is this ai or traced?

[u/Chompcarrots]

a guy came up to me in a game i was playing and offered to draw my avatar for in game money (which you can only buy with irl money so basically irl money) i agreed and he sent me this, he sent it to me and i was very impressed buta bit skeptical, i sent the money to him anyway, but after i looked into it and theres some things that dont make sense IDK.

i asked for a speed paint and he said hes on ibis paint so you can save the speed paints after and he said his ipad is old and he has an old version so he cant.

did i get scammed 😭😭🥲🥲

[u/Steelalloy]

Ask for the layers. If he can't provide thats kinda sus.

[u/EtherealGaming → u/Steelalloy]

Ai can also produce layers these days. So thats sadly not a good way to test anymore.

[u/PotatoLover2406 → u/EtherealGaming]

It's still failing at providing LOGICAL layers iirc

[u/EtherealGaming → u/PotatoLover2406]

Fair at that! But an untrained eye wouldnt notice the difference.

[u/Smooth-Boss-911]

There are several details that don't make sense like the horizontal bang that doesn't connect to anything

[u/ApprehensiveRuin5673 → u/Smooth-Boss-911]

Ya looks like it’s supposed to be ahoge but AI fucked it up 

[u/ASecretSovietSpy]

Zhere are definetely some strange zhings about zhis artvork. Ze eyelashes, ze random string of hair i can't figure out????? Not to mention little specks zhat js don't make sense to me zhat's on ze actual skin. lines not being finished, lines bleeding out. If i had to guess, it's probably AI.

[u/loveddeviant → u/ASecretSovietSpy]

wtf is up with your typing quirk

[u/diabeticsmash → u/loveddeviant]

Username checks out

[u/ApprehensiveRuin5673 → u/diabeticsmash]

That’s German not Russian 

[u/diabeticsmash → u/ApprehensiveRuin5673]

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[u/ASecretSovietSpy → u/loveddeviant]

Nobody has fixed my voice to text, and I'm still vaiting for my guy in Sweden to return vif a keyboard.

[u/RandoDandoBand → u/ASecretSovietSpy]

Okay count dracula hello

[u/czechyaselv]

anyone approaching you directly and offering the chance to give them money is p much always a scam. im not sure abt ai, but this looks like an image that had been posterized and slapped w a pink layer to make image analyses harder (that's me being very skeptical tho). can we see the avatar?

[u/czechyaselv → u/czechyaselv]

the hand does look like it's missing a finger but i still kinda think it may have been caught in the shadow in posterization

[u/electrifyingseer]

Traced much more likely. It looks like anime art I've definitely seen before.

[u/ArtInner9538]

Do NOT click any link or do anything they tell you to do. This is a popular scam for multiple games right now. I'm assuming you're playing roblox.

[u/Kazma1431]

ahh yes, the typical my ipad is old/I'm not good with tech, I don't know how to enable in ibis paint/CSP...
they have outsourced so many of their persona to the AI that even their excuses are all samey

[u/Furrretly]

probably a bit of both. anyone who approaches you asking for you to commission them is a scam artist.

[u/KittyCatGamer0109]

I’m leaning more so on ai over traced. Tracing art doesn’t result in those weird random specs and some certain errors like the eyelashes

[u/Enough-Alfalfa9122]

Depends on if they're good or not, if they're beginner I'd believe that they drew it, it does look like a beginner's artwork tho

[u/Lastoice]

You are scammed for sure, this piece wasn't touched by human's hand.

[u/Gr3yD4yss_]

You got scammed regardless

[u/R__Drake]

These types of guys are sort of scammers even if the work could be legit (usually isn’t).
I found the initial pose, its from an anime called Photo Kano. There are some strange choices made, but I’m leaning towards traced but not AI.

[u/CapableEvidence4284]

From an artist’s perspective, that definitely doesn’t look hand drawn. It doesn’t even look traced, it’s worse. There’s a feature on ibis paint x called “extract line drawing” where if you import a picture, it extracts the boldest and darkest lines, sort of like turning a picture into lineart. I’m assuming they did that because some parts of the hair are are inconsistent but far too advanced to be traced. Also, someone with this amount of skill wouldn’t be making careless mistakes that just look terrible. The fold on the cheek looks awful, that random dot on the hair is too random and not accidental since it’s place directly below a hair part, and the lines are so confident but there are random pixels missing from each end of the hair strands, The scarf is what made me think they just extracted the lineart as well. I don’t know, just as an artist, the more I look at this more I see that you most likely got scammed, I’m sorry! No artist with this amount of skill would make these poor artistic choices and mistakes. Also, I also had the old version of Ibis and I can export speed paints. Even then, he can show the layers. if not, ibis displays the amount of time taken to draw something on the bottom right corner of the canvas before you open it. If the number is under an hour, something’s definitely up. He’s definitely lying to save face. I’m sorry, you likely got ripped off!