O m f g yall this isnt AI

Preach!! ┗( T﹏T )┛.
Artists are alreadt working extra hard to battle ai stealing and claims.

Yessshhh!!!!! PREACHHHHH

A lot of ppl who cry about AI don’t even know how to differentiate what AI look like. They fr just want to find something as an excuse to hate about. They seriously call anything AI now.

AI is a very valid thing to hate considering how it steals information in order to function. (Unless artists enthusiatically consent which is finding a needle in a hay stack". However I do agree throwing the claim around with no prior knowledge or care is dangerous.

im one of the people who think it's AI, it's not the use of 3d assets pinging me but the inconsistent way they draw/color/render things like face or eyes. I'd understand it if it was different per character, but it's different for the same character in different chapters. that's kinda suspicious. at most, i suspect the artist is using ai to help out on coloring but draws everything else manually but still.

Idk if you realize cause maybe you’re too used to perfect professional artists, but it’s very common and normal for “less skilled” artists to not be able to draw consistently. That’s just one of the more known difficult things to do as an artist. There’s a bunch of manhua artists who aren’t able to stay consistent

no, even when the artist leaves it literally like a draft like in JJK or when they don't have time to color so leave it as one color, it's pretty consistent. even the way artists would simplify things, beginner or pro, they usually keep it consistent bet. faces or chibis or simple shading— chapter 18 has MC eyes colored/styled differently in the same chapter and it's different from how it's done in other chapters. my suspicion is that it's the rendering/coloring they get help from ai, bc everything else is okay.

Honestly looking at Chapter 18 i rlly dont see anything strange with how they colored the eyes? But also if they had used ai to color, they wouldnt JUST use it on the eyes, ud prob use it on that whole panel. I rllyyyyy dont see anything that weird that screams AI to me. Usually AI is kinda weird with color changes so u can see little like fragmentation of the color at the borders, but i dont see that? Idk i just personally dont see anything that screams AI to me

for me i find it weird how they draw higlights and color the irises, you have one panel where it's colored like a gem and another where it's just plain color. then the highlights and pupils— sometimes you have big white circles for both pupil and higjligjt sometimes it's not. the outline around the irises is sometimes a clean line, others it's wiggly line (in diff chapters).

it's not consistent, i feel like if you're rushing deadlines it wouldn't be vastly different especially if it's the same character. so either ai is doing it or they have assistants who work on diff panels separately and don't have a master style sheet to compare. but the latter is kinda unlikely, so im guessing the final rendering goes through ai and they just keep it if it looks good enough rather than retouch.

As someone who reads manhua and manga all the time (and is reading like 8k+ stories), what you’re describing is actually very common in manga and manhua. It’s just the way they do things. They like to simplify certain scenes and often experiment with different colors, styles, etc. Sometimes it’s just cause the artist wants to experiment with their art and character designs as they create the story. Not every author/artist has a solid and strict idea and sticks to it.

Maybe you’re just used to only reading manhwa where they aim for perfection and consistency. I think you need to familiarize yourself more with how there’s all different kinds of artists and they all like to do different things and all have different levels of skill. You should never put artists in a box and expect them to always be consistent. Unless you’re an artist yourself (SPECIFICALLY a COMIC artist) you won’t understand the struggle. Anyways it’s super insulting at the end of the day to accuse artists of AI whenever you’re unsure of something. It’s definitely an annoying af accusation (speaking as an artist myself). At the end of the day it’s always just speculation and no legitimate proof.

I also read a lot of comics, professional or those hosted on free websites, Tumblr to dA. So i also know where I'm coming from with this here. You don't experiment on something that is supposed to be paid by the viewers on a pay by chapter big company website, and you sure as hell wouldn't change coloring styles or lineart just to see which is better when you have deadlines. And if it's simplifiying, why the hell even add detail to the iris color when they can leave it just the base color? Simplification is also usually consistent. it doesn't make sense to add texture here but not there, wiggly lines here but not there. So either the assistants here are untrained or

It really doesn’t matter if you believe that artists shouldn’t experiment on something paid by the viewers. It doesn’t change the fact that it IS commonly done by manhua and manga artists. It seems like your belief is not matching up with reality and what actual comic artists do. All the things you listed are what some of the high professional Korean manhwa artists do and what YOU would want to do. That doesn’t apply to Chinese and Japanese comic artists. Even international comic artists also experiment with their styles regardless of whether it’s paid for or free- because no reader has any say in what they want to do with their own work. Why can’t you understand your ideal of a perfect consistent artist is not the standard for every artist in the world? You keep being stubborn about the inconsistency and accusing artists of using AI, but also won’t listen to anything anyone says about ACTUAL FACTS with HUNDREDS of manhuas and mangas to back up said facts. You can go ahead and speculate if you want but nothing you say is proven at the end of the day. Unless you willingly go ask the artist in their social media page if their work is AI lmfao.

Im gonna be so honest the reason that doesnt immediately scream AI is cuz i draw eyes the same way. Sometimes i like making the pupil black with shines, sometimes i like making the pupil white for some reason, sometimes ill just put the outline of the pupil but make everything a gradient cuz im feeling lazy. I feel like the change in how they draw eyes rlly doesnt say much esp when it seems like they consistently draw in those 3 types of styles in diff situations.

Well you're not listening to me either who also has TONSSSS of reading history backed up lol, you thinj I'm some 20yo zoomer? I've been reading for 20+ yrs, I've gone thru art style changes in long standing shonen titles, and art style change$ for KR manhwa where it's the same artist but diff title. They won't experiment within season, if anything what happens is the "quality" deteriorates near the end bc deadlines, or the change is subtle over later chapters not in between chapters. Why don't you go to their socmed, you can barely any see art except for promos to the latest chapter and 2 pcs of original work from 2022. If anything that's more sus to me, but it's obvious they do have the skill but probably just not the manpower to consistently color everything in this manhwa.

If you have time to do that, that makes sense to me. But on a deadline? I think that's what sus for me, bc we all know how shit some platforms will be with demands for a tight chapter upload, so it makes more sense to be consistent: this eye style/face for serious looks, that one for surprised, that one for normal. Honestly, the eyes is the biggest uncanny valley for me bc it just throws me

ok i just checked the artists previous work that isn't on here and it's just... wildly different. the last one is more polished and more importantly more consistent, idk what happened in bet. that and this.

Nah imma be honest on a deadline makes more sense. Personally i find it takes more effort to make things consistent. Cuz we’re human, we cant draw things the same every single time, and when youre going thru and drawing a comic (which also usually has a different person for drawing/cell colors/rendering/and typing if its anything like some Webtoons) sometimes it can be hard to keep things perfectly consistent. Usually the changes r small to the point most people dont notice. Ex: go to any long running webtoon (like The Remarried Empress) and compare the most recent chapter art to the art in the first chapter. Its gonna be p obviously different. But u dont rlly notice these changes as u read it unless u look for it. I think whats happening here is we are just searching for possible evidence and pinning small changes as being AI when in all honesty its rlly probable that it was hand drawn.

In the end i dont think i can convince you, and i rlly dont personally believe its AI as an artist and as someone who has also read comics for as long as you. So lets just agree that u rlly cant know these things fs without asking the artist themselves. Honestly it might be better to search for their twitter or any art account to see if they have progress shots posted