A spider web tattoo can represent struggle, especially if there's something caught in it. Getting a web with a struggling fly can signify struggles or fights you've faced, be it jail time, drug addiction or just the day-to-day fight to survive. A spider on its web approaching prey is a more sinister version of a web tattoo showing the inevitability of death. These tattoos look great on the arms or upper back and can come in different sizes.
The black widow makes a great tattoo because of the lethal implications. Black widows are the most poisonous and probably the most recognizable spiders in the world. A tattoo of a black widow on its web can show your risky or dangerous nature, or appreciation of the beauty of death. Black widows are small, shiny black spiders with red hourglass figures on their posteriors. They make great tattoos on the feet, hands or wrist, especially on a small web.
Spider-Man tattoos would not be complete without a spider web. Getting intricate web designs on your back, arms or legs, especially with a red background shows you're a true fan of the comic book and big screen hero. Spider-Man's signature symbol is a web across the chest with a stylized spider in the middle. Of course, he's wearing an outfit, but getting a spider web tattoo in the style of Spider-Man could be a statement about your heroism.
The spider web itself is an artful, intricate pattern that allows tattoo artists to design and manipulate it to extraordinary levels. Full-back or torso tattoos of spider web shapes and designs are beautiful pieces of art. Web patterns can slowly transform across the tattoo to turn into a building or butterflies or something else you like to show freedom from a struggle or simply how things change.