This client came to me with some really serious scarring, and asked me if there was anything I could to about it. The scars were very big and very textured, so I wasn’t 100% sure that I would be able to do something that would effectively make them feel like they weren’t there any more. I explained that you would always be able to make out the texture, but if we did something very big and bold we could make his whole front be so distracting that people might not even notice the tattoos. One reference he brought in was of a big dragons head, so I thought that would be perfect to distract from the scarring. I deliberately put the main features of the dragon, such as the eyes and face below the scarring, on smooth skin, and used the body and claws to cover the actual scarring. We did the tattoo in short bursts of 3 hours, and ran over the scarred areas lightly, more than once. I really loved doing this tattoo as it felt like I was really helping someone fix a problem that they must have felt pretty much stuck with for life, and because he was so committed and brave all the way through the process