Can a felon posses a tattoo license?

Answer 1

Yes. There are no special restrictions of legalities that would keep you from getting a license to do tattoos professionally. Do keep in mind that this does not necessarily mean that you will get a job in a shop easily due to the fact that there is a pretty big stigma attached to people who learned how to tattoo in prison, if that is in fact where you learned how to tattoo, but at the same time a good deal of artists who work in the business did learn at least the VERY rough basics of doing tattoos while incarcerated and more artists than you would think have served time of their own, so you will not always run into the problems of snooty "artists" who will cast judgement on you, but it is worth noting. You will have a much easier time breaking down this wall further if you have a solid portfolio of tattoos that you have done as well as artwork that you have created to show your potential employer your abilities. Your work will speak for itself.