Butterfly, fine line — tattoo by Sheldon Shaw

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Fine line style tattoo of a bird on the back, done in black & grey. By Sheldon Shaw at Fine Line.

Key facts

• Tattoo by: Sheldon Shaw at Fine Line, Durban, South Africa
• Style: Fine Line 100%
• Shows: Butterfly 45% · Bird 30% · Wings 25%
• Placement: Back
• Colour: Black & Grey
• Pain here: Mild, 2 of 5; healing: moderate (hard to reach yourself)

Details

• Visibility here: easy to cover
• Tags (each opens similar tattoos): Fine Line · Bird · Butterfly · Text & Script · Wings · Back · Black & Grey

How we know

• Photo: provided by the studio; on TatSeek since 2026-09-23, with credit and a link back. The work belongs to the artist. Image rights
• Description and tags: TatSeek Vision Scan, an AI reading of each photo (Claude, by Anthropic) under written rules and a closed tag vocabulary, checked against photos labelled by hand. Shares of the picture are visual estimates, not measurements. Nothing about the person in the photo is recorded. How tagging works (Vision Scan tags)