I started a couple of threads about it way back when 13 years ago. Unfortunately the picture links are broke. The thing about tattoos, though, is still there:
Story? I wanted to A) face my fear of needles, B) commemorate our trips to and love of Maui, and C) mark how I’m enamored with sharks. I’ve had a number of encounters with sharks there while scuba diving. At a gallery in Lahaina I saw a sumi-e style drawing of a great white, which i tried to adapt into a tattoo. I brought a sketch to a tattoo shop down the street on our last day, but the artist showed me how it needed work.
So I took out home and worked on it, following his advice - dynamic line thickness variation instead of even lines. I simplified the gills and changed the nose and face to the sleeker blue shark.
I brought it back to the same shop on our next trip. Wish I coulda gotten the same artist, but the guy I got did a fine job.