Exposing the Artist Who Lies About Tracing AI

[@alexandra1504.]

I am that Alexandra on dc, i was a mod for his server for a long time, one more thing saying is that he started denying every AI use in his posts and he would kick everybody in the server who mentions something like this

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

>_> sussy WUSSY

[@zuria8029]

Did u also notice he has kinda like a hate towards his followers? Disrespect in a way and he barely did anything with them he said few words from time to time and that's it

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

@@zuria8029 wait really lol

[@zuria8029]

@@friendlyneighborhoodartist yea he kicked some actually normal people and told me i can kick who ever i want like ??? and he barely even interreacted with his followers

[@alexandra1504.]

@@zuria8029 not really but every time he didnt like someone he asked me to ban them on his server

[@localkate]

I DO draw different ears! Ear shapes can be surprisingly important in character design when your work is super stylized, BUT... you're right. There's always some consistency to it, like filling in where the darkest spots are or the right-side-up Y inside it and, generally, a little blush. There's always consistency. Idk why tracers do such a bad job pretending when 90% of the work was already done for them.

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

I think it's because they haven't learned enough about their own self, their own style to hide AI issues. Even if you do like 3-4 different styles, you have something that belongs to all of them. Tracers man, lol.

[@Alice00001]

I was about to write the same thing. I also draw ears different. I was drawing them the same way for a while but recently I started to draw them differently, same for muscles, since my understanding of abs is still a bit on the weaker side I end up drawing them differently each time, sometimes more square-ish sometimes they are wider sometimes more squeezed in the center. Even shading and rendering is very inconsistent. I guess the only relatively consistent thing for me might be hands? And eyes but that is a hard maybe. Though there are probably some things I don't notice myself that might be similar across all drawings. 🤔 Of course I'm not saying this to defend the artist from the video the use of AI and tracing is very obvious. I don't really understand what kind of enjoyment those people get from just sitting and going over the lines....

[@fruityfroot4413]

There's drawing different ear shapes and then there's completely changing how the ear is fundamentally drawn ... yknow? if that makes sense XD I also change up the shapes to distinguish my characteres, but every ear of one specific OC will always be the same.

[@Alice00001]

@@fruityfroot4413 That's nice attention to detail. I just draw it differenty bc I can't decide which one I like best. It's like that with every body part. That's why I don't really have a style since I go for something different all the time. (´▽｀；)ゞ

[@IcyPastel]

What eludes me is, why do all tracers do such a piss poor job? Not to excuse tracing ofc. I just find it very weird and kinda funny? There's so many that clearly know how to draw but take all these very weird, non-logical, shortcuts as if nobody is gonna notice that stuff is off??? This is next level self-hate in my own, personal, opinion. Imagine, instead of doing this, just being proud of your own and unique artstyle? I recently realized I wasn't having fun because I just hate doing lineart. So, I stopped doing lineart for the past 2 weeks and I'm doing lineless art now. Suddenly my artblock I've been dealing with for literal years is gone and I'm having fun again! Like I can't say what anyone is dealing with, but I hope people like this will eventually grow out of this stuff and learn to love their own art and style. You don't gotta do what's popular, you gotta do what you love and what's fun.

[@kanjonojigoku8644]

Cuz all they care is social media clout lol, they want to be seen as big artists without actually enjoying art that’s why it’s always so vapid

[@M1rFortune]

They still color it in which is already a big talent tho

[@localkate]

I hate lineart too! I just clean the sketch and move on, I find my sketches are more fluid anyway lol. Twinsss.

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

@IcyPastel I think it comes from insecurity. He's about 19, so he started getting attention for his style and when he started using AI it got attention. So, he used it more and more, hoping it could slide by using AI with black and white. I think it also comes from a place of envy.

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

@@kanjonojigoku8644 this comment right here. It's about clout.

[@DijijiyoRony]

im gonna treasure the urban samurai girl background that ive downloaded before the ai craze

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

Lmao, one of the real ones 🤣 💯

[@aspena5980]

Im getting insanely good at spotting ai with all these scammers being called out and artists explaining the problems.Its educational!

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

I'm glad to help out :D!

[@dokjasphone]

I'm really glad you made a video spreading awareness about this AI guy since he's basically scamming others with his commissions and such by not being honest about his work. I remember seeing an instagram reel calling him out and that AI guy started making those "Ref vs Art" reels. Not only that but his instagrm posts are heavily filtered so you can't say words such as "AI" or even ask for just a sketch process (I tried). He used to have his traditional art on his highlights that had quite the skill gap compared to his digital, both were made during the same time period (I have screenshots of the deleted highlights).

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

OO, dangit, lol. When people have info I could have used for my video XD

[@dokjasphone]

@@friendlyneighborhoodartist All good 🫶. Your video itself has a lot of good information, and probably have people wanting to do their own research about this guy now.

[@lenesdey]

Bro thought he was slick 😪

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

He thought lol

[@batgal5471]

200k followers for generic ai slop why do I even bother trying to grow an audience with my actual art 😭 At first it was repost accounts, but now these fake artists can spam the algorithm and suck up all the engagement

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

Well, he bought his followers. Don't be discouraged, lol

[@lenesdey]

Right!! Like real artists can even compete with these cringe no life acc :(

[@froggycolouring]

Right I literally work so hard like multiple days and then I see a stupid ai image made in less than 10secs that looks horrible getting 10x the likes and even comments saying it’s good 😭

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

@@froggycolouring ;_;

[@UnderTheMoon3]

This is me rn

[@JosiesCloset]

His ACTUAL art is good and he could improve on that but instead he makes ai and traces over it and selling it as his own. It’s sad to see this.

[@M1rFortune]

Technically he could sell it as his.

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

It's super annoying

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

He already does :/

[@MaakaSakuranbo]

Often enough you'll see cheaters that aren't bad at what they do or just didn't put in any work. Instead it's someone who put in work and feels like they're owed success from it that they don't see, or at least don't feel like they have. So they convince themselves it's fine to cheat because it just speeds up what would happen anyway in their mind. Something like that.

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

@@MaakaSakuranbo It all is rooted in insecurity.

[@dysolotl]

Good video fr, thank you for putting this out there for the mods etc

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

No problem 👍

[@jamille101]

I’ve always liked the street wear anime girl samurai but ai ruined it. Anyway don’t push yourself too hard while you’re sick. Take it easy and rest when you can. We’lol still be here for your next video

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

@@jamille101 ai totally ruined it, lol. Im trying to take it easy, lol

[@froggycolouring]

Ace attorney intro/music again yay :D I was literally putting on this video as background noise for while I drew ace attorney characters lol

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

XDDDDDD YAY i dunno why i gotta meme it

[@NicmationS_YT]

Feel better great video as usual

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

[@Ben-q6u]

yeah the skill of people recently skyrockets pre ai not many could draw like this

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

@@Ben-q6u they just wanna be quick to get all the clout

[@pspspspspspspspspspspspspspss]

Omg this guy!!! Lmaaaaaoooo, I feel his art takes 2 years of my lifespan every time I see it. It’s just body image issues type beat for both men and women lol. The waist and same face for every girl and muscles were muscle shouldn’t be on boys make me SCREAM

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

His whole account makes me scream lol

[@alexastorm97]

Most say this is my favorite channel now, because as artist I love some art tea, news and investigation. Keep up the good work!

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

Yay thanks!

[@kabii_art]

I came back to the video to check up on how many people it reached, hope this blows up someday. Scammers need to be exposed.

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

@@kabii_art I can only hope enough people. My channel is still small.

[@gvymamdvcnj131309]

I haven’t been super keeping up with AI accounts so urban samurai girls just remind me of like my nightcore phase lolol

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

XDDDDD they all like nightcore lol

[@Karma20XX]

5:19 The biggest tell on the abs is at the very top. The right side is higher than the other. Also, they are too small compared to the rest of the muscles which are bigger. AI has no clue what the serratus or obliques muscles are supposed to be so it puts in random bumps lol

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

in the live chat for the video someone called it 'hawaiian bread abs'

[@HayzTeeArt]

yay new video! time to get some food and watch this :D

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

🎉 have fun lol

[@ex6t566]

To add onto this, as someone who studied how to identify if drawings are AI or not (in order not to get scammed & spread awareness to my other fellow artists & friends), people like him are likely to generate his images in black and white to make it seem more drawn by person; if in colours, the AI will tend to mash up random things and colours in the background as you can tell in his images, it’s still visible. Also, midjourney or niji has a specific style that is easily identifiable as AI-made. I could already tell by the first image that it was fake. Shame on these AI generators who try to scam people. Stay safe guys.

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

You too, but yeah, it's totally Nijijourney lol XDDDD

[@floof7680]

On every man they have cracks on their skin then you zoom in

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

@@floof7680 it's probably to hide things lol

[@floof7680]

@@friendlyneighborhoodartist i think it might be ai’s attempt at veins as I didn’t see it on the women

[@floof7680]

I just got an ad for a cyber security for defenders of ai what the

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

@@floof7680 godang it lol

[@EvanBear]

Called out about the ear thing, mine are ALWAYS an upside down Y. I am sick too currently so I can empathize, I hope you feel better soon!

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

Thanks! I'm trying, lol. Also, mine are always a squiggle lol

[@fruityfroot4413]

an easy trick with nijijourney esp is to zoom. if they upscaled the generated image there will be artefacting with little circles or lines in the colors, and if they didnt upscale it will be crunchy and noisy. You can see the noise on every single one of this guys images. Some people may use the noise as an aesthetic so it doesn't work 100%, but it's usually a good indicator.

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

XD crunchy and noisy!~

[@historicdrake220]

Crumchy helmet 😂

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

XDDD

[@justinneuroth1371]

Although I do have to admit, there are people that are extremely consistently inconsistent with their art styles. I know a few people like that, and I've watched them stream the artwork multiple times and it never really quite looks the same. The only thing that you can notice which indicates its their artwork is their coloring style and that's kind of it.

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

Well, there are things people tend to do over and over -- eyes, ears, hands, fingers, feet, noses. For example, you can tell when something belongs to Loish. It's not just coloring

[@justinneuroth1371]

@@friendlyneighborhoodartist I will hide my hands and feet whenever I can 😭

[@Nogardtist]

the worst kind of community is an echo chamber cause the community is too afraid to be real or lets say critizie a head of the community which makes them incapable of learning or growing unless its the community they want which we all know how it gonna end where it implodes then the target becomes the same person they followed that trap can quickly spiral out of control and thats the reason toxic or drama youtubers usually have no real supporters backing them up then they need the supporters the most anyway if people trace AI or paint over it thats where artist lose identity my imagination is an idea generator it comes like a spark and i imagine total finished drawing like that kinda like having a dream but in a flashback form the hardest part is to pulling it into reality where it morph and changes it almost impossible to recreate vision accurately AI bros just want shortcut but shortcuts always has a price

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

Would you consider me a drama youtuber that has no backing? I don't think I'm toxic, not really?????

[@Nogardtist]

@@friendlyneighborhoodartist technically neither but other people communities have hints of it which can quickly spiral out of control Very common problem in reddit or twitter of all places cause its easy to dehumazine behind a mob I seen it happen to both leafy clones then commentary was a big deal Where they have both trashy creator and audience alike And then art commentary ranting where it grew too big too fast and basically collapsed under its own weight while most creators started backstabbing each other if everyone were playing a TF 2 spy vs spy deathmatch Essentially weaponizing viewers in worse cases cause drama and numbers is addictive game that better be avoided

[@Boxotart]

Really enjoying your content in general, keep it up! I also just wanted to point out that under your PNG's neck where the chin shadow is supposed to be seems to be missing so that you can see through it. Not sure if that's intended or not, but just wanted to give you a heads-up haha

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

I know >.< it's issues with not being able to use a green screen.

[@Boxotart]

@@friendlyneighborhoodartist No worries! Your content is always a good watch in general, and I appreciate the amount of research and effort you put into these. Great background noise for sketch sessions, ahaha

[@localkate]

Also, get better soon! Always sucks being sick xx

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

😊 I hope to be better soon.

[@shadow6380]

Also for this picture as well the position of the girl’s arm would make it so you would see either part of her whole hand on the other side of her head. The angle of the arm is more upwards instead of downwards where it would be hidden by the neck or back. If that makes any sense 😅 5:22

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

Lol it does 😂

[@KatrielRu]

Hope you get well soon 💜

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

Thanks so much

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

sorry for me being super sick, i tried to hide it as best as possible. this dude is crazy frfr lol did you see him before?

[@potatoes_are_fine8679]

Get a life and focus on making your own content instead of trying to police others, the real sickness is your hate for what you don't understand you attention grifting freeloader

[@DoveJS]

Get better soon! Don't push yourself too hard and take your time on that vid about when to disclose. Also, love the girlie with multiple eyes and arms lol not sure if it's the same pic you were working on last time cuz I'm too lazy to confirm.

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

Thanks ​@@DoveJS

[@pancake.squirrel]

This is random but I appreciate you speaking like a normal person!! So many KZbinrs have this annoying always-end-on-a-low-note accent that is hard to listen to and you’re incredibly watchable because you vary your cadence 🙏

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

OH THANKS. everyone kept telling me to talk like a youtuber but i can't even pretend to do it lol

[@pancake.squirrel]

@@friendlyneighborhoodartist those ppl are just objectively wrong LMFAO Idk why people like that cadence, it’s incredibly annoying and the words start washing over your brain like a creek over stones 😭 Tyyy for being a real one!!

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

@@pancake.squirrel i just wanna talk like myself, i have a speech issue and it's hard to fake around the youtuber voice lol

[@pancake.squirrel]

@@friendlyneighborhoodartist yeah man!! Let’s be ppl :D

[@scarletsletter4466]

@@friendlyneighborhoodartistplease don’t change the way you talk. FYI in the corporate world there have actually been studies that show the vocal frye & upspeak that many KZbinrs use results in lower salary. It’s far better (especially for females) to speak in a normal voice, because it projects credibility & gains trust

[@purplefnafpasta]

3:33 yeah, i also suck at drawing hands, but those are not mistakes someone would make if they just suck at drawing hands, that's mistakes that pretty much only AI ever makes (which is why most people always look at the hands first with drawings, since hands are one of the most common areas that AI tends to fumble badly) TBH i wouldn't even know *how in the world* to draw hands like... *THAT* Edit: send the comment too soon before i was done typing, oop

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

exactly, also your progression of your comment lol

[@kowaisou]

0:00 this is why i love your videos

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

@@kowaisou xD I try

[@etamm1343]

7:37 Cooking Guweiz a lil here lmao

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

Lol.. I can't help it 😅 I promise it's not all of them

[@EriksBlue]

Great video!

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

:D!

[@lawrencelopez9839]

so they make some weird painted over ai art collage?

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

They traced the outline of the AI, lowered the opacity and said they drew the whole thing lol

[@UnderTheMoon3]

No way I almost commissioned him but I got too lazy ☠️

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

good for you, right?

[@UnderTheMoon3]

@@friendlyneighborhoodartist fr being lazy saved me XD

[@thisisaninsidejoke6751]

You can tell when AI artists don’t know a thing about the process and work that goes into real human art. If he’s making multiple fully rendered pieces in a day, that just tells me that he doesn’t know a thing about how much time and effort go into real and beautiful pieces of work. AI artists don’t value real artists

[@thisisaninsidejoke6751]

They don’t value the artists their AI generators are taking data from without their consent

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

he used to try to hide it, now he doesn't lol

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

true

[@justinneuroth1371]

TBH, I've traced a fair bit in my life lol but I've never traced The heirs are inconsistencies LOL I would literally change everything...... Just trace the pose to kind of get an idea of what I want to do. (Since I lack that internal thing to picture things stuff in your head)

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

Well, you aren't doing what this dude is lol

[@JJ-ws1mw]

I have seen this person's work before. It's definitely Ai generated. This is not an assumption.

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

@@JJ-ws1mw lol true

[@JJ-ws1mw]

@@friendlyneighborhoodartist I understand ppl who don't do illustrations not noticing Ai generated or paint over art. But ppl who studied for some time should identify what a newbie mistake and a Ai mistake is.

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

@@JJ-ws1mw exactly :(

[@cc_the_rebel]

How much you wanna bet this foo being 19yro is a lie too? Edit: I absolutely love how these bozos who know they get their backs against the wall deflect with the typical "eh idc, believe whatever you want, it just makes it better for me lul uwu" as tho we never heard that used before. Can't even be original with their excuses lmao

[@cc_the_rebel]

Continuation: I found this fool's art acc and yeah no I see too much wrong and whole lot of stupid. First off, that is hella suspicious that much of his "works" are blurry and fuzzy to begin with. He has no consistent clarity. The level of "detailing" is too high for him to post that frequently unless he literally comes up to me and tells me he has no life like a hikikomori and don't sleep. With some of the renderings in this sht you don't even need line art to be there unless you wanna be ZHC so bad, and don't get me started with the realism poking through from underneath the sketch markings where they don't even match.

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

that's how i knew he was sus, he didn't even combat it lol

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

LOL i know, it took me a minute of really looking to catch the AI under the outline.

[@KaranekoArt]

your discord link is broken

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

discord.gg/ktCWTgPC. Thanks

[@marvskii5483]

doamne unde cade lacrima de miliardar

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

@@marvskii5483 🤔

[@marvskii5483]

@@friendlyneighborhoodartist I was told write a quick comm for this vid 🤷‍♂️

[@Isellirus]

People just fear/hate AI too much. If they would just simply say on their arts smth like "I generated this with AI and then I manually modified it" or "I generated with Ai and replicated in my style" they wouldn't get in this trouble. It is like a snowball where more artist will attempt to lie like this and get better at hiding it, and people will progressively hate it more and have worse reaction. All solved if they would just be honest, which yes, some people will hate, but you'd be out of drama. Another option: If they want to pretend they're good at this so badly... how about actually getting good at it? 🤣 I swear nobody would make any drama if you specify you like to generate images with AI and do something on top of that from time to time. Most people will not be doubting when you actually make art by hand since they'd know you are honest about it. Or you have the third options: Fckin' do a better work at faking it xDD, couldn't be so hard lol But that's my opinion, someone who draws from time to time and generate some fancy stuff with AI from time to time. So I don't satanize the tool, but the one who uses it.

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

While I don't agree with the use of AI, I'm not going to be crappy to someone who uses AI knowing: What it does, how it works, doesn't use it for the end process but a portion(like a photobash) or ideas. I know some people generate for a lot of reasons but being honest about it and understanding the harm it does and taking that into consideration shows you might not care about the situation as a whole...but at least you are being open about it.

[@Isellirus]

@@friendlyneighborhoodartist Is not I'm not caring about it. It is simply that you and I, none of us can stop it, nor should; such technology could bring a brilliant future (and not talking about art in any way with this, obviously), unless you see it with pesimism, which I won't recommend doing. What we can actually do, is to point at those who uses what the technology is barely capable of offering today for bad purposes. Such as this individual, or the one you exposed in the video who brought me to you. This technology is as wrong or as positive as you want it to be. If you see it with optimisim as I do, you might notice the potential it has, and for the time being where it does funny stuff like images, videos and music, low quality? yes, but it can be lots of fun if you dare to check at it. But here's my point: Being positive about AI does not mean you will ignore that it is used for wrongdoing, you don't need to support scammers to earn a place on feeling curious about it. After all, I can tell you most scammers (not talking about art again) does their sh*t on messaging apps such as Telegram, WhatsApp or Facebook. That people will always find the way to f*ck it up, and not because of that we should be satanizing whatever they try to exploit, like those messaging apps. What you do is pretty positive, and I love that. You warn people about those scammers and expose their tricks so they won't be tricked on this sh*t in the future. That's why I liked you. But trying to fight the AI as a whole... doesn't make much sense to me. And it isn't that I liked it the first time I saw all of this, I just researched more about it, tried it, and I actually find it was simply not the demon. Do I explain myself?

[@herojenni]

People definitely care even if you're honest about it, example PetraVoice. Interesting art that she publicly disclosed was ai generated, and it has now been absolutely dumpstered and there are people who have claimed fame by copying the ai art that she generates. Not to defend her or anything because I don't know Petra's motives, but I don't think it makes you a talented or creative artist to get popular from copying ai art either. Any online presence you have will presumably be run to the ground if anyone finds out you use ai, unfortunately.

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

@@Isellirus I'm not fighting AI as a whole but I focus on educating about the situations, updates and the negative parts of AI that I believe artists should know things. I've educated myself and I don't think showing something that is currently a gigantic plagiarizing technology is going to help anyone. It hurts more than it helps in my opinion. I do have some neutral takes for AI, but for the most part, if you are supplementing your process and learning or exchanging your creativity? You've taken the short road. Most people are using it in that way, they use it as an End Product, which it should never be part of. And, if you feel you can be subbed to me because I'm not positive about AI -- knowing what I know about it and having my opinions until there is severe regulations on this tech? That's totally understand, I saw you followed me on IG too, if you wanna continue there we can.

[@Isellirus]

​@@friendlyneighborhoodartist Thing is, when I say that AI can be significantly good for us, I'm not referring to art. Because of course we do not need an AI on something that is so human. Instead, I understand that art is the way in which the whole thing is starting to develop, but it will take time to get to the real important areas where we could benefit from it. Of course AI in art is worth anything but laughs, but as I understand, it was necessary to start somewhere. For me, I personaly do not use AI for inspiration, nor I use any AI on my drawings, I ain't no artist at all, nor have the intention to be illustrator, I just doodle from time to time, but usually to lazy to do something xD. Some days I just feel very creative, but very lazy and I create some stuff with Ai, stuff I later then edit and show to my friends, but I don't have any plans on creating any place to show that off, maybe another time. For me, AI in art is kinda pointless, it just feels like a joke, but I can see the potential for that tool. How to use that tool? IDK, I don't need it, but definitively would not be scaming. For example, If I were to make a project and I'd need to setup some quick conceptual art to show it to artists and illustrate them on my vision of what to do, or how should it look, I would for sure. And about plagiarism... I won't like to extend on this, cuz it's complex. But knowing how the engineering behind it works, it technically is not plagiarism, but replication. Since AI ain't a pixel copy-pasting tool, but something that is capable of creating from zero by using different references. The process is, at the end, the exact same we humans do, thing is there is a millionaire company behind it, but that doesn't make the previous untrue. But there is something that makes art, art: Humans, Ai is good at it, but is limited, and will always be. The only way a robot could be a real artsit would need to have consciousness and feelings, and that's something that's prob not ever going to be created. Yes, it is impressive for people that doesn't have art skills, but AI has NOTHING to do with a real artist. So the artist's preocupations on Ai, to me, are ridiculous; is like they're saying their talent is inferior to an AI, which will never be the case, no matter how good it gets at it. These are my thoughs, I tried to summarize them, but I'm bad at writing shrot text :P. And sure, I don't have any problem talkin' there.

[@NeemuKucing]

Lol 😂

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

*bow*

[@DarkStoorM_]

I think some artists misunderstood what everyone meant by "incorporating AI into your workflow". This was meant to be the initial process of replacing stock image research for base reference with 100% control over the composition, not generating an image and partially editing it or regenerating their sketch (lineart-to-image). They see the potential time save by using AI to generate bigger parts of the image or even the entirety, but for a massive cost of lower quality. I don't see any point in tracing a generated image just to eliminate the AI completely from the image, they still have to correct the traced nonsense, so in the end, they don't save that much time. Any use of AI always requires further corrections, whether you like it or not, so the argument of "artists can speed up the painting process with ControlNet" is just bullshit. It's just skill and quality degradation, they don't need AI in the painting process, and to be honest, I'd still prefer paying and waiting *way longer* for an actual high quality, manually drawn art piece with that artist's style, even if I know I'm capable of just doing all this myself with AI in any style, but in commercial products I'd prefer having assets that make actual sense. I'm an AI junkie, so I know what I'm saying 🤓

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

I'm glad you commented. I've seen only one guy actually do what you are suggesting here. And you are right, having the AI do everything with you with ControlNet is just a cope, trying to force people to do what? Finish Art they wanted to finish on their own? LOL.

[@scarletsletter4466]

Let’s be honest: at least half the artist who post regularly on social media are using AI to some extent. Because before 2023, there were only a handful of artists who paint covers like Alex Ross & J Scott Campbell, render comic pinups like Artgerm or design charming characters like Loish. Now there are thousands of “artists” posting work on that level. I’m not saying that a lot of them aren’t skilled, but they’re also doing paint-overs & speeding up their processes with AI

[@scarletsletter4466]

Another tell is the speed. Even if an artist is painting fulltime for social media, they probably cant finish multiple fully rendered artworks each day. Someone like Noah Bradley who’s painting landscapes is the exception but even he isn’t posting multiple fully completed & polished works per day

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

i mean i dont use ai in my work reeee

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

@@scarletsletter4466 oh yeah ppl posting multiples per day is sus af

[@_Justaperson__]

This is genuinely so disappointing, I loved his art and his art was an inspiration for me🧍

[@friendlyneighborhoodartist]

Well, all he has to do is post up that video.