This proposal, in essence, seeks to make each piece posted by an artist its own unique page, similar to the articles, rather than having all of an artist's art cobbled up in one giant art page.
Instead of giving each artist one singular page where they just unceremoniously dump new art into, artists would now post their new pieces individually to the wiki (or in small galleries of assorted, similarly themed pieces), as a new category of pages. These pages will be subject to the same quality control measures as articles, (the rating module, deletion thresholds, criticism, plagarism deletions,) and would also enjoy all the benefits that having individual pages could provide (tags, newest posted articles modules, visibility on the Top Rated Pages lists).
Since now artwork is treated similarly to articles, artist pages will also have to be changed to an author page equivalent, requiring a certain amount of successful art posted to the wiki before being able to create such a page. Art posted to the wiki would not count for the author page requirements, and vice-versa for the art pages and articles.
(Also, for readability's sake - from hereon out the individual pages will be referred to as 'art pages', and the author page equivalents as 'artist galleries'.)
However, due to many artists with artist galleries not being active on the wiki anymore, artist galleries that existed prior to this proposal's passing will be Grandfather Clause'd (meaning they do not have to change how they work and could remain the same). Artists that are still active in the community will be encouraged to move their existing artwork to new pages, and if the amount of artists who plan to do so turns out to be quite substantial, a week of grace-posting will be given for old artists to move their artwork to new pages. The grace-posting week's goal is to avoid having said avalanche of old-new pieces drown out any new artist who may be stepping their first foot into the wiki. Similarly, outside of the aforementioned week of grace-posting there will be a posting limit of three art pages a day, as a preemptive counter measure in the case any new artists start pumping out art at record speed and drown out the rest of the posting artists.
Doodles, WIPs, and other such art could be directly posted to the artist's gallery rather than as an individual page.