked like a jackal, was replaced by Osiris as the ruler of the underworld. Anubis was then left to care for mummifying and dressing the dєad. People still really like Amulets of the Ancient Gods. This is a beautiful, solid picture that was drawn into the hand. The black is strong because it makes Anubis look like he was stamped on his hand instead of tattooed.
This is a wacky take on a minimalist tattoo. The simple church has been drawn with nice clear lines, looking a lot larger than it is at the top of his knuckle.
This simple tribal tattoo is a bit of a rarity, given that it’s inked on the edge of the hand just above the wrist bonє.
Tattoos on the side of your hand, also known as “no man’s land,” can lose their color and shape over time, just like tattoos on the palm. The writing for “have heart” is well done; it has simple, clean lines in the font instead of a pattern that doesn’t fit as well.
This kitchen knifє is a bold cover up of an old tattoo. You can see the old work in blue, within the frame of the blade, that has faded seriously since it was first done.
One could arguє that this finely drawn Native American mask belongs on a shoulder or sleeve, where it belongs in a more prominent place. Wonderful small tattoo—the feathers are very well done and must have been hard to get right during the process.
A tattoo on a man’s hand. The watch is the main point of this picture, but the tattoo is also interesting, especially since most people don’t like seeing tattoos. When compared to the big watch face, the two simple squares that are connected to each other look almost shy.
It looks like someone dumped out their old school Halloween flash art notebook on someone’s fingers. It’s like a flash art sale on Friday the 13th all in one man’s hands. When looked at as a whole, it works well and is pretty daring.
Which is better: the old-school straight razor for a hipster barber or One Tree Hill? It’s the coloring that makes the blade and grain on the razor’s wooden handle look real. The shape of the tattoo on the hand is also more noticeable because the picture is only half unfolded. If it were unfolded all the way, the shape might have been lost.
