Top 58 Winnie The Pooh Tattoo Ideas – [2021 Inspiration Guide]

The major theme of Winnie the Pooh is the importance of friendships, which makes a great tattoo application when applying Pooh’s positivity and optimism to body art.

With good friends, you will always have someone there to lean on, someone who will go on adventures with you, and someone to be there through all the ups and downs of life.

Writer A. A Milne, who first wrote about Pooh in the 1920s, DID NOT intend for characters to be linked with mental health issues and disorders, although contemporary culture has made links between them (initially in jest).

• Pooh – Overeating and Impulse Control
• Piglet – Anxiety
• Eeyore – Depression
• Tigger – ADHD
• Roo – Autism
• Rabbit – OCD
• Owl – Dyslexia

These character traits have given tattoo collectors opportunities to represent their own mental health struggles with the personalities of the animals.

The major characters from Winnie the Pooh create opportunities for beautiful, simple tattoo designs. Eeyore, Piglet, Tigger, and Christopher Robin ink is almost as popular as those of Pooh himself.

Other design ideas resonating with ink collectors include Pooh Bear eating “hunny,” ink matched with quotes from the books, or replication of pictures from the illustrations, such as Pooh being carried away by a love heart balloon.

Tattoos replicating the original E.H. Shephard illustrations are some of the most popular Pooh tattoos, although they mix between colorful expressions and simpler, cheaper, black and gray or linework designs.

For other enthusiasts, neo-traditional tattoos and the watercolor method of inking is well suited to Winnie the Pooh artwork, allowing strong outlines to work with cool modern colored ink to provide excellent small and mid-sized designs.

Watercolor tattoos are on the expensive end of the pricing spectrum. Specialist watercolor tattooing starts at approximately $200 p/h and averages around $300 per hour.

In demand artists can charge up to $500 per hour for watercolor, but with that pricing comes the implicit acknowledgement your ink will be of the highest quality.

For a tattoo of this kind it’s best to check out your potential artist’s prior watercolor pieces to ensure you’re comfortable before proceeding with a booking and deposit. The tattoo shop’s booking manager, or the artist themselves can handle any questions you may have relating to the process.