Beautiful aesthetic, I love the urgency and unease in this.
Agreed. I’d actually get this framed. Love the color pallet.
“Two wolves”, my ass. 🙈
Go to a furry-con you can probably have your ass two-wolfed, if you’re into that.
I see what you did there 🤪
My other wolf is actually seventeen frogs dressed up as a wolf.
Each with their own torn section of the original costume — that was really just a scrap of shag carpeting they found in the pond, anyhow.
It does feel like I am being run by amphibians, neither here nor there.
Also, why is the blue telephone cord stretching away from the telephone? Is the cord for a different telephone not shown in the art, and the telephone in the art just happens to have its handset on the ground or outside the frame?
Also, why is the blue telephone cord stretching away from the telephone? Is the cord for a different telephone not shown in the art, and the telephone in the art just happens to have its handset on the ground or outside the frame?
I have a strong suspicion that the art was generated, so that may explain some, err, inconsistencies:
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The phone cradle doesn’t actually have a spot for the handset to sit
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Somehow the floor changes its height up the wall
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The bottom right corner of this cabinet appears to be missing
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Window reflection (?) spanning the window to the table
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And yeah, the phone isn’t even connected to the base, or, if the handset is connected to another phone base, then the phone base in view doesn’t even have a handset
Edit: I’ve found the artist’s post of this image on Instagram and while they have plenty of other works on their website that I don’t think used any AI, I feel like this image was at least partially AI generated, probably specifically prompted to be in her style (maybe they trained a LoRA to make it match better). I don’t get why the only video they shared of them doing any shading/line-work is of some shading that isn’t even in the final piece. It’s totally possible that they didn’t use AI, but without carefully studying their prior work (especially pieces from before AI image generation became common) this seems too much like AI, even compared to their other works that I have viewed.
Window reflection (?) spanning the window to the table
I think that might be from the OS and someone just took a screenshot?
There’s a couple other things that look out of place to me:
- More inconsistencies with the floor height near the base of the door-sized notice board with the frog on top
- What is going on with the papers around the printer? It’s as if it’s chucking papers out of both the top and bottom/side, but presumably one of those should be the paper tray
- Papers in the bottom left would need to be a pretty tall stack and placed in the inaccessible dead space at the corner of two desks - seems more like AI filling empty space, than an artist deciding to design it like that (edit: just realised partly why it looks off is that the papers seem to get smaller in size higher up the stack, they’ve stacked the papers in size order)
- Image is square ratio, which is very common for AI image gen
- Frogs have inconsistent numbers of “fingers”/“toes”, sometimes 3, sometimes 4
- Bottom desk is a weird shape, based on the perspective, probably because AI doesn’t understand vanishing points
- Floor pattern/lines doesn’t continue in the triangle between the two desks in the bottom left
- The middle building outside the window has full building length windows, but looks below the window cleaner frog and what should be wall is coloured like a window, while more windows are missing between the legs of the window cleaner
Excellent sleuthing.
The art did come off as being AI assisted, if not generated. But I did not want to discredit the art by saying it outright. The weird placement of the cabinet and distorted perspective of the entire art was what led me to suspect.
I played enough with generative AI myself to also think that this smells very much like AI, and not necessarily in that it is bad, but got these signature AI quirks all over it that I would also bet money on this being AI.
I wouldn’t mind an artist like this using AI if they actually went through the piece and worked out the errors like this afterwards. As it is, this just seems really lazy – and I say this as someone who really likes the style of this piece.
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