On May 18, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Andrew Gray wrote:
In some circumstances ([[F-19]]!) an "artists
impression" might
be OR,
but in general terms sketching something is no more OR than touching
up a photo of it.
...or than writing about it!
I would like to draw a line at artist's impressions that are clearly
fictional, though. Such as drawings or paintings of people that died
centuries before the artist's birth -- they are either fictional or
based on another representation (and in that case we should include
the other representation instead).
Hmm, yes. Anything which is a composite of several existing images, or
"drawn from life", is probably fine.
This proposal excites me!
Seriously, we need a WikiProject to do sketches of, say, notable
people who don't have free-content photos of them taken, so we can
replace a lot of fair use cruft. If I was any good with a pencil I'd
do it myself.
Any artists?
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Philip L. Welch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Philwelch