Y'know, Art doesn't ALL have to be AI these days!
(Main image borrowed from this post)
So, everybody is talking about how this is AI, and, I'm pretty late to the game, but the source image of this post really did it for me. No, do I like the cover, no, I don't think it's the greatest art, but lets think about this for a second. Do we say Tom And Jerry AI just because they don't have all five fingers? Do we say that cartoons with incorrectly drawn instruments are AI. Do we say art that doesn't look perfectly true-to-life is AI... NO!
Let's get into the second image now. I recently watched a RoomieOfficial video (I don't remember how old it was) stating how this image looked AI generated. I've checked and the source article is from 2018. It's just a well made photo. They (Roomie and I forget who else, it may have been Daniel Thrasher) stated then how now everything as about making thinks that look bad now, just to make sure it's not AI, because AI makes us doubt reality.
The same is the case with this cover art. This is a creative (but not perfect, and personally, not their best) artistic rendition, and we need to understand that our minds have been poisoned by YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok AI slop, and now doubt the reality in ANYTHING!
Just wanted to say that.