If the patreon advertisement warrants a mature rating that is fair enough, though it would consequently mean that every single one of Sciamanos pictures would have to get a mature rating.



But I don't see the problem with selling fanart. That practice has been going on for a looong time (Nativity scenes or other scenes from the bible for example are basically fanart as well). I see nothing wrong with drawing existing content in your style/interpretation and earn money of that. It goes wrong when we end up tracing, but that is clearly not what we have here.

Sure, the copyright remains with Blizzard and they can block any piece that they don't want from being sold, but there hasn't been a push about that from Blizzard yet.



Is it wonderful if artists create their own original content? Yes. Yes it absolutely is. This doesn't lead to the conclusion however that non-original content is bad or even just worse.