I know white is a tricky color. I’ve heard of some artists actually using a blue shade instead.

Can you post a pic so we can see?

Agreed.

He was right about the white though. White tends to just “disappear” into the skin. I try to avoid it in my own tats except for highlights.

Hey guys, this is my first reply/question on here. I have similar beef with my new tattoo. I am in the process of getting a wing set 3/4 of the way down my back. The left wing is a “demonic” wing, kind of bat-like. And the right side is an “angelic” wing. This tat represents the struggle between Good & Evil inside me.

Here’s where it gets tricky…

I made an appt for Thursday because he had NO appts the whole day! The deal was for me to come to the shop around 3 and do sketching and concepts, then by 5 when my wife came with the money he would start. Well long story short I began my tattoo at 11:35pm after sitting the from 3:00 watching girls walk in and out and get sat right down and drawn on and take 2 hours to finally decide on what they even wanted and where at! And not to mention I was “put off” and “forgotten about” each time – no more artwork or questions, and he even put his computer on “LOCK” to where the apprentice (who I like very well I might add) and I could no longer use it to find art online. He was then just focusing on the T&A that would come strolling in every hour or two.

Well, by this time I had enjoyed so much free time that I had a completed sketch of what I wanted and more importantly I had the details of how I wanted feathers to be shaped, spikes to be placed, my vertabrae “tips” to be exposed, etc, etc, etc….(yea I know I shouldn’t of had that much time but I can live with wasted time, but not a “bad” tattoo!)

Next, at around 8:45p he randomly asks me to stand while he draws an outline freehanded on me. As i’m standing I begin to wonder how he knows what to draw because I have the sketch in my pants pocket and he hasn’t looked at it yet or had me decide on an exact image yet….hmmm…so I wait until he finally fishes and “wha-lll-aaAAAA!!!!” ….it’s hideous… Yea it was EXACTLY what I “didn’t” have in mind. The feathers were flared out and fluffy looking, not matted like I wanted, it had NO crescent moon shape like I asked, and he had that stupid bone/top piece that for lack of better words: looks odd and out of place and isn’t feather or bone or even gold armor or whatever!! It’s just “there”… I wanted a streamlined wingshape with small deviations only to detail the cascading feathers on the outline. And a lot of other things that now can’t be done, like ripped looking “holes” “in my demonic wing.

As for drawing here’s what happened:

He had the 1st and worst drawn on me, and I nicely told him it wasn’t what I wanted and I didn’t know was drawing the entire outline on me at first. He got a lil irritated and tried telling me that the right wing I drew was a “bird” wing and not an “angel” wing. I started telling him how I wanted it to look and then it happens…My retarded wife get the idea to look at me and him and say, “Dammit Chris you are being the asshole that nobody can please! Just let him do it and stop wasting his time.” YEA, I very well could have slapped her right there where she stood in the parlor. Who is she or him to have anything to say about wastime time? I’m the one who had tp pitch my tent in the shop for 7 hours while did what he wanted ALL DAY LONG to every bimbo (no offense bc normally I like bimbos!! LOL) that randomly showed up. So yea by this point I am slightly upset, but coping….

To make matters worse, when I get done listening to my wife’s fanatic’s I notice that the artist has disappeared and went outside to talk to his friends about BS because I coulsd mostly hear them through the screen door where they were smoking… “Call of Duty this” and “Battlefield 3 that” etc… He comes back to me a half an hour later and decides he has a migraine and wants hurry up! WTF? I didn’t get here at 3 and pay $200 + $35 tip to have a half-a** job.

He reluctantly drew another outline on my back and got it closer to what I wanted, but said that you couldn’t make the feathers like I showed him on my sketch. He also told me he would have to freehand the backbone part. He started the tattoo and OMG it hurt on my sides and ribcage. It’s large and I sat through the whole outline and partial shading and had to stop around 1 am. When I looked at it I hated it but in too much shock to say much other than “ok”.

He has done about half of it, got several things wrong, it sloppy and plain, has no color or places for color except the middle for the exposed skin, did it bigger and farther down than his original proposal, and didn’t listen to a **** word I said about what “I” wanted, only gave me shit about it. He tattooed stars on my wifes side the next night and we had a sketch of the exact layout and style we wanted. She even wanted it exactly bc “I” drew it. Did it turn out like that? No, he rearranged the stars, (he said that layout had wouldn’t work bc it would be on her hipbone, then goes and puts his design on her hipbone any-F’ing-way! Hell, that was the ONLY reason we “couldn’t use the layout in the first place!)

I get the feeling that he was intimidated of MY artwork and ill towards me as a form of insult that I used all the time he gave me to “out do” him or something.. Call me crazy but…oh yea they do call me that!

So my question is:

How do I approach him about it?

Do I ask him to fix it? —->I’m VERY worried that “he” is not capable of “fixing it”, if it even can be =^(

Should ask for a refund? Partial refund? —> he is only 1/2 done and still owes me for work/money and I don’t WANT his “work”.

What are my rights?

I will also try to get some pics posted so you guys can bear witness as well as hear my testamony. Any advice will be appreciated as I am NOT looking forward to getting any more ink put on me by this barbarian.

Let’s say you order a hamburger at a restaurant. The waiter was slow and the food was cold and tasted terrible. However, rather than send it back, you wolf down the whole thing. You can’t use a service entirely and then complain it’s bad. You had many chances to say, “I’ll take my business elsewhere.” You knew he was not a particularly good artist. However, you still chose to use him, and allowed him to tattoo a design you approved. Too late.

$200 is VERY cheap for such a large tattoo – I have a 6″x8″ tattoo, and it was $200. Warning bells should have gone off.

You have the right to be an intelligent, careful consumer. If it were me, I would (politely) ask about getting a partial refund, but be aware he doesn’t owe you squat. Anything he does like that is simply good business practice.