Tattoos are amazing and permanent ways to express oneself. Even though their style can be so different and unique they are part of the wearer and of the artist and in this case of something more. These Old School RuneScape inspired tattoos are part of the game, a part brought to life with ink to immortalize the characters these scapers love to play or to allude to them.
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OSRS Character model tattoo
This tattoo, placed on the calf, features a minimalist depiction of a base character model from Old School RuneScape in a simplified, cartoonish style. The character is shown with a bald head, a green shirt, and darker pants, highlighted in bold flat colors and clean outlines. This style emphasizes clarity and playful representation.
Base character tattoo
This tattoo features a starter character from Old School RuneScape in a minimalist, pixel art style. The design uses bold outlines and flat color fills to represent the character’s simple clothing and classic game aesthetic. The color palette includes earthy tones like green, brown, and tan, with minimal shading to maintain the blocky appearance of the original in-game graphics. The technique focuses on clean linework and precise color application, creating a clear and recognizable depiction of the character.
OSRS simple character tattoo
This tattoo, located on the calf, features a simple depiction of a character from Old School RuneScape executed in a minimalist, sketch-like style. It’s a fresh tattoo inked in neutral colours. it has both precise contour lines and a beautiful fill with shades and lights to bring to life a nice OSRS character base model.
Simple base character tattoo
This tattoo depicts a naked Old School RuneScape character created with a minimalist and fine line approach. The design uses simple, clean outlines to replicate the low-polygon aesthetic of the game.
OSRS noob character tattoo
This tattoo features an OSRS base character and a “NOOB” banner. It is made in a simplified, cartoonish style typical of game art. The colors are basic, with bold outlines and flat areas of color, reflecting a traditional tattoo style. The tattoo uses solid color fill and clean linework, indicating skilled execution. Many other scapers chose to get an OSRS text tattoo, so make sure to check those out.
OSRS character tattoo
This tattoo features an Old School RuneScape base character in a simple, minimalistic style. The character is outlined with basic black lines, creating a clear and straightforward figure without intricate detailing. The tattoo uses a limited color palette—yellow for the shirt, green for the pants, and brown accents on the gloves and boots. Shading is minimal, giving the design a flat, almost sticker-like appearance. The technique favors solid fills over complex gradients, which emphasizes the cartoon-like style typical of OSRS game art.
OSRS character tattoo
This tattoo depicts the same base character model in a blocky, pixelated style that closely resembles the game’s low-resolution graphics. The design uses bold colors, with green for the pants, yellow for the shirt, and black for the boots and wristbands, giving it a solid, high-contrast look. The character lacks detailed facial features, sticking to simple shapes and flat colors, which enhances the retro gaming aesthetic.
Base character noob tattoo
This tattoo combines bold traditional tattooing with a modern gaming theme. The OSRS character is depicted with clean, solid outlines and vibrant color fills, emphasizing a cartoonish and graphic style. The shading is smooth and consistent, with a red aura behind the character for emphasis. Below the figure, a banner with the text “Noob” adds a playful touch, rendered in traditional tattoo lettering.
PK character tattoo
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This tattoo features a detailed representation of a PK character wielding a godsword with the almost deadly 73-25 hitsplats (-98hp). The tattoo is also isnpired by the boaty number (73) and also contains a PK skull. The tattoo uses a fine line technique for the outline, creating a clean and defined figure. The numbers and iconography are bold and clear, ensuring they stand out against the skin. Adjacent text follows a traditional font style for legibility and contrast.
PK character tattoo
This tattoo features a skulled OSRS character in a pixelated, 8-bit style, capturing the classic video game aesthetic. The design shows a fully-armored skulled charactered, complete with a sword, cape, and helmet with pointed details. The tattoo uses bold outlines and solid colors, effectively creating a blocky, retro appearance. Other scapers also chose to go for a PK tattoo.
Quest cape emote character tattoo
Simple but outstanding this tattoo displays an Old School RuneScape character performing the Quest cape emote. The scaper admitted that they’ve “been playing for nearly over 12 years, never had a skill cape, never reached my first 10M. Took a “break” for a few long years, came back last year not knowing wtf RuneScape has become. 5 months of grinding, level 93, achieved my first cape- a Quest Cape. It’s only right that I take this accomplishment permanently as a sign of a childhood core memory dream come true.”
BGS character tattoo
This scaper got an outline of an OSRS character wielding a Bandos godsword and wearing the Bandos armour and melee gear. They also made an update with the finished tattoo. Interestingly, there are loads of godsword tattoos, so this scaper went for a really popular pick when it comes to their spec weapon.
Ancient staff character coloured tattoo
This purple and black tattoo is a great representation of a character wearing magic gear alongside an Ancient staff. The tattoo is simple but striking and one of my personal favorites partly because of the purple and the smooth shading.
Ancient staff character tattoo
This tattoo features a character wearing magic gear and wielding the iconic Ancient staff. The tattoo is created using various mixtures of black and white inks.
Zaros character tattoo
This tattoo portrays a cat dressed in a robe from Old School RuneScape along with the ancient staff, located on the forearm. The cat is rendered in a realistic style with detailed shading and texture, contrasting with the simplistic, bright purple ancient staff she’s holding. The use of soft grays and browns gives the cat a lifelike appearance. This tattoo hints at the game and is a very unique representation of an OSRS character.
Black ink cartoon OSRS character
This is a monochromatic representation of an OSRS character wearing a Neitiznot helm, amulet of glory, and wielding a battlestaff. The style is cartoonish, realized with a small needle and dot work.
OSRS Mage Character tattoo
This scaper got an OSRS character wearing magic gear as their first and only tattoo. The character is wielding a staff of air. The tattoo is created using only black ink in a simple minimalistic design that heavily relies on smooth shadows.
Magic character tattoo
This tattoo shows a character from Old School RuneScape in a minimalist, pixelated style. The character is wearing a yellow party hat, blue mystic robe, and a fire staff. The design uses solid blocks of color with minimal shading, replicating the simplicity of in-game graphics. The character’s blue robe, crown, and red staff are clearly defined with basic shapes and straightforward color fills, giving it a cartoonish appearance. Fine lines outline the figure and add clarity without intricate detail.
Magers tattoo
These two tattoos display two OSRS characters casting spells while wearing two variations of the mystic set. You might have seen them in the matching tattoos post.
Ranger tattoo
This tattoo is a interpretation of an Old School RuneScape character wearing ranged gear. It is placed on the upper arm and the design features a fragmented, polygonal style, creating an abstract version of the character with muted earth tones and subtle shading. The use of line work is precise, and the shading underlines the angular shapes, giving a 3D effect.
Armadyl character tattoo
This tattoo depicts an OSRS character in a pixelated, low-resolution style, wearing the Armadyl armour and the DHC. The character is adorned in armor with green accents and is holding a weapon and shield, reflecting classic OSRS equipment. The simple color and shading is used to emphasize the pixelated effect. Placed on the forearm, this tattoo has strong visibility and is designed to maintain clarity even from a distance. The linework is bold and consistent, providing a clean separation between the character’s different elements.
Mid level character tattoo
This tattoo features a character from the game Old School RuneScape in a minimalist, fine-line style. The design uses thin, clean lines to outline the character’s armor, shield, and other details, giving it a simple yet recognizable appearance. Black ink is used exclusively, without any shading or color, which enhances the tattoo’s clean and straightforward aesthetic. The character is holding an abyssal whip, a dragon fire shield, and a Bandos armour.
Meleer tattoo
This tattoo, made on the calf, features an Old School RuneScape character in detailed melee armor (Bandos chestplate and tassets) and wielding an abyssal whip alongside the dragonfire shield, done in a sketch-like, linework style without color, emphasizing the draftsmanship. The tattoo is medium-sized, neatly fitting the calf area, using fine lines and cross-hatching for shading, giving it a hand-drawn, almost illustrative feel.
Crossover character tattoo
This tattoo shows a character from Legend of Zelda wearing Old School RuneScape armour. It is created with detailed linework and soft shading. The character is depicted in armor with a sword and shield, drawn in a style that combines fine lines with minimal color fills, creating a hand-drawn look. The use of light, muted colors and clean lines gives the tattoo a sketch-like quality, with each element of the armor and weapon clearly defined. There are other OSRS crossover tattoos and they are all really good, and I couldn’t even recognize them all without help. Can you?
Colourful meleer tattoo
This tattoo features a vividly colored OSRS character on the upper thigh. The tattoo is done in a rich, illustrative style with deep reds and muted earth tones, accentuated by detailed shading and textural contrasts to display a character wearing the dragon platelegs, fighter torso, abyssal whip and amulet of glory, like a true mid-gamer. The figure is shown with dynamic contours and a sense of movement, emphasizing the character’s armor and gear.
Melee charter tattoo
This tattoo showcases another OSRS character placed on the forearm wearing higher tier melee gear than the other ones. It’s executed in a bold, new-school style featuring vivid red and gray colors with black outlining to emphasize contrast and depth. The artistic technique involves smooth shading and crisp linework, capturing the once best in slot Bandos tassets, Bandos chest, and the still BIS primordial boots, ferocious gloves, and faceguard while wielding one of the most popular weapons: the abyssal whip. If you’re curious about how other OSRS weapons turned out as tattoos check this.
Elite void character tattoo
This tattoo on the forearm displays an OSRS character wearing the elite void armour. Rendered in a black and gray style, it emphasizes shadows and depth, creating a realistic portrayal with a dramatic feel. The tattoo features detailed shading and textures that enhance the character’s attire and equipment, indicating a skilled technique in realism.
Bronze plate character tattoo
This tattoo on the forearm captures an Old School RuneScape character in bronze armor, underscored by the text “BUYING GF,” a popular in-game joke. The style is bold and colorful, using primary colors like browns and yellow to highlight the character’s armor. The technique involves solid fill and crisp outlines, typical of classic tattoo styles.
Trimmed rune character tattoo
This tattoo combines a pixel art style with bold outlines and flat colors to depict an OSRS character wearing full gold trimmed rune armor and holding a rune gold trimmed kite shield. Above the character, the text “Buying gf” is rendered in a pixelated font, matching the game’s iconic in-chat appearance. The tattoo uses a mix of vibrant blues, yellows, and browns to recreate the armor’s details. The tattoo is based on two extremely well known memes: the buying gf meme and the trimming armour meme.
Mid level character tattoo
This tattoo made on the upper leg represents an Old School RuneScape character in a distinctive geometric style. The character is composed of various polygonal shapes in muted grays, blacks, and hints of orange and red, giving a fragmented, modern appearance. The style uses solid colors and sharp lines to display a mid level character wearing Dharock equipment, the dragon boots, and a fireape as well as an amulet of glory.
Early level character tattoo
This tattoo features a character wearing a steel full helm as well as full steel armour and wielding a scimitar. It uses a dotwork technique to create shading and texture, with bold black outlines defining the figure. The design incorporates geometric details to match the low-polygon aesthetic of the game. The piece avoids excessive detailing, staying true to the simple and iconic in-game graphics.
Magic cape character tattoo
This tattoo shows an OSRS character in a bold line style with a mix of black and brown inks. The character wears a detailed magic skill cape with pronounced line work and shading, giving it a layered, three-dimensional look. A background of brickwork in soft brown tones frames the character, adding depth to the design without overwhelming it. The tattoo uses black outlines for definition, with color shading to create texture in the robe and weapon. Other people also chose to get a Magic skill tattoo, and they are goooood!
