Octopus as scientists believe began evolving 400 million years ago. The strange fact of octopus is that the female octopus dies after giving birth to its babies. Thus the young octopus learns to survive alone. The adult octopus is very aggressive. Octopuses have been used as designs on pottery thousands of years ago thus suggesting that octopus have intrigued humans since ages. Many myths too surround the octopus. The other characteristic behaviour of the octopus is its aggressive nature and its ability to reach into tight spots. It can change its colour and camouflage itself. Have no definite shape or form and far reaching arms. Octopus when attacked can shed one of its limbs to distract its attacker and then regenerate it.

Tattoo designers who seek new and meaningful designs intrigued by the behaviour of octopus have been very eager to use it for their designs. Octopus Tattoos have a special significance to the ones sporting them and most tattoo designers are making use of octopus tattoo for selling and sporting their flourishing artistic skills. The tentacles so striking and the most important stroke in Octopus Tattoos they often give a negative signal to the viewer.

The signal of aggression, of reaching out to strike, of gathering its prey of feeding gives out negative signs to the viewer. The octopus design is basically a symbol of the monster in every human. It is a symbol of regeneration. The ability to survive against all odds as the octopus does in nature being left alone as soon as they are born in an overwhelming and hostile environment and the skill it employs to fight off otherwise aggressive and larger predators is the feeling that the Octopus Tattoo accords the one sporting it.

Various tattoo artists have of late used the characteristics of the various elements as pieced together by researchers and human mythology to achieve new designs and creation for their permanent and temporary ink art that uses the human body as a canvass. The use of octopus design in tattoo has become an art form in itself wherein various artists express the significant character of the octopus in various ways and elements so as to make the sporter of the tattoo have a bonding to the design.

The shape of the octopus also makes it an interesting design element in the tattoo art world. A jumbo sized brain in the huge head, three hearts and eight legs make this creation of nature a great design element for the tattoo artist. These artists have found various ways of using these characteristics to showcase symbolic suggestive meanings and signs. Some octopus tattoo design has the head inked representing the globe. The three hearts as cupid representing greater love, the eight arms as overpowering overreaching spreading to large areas a form that makes the viewer gape in awe as the legs flex and turn as the skin moves giving this design a life of its own.

The large jumbo brain signifies the knowledge and ability to survive by the intelligence in this hostile world thus making the person sporting this design a perfect match for anyone seeking strength and ability to live a life of love.