Even using AI Generative Content as a foundation is a mistake.

It is an artists responsibility to overcome the flaws in their reference.

Every artist I know has made the mistake of misusing reference, including me and Echo. It happens. But when collecting reference oneself, the mistakes we make begins with our choice of reference in the first place and compound from there. Our mistakes are ours and we can at least own them. Whoops! Will try to not do that again.This is why AI gen images for reference are a problem. They are not being corrected enough in th...