The old ink is part of the design problem.
A cover-up does not erase the previous tattoo. The new composition has to account for its darkest shapes, edges, scale, position, and the condition of the skin. That often means changing the size, subject, value structure, or placement imagined at first.
Use BEFORE & AFTERs, not promises.
Color transformation includes the earlier tattoo beside the finished piece. William also supplied before-and-after evidence for Celestial ornament and Pyramid & geometry. These examples document different starting points without promising that another tattoo can use the same solution.
View Celestial ornamentBlack-and-gray and color are both represented.
The cover-ups shown here include black-and-gray and color work, ranging from ornamental and geometric work to realism, samurai imagery and illustration. Style alone does not determine suitability: the existing tattoo and the proposed composition have to be considered together.
Black and grey cover-ups: darkness needs structureBegin with accurate photos.
Send a straight-on view, the complete body area, useful side angles, approximate measurements, and references for the new direction. The inquiry begins a review; it does not reserve a design or tattoo session.
Before the raven: reading the tattoo underneath