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Book *11* Cover, 10 sketch and some other art! (Patreon)

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2022-12-28 21:45:10
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2026-06
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Hey all!

Alright, some stuff has gotten a little weird, which all in all has resulted in me sharing a FUTURE cover with you all!

I originally planned this cover to be book 9's cover, but due to Elaine having her own ideas about what she was doing, and completely ignoring my plans for her, it's gotten pushed back to be book 11's cover instead. Such is life!

Also included is Tsuu's Christmas sketch of Elaine with her favorite present - mangos! The last picture is my book 10 sketch by Fuyu that I've sent off to Kart Studios to make into the book 10 cover.Now, why share all this early? Well, that's where things got a little weird.

Kart Studio's lead artist is Ben Moran, and he's the one who's done all of BTDEM's covers. I love his work to pieces, and they're just so amazingly good! The quality, the detail, everything.

As artists do, he's shared his work in a few places, including the r/art subreddit.

Who then decided that he was using AI, he was a fake, that he wasn't a "serious" artist, and that he should find another career.

I'm not joking. https://twitter.com/benmoran_artist/status/1607760145496576003

He's obviously gutted, and it's extremely upsetting to him. I'm also really upset over this, because of the sheer amount of dickery involved.Anyway, since the picture's out in the wild and getting some attention due to the mod's heavy-handedness over it all, I figured I'd officially let the cat out of the bag on book 11's cover, even though we're a distance away from it yet.Shameless solicitation moment - if anyone has something nice to say about all of Ben's hard work on all the covers, I'll forward them to him.Cheers all! Hope you had a merry Christmas, and I hope you all have a great New Year's! I'm hyped for Monday's chapter, I can't wait!!

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SHADOUX9

This is fantastic artwork! Are you also working with kart studios for the webcomic? Please tell Ben that his artwork inspired me to take up the brush as well! I hope to have a tenth of his ability one day!

orangesnowfox

I for one absolutely adore the art

Emilia Kosteila

I personally love all the covers and they have gotten only better cover after cover!!

Jeppe Fiig

Oh dear the eyes have gone red, someone has messed with lun'kat again. Beautiful pictures

Selvias

The background makes me think of the Exterri Empire and their clouds of ash

isopodshuffle

i love the covers, especially books 3 and 5. even if some of them aren't my preferred style i think they're great and it's obvious he puts a ton of work into all of them.

Puddz

Those eyes seem angry... who pissed off the dragon? Also, that so stupid what happened to Ben Moran. Getting banned from an art for subreddit even when he can provide progress pictures of his artworks. I hope he can get unbanned via speaking to another mod or something. His art is fantastic.

Malir Blackspear

I love the way light is featured in Ben's work (that I've seen). It has a physicality and weight to it you rarely find nowadays.

Pavel Magnus

Looks like the wall is alright

Cormac

There are four pictures but I can only see three descriptions. Are the first and fourth pictures the front and back covers of Book 11? They are both excellent regardless, as are Tsuu's.

Glowy3

I loved all covers so far, they are all so cool and well done! His work is wondefull.

Stephanie Washburn

That Roman goddess look is pretty amazing, black crow flying all around her. It's really, extremely good how much of that classical realism feel comes through.

Wizard Tim

I've loved every cover art I've seen of this series!

Shoto

like this?? the arts used on the covers are great, an excellent job!! I even use the cover of book 5 as my phone's screensaver!! I love the cover art.

WritInSpace

Great art! The knee-jerk (emphasis on jerk) reaction by a bunch of communities related to AI assisted art seems to be causing more damage than any amount of generated art would cause. All for a perceived possible harm before any harm has been actualized. Mostly, it reeks of gatekeeping. I think when things calm down, people will recognize that creating novel works of art which have a style inspired by other artist's work is nothing new, and the speed of creation has little bearing on whether a piece can be considered "art".

CAPTAINCAEL

the debate over ai art can sometimes be really stupid

Hugo Meijer

I do not understand why they call this AI art. I have worked a bit with AI art to generate some ideas for my DnD campaign, and I can tell you right now, this is too cohesive to be AI. Sure, AI could do some of the composition, but you would have to fix every part. The castle in the background? The walls would not fit together, there would be strange towers, it would not be right. The earrings would not match, the hair piece would not fit. The hair itself would be wrong, the depth would be wacky. The moons with eyes would never match previous art pieces. And lets not mention the hands, face and feet. At that point the AI would have only given you some vague body position (where you would play the "am i looking at the back or the front" game) the smoke, moon position and the castle in the background, but you would have to redraw the entire picture. Even if this was done, how is that less art than redrawing a photo, or using a model? dumb ban by a dumb mod. I love the artwork!

Mr Fuzzknuckle

I absolutely love Ben's art! It's an absolute crime that they're attacking him for his art being too amazing. On a side note, looking at the comparison with Tsuu's art (who I also love), I hate to point out that Ben forgot to draw Elaine's starry/celestial eyes in those toga pics. She's lovely, and I love the dynamic backgrounds in both shots, but now that I noticed it's a shame. I'm going to hold myself back from checking the older novel covers now, lol. I loved all Ben's covers so far either way! On a side, side note... given the mod's smarmy dismissive tone it feels to me that they don't care for facts. That said, Ben's art has been around a LOT longer than this current crop of AI generated artwork. That seems to be enough validation and verification of his talent to prove his skill. It's actually sad now that I think about it, but his generation of artists is the last that even has the option to show a pre-AI portfolio.

Alex Rahr

Power-drunk moderators are a real problem. People make terrible decisions when they're entirely insulated from any consequences. At a guess the mod here saw eyes in the sky, decided this could only be AI because of that and then stopped thinking. But yeah, the picture looks good to me.

Patrick

Is Elaine missing the sole and backings of her shoes in the first picture?

Cirvante

The guy has been making great covers for BTDEM before AI-generated art even became a big thing. Telling him to change his style because it looks like AI and they can do it faster ... what an absolute muppet.

Melting Sky
>>98443865

It depends if she is meant to be wearing shoes or not. Given the style of her clothes that may just be foot jewelry.

Melting Sky

You have got to love it when some angry twit who is a fry cook or pizza delivery guy decides to chime in on an internet discussion with their definitive expert opinion on everything from fine art to rocket science. It's even better when you get a pack of imbeciles who take what he's said as the gospel truth and then form a lynch mob that spreads the flames of his hateful ignorance to every venue of discourse they can find. This guy's artwork is amazing btw and the people hounding them should be ashamed of themselves.

a passing Fnord

Awesome cover art continues to be awesome. And reddit is 90% a cesspool. If any sub has "serious discussion" as part of their description its a sign they are probably pretentious and judgemental as hell. After scrolling through the top posts there I would be confident in saying he's a better artist than most of the people there and they simply don't believe he could make a piece that good, since they can't, therefore it must be AI.

Aclys

Having seen a fair bit of ai-generated art, I can tell that cover is Not ai-generated simply because the hands and feet have all the proper fingers and toes and they do not look like non-Euclidian tendrils or have too few or too many digits. So yeah, definitively work produced by a human and the only reason people could possibly think it where machine-made is due to how flawless it is in other respects as well. Kudos!

Horty

Fucking hell elaine is hot

SwitchBlaze

Le shrug. It's heartbreaking that some folk are both ignorant and vicious. That being said, it's an extremely pretty art piece, so ya can't let 'em get to ya.

NethanielShade

Reddit controversies with power-drunk mods saying things they absolutely shouldn’t in private messages and banning people for perceived breaks of rules that actually weren’t seems to be a common theme this month. *stares at /r/minecraft*

fbt

reddit and dickish behavior are almost synonymous, tbh.

fbt
>>98457448

rly? huh. I mean I like the faux renaissance style (or at least find it interesting), but this Elaine doesn't do a thing for me hotness-wise.