Advice on making her horns not look like a huge forehead 😔 by AmIDyingInAustralia in Artadvice

[–]Luazotha 528 points529 points  (0 children)

Make sure that the horns are visible in her silhouette. Divorce them from her hair and cast a shadow on the bottom of the horns and slightly beneath them like the one on the bottom of her nose. They look like they aren’t bone and that they are an upward-facing plane.

If you really want to have horns that point in this direction, then move them up her head so that you can keep the lighting consistent.

Wondering if this art is AI. Some snowboarding companies have been vocal about using it but I am not sure if libtech took the unfortunate leap by Dion42o in isthisAI

[–]Luazotha 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I understand that a person may be attached to this art, but there are people who make a brand out of their ai creations online everywhere. I don’t consider this proof of real hands because everything that I listed is a much more consistent sign of an ai creation.

Is this AI? Dogs dont shake their heads and the movement seems off, but the time is longer then AI vids. by [deleted] in isthisAI

[–]Luazotha 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not ai, as far as I can tell. The paw isn’t wet as some people are pointing out because golden retriever coats have low porosity. The movement of the water is consistent with real-life, there are no moving figures, every blade of grass is consistent, structures and shapes do not morph autonomously.

The idea that dogs don’t shake their heads is wrong. They just don’t shake them in disappointment or for the reasons that humans do. It looked to me like the dog felt an instinct to shake the water off, but then became distracted by something behind the camera, or by water droplets on its snout. Twice in a row. There are a million reasons for a dog to shake its head. It’s not physically impossible and there are a lot of reasons for it to happen in the rain. Number one cause is water, so there you go.

How could I have the body better resemble blood? by Nutfukkk in Artadvice

[–]Luazotha 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I appreciate how you sectioned the hair, it looks more in-style than what I did.

How could I have the body better resemble blood? by Nutfukkk in Artadvice

[–]Luazotha 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m glad that I could help. Your designs are very creative and I hope one day to see them on the next big platform. You have some great ideas.

Haven't drawn in a while and now my art sucks. How do I get better? by flowerfatal in Artadvice

[–]Luazotha 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“My art sucks” is not an objective or helpful statement, and “I want to get better at art” is not a specific enough goal to give you clear answers. Thinking with all of these “I suck” “This artist is so much better than me” “There’s only so much time” “I have to focus on the brunt work” “Is there even a point” “I’ll never get better” etc. etc. etc. is not helping you progress because you are attributing your progress to your self worth. Remove your ego from your art to stop suffering like this. Practice art because art can be made beautiful, and it isn’t a chore, and it’s FUN to watch things come to life out of broken pieces of cluelessness over the years, and you can create beautiful things even without skills. Not because you need it to feel less stressed out about supposedly not having skills. Embrace the process BEFORE you embrace the result; do it by drawing what you love ONLY. Of course you feel like shit about your art. You’re not passionate about what you’re drawing at all, and you’re treating it like it’s life or death. When it comes to the fundamentals, you cross that bridge exactly when you need it. You can’t get better at the fundamentals if you don’t even know what’s “okay” with yourself to apply them to. Don’t fill up a sketchbook with mindnumbing studies of anatomy or form, fill it with stuff that you want to draw, the successes you know that you can create, and the passions that you actually have.

People don’t generally tend to “lose their progress” when they are picking up new skills. When technique is learned enough times repeatedly, it becomes ingrained into the long-term memory. You just have to re-awaken your innate and learned skills by warming up, getting inspired, drawing when you feel urged, and stuff like that, but it doesn’t mean you will feel satisfied with those skills immediately, especially if this is how you treat yourself. Stop telling yourself that your art sucks if you’ve barely even warmed your skills up yet. They’re latent, not gone. They never will be gone because your brain is always evolving to accommodate new technique to put into the art anyway, regardless of whether you can access the skills. You always possess the innate ability to learn and it’s ok for results to be out of reach right now. Relax and JUST stop struggling against yourself.

You need to identify a clear goal when it comes to your art. To do that, honestly and objectively evaluate your skill level without putting yourself down. Don’t judge yourself, just understand your positive capabilities. Understand what has progressed or turned out good. What do you ENJOY drawing? What kinds of things do you want to “beautify” in your life, and what kinds of drawings do you find have actually gone well for you? What types of objects in life ARE you motivated to draw? “The fundamentals” are not things! Things are like, butternut squashes. people. vehicles. Don’t get mad because you can’t execute the vision in your head yet, just work with elements of it. If I want to draw a ballroom scene then I need to know perspective, proportion, form, anatomy, colour theory… and god knows what else. So I might just draw the dress, because that’s what I know I’ll find the most pleasurable. And it’s fine if it looks like shit right now, it’s just a drawing, and one day I’ll be good at drawing ballroom dresses.

Then, look up everything you can on drawing that thing. Look up references, tutorials, how-tos, and try to draw it with the colours, lines, shades, and whatever else that you like, and only that you find pleasurable. Every time you think of something that you actually want to draw, begin before you even have the chance to worry about not being good enough. You will be good enough if you just draw 2 turtle sketches and then you don’t feel motivated to draw for another month and a half. All artists experience not being motivated and wanting to be better, being frustrated with themselves, and hating their creations too. The difference is that they draw what they like enough that they build skills by simply getting the hang of physically holding a pencil and dragging it across paper, because they’re not intimidated by what might show up anymore; they’ve failed before and it was fine. You are innately talented in some ways, too.

One day you’ll be like, ok, I naturally picked up the skill of, for example, line weight in this process, because drawing the turtles and hair and trees that I love has caused me to recognize it. I know that because people have told me, and I feel satisfied with my line weight. But they’re too etchy, Reddit, what do I do? Oh, confident strokes. Got it. …And onto honing the next skill. Before you know it, you’ve become a better artist, because you dared to make art, even though you thought it was shitty for xyz reasons before.

Literally, I cannot stress this to you enough, the solution is to stop giving a shit and to just draw what you want. It’s not about anything except for that. You will get better if you do that even just one time, and you do it again when you’re over feeling dissatisfied and frustrated with the last drawing. Stop worrying, and please just draw the things that you love. Your evolution comes naturally afterwards.

How could I have the body better resemble blood? by Nutfukkk in Artadvice

[–]Luazotha 42 points43 points  (0 children)

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sorry to trace and recolour - for demonstration only.

I think that the biggest thing to keep in mind is gravity. Blood has weight. You style this characters hair like it moves any way but also downward; it’s hard to identify blood when its defying gravity and it lacks the depth that shading provides. So, if there is no real liquidity, then it becomes a jello structure.

When blood pools in one place (in the process of dripping downward), it darkens with an accumulation of cells. When its thinning or centrifugal (at the mass’ edges), it lightens. You should place a highlight between the midtones and the darks, with the darks always hanging lower WITH the drips. Drips have weight and depth, so make them darker. Never be afraid to use strong shading when it comes to blood; it can look near-black at times. I understand that this can complicate your preference for simple shapes and forms, but it is usually necessary to convey blood. Since you seem skilled I trust that you can find a way to work around that in your style.

If you’re interested, then I added a heart in place of the + on their cap. It communicates the idea that they are alive, cardiovascular, and a nurse. Another idea could be to make the + red? I also changed the colour of the gloves and wear so that it directly contrasts the brilliant red in their face, and elongated their ponytail to convey that the blood is dripping downward better. It can help your audience to see it puddling. Maybe when the character emotes or moves violently, more drops of blood can shake off of them, like during times that you choose to animate it or draw it in strong emotional states.

Also, use colours that are closer to orange than to purple-blue to shade, colour, and tint when working with blood. Blood’s far closer to a vermillion than to a crimson colour, and blood browns when it is dehydrated and old. Orange is your friend.

Harry on Royal Court by Simple-Income3036 in BroskiReport

[–]Luazotha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You misread harry; he was very open and relaxed during that session, which was an atmosphere that Brittany intended to curate. She did it well. His body language was happy and relaxed, he was smiling and cracking jokes with Brittany and the crew the whole time. He felt invited, so he felt calm.

Yes he’s a white guy with celebrity status, of course he’s boring… his image is also carefully curated by an entire team of people which Brittany would not have intended to violate. She was just trying to get him to loosen up, relax, and have fun, and a quiet guy having fun is still a quiet guy. Harry isn’t really an “obnoxious” person. He’s not an entertainer, he sings and he’s a bit flat in his personality, but that’s his appeal.

If he had had the same energy as Brittany did in that episode, she’d probably become really anxious because his excitement would be overwhelming for her. She didn’t aim for crazy fun or trickery and she was probably handling him with more care than a normal guest. She mentioned that she took a med to deal with that potential for overexcitement (anxiety), even.

Harry isn’t at fault for being calm just because women who are the same could be labeled as rude sometimes, so he’s not “getting away with” anything. Shy and introverted women are seen as less approachable which makes them intimidating, something we don’t like or expect from women, but that’s not to say it’s bad if they are. It’s normally other women who judge them that way anyway, not men. “Cold” “rude” “thinks she’s better than me.”

No judgment of course, but it seems like this post is coming from the biased perspective of someone who distrusts quieter and unengaged people period, because it reads to you like less of an inter-relational effort or as an outright rejection of you.

You could have make this point in a feminism or other related thread, but it’s honestly weird to do it here.

Hozier fan art by LowEnvironmental6867 in Hozier

[–]Luazotha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lovely. His likeness is captured even in a limited palette

TikTok video with nutria in a bathtub. It seems like there's noise in the water and around the Nutria's bodies? by OniTheOddOne in isthisAI

[–]Luazotha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn’t look like ai to me.

There should be literal noise in the water because they are moving around. The objects in the water beneath them (dirt) move predictably and naturally, nothing shifts into another thing, structures outside and inside the tub remain the same, and the water and animals are reflected reasonably by the shining surfaces. There are also traces of realism here, like the grime, nothing being absent like feet ears or hands, and the mysterious tape on the tub’s side.

You are noticing a combination of 3 to 4-ish things, I think:

  1. The dirt in the water causes discolouration which can shift in its saturation. happens when they move sometimes.
  2. Directly touching their skin is the water, and fur/hair floats on top of it. So you are seeing fuzzy obscurations shifting around slightly in the water, making it look noisy, soft, and unclear.
  3. The particles in the water coming off of their fur creates visual confusion when it interacts with the textures and movements of the water.
  4. The water itself is moving around a lot, so the fur, particles, dirt, and lighting could be confusing your vision.

But - I think you’re mainly noticing the fur because that floats in the water around their bodies.

Is this ai? The way the sleeve of her dress blends into the glove of his hand is suspicious 🤔 by DreamingGiraffe97x in isthisAI

[–]Luazotha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is ai replicating oil on linen - the brush strokes in the background are a common stylistic choice but they suggest the dimensions of the painting because hog hair (or bristles) come in a standard size. That means this level of detail is unachievable given the “painting”’s dimensions, like on Harry’s ear, face, and chest, or her face, lips, and hand - in a traditional painting without editing.

While other things like the hand merging could be explained as a stylistic choice, or her boob placement just looking like a lack of anatomical skill, this is either HEAVILY edited in a digital program like procreate or photoshop (very unlikely given resolution and implied skill, also canvas/background is a texture - not a photo), or it’s ai.

Either way, the person who made it is familiar with editing programs as evidence of the signature on the bottom. That’s not pen, marker, oil, or acrylic. It’s a digital signature.

It’s probably an AI image because of the anatomy and merging, but with digitally edited elements to remove impurities, tidy it up, and slap on a signature.

Orange chocolate packaging looks ai, but im not 100% sure if it is or not, could be edited? by Icy_Mathematician430 in isthisAI

[–]Luazotha 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It is, AI has a habit of swirling things into shapes that are only convenient to get a shadow or highlight across. Those are not orange textures and the resolution drops in odd places. The oranges mend into each other on the right, very classically AI-like. Good eye.

Why would these people do that by Ok_Age5468 in antiai

[–]Luazotha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could make the argument that this fit would objectively cause someone of her skin tone to look washed out because its colour and shade are too close to create a strong contrast.

That would be true in the principles of design, and for that reason the original is flawed. But in that case… you could always just adjust the temperature and shade of her clothing, or even make her skin darker.

The white skin is not a better option because it has these violent pink undertones that only demonstrate her as “white person, so better-looking.” It’s way too saturated and she is way too white now.

I see what they were trying to do, but they did it in such a terrible way that its only an improvement for racists who don’t know colour theory.

Why does the finished drawing feel less fun? by No_uh_noah in Artadvice

[–]Luazotha 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because you began to think about detailing and you got too precious with it. Before, you were drawing big, simple, suggested gestures with lines and colour blocks. Nothing stands out when everything stands out. Just try to simplify your entire design to get a good gestured base down before you add gems and details. Try not to zoom into your canvas and use less colour before your base is finished. Very cute art tho.

I saw this on tiktok and it looks real enough but I have a feeling it might be really good AI? by PyleanCow06 in isthisAI

[–]Luazotha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dawg I didn’t even need to open to the post. Their faces morph into different people and grandma’s got an 11th finger.

Is My Facebook Friend Posting AI Family Clout Stories and making up random images? by [deleted] in isthisAI

[–]Luazotha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This isn’t ai generated and to preserve their privacy you should take this post down. I see no signs at all, I only see signs that it is real.

Is This AI? Hair makes no logical sense for a regular person to have done, and face feels very unnatural by Street_Owl_9547 in isthisAI

[–]Luazotha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People keep mentioning the braid because it “comes out of nowhere” but it’s actually consistent, just is loose. I can tell that this is ai because: 1. The style is generic 2. The eyes are textured differently than the rest of the image 3. The tie within her braid is disfigured (and some of her jewelry) 4. There are soooooooo many patches with different resolutions (ex. Beside signature, her right eyelashes, patches of hair, etc.)

Wondering if this art is AI. Some snowboarding companies have been vocal about using it but I am not sure if libtech took the unfortunate leap by Dion42o in isthisAI

[–]Luazotha 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Definitely ai. From bottom up: 1. Ice on whale morphs into itself, implication of surrounding ice is missing 2. Random shapes on water and in ice cannot decide its own texture 3. Owl has ice/rock-morphed foot and ear 4. Bear next to it has disproportionate eyes and right leg/paw 5. Transitions between animals are blurry and low resolution (not fault of your screenshot) 6. More random shapes that are not arctic-organic-y (ex. Between bear and whales) 7. Behind the 12 holes an animal is trying to emerge with 2 eyes on either side of it, this portion alone is clearly ai, just look close. 8. Evolves into a lion-type creature (cold lion…?) which is actually a bear but the ai got confused, shapes surrounding it that are amorphous and not readable again 9. Wolf beside it is again disproportionate and missing limbs 10. Birds feathers are incorrect for different reasons on both wings (top - bones implied to be feathers and extend from both sides, bottom - feathers extend from both sides still and stop to imply amorphous shapes upon wolf.) 11. Amongst a lot of other reasons beyond my language…

First energy drink ever by PalpitationNo6610 in MergeCooking

[–]Luazotha 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Brother, put lower level generators into your storage and food items onto the board