i am so curious what their "step by step" screenshots are

because this is very definitely traced

ninjarobotclone:

It blows me away that are so many commenters stepping in to defend this doofus

oh my god

This is fucking embarassing

"i didn't trace! see, here's my proof!"
- detailed outlines on a blank white canvas

bro if you want to prove it's not a trace POST YOUR SKETCH LAYER

here is more "proof" they shared that they don't trace, it is their current commission:

people are paying money for this

i feel really bad for those people

do they even understand how suspicious it is that they won't post their sketch layer

nobody draws the detailed clean linework right off the dome

...

ninjarobotclone: honestly I wouldn't put it past this person to go back and fake a sketch layer

like draw sketches over the clean linework on a separate layer and claim that is the original layer

just because of the audacity of trying to pass off that original as original

you can tell one parts they actually did on their own because the understanding of shading and anatomy is so completely different

*what parts

yeah i'm sure they would if confronted about it

that hand around his neck, the big greyish blob that is her clothes

the fact that there are actual lines denoting where the breasts and forearm are and yet there's not a single black line on astarion

even the hand on his throat is pretty damn rough. i'm canonblind but i'm gonna go out on a limb and assume that this character isn't supposed to have 6 fingers on her left hand

they're claiming one of those is the thumb

again, VERY noticeable different in the understanding of anatomy between Astarion and this Tav

lmao.

i feel bad for the commissioner, this is such an insulting thing to get back for your money

it really is

As an artist who has done commissions, this "artist" could have at least claimed something like "sorry I deleted my sketch layer because that's part of my process and didn't take a screenshot" because that would have been marginally more believable (if also easily disprovable if they don't provide examples of older work showing rougher lines).

Also I'm so morbidly curious if they have a gallery I can go point and laugh at...

(Though I will say I did at a glance assume that re: the hand on the throat, the finger farthest from the viewer was the thumb.)

i can tell that it's supposed to be a thumb but it is simply not in the correct place to be one

Yeah, looking closer at it now, it's definitely wonky; it just wasn't what immediately jumped out at me scanning over it at first.

yeah

At least the shading isn't half bad.