behndy wrote:sooooooo..... question. i have a few tats, love them all except the first thing i got. this huge messy fucker down my back. i like the top part that goes across the shoulders (the circuits, arrows and zeros), but the vertical part? ugh. garbage. and that's after my normal tatty grrL tried to fix it by adding on to the shit job that was originally done.
i'd love to get it covered up, and i have some ideas (mostly trees made out of metal type things), but is that cover'up'able? i found a few local artists i like their style (my normal grrL said she's not great at coverups), going to hit them up. but is it too messy/big to fix? that's a slightly old pic, there's some color in the middle of each empty piece. bluish green?
lol. fucking. ugh. fucking PERSON that did it. was my first tat, she didn't tell me that it was a pretty crap design, i TOLD her i was not an artist, this is just sort of what i want, she did NOTHING to improve it, or tell me that it was going to look like..... well. crap. and found out i was like the last job she took at the studio she worked at before she fucked off out of state and left tatooing.
not cool. HELP PEOPLE THAT ARE GETTING THEIR FIRST TATTOO.
i kinda hate being without a shirt every time i remember that's there.
Answer is NO, you will NOT be able to cover that up. There's zero chance dude with how big and black it is. Could it be reworked into a different tattoo? Probably but only by a extremely talented artist. I wouldn't let just anyone touch that. I've had a large rework, my right arm and I can tell you that almost anyone else would have fucked that shit up except my dude who has been tattooing for 25 years.
At this point too you'd be costing a fucking fortune for tattoo removal. Probably 10 k before you're done or close to getting it down to something that you can cover up.
Big and black are the two hardest things to cover. So, you are going to be extremely limited. Now what I could see is a massive bio mech back piece. It's got a good foundation for that. Not sure if you're into bio mech stuff but there are some fantastic guys out your way that do it. Research that shit and ask around.
If you had more time in London, fuck man, there are some boss ass dudes there as well.
Don't let your regular artist do this either even if you can convince her. If she's not confident, that would turn into a bigger nightmare.
I have a very large piece on my back that needs reworking as well and it's going to be a challenge, but I'm not nervous since my dude again has done a 55 hour sleeve on me and it's amazing.
Do your homework and you'll be fine. It's salvageable.