Need your help locating a snake tattoo design...

[Inknsteel]

All good advice so far... So you have had a tattoo "artist" take a drawing you did and brought from home and slapped it straight on your body with no alterations. No offense, but I would hesitate to call someone who does that an "artist" of any kind. As Family Jewels said, they're not called tattoo "tracers" for a reason. Someone who will take just anything that anyone draws and will slap it on their body for the right amount of money doesn't care about the quality of the tattoo, they only care about the money you're paying them to do it. Someone who really cares about the quality of tattoos that they do will openly offer suggestions as to how they can improve the drawing. The ones who REALLY care, especially about their name and reputation, will often refuse to do a piece you bring in off the street without changing it up. A good tattoo artist knows that his or her best form of advertising is word-of-mouth, and will come from people asking someone where they got that KILLER tattoo. They wouldn't put that reputation on the line by inking something that isn't well drawn, or by inking something that could be blatantly stolen from another artist.

EDIT: Here is another post I've made on the same subject... I do know tattoos and MANY tattoo artists, so I hope this advice helps...

You'll have a lot better luck searching for an artist in your area who does the style of work that you like. Once you pick the artist for the job, they will generally include drawing and designing the tattoo in the price of the piece. Then you can talk to the artist who will be doing the work and either work out a time to bring the animal in for him to draw from, or find a pic of the animal to take for reference. No matter who you find on the internet who is willing to draw something up for you, any tattoo artist worth his salt will end up redrawing the whole piece to fit the flow of your body and to make the design appropriate for tattooing. Not every picture or design works as a tattoo and nobody would know better than a tattoo artist what works and what doesn't...