Official Artwork Status

[Kurkistan he/him]

I am curious as to whether we want to/can use Whelan's artwork for Kaladin and Shallan for their respective Coppermind pages? The fanart we have now is fantastic, of course, but Shallan's painting, at the very least, is somewhat universally hailed, so it'd be nice if we could crop it down and put it on the page.

 

Are there copyright issues, or should I hop to it and start cropping some official Tor artwork?

[Gamma Fiend he/him]

Well I'm not seeing a "No"....

So that has to be a good sign, right?

[Joe ST he/him]

I'm pretty sure we can claim fair use, and that's been the idea so far. So unless someone comes along and says we're not allowed it (in which case we'll happily remove things) we put things up.

[Kurkistan he/him]

Okay then, I'll put up a cropped version of the endpaper for now. I don't think we have a high enough resolution on the cover just yet.

 

EDIT: It looks nice, if I do say so myself.

Edited January 14, 2014 by Kurkistan

[Natans he/him]

I love ExMakina drawing of Shallan, and both Whelan and ExMakina catch very well the essence of the character, but Mr. Whelan drawing are have a epic touch to it that kind describe the "soul" of the character =)

[Chaos he/him]

I've added ExMakina's art back into the Shallan article, just later down the line. No reason why we can't use more images, as images really help make the article look better.

[Kurkistan he/him]

Good idea.

I thought about doing something like that, but my wiki-fu is weak.

[Natans he/him]

Nice solution =)