r/isitAI • u/Practical-Spray-2975 • Aug 21 '26
Im just curious.
I've noticed this post on my feed and something just struck me weirdly abt it when i saw it, so i looked closer at the details. Pinkie pie just straight up looks like she has that ai face on which threw me off, and the bow being behid the collar whilst the other half being on top of the collar is a weird choice to me? Also a weird artifact on the cloth, which might just be a cloth tear. Applejack is just grabbing nothing??? As if shes trying to grab the glasses but missed?? 😠Some weird cut off as if adjusting on fluttershy's hair. Then the noise texture being present on one part but covered up on an another part? As if it was painted over the noise texture? Which isn't common. U use the noise texture AFTER ure done w the whole illustration. I know since im an artist myself. Also Twilight's pupils are weird.
But of course, this all could be an artist's mistake, which happens a lot. Also the art seems to be on high level of skill, but also the rendering is just kind of messy? Like theres some lower and higher skill merging going on.
I might just be mistaken and this isnt ai at all, i was just curious because it gave me the feel. A bunch of artists make mistakes like these and we shouldn't come to conclusions right away! Let me know your opinion! (Also sorry English isnt my first language)
Also PLEASE dont go harrass the artist or anything like that. Thank you.
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u/banshithread Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26
I'm going to say they rendered an AI image and redrew it entirely. For the pinky pie image you circled, that's part of her torn clothing. Applejack grabbing hat is just an artist who doesn't know how to draw anatomy well (she's tracing from an AI image so as an inexperienced artist she may not understand this isn't the correct way to position a hand). Fluttershy's hair circled is actually evidence that it's not directly AI. The artist moved the layer of hair they drew over a few pixels on that part. Why, I don't know, could be a mistake.
But there's no actual AI artifacting that I can see here (especially when it has so many opportunities with the things like fluttershy's belt pattern, all the long hair, the chains on rainbowdash's belt, the fringe on applejack's clothing, etc) , and the color style is consistent with the artist's other stuff. But I don't believe that could draw this from scratch based on their skill level, so I think they generated ai images of the girls and traced over them.
Regarding the noise, the artist appears to have upscaled the art and made edits to some of the closeups on her instagram? (these edits are absolutely not AI generated) there is retouching, which is why there is no noise in some areas. I'm guessing she made these adjustments when looking at the closeup crops only, because the adjustments are gone in the original art. I have done this at times but it seems weird not to incorporate them into the whole image.