Praying hands are often employed to symbolize the subject’s relationship with god and family. This traditional tattoo uses a variety of elements in this depiction of faith. The cursive script flows well and is easy to read inside the backing scroll below the delicately aged hands. Deploying a dove is an excellent style choice as it contrasts the black shading and overall darkness of the art work.

This is a beautiful praying hands tattoo in the sketch artwork style. The shading is simple, but effectively works lighter gray scale and wrinkles of negative space. Clean, sharp black outline adds clarity to the image, while white ink highlights in the pendent and chain add strength to the cord and Christ’s countenance.

These praying hands form part of a Christian faith upper arm sleeve. The art opts for non traditional, rougher gray scale shading in forming excellent texture, while negative space flows into the piece from below the hands. It’s hard to tell from the image but the tattoo seems to extend into a full black and gray sleeve.

A nicely delivered back shoulder tattoo. As with the previous pieces on this list the work inks texture and detail into the hands with great skill. The roses are also nicely done here. One thing that could add depth and balance to the piece would be additional darker shading – there’s alternating sun rays behind the main image but they’re a little washy, and could do with building up.

Strong shading can make a great difference to the style and texture of your praying hands tattoo. The fantastic alternating stripes in the background here give the art a unique and interesting texture that plays well in opposition to the main image. Love the rosary beads too – the artist has fashioned a fresh pearl effect by finely balancing black ink and negative space.