Kiwii

I hate that it has come to this, but I'm so stressed out and anxious and entirely over defending myself to this person. Meg chronically attacks other Gale artists in the community, claiming they're tracing AI or using AI generated images. She has successfully chased at least one artist entirely out of the community with her relentless onslaught of accusations. I've had a ton of people message me about this person and they've all said the same thing. I've sent Meg timelapses, videos showing layers, and even had a very positive conversation with another user in the comments about how I unknowingly grabbed a possibly AI-generated image off of Google to use as the background for a comic I made months back—of which I will be rectifying as I always have been and continue to be against the use of AI in art.

Now unlike her, I will not be claiming that she 100% traced that photo of Bbno$ for her Gale bath art, given that I haven't seen a timelapse or anything else for it. However, an artist who is very possibly tracing or heavily referencing pictures for their own art should NOT be accusing others when they have no reason to. She's claiming she's outraged because my art has garnered a lot of attention and it's AI—it is not AI, and dragging people through the mud over baseless assumptions is a bad look. I haven't scammed anyone, and I've taken on ONE comission this entire year so far 😂 I hate this weird, awful "gotcha" culture as a very kind person on Instagram put it. We should be raising each other up, not cutting one another down as artists. I adore my mutuals, and love seeing their posts show up on my feed. It brings me a lot of joy to create, and just as much to see what others create. This has been such an awful experience, and I truly hope this person stops doing this to people. It's very toxic and extremely invalidating to real artists who gain any kind of recognition/success through their works.

Also, please tell me why I would have drawn ANY kind of sketch beneath my work if I was just tracing it?? Make it make sense 😂 You can literally see me reworking lines, adjusting, fixing hair, facial features, drawing a reference for the sunglasses before drawing the actual clean lines of the sunglasses, etc. I had no idea I was going to get accused of using AI or anything else, so how would I have preemptively faked that part of the process?

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So unfortunately I was informed via several people now that someone is claiming I'm using AI to create my art ☠️ As someone who has been working REALLY hard this last year to put more time and effort into my art after pushing it to the side for YEARS because of life, it's super disheartening to see. I'm almost 30-years old and have been drawing since I was a child. I'm not new to drawing, I'm not a novice. Most of the time, I'm ✨️lazy✨️ and don't take the time to go hard and do a full render. Sometimes I just want to draw something fast and don't want to take the time to make it perfect but still want to share it. Sometimes I'm making a comic or reel and taking the time to make every image immaculate or anatomically sound would cause me to lose my motivation to finish it/post it. I also have my roots in a more simple/anime style so swapping over to something with a little more realism has been new-ish for me. Stylizing Gale can be rough, especially for someone who up until recently mostly drew pretty 20-something's with no noses and zero facial hair 😂 I'm just trying to see what clicks and feels most like him while staying true to my own stylization choices. But behind the scenes I have been sketching, practicing, and looking to REAL references—human bodies and poses—to improve my work. I've started to actually render instead of leaning so heavily on cell-shading. Instead of tapping out at 2hrs, I've been taking 10, sometimes 20+ hours to do art pieces. I've been consistently posting time-lapse videos and WIP of my recent art on my Instagram. Anyone who follows me on there can vouch for that. Anyways, I've attached the time-lapse for my recent GTA Gale art.

Maybe just DM someone and ask next time before assuming the worst and diminishing someone's hard work and progress.

OKAY, finally finished making this! 😩 For anyone interested in my comission pricing, here's a quick thing I whipped up with all the basics! I usually take on anywhere from 3-5 comissions at a time before closing my slots. I'll always have something in my bio about whether my comissions are open or not, and I do try to keep that updated. So if you see I'm open, don't be afraid to shoot me a DM!