My least favorite part of the art process. It never doesn't look like garbage while I'm coloring.

Wanted to show what it looks like before I ruin it trying to color 😅

Working on a commission for a friend. Drawing on my phone for this one so don't judge too harshly lol.

2) Sightengine.com I got literally one test before it asked me to make an account, so technically 100% success rate?

3) Illuminarti.ai apparently both me and my art are ai? Pudgeruffian et al are not though. Neither is that ai art. 3/12

4) ChatGPT 4o predictably just pulled answers out of its ass.

Disclaimer, computers are bad at judging what was made by computers.
1) First place goes to aiimagedetector.org, it got all 12 of my tests correct (4 of my art, 2 images of me, 3 from bigger artists, and 3 I generated with ai.) Weirdly, my selfies were more likely to be ai than my art?

Sorry for the long post into the void, had to explain how ai works to someone irl because of the misconception that it's basically copy/pasting the images it was trained on.
If you're still reading, I tested some ai image detectors:

-If you use it as like step 3 in a 4 step process, (let's say line art, color, polish w/inpaint, then go back and fix whatever ai broke), I feel that's reasonable.
My one concern is copyright, but I believe a court would uphold you as the creator in this specific pipeline. (Again not ai as base.)

Where I think it does have a place:
1) For fun. Fuck you if you're anti-fun.
2) (Eventually) actual artists can work it into their pipeline. Currently it doesn't really save any time because you have to basically redo the whole thing, and I don't think they should be using it as the base, but-

(Fuck companies that use it to avoid paying humans though.)
"But it's not real art! You're just clicking a button and letting a machine do the work!"
We could have made that argument when cameras were invented. Are you anti-photography? There's also analog artists that hate digital, so anti-progress

Unpopular opinion for an artist, but I don't hate ai. I think the way it was trained was unethical, even if I do believe it was fair use, and I wish google would add a toggle to at least filter out sites that are exclusively ai art to remove some clutter, but I don't have a problem with some uses.

So some quick maths. At the rate of 6hr per picture that I generally fall in, I'd make 3x as much at my day job than what I charge for commissions. Really not worth it unless you're good enough for people to sub to a patreon. Then again, I've seen people make $1000+ on there just posting ai.

While I'm on here bitching anyway, it's been brought to my attention that the vtuber I did art for a couple years ago still uses it, but edited out my signature. Wouldn't expect that behavior from someone who also considers themself a commission artist. Glad I'm blocked.

8 last year. Enough for an amateur.

Social m̶e̶d̶i̶a̶ is hard.

Entirely blanked on the fact that it would get compressed anyway, posting here. Can't even read my signature. Good thing I sent it to the person who commissioned it on Discord. Maybe I should start signing bigger as well lol. Used to just have a png I'd add as a layer for my signature.

So it turns out doing art at like 10k resolution is a bit much for my old Surface. Wanted this commission to look ok on a poster, but any large edit took ages to render. Also huge accidental brush stroke with the blur tool I didn't see until I zoomed out at the end and took another half hour to fix.