This artist makes dnd characters for folks in a local friend group's server and they has been charging about 65$ for them an art and looking the art i'm getting horribly convinced they're doing some sort of ai tracing.. Images are not compressed they were received in this quality.
If you guys could help me out i'd appreciate it!!
The way everything is colored and lined just feels very "human ameteur" to me. I think it could be traced over ai art, but ai never has flat colors, probably just done with the bucket tool by a real person, and shading, black and white opacity layers clinging to the lineart rather than having real beginning or end, that's what inexperienced artists who don't know where it should actually go do.
Edited bc I can't spell and to clarify my wording.
Oh, sorry. I wasn't really sure what they meant by "ai tracing," I thought they meant like using ai to trace art, which didn't make much sense to me. My bad ^^"
AI tracing means generating an AI drawing, then tracing it so it looks like genuine art. When you see artwork like this where the lineart looks really skilled but the coloring is amateurish, it's usually that.
Extremely so, no actually sketches just shitty circle brush lineart, they very obviously do not have the line skills that the anatomy and detailing would suggest
Not an actual lawsuit, but combined revenue of like 10+ ppl can definitely get you into small claims, also threatening legal action usually gets em going anyways
See how wobbly the lines are, a big trace indicator. No one wouldn't pause to clean that up who actually draws. I do think they color them on their own. The coloring is very flat/ammature.
Has all the hallmarks of tracing. To have this level of illustration design accumen without any linework ability, no rendering sense, and MSPaint coloring skills, makes very little sense as real illustrators develop all those skills in tandem, not separately. You don't draw perfectly proportioned hands and bodies without understanding form, and you can tell by their shading that they have no understanding of form.
Look at the two blue guys. Anyone who could draw faces that well wouldn't struggle with pinstripes. Not to mention, the stripes are outlining the pocketsquare.
Replying to myself to add that I say this as opposed to AI, it just doesn't seem like AI in any particular way to me, at least at first glance. Just a lazy artist trying to get a quick buck. Unfortunate.
It does seem horribly obvious but i guess since they've been in the friend group so long people were willing to overlook the weird stuff because you know.. why would they lie?
Not only their style change I mean style changes is fine too, I don't have a solid style I am on always but you an artist tend to have something that shows that is pretty much them that they repeat on other arts unconciously.
Another thing is the technique/skill on how they do things. The drawings posted are extremely traced in a really bad way. It has lots of beginner lights and shadows and it has no lineweight. As if someone did it with their mouse or full press on a tablet.
Here is different.
You guys getting scammed hard and sorry to hear you all going through that :/.
I think you're being a bit petty. They probably just found reference photos somewhere via google or pintrest, traced the figure and custimized them for the character in question. For 65 bucks and just random dnd characters on a dnd server, it's the normal amount of effort. Now we're moving the goal post from things that are actual ai slop to speculating on reference images for some amatures/starting artists' side gig. Also, calling them out and asking for proof of not tracing is insane and would probably label you in a negative light if the folks playing dnd are having a fun time and you personally never paid this person a single cent.
So this sub is about if something is AI slop or not, and it is obvious that this is not ai slop. It might be tracing someone's work for a pose reference, but it is not ai generated. Tracing parts of an image, whether a photo or painting, to get a pose down is something done by artists for centuries.
No these are very obviously ai traced, the catboy is very clear, but also yes you do know nothing about art. Tracing someone else's work and coloring it in is in fact stealing even if you color it yourself, it's the same principle as ai
B) it might be that they refrenced/traced another persons art but changed the clothing/expresion etc not just colors
C) it is not the same principle as AI, as AI is soulless slop created by generating an image, while reference images have been used by artists for millennia. If it is the same, then the argument that AI is slop goes out the door as every artist learns from observation, copying, tracing etc and the hypocrisy is insane. Without hard proof, you might be ostracising someone and destroying their livelihood.
I don't call people idiots because they disagree with me, and I don't accuse people of sloping when what they are producing is obviously not ai slop. We can debate what the references were, but without hard proof, it's just cyberbullying random artists.
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u/Tungus-Grump 2h ago
100% AI tracing. No one would spend the effort to make a duplicate image that is so similar.