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?