Ask for your kids dressed as superheroes, your favorite team or a cartoon you love, and we'll still make your card. We keep your idea and draw it our way, without the parts that belong to someone else.
Your people in costumes inspired by anyone: the two of you in red and green caps and overalls, your son in a blue suit and red cape with his initial on a star, your daughter in an ice-blue gown making snowflakes. A character you ask for by name becomes an original of our own, doing what you asked: two brothers leaping over a grumpy beetle, a team in red shirts with white sleeves taking a selfie. Old paintings and fairy tales are fine as they are.
When you name a character, team, brand or famous person, we leave out the character drawn as itself, its name, its logo or emblem (a team crest, a symbol on a chest), things from its world (a video game's pipes and blocks, a theme park's castle) and real famous people's faces.
We print and send every card ourselves, so we are the ones selling it, and characters, logos and famous faces belong to the companies and people who own them. Printing them would need their permission. It says nothing about your idea: a card inspired by something they love is often the most personal one.
We don't draw anyone being hit, kicked or hurt, even in fun: karate, boxing and play fights come out as moves and poses. Pictures that look violent or too revealing, and hateful symbols or gestures, are left out too. If a picture still comes out that way, we don't keep it, and it doesn't use up an image.
We keep your idea and leave out the parts that belong to someone else, so the picture is our own version. If our drawing still adds someone's logo, we swap it for one of our own before you see it. If it comes out looking like the character itself, we don't keep it, and it usually doesn't use up an image. A printed card that still looks like one isn't printed, and we refund you in full.
Describe the look instead of the name: the colors, the outfit, the place and what's happening. "My son in a red cape with his initial on a star, flying over our street" works better than naming a superhero.
You can try, but the picture model we use won't draw from some photos of character costumes. If it turns one down, that costs nothing: describe the costume in words instead.
Yes, when the artist died long ago: Hokusai's Great Wave, Van Gogh's Starry Night, Munch's Scream and many more. Art that is still under copyright isn't.