>>6261461
I use AI art as stand-in for character art I wish I had but couldn't find and didn't feel like I could draw. It's literally last resort.
I introduced a character who (used to) look like Holden Bloodfeast and I vaguely recalled a fat cat lardass businessman being in some Judge Dredd-adjacent media, I forget what, that I wanted to grab for his portrait, but I just couldn't find it because the fat people in Judge Dredd were just too poor looking. I almost used an image of People Eater from Fury Road, but decided the nipple hole suit was just too much to deal with. I decided depicting this fatass in my own art within the time I had between when I was free to write and draw and when I promised to start the thread was beyond my capabilities. If I could roll back time and find the specific rich lardass character I had in mind, I would. In fact, there was another character I introduced with slop, but then a game came out with a character whose design I liked with fanart by an artist who really captured the "charismatic Top Gun pilot who is cocky and has an infectious smile but his demeanor sometimes shows that he mowed down tribesmen in the Amazon with a gatling gun without remorse" vibe and I immediately jumped at it to paint over the slop.