A good artist spends the first ten minutes of a consultation talking you out of half your idea. You're paying for that part too. The tattoo is just the receipt.
Why elbows, knees and hands need touch-ups: the skin there moves and rubs constantly, so ink settles unevenly. Nobody did a bad job. That's just geography.
@dedizzle702 a full arm of one character, done in sessions, with a deadline set by a flight to japan. that is a proper brief. the artist gets to plan the whole thing instead of guessing what comes next. what goes on the last session?
@_Lembz the bit nobody films is the artist holding a position their own back will complain about for the next three days. clients get a sore arm, the artist gets a sore everything. what was the placement here?