Okies, heres the deal. My tat artist and I have been working with my design for a while, months actually. I supplied him with tons of pictures, he did a trace of the tat I already have that the new one is going to wrap around...and we still can't quite get it together. I *know* I am being nit picky about the design, but dammit its going to be on me forever and I want it to be perfect.

Problem is I think the artist has tweaked the design too far away from my original image, which is artwork of my favorite artist. And I love that artists style so much, I really don't want it changed that drastically (but I understand why the tat artist needs to do his own thing to it, its like asking me to dance to someone elses choreography) Now I have spoken with my fav artist (same artist that did the original image) and they are wiling to do a commission for me, an idea that really excites me.

But, would this be rude to do? I don't want to offend my tattoo artist by going off and having the design finished by someone else, but I don't want to continue to ask them to tweak a design that just isn't going where I want it to.

In hindsight, I would have asked for the comission from the get go, but I wasn't aware that the artist would be willing to do this. I still want the tat artist I picked to do the tattooing (and this second artist is *not* a tattoo artist, just to clarify), but would this be a tattoo world faux paus? I feel really bad, because I know how it feels to create something for someone that they're less than thrilled with.

I guess worst case scenrio is he gets mad and I have to find another tattoo artist, but I don't want to peeve him off and sit under his gun, lol. Whadya guys think?