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title: 'Artist''s ''Sketches'' Don''t Look Believable...'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=vFVaex79g8g'
video_id: 'vFVaex79g8g'
date: 2026-08-14
duration_sec: 736
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# Artist's 'Sketches' Don't Look Believable...

> Source: [Artist's 'Sketches' Don't Look Believable...](https://youtube.com/watch?v=vFVaex79g8g)

## Summary

This video analyzes a social media post where a user received suspicious 'sketches' from an artist, which the community identified as likely AI-generated or traced. The creator breaks down the visual inconsistencies in the artwork, discusses the broader issue of AI art scammers in commission spaces, and provides a list of red flags to help viewers identify potential scams.

### Key Points

- **Introduction to the Scam Case** [00:02] — A user on Threads named Azukiol received two sketches from an artist and suspected they were AI-generated. The sketches had multiple issues, including inconsistent line quality and missing details.
- **Visual Analysis of the Sketches** [00:42] — The creator points out that the sketch is simultaneously clean and messy, with guidelines left in, missing eyes, and odd details like a scar on the abs. The refined version has issues like beads melting into hair and inconsistent line crispness.
- **AI Artifacts in the Refined Sketch** [03:48] — The refined sketch shows signs of AI generation, such as hair lines done in low resolution, an earring in high resolution, and flowers melting into each other. The creator suggests the artist may have used AI and then redrew details with a brush.
- **Community Response and Artist's Defense** [05:06] — An artist in the comments explains that their own sketches are messy with short, fast strokes, but the example given looks badly traced. The OP confirms they are circling the issues and writing details to the artist.
- **Financial Impact and Chargeback** [06:13] — The OP paid $150 USD for the commission, which was nearly $300 in their local currency (yen). They are considering a chargeback on PayPal, and the artist's accounts were later suspended.
- **Broader Scam Problem** [07:21] — The creator shares another example of a scammer named Allison Doodles with 11,000 followers who DM'd someone offering art services. The page was full of AI-generated images in different styles, and the person was a known scammer with seven accounts.
- **Red Flags for AI Scammers** [08:17] — A user named Madame Artit Writing lists red flags: different styles with no artistic identity, no work-in-progress layers, suspiciously fast delivery, low prices, avoiding questions about rights, consistent errors in faces/hands, vague phrases, refusal to sign contracts, and no client history.
- **Due Diligence Advice** [10:43] — The creator advises viewers to do their due diligence when commissioning art, especially if an artist appears out of nowhere with advanced art after 2022/2023 when Stable Diffusion became popular. They emphasize the importance of verifying legitimacy.

### Conclusion

The video highlights the growing problem of AI art scammers in commission spaces and provides practical red flags to help artists and clients avoid being scammed. The creator encourages viewers to be vigilant and do their research before commissioning artwork.

## Transcript

scammers, we have another person on threads who's a bit confused about the artwork they received. So, let's delve into the situation and again, please don't send hate to any parties involved. This is a post by user Azukiol, the
author, and I hope I'm saying their name right. They write, "So, artists and out what is wrong with these sketches. This is what I was given by somebody I caught so many issues that possibly scream AI, but if you could help me out
appreciate it." So, these are the two sketches they were given. This is the first sketch and this is the more refined sketch, the more fleshed out version of the sketch. Oh, there's a lot of issues going on here and we can point
reason why I'm standing is that I have a friend staying with me and the mattress is on the floor. So, if I sit down, you could see the bed. But, let's just play I spy of what is wrong with these sketches. And again, let me just add a
differently. Just because an artist draws like this doesn't mean they're grab everything together and just take a peep. Uh, you know, the context clues, right? Every artist has their own art process, but these are why I think this
oddities going on. This is a sketch that's given, but the sketch is with like full, confident lines where they know basically exactly where everything pretty messy and you might make the argument, "Okay, well, a sketch that's
given to a commission client would be cleaner." So, that, you know, a client understand what happens because some basic sketches look really, really blocky. They look really, really choppy and scuffed and that's completely fair
might be a little cleaner. This is somehow simultaneously a really clean sketch and a really blocky, messy sketch at the same time. If we look over here, straight, very sharp. We have guidelines. Somehow, the guidelines are
drawn. They're doing the whole circle for finger knuckle thing. You know, it's when they're drawing a hand and forgive me, I am drawing with my mouse, but you to draw some like lines which is supposed to be the bones of your hand.
This is maybe going to be the palm. Oh, we draw some circles for where the draw, you know, the the next joints for the fingers. And then the thumb only has be like this. And they draw like more fingers like that. Hey, yo. I'm not
makes sense for some people, you know? So, that's how they like to draw, which it works for you, you know? That that's what makes sense at the end of the day. The issue is that these, first off, are not drawn properly because they draw
represent the knuckle right at the tip of the thumb. So, it's already in the you're delivering a clean sketch to your client, wouldn't you erase all the guidelines are removed except for the hand ones for some reason. And then
row of knuckles for like all the hands. They only drew the first row, which like didn't even draw the lines for this hand, though. And then we get into extra details. Nobody has eyes. Which again, if you're delivering like a sketch to a
client for approval, wouldn't you draw everything? Like the eyeballs, which is like pretty important for the face. And then we have some odd details. We got a little thing on the abs, the pectoral muscles, which like maybe there's a
scar. But not given full confidence here for this art piece. Then we have this cleaned up version. So, okay, they've got eyes now. Nice. You zoom in a little bit. Some things are looking real odd. We've got beads melting straight into
the hair. One thing that's a bit odd is the difference in the crispness of the line art that's happening. We have some aspects of the line art for the main background detail. So, it's less important. It's going to be a little
fuzzier. This is for the same character. Somehow, the lines for the face is super clear. And the lines for the hair looks like it's done in 480p. Real choppy, character has an earring that is done in really high resolution, but the rest of
the line art is again really fuzzy as if it's like 480p, like a much lower resolution than the rest of the art piece. It kind of looks like this person AI, and then the client asked for more specific details. Like maybe the client
wanted an earring on the male character. Maybe they wanted like a different face on the hand, or whatever. And so the person went in with a brush and then redrew in all the extra details that wasn't originally generated. On top of
looking background ever. Like all the flowers are all melting into each other. This flower is disappearing. Again, it's not an art choice thing. It's more so like a this looks like AI artifact type thing. And then hieroglyphs on a pillar
hieroglyphs. This thing on the bottom looks like a dumpling. It looks like a not going to lie. And artist adds, this is how my sketches look like. Too many lines, a lot of them are out of place. Artists usually sketch with short, fast
lines and brush strokes. That's why it often looks messy. Your example looks joints and angles, but I never stop at the wrist. I use circles also for the head, elbows, arms, knees, etc. But here we have some examples where you can see
You see the looseness. You see the flowy lines for the sketch, right? It looks flowy. It looks a little loose, but it is cleaned up enough to where you can artist also showed some of their sketches. So here we can see again some
sketches. They have some face lines, right? But it's very sketchy, very little bit after with some, you know, some more sharpness with the lines. They add The art you've been presented with looks badly traced, probably from an AI
the lines are all the same thickness, drawing in all the details for the hair. finger. The women are missing multiple fingernails. The hair strands looping hair braids on the woman on the left melting into different hair strands,
etc. And OP says, exactly. I'm currently circling them and writing details of to her. Another person was like, wait, don't do that cuz that's going to teach them to scam better. And they said, "Oosh, already did. Made a post about it
more careful next time." And yeah, here we have examples of the missing bisecting the fingernail. This one is a finger missing a fingernail. The thumb was like, "Are you making a case to issue a chargeback on PayPal?" And OP
So, the commenter says, "Oh, I hope it wins in your favor." And OP says, "Thank for the first stage and was supposed to pay again for the completion. I live in Japan and yen is weak as heck against most other currencies. So, 150 US was
closer to nearly the equivalent of 300 for me." And yeah, you know, a lot of commissions, which I don't think it's fair, right? Being like, "Oh, you want to cheap or whatever." This person paid pretty penny, 150 USD, you know, for an
for three characters is a little bit on the cheaper end, but definitely can be if you're not an artist, you may not recognize some aspects that might look AI. So, OP makes another post adding an update saying that they wrote a fairly
blunt email to the artist. And the artist in question was a user named Rio Artistry, where the backup account and the main account was suspended. I wonder know, all the circled elements, the hieroglyphs that are not hieroglyphs,
really odd, the fingernails being missing, hair looping back and forth, the plants being all wonky, the pot being all wonky, the braids not making sense and also melting into the hair. Clearly highlighting all the elements of
least on the bright side, this person was called out and their pages are gone, others. But it sucks that this happened in general. And again, this is just one of many of these scammers out there. Which, speaking of one of these types of
person writes, "When will this end?" Also, this is on my bookish account as a reader. I don't need character art, but I digress. And here is somebody called Allison Doodles with 11,000 followers following this person writing, "Hey, how
graphic services to you. Would you be interested in getting some stuff?" This, because it's very uncommon for legitimate artists to go and advertise themselves in your comment section or in your DMs. It is almost always scammers
an illustrator, so I don't really need any work, and I don't want to work with AI." And look at their page. This is screaming AI-generated. All of these by different people in very different styles, and it's also screaming traced.
Another person says, "Ooh, they are a known scammer. They've had like seven different accounts." Which is honestly wild. Like with all of that time and get an actual job. And I think overall this post is a really great thread in
who maybe isn't as familiar. This is posted by user Madame Artit Writing. If artist, these are some red flags that somebody might be an AI scammer. One, different styles, but there's no clear artistic identity. This, I agree. Again,
experiment with their art styles, change, maybe draw chibi today, draw Typically, they all look like they're drawn by the same person, and they would have a bunch of examples, like a bunch of chibis that all look, you know, in
drawings, all in their style. If it all looks like it's drawn by five, 10 different people, it might be. Or it might be traced. Or both. Two, they layers, or any kind of work in progress. Another big one. Again, an artist is
artists don't want to show work in progresses, but it does make you look show, because there's too many AI scammers out there. Three, their delivery time is suspiciously fast for a fully illustrated cover or any other art
piece that should probably be taking a couple of days to weeks bare minimum. If they're offering to turn it over in like 24 hours, not impossible. There are some artists that do work really, really fast, but it
extremely low compared to the complexity of work. Again, this can vary depending live overseas, it might end up being a little bit cheaper. Five, they avoid answering questions about rights, licensing, or commercial use. Big one.
consistently, especially to faces, hands, clothing, or composition. That one is also a huge one. If an artist drew it themselves, they can make the another story I talked about where the person was like, "Hey, you know, it was
like, "My partner look is like a lot more tan than what you drew. Can you couldn't. And if you drew it yourself, you would just open the skin layer and then you would probably modify the shading and highlights so it complements
the new skin tone. But, you know, you'd be able to do it unless you didn't draw look almost right, but something feels off. Strange fingers, melted details, inconsistent lighting, unreadable objects. Big one. Eight, they use a
vague phrases like digital magic or custom art, but never explain their process. This one is also a really big one. Like an artist who draws their work, they can explain to you as to how they did it. Nine, they refuse to sign a
contract or provide clear terms. 10, their portfolio has no client history, visible evolution over time. This one also gets a bit tricky because like, who are new to the scene, so they don't have like clientele to show. But by
portfolio, they also will have past existing work you can see, or you can artist. If an artist spawns out of nowhere with immediately like beautiful-looking artwork that looks very advanced with no prior history of
their username being attached to any other art accounts, no old art that artist who might be posting on like, I don't know, Weibo or something, which is like a Chinese platform. So, that could explain, you know, not having a US
presence because they were present in international social medias. Literally no existence of them whatsoever, and then out of nowhere, boom, advanced art conveniently after 2022/2023 when Stable Diffusion became popular.
I wonder, is this artist legit or can probably scamming. So, do your due diligence. At the end of the day, it scammers coming into the space. I hate to see people getting scammed, but if
artwork, pray that you're getting something legitimate, okay? So, just day. There are more and more scammers coming out of here, and it always sucks. this story? I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments section down
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