The short story...
I don't know artist-etiquette, and I tried asking other professional artists about this. And they all mostly gave grey-area answers about you not being wrong paying inkers to make changes to original art if you wanted it. But then they would also say that it's not something they would enthusiastically do themselves. So, it took me awhile to even get the confidence to ask inkers if they were willing to try and "fix" one of my original art pieces (let alone me trying to find someone talented enough to do the specific change I had in mind). And after a year of looking, I found a guy who did a great job. But now I'm not sure if by doing this if I've ruffled any feathers the wrong way... Does anyone here have an opinion on if making changes to original art with inks is considered wrong or, "in bad taste?"
The long story...
So, I commissioned Lady Death's current interior artist, Diego Bernard, to do an homage piece to J Scott Campbell's Sleeping Beauty with some specific instructions to "fix" what I think Scott had done wrong in his original art (he drew her leg sticking out through a hole in the sheets because he also drew them pulling up into her butt and not folded around it like a leg poking out would). But in any case - Diego was all good with my idea of making sure Lady Death wouldn't have that problem, and he drew the homage piece the way I wanted
-HOWEVER-
He created a new mistake (again, in my eyes) that bothered the living crap out of me. He forgot to draw her right arm. And my eyes could never be satisfied with the idea of, "it's just hidden," because of how close he drew her to the coffin wall (a coffin that I didn't know he was gonna draw when we originally discussed layouts). To me, her arm just can possibly (comfortably) be under her hair, or down her side under the sheet, or anywhere else where it could possible be living out of site. So, I came up with four possible arm position ideas and looked for an inker who would be willing to ink in an entire arm into place based on those ideas. The guy I eventually found did a fantastic job. But now I'm worried I might have offended Diego, or Diego followers, or Lady Death fans, or art fans in general who might think that by changing the original pencils that I'm being super disrespectful to art in general. I was (and kinda still am) so worried that I did make sure to ask for the inks to be done digitally so I could preserve the original pencils as they are. But even then, are the inks themselves just blasphemous in some way?