Snake Tattoo Designs
Snakes coiled, wrapped and stretched out, in fine line, blackwork and Japanese style.
Every tattoo image on this site is a generated illustration. None of it is work by this artist and none of it records a client result.
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Solid silhouette
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Snake and crescent moon
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Snake in waves
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Snake and peony
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Snake and rose
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Snake and lilies
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Python on a branch
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Tiny line snake
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Snake and apple
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Patterned snake
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Snake and crystal
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Snake skeleton
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Snake, around an ankle
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Snake, down the spine
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Snake and chrysanthemum, on a thigh
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Traditional snake, on a calf
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Blackwork snake, along a forearm
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Dotwork snake, on a shoulder blade
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Snake and magnolias, on an upper arm
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Snake, along the collarbone
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Snake tattoo designs with meaning
The same snake can mean renewal to one person and temptation to another, so the shape you choose decides which reading people see first. These six each carry a reading with a source, old or recent, and the guide goes through the rest.
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Ouroboros
A cycle with no beginning and no end. The snake eating its own tail appears in Egyptian funerary texts and later in Greek alchemy, and it is one of very few symbols whose meaning has held for about three thousand years.
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Spiral coil
Shedding a skin and starting again, which is the oldest snake reading of all and the one nearly every culture with snakes arrived at. A resting coil reads calm rather than threatening.
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Cobra
A guard. A rearing cobra sat on the pharaoh's crown in ancient Egypt as a protector, and the hooded cobra in Western traditional flash borrows the look. Whether it reads as protection or threat depends on who is looking.
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Snake and apple
Temptation, from Genesis. It is a real and old reading, and it is one tradition among several. If temptation is not what you mean, the apple is the part to leave out.
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Snake and peony
In Japanese work the snake is a protector rather than a menace, and the snake with a peony is a classic subject. Reading the pair as danger beside beauty is a modern overlay on an older composition.
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Snake and crescent moon
A modern pairing with no old tradition behind it. The nearest thing here is the Bakunawa of Visayan and Bicolano stories, a serpent that swallows the moon, which is the moon and the snake the other way round.
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Worth knowing before you choose
A snake reads as renewal in most traditions and as temptation in the Western one, and the same drawing can be read either way. The guide on this site marks which snake meanings are old and which were invented recently.
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None of these has to be it. Say what is closest, what you would change, where it goes and roughly how big, and the drawing comes back before anything is booked.