Does the avatar need to be original or can people find pictures online?
Can't violate copyright.
That really only matters if he was planning on using it for his logo, or something business related like that...

I've been stalking this thread for awhile, not for myself, but a friend who is a pipe smoker... although I've seen quite a few that I wouldn't mind owning myself!!
I was feeling a little silly the other night, and came up with this:
Larger version:
(with my apologies to South Park, and the person I 'borrowed' the image of the pipe from... lol)





