Hi there,Recently I got the question from someone who wanted to cover up an old tattoo.The design was a faded dragon or horse or something like that.Normally I don't design cover-up tattoos, but for this time I agreed on turning it into a maori shoulder tattoo, with some nice fills and curles.First I made a template with an example of the existing design and the space I should cover in total.The customer wanted a circle in the middle and some curly maori ferns around it.Total size of the existing design was 2,5 cm wide and 6 cm high. The cover up had to be somewhere around 14 cm high and 10 cm wide.I print the template on A4 size paper with all the lines in really lightgrey, so the lines are not that visible.The first sketch was just a try-out to see how I had to work around the existing tattoo.It took me around an hour to do this one.I scanned it and mailed it to my customer who wanted a bit more detail and more curves.The second sketch worked out better and the shape was done.After some e-mailcontact on the fills we agreed to keep it simple with some basic lines and full black fills.Next time I will try to explain how to make a tattoo design ready for a tattoo shop, by creating a linedrawing for a stencil.Till then!Regards, Mark
