How much control does he have over the Words of Radiance cover?
Some, by dint of being fairly well-known in the industry, but he’s really fond of Whelan’s work and more likely to pick a direction from concept sketches than push Whelan somewhere entirely new.
(I asked if he could, for instance, hold firm for epicanthic folds on Rosharan characters; he said probably yes, but most of Whelan’s cover work has been figures in the distance for now so that isn’t likely to be an issue. I didn’t feel comfortable asking the same question over again re: skin color.)
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