For the record I also work in illustrative arts, and I was literally saying "innocent until proven otherwise" and to keep an open mind. I no longer think that Pencilnote uses AI and even during while I was, I was skeptical for a good chunk of it. I had good reasons for my suspisions which were thankfully explained by the artist.a paranoid hunt like the Spanish inquisition calling everything AI until they "are proven innocent"
And while the lineart and constructioin of the body itself looks good in this case, that can also be explained using img2img processes, either the one build into Automatic1111 or the controlnet plugins. This is also what I stated in my post about why I was suspiucious of the art amongst other things.
While I do have to apologize for the commotion I've caused, I was not unreasonable with my statements.
I stress again that I no longer think the artist uses AI in any part of their process.
P/S: this will be the last I'm going to talk on this thread regarding this matter, and it's christmas for me right now so Merry Christmas fellas