Old School Sun Face Wrist Tattoo

A golden sun face with red cheeks, flame-shaped rays and sharp triangular rays, centered just beneath the inner wrist crease.

Style: Old school
Placement: Wrist
Motif: Sun
Good for: For men
Mood: Color
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About this design

What the design shows

The design is a round yellow-orange sun with a calm human face. Arched brows, dark outlined eyes, a small nose, and closed red lips sit in the warm central disk, while two round red cheek patches brighten either side. A small dark vertical mark appears above the brows. Around the face, alternating rays create an even halo: some are long gold triangles, while others are red-orange flames that curve at the tips. Every ray is contained by a heavy black outline in an old-school palette of yellow, red, orange, and black. There is no sky, cloud, or text behind it. The preview keeps the disk upright below the wrist crease, roughly the width of the inner wrist.

In this design

sun face
red cheek circles
flame rays
gold triangular rays
black outlines

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Placement

Placement and size

The sun face is shown upright beneath the inner wrist crease. Its longest top ray points toward the palm, while the lowest gold ray points down the forearm and the side flames spread across the wrist width. That round silhouette can also sit on the upper arm, calf, or shoulder cap. It should stay around thumb-and-a-half width so the eyes, small forehead mark, red cheek circles, and alternating rays retain their separate shapes. If the stencil is scaled down, simplify a few flame tips before reducing the facial features or turning the yellow and red ray pattern into one dense border.

Patchwork

Building it into a patchwork

With its saturated reds, golds, and thick black outline, this sun is a medium-to-heavy circular anchor. It sits naturally beside other old-school flash, especially a swallow, small dagger, or rosebud placed outside the rays. Preserve a narrow halo of bare skin around every flame tip so the face does not become a single colored disk. The expression faces forward, making it stronger as a visible center piece than as a tucked-in filler. Keep neighboring lines bold enough to match its outline, while avoiding another radial image immediately beside it.

Small pieces that pair with it

a tiny red star beside one ray
a small black swallow above the sun
two short golden spark marks

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For your artist

Notes for your tattoo artist

01Keep the face centered within the round disk.
02Use the red and gold consistently across all rays.
03Retain the alternating flame and triangle rhythm.

Made and reviewed

How this design was made

Design: Generated with AI image tools under our direction, then reviewed by the Patchwork Tattoos team: a readable outline, the same design in the clean and on-skin views, and a reviewed Builder piece.
Page notes: Written from the clean design and the on-skin preview of this exact design, then checked against both pictures.
Last reviewed: 2026-10-03
Your tattoo: A concept for planning. Your artist will redraw it for your skin, placement and size, so the finished tattoo will differ from the image.
License: Free to download and use as the reference for your own tattoo and to share with your artist. Selling the file or republishing it in a collection is not allowed.

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