My artist added something i didn’t ask

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Monday August 10th, 2009 @ 4:59 PM

Filed under: Tattoos

Hi there ,

i hope you can give me some advice .

I’m having a Japanese style dragon done and still have 2 more sessions to go .

The artist previously did all the outlines and shading including the waves of water that are in the tattoo .

Today he finished the second session of filling in the scales of the dragon .

Up until now i was very happy with his work and the tattoo looked perfect .

But today he did something that i really cannot understand why he did it .

I have a wave that covers a part of the dragon which he partially coloured in with scales .

The wave was already shaded in and was perfect .

So why he decided to fill in the wave and not ask me before he did it really upsets me .

I couldn’t see what he was doing at the time because it’s on the back of my shoulder .

And i didn’t wanted to ask him about it afterwards until i knew what the best way was to handle this .

This is my first tattoo and although i thought i did plenty of research before getting it , i’m now finding out that some people sign a contract before getting started .

I’ve talked to at least a dozen of his clients and they also didn’t had to sign anything .

The artist is very well known here , has a very good reputation and has won almost a dozen of prizes for his work .

Although it’s a big tattoo , 3/4 sleeve that goes over my shoulder and chest , and the area he filled in isn’t that big , i just don’t understand why he did it without asking me because the wave was finished and i didn’t expect he was going to do that.

So if you could help me out and give me some advice on how to try and work this out it would be helpful and very appreciated .

Thx alot

Steve

Are you certain that the scales in the wave isn’t supposed to have the look that the water is washing over the dragon? Water is clear, afterall and you would therefore see scales through it…

If you’re not happy with the result of the tattoo - tell your tattooer! Who better to explain the reasoning behind the choice in artwork execution than the artist himself!

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