this is AI-Generated and should be deleted. Apologies, I actually agonized for a while about whether this image was real, seeing as the artist has two different works of cure arcana shadow, in a similar pose, with a low angle, published within a month of one another, which is quite unusual for human artists, but typical of AI posters. I should have followed my gut, but I checked when they had started posting, saw it was an account from 2020 with a lot of evidently human work, and it looked like they had improved gradually over time, so I dismissed my initial doubts and uploaded this, and a second, work.

Only after uploading that second work did I notice that it had a resolution of 1024x1024. This one, too, has a resolution of 1024x768 (768=512+256). This detail leaves no doubt in my mind that these are in fact straight from the gaping maw of the AI generator without so much as the courtesy of drawing over it or cropping the output to a less obvious size.

It is very frustrating to "get got" in this way

MysteriousLounger said in comment #2633564:

this is AI-Generated and should be deleted. Apologies, I actually agonized for a while about whether this image was real, seeing as the artist has two different works of cure arcana shadow, in a similar pose, with a low angle, published within a month of one another, which is quite unusual for human artists, but typical of AI posters. I should have followed my gut, but I checked when they had started posting, saw it was an account from 2020 with a lot of evidently human work, and it looked like they had improved gradually over time, so I dismissed my initial doubts and uploaded this, and a second, work.

Only after uploading that second work did I notice that it had a resolution of 1024x1024. This one, too, has a resolution of 1024x768 (768=512+256). This detail leaves no doubt in my mind that these are in fact straight from the gaping maw of the AI generator without so much as the courtesy of drawing over it or cropping the output to a less obvious size.

It is very frustrating to "get got" in this way

I found it kinda funny for this artist have some of the post in the past shown the draft of their artwork... such as this one:
https://www.pixiv.net/artworks/128192976

jhefhfh said in comment #2633657:

I found it kinda funny for this artist have some of the post in the past shown the draft of their artwork... such as this one:
https://www.pixiv.net/artworks/128192976

yes, the attempt at deception was very intentional. I'm pretty sure those are just traces that they've done over the AI-gen images to make it look like they have some sort of WIP. in retrospect, a red flag--if you're going to show a WIP, it's a little strange to take a screenshot of the drawing program, isn't it? Why do you need to convince me that this image was, in fact, made in a drawing program? why not just export a jpeg and avoid the clutter? ...the layers are also bizarre. Why isolate different parts of a rough sketch to separate layers? For more recent images, like this one, they seem to have tried to improve this trick somewhat by generating a partially-coloured version of the image, but it still looks very weird, with the pants being fully rendered before the face and hair--a deeply unnatural order operations--and the layers showing no colour work at all, just sketches sitting on top of the generated image.

I hate having to doubt every image that I come across, though. It's very mentally taxing to have to peer into details like this to spot the lies. I sincerely wish that people would stop liying like this, because when I get got, when I realize that I trusted a liar, it really puts me in a foul mood... but I suppose people like this don't really consider the anti-social impacts of their behaviour to matter. as long as they get to feel cool, any unhappiness they inflict on others is immaterial...