@poxphobia 142434 wrote:

Oh wow. Both you and your artist made some pretty big mistakes with this one..
1) Your chosen design and images do NOT work well for tattoos. Especially such a small one.
2) Your artist should have said no to doing this tattoo in the first place. See reason 1. I can understand why he’s not posting any images.

Digital art rarely transform nicely into tattoos, because the mediums are so extremely different. You don’t just chose a brush stroke and a saturation with a tattoo, it needs to adapt to your skin, your body, the way tattoos heal etc. The blue/pink smoke might sort of work kind of with an amazing artist, on very light skin. Yours? Not so much. Never gonna be that contrasted on your skin, as in the picture. The dragon needs way more definition and depth, no such thing as bright white on skin as yours either, meaning the basics that makes the image look cool, disappear instantly on skin.

My only suggestion is really to laser it off, go find a more talented artist, but also someone who’s gonna be honest with you when your ideas suck.

Thanks for your advice. I have no idea about what is possible or not on the skin. My ideas on changing it: Cover the smoke up with paint splatter, cover the skyline up to be really structured, clean and jet black (would jet black over this brush stroke thing he did?) and touch up the dragon maybe with some black and navy blue? Or you think it is not salvageable? Would laser even remove this? He went really deep and the skyline was reworked so it has many layers of ink 🙁 FML.