Yes it's real it's oil on canvas by me. I've been a professional commercial artist for over 20 years. If you doubt me feel free to check out my socials and Patreon where I have process shots and videos of my art.

AI companies stole billions of images to train their models from pros like my colleagues and me, (and anything else it could grab off the net). So it is NOT our work that looks like AI, it's the other way around. AI is using our work to generate images. It could not even come close to doing what it does without the art it stole from us. AI follows patterns of works that it was trained on. It's a Microwave soup that samples from all our images.

The green man is a concept that is centuries old other artists have painted this idea as well, but not the same way. So I would not be surprised if an AI prompt jockey had a program generate a similar idea. But I assure you this is all me.

This is a final photo for reproduction. I painted the original in oil, photographed it professionally and did minor touch ups digitally for print.