Could you not fucking convert everything to fucking lossy webp's??? For fuck's sake. I can see the encoding macroblocks in the shadows in the first picture. Compare to the PNG (download full resolution): /s/9e51fe4863/3131769-103
Also, really a shame whatever they did to their art style, it was so distinctive before. i hope 'AI assistance' wasn't involved It's still okay i guess, but it's not the same. And I certainly can't tell who it's drawn by from a glance anymore. Although maybe I just need to get used to it? Hard to say. There could be some merit to the tracing allegations.
finally, this is a western gallery, it does not belong in "image set."
His art is inconsistent and doesn't match his style because he's been tracing for quite awhile now. Would not be surprised if he switched to tracing midjourney outputs to hide it better, since more of what he was tracing before was extremely well known images. You can see the stuff where his anatomy completely diverges from what you'd expect from him plain as day. Just the rendering style is now also changing so I think assuming AI isn't a stretch at all. Crooks are gonna do crooked shit.
I've made a torrent, with the OG files (first time for EH, I hope it works). The torrent contains the un-converted images. EH uploads system is complete dogshite, and as much as I love this site, I won't spent a whole day just to upload and wait for the images to be processed by the backend. not to mention the 500mb limit, and no upload queue.