My Lion Drawing As A Tattoo?

I doubt she's going to pay you much for it. I'd let her use it. Ask her to tell folks whose picture it was done from. And I don't know how, but I would make sure the artist knows this is a one time thing.

i can't tell you a price i just don't know. i did allow one person to use it as a tattoo though. it thought it was neat to have my art on their body forever. however you have to state they can only use it that one time. and if they want it as a permanent design as a choice, then you'll have to figure out a price.

i also asked for a picture when they were done, just because.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Tattoo artists use "Flash Books" which are reference books with designs.

$30 of 88 pages of designs. So the value of your reference image must be less than a $1.


http://www.tattooflashbooks.com/3ntini17.html

Tell her to buy a postcard of it and call it good.

It's nice that she's actually asked you, it's not like you would've ever known if she had. Edward's idea is good, ask her to buy a small print...and then get a picture of it like Mike suggested!

I notice that quite a bit of my art that I've pinned to Pinterest gets re-pinned to to boards with "tattoo" in the title. It doesn't really bother me if someone wants to use my art for a single tattoo but I wouldn't want someone using it over and over to create tattoos on others.

I've designed a few, but once I decided on the one I wanted no tattooist would do it because the lines were too fine and would only result in disappointment - something to watch out for I guess

tattoo artists have to ask like everyone else. i know of a person who had her horse drawing ripped off. she found it on the back of some girl. that girl took that image to the tattoo person and she never verified if its ok or not. i'm not sure what happened after that. but i think she did get lawyers involved.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Had someone contact me from the UK just over a year ago who wanted to let me know they had one of my original poems off one of my prints tattooed on their arm, fortunately one of the shorter ones :) The tattoo artist told them this wasn't the first time he'd inked that poem...who knew lol. I was kind of stunned initially but decided it was a form a advertising seeing as how they even put my name at the end of the poem. Plus the fact it would be next to impossible, no, impossible to police...guess I was more flattered than anything. Just my take on it :)

Thank you all very much for your help. I'll get back to that woman and tell her she can use it and maybe buy something from Fine Art America to support me. And that she mentions me when people ask where she got the lion.