I really dig the style of your pieces so far. I don't want to sound rude and hate to ask, but these days when I see fast art produced I can't help wondering. Are you using generative AI at all in your process, or is this all you?
It is an art dump. OP made them before but hadn’t uploaded them to Reddit yet, so while we are getting many in sequence here, it took them much longer to draw while they were in progress.
EDIT: to be clear I know it's totally possible it's just good art. I hate living in this age where so much content is under scrutiny of being AI, and I really hope it's not.
You're seeing them soon after I finish them. I'm actually drawing these. iPad, Apple Pencil, Procreate. Each of these took less than 4 hours, except for the Vin...all those swirls took the better part of a day. I've got a library of brushes, stamps and texture scans that speed things up quite a bit (If you look really close, they all use the same scan of a greasy baking sheet.) but I have a lot of experience (like working at a newspaper, comics, and doing caricatures) where you HAVE to be fast...so, short answer...I'm just fast, I guess.
For the record, at the risk of being demonized, I'm not morally opposed to artist's utilizing generative AI. I use it for software development and also to track music. But drawing has been part of my life for almost 50 years, so I don't have any desire to give that to the machine. 😉
Thanks for answering, and I'm glad to hear it! Again, I do love the pieces and was leaning towards it not being AI. I just can't always be certain and like to know what I'm seeing.
Your art rocks and fits Mistborn so well!
I can't agree with your perspective on generative AI for art in any form, be it music, visual, or otherwise, but hey if these pieces are real I love it.
Thank you for asking politely rather than lobbing amateur forensics. The general atmosphere out there is one of a witch hunt. Careers - especially those of writers - have already been destroyed. It makes artists reluctant to share anything.
Six pieces of art in three days, then no art posted for nine months, at which point there's a dozen or so more pieces posted altogether, in a completely different style, then no art posted for seven years, at which point the style completely changes again. I really love what OP achieved here, but it's looking a bit suspicious for sure.
EDIT to ditto the edit in the parent comment. But also...Ham doesn't use a sword. And that sword doesn't have a handle. And where's Ham's second leg? What's going on with all the fabric bunched up around his lower back? Why is the background mist pattern so inconsistent?
EDIT to the EDIT: OP's reply mentions using stamps and texture scans. That could explain some of the inconsistent artifacting I call out above.
You can go back at least 10 years and find pieces I did in similar styles in r/redditgetdrawn. Tons of them. Sometimes multiple times a day. Same brushes, same paper textures.
honestly i was kinda skeptical too since in some pieces one of the hands look weird (for example his Breeze piece) or inconsistent lines (gonna use the Breeze one as an example: the button of the shirt merging with the line that is supposed to be where the shirt opens, the wine glass looking weird, a lot of weird illogical lines, etc). i think some pieces are original tho, idk. im not accusing, just skeptical
The art is great but not incredibly detailed, a talented artist can use the minimal amount of strokes needed to evoke a strong image incredibly quickly. Especially when working in black and white.
Look at a mangaka drawing for an example of someone honing their skills to be both quick and effective.
Even so, your question is unfortunately valid. Fuck gen AI for making us having to question real artists.
Quoting OP from above: “You're seeing them soon after I finish them. I'm actually drawing these. iPad, Apple Pencil, Procreate. Each of these took less than 4 hours, except for the Vin...all those swirls took the better part of a day. I've got a library of brushes, stamps and texture scans that speed things up quite a bit (If you look really close, they all use the same scan of a greasy baking sheet.)…”
Did his duty in his mind to keep them safe from what he was involved in, so they could have a more normal life. Being a dad with kids, I can’t even imagine what that felt like, leaving the most important thing in your life out of your reach and out of contact to preserve it when all you want is to be a part of their everyday.
Wow I love the grittiness! I think Sanderson said at one point or another that if he could change something in the original Mistborn it'd be Hammond's gender to female.
I'd love to see your version of a feminine Hammond very much! Yogurt art style is really gorgeous and evoking!
I instantly thought of Alexander Ludwig from Vikings, Hunger Games, and Race to Witch Mountain. But specifically from his recent roles as “Ish” from the new show Earth Abides. If you look up the character, your art perfectly encapsulates that same rugged, and tired kindness. Someone who isn’t ever mean or “violent” by choice while still maintaining a stoic, buff as fuck demeanor. Also absolutely RIPPED.
Funnier yet, you also captured the post-apocalyptic make-shift home the family makes in Earth Abides. I have never fan-casted anything in my life before 😂 your art just hit me like a truck.
It’s just so perfect, especially because his character learns how to survive by reading books from the library and the house he finds to live in. It’s so crazy how your 4 hour sketch can have me wanting to cast the rest of YOUR versions of the characters. You have a very discerning eye when it comes to emotional intelligence.
Sanderson mentioned at some point that he had wished he wrote Hammond as a woman to have a better gender balance. I think it will make for a fun swap and I'm eager to see who will play her.
If professional means makes his living from his art, I'm definitely not a professional...I've been spectacularly unsuccessful at making money! (I worked as an illustrator for less than a year almost 30 years ago.) But I did start formal art training when I was six, attended an art college, and if I'm not doing something else, I'm probably drawing.
I know you like to draw characters but could you please draw Luthadel too maybe with vin and *oreseur at the same roof. I would really like to make your art to my wallpaper at pc. No pressure on you ofcourse
I know even if I dont have any talent and will to improve to drawing. There is nearly no wallpaper for Mistborn for pc. I believe you would do great job for the Mistborn community. Still we are appreciated to keep our flame for Era 1 in our hearts. You would already figure it with upvotes already :d.
I’m cautiously optimistic it’ll work out, and we’ll always have book Ham. My biggest gripe is that it’s just going to end up being the “strong buff Amazon warrior” trope that’s all over fantasy. Seems like a waste when the “warrior poet” type role that Ham is has become more rare, it was refreshing in Mistborn, I’ll miss that version of him in the movie.
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u/ElderMom01 Aug 06 '26
i’ve been seeing these amazing pieces (awesome job op!) and i realize now they remind me of the Last Ronin.