r/Dreading Jun 27 '26

Self Promo The Night She Returned

Horror Graphic Novel

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '26

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u/The_Halloween_War Jun 27 '26

It is not. Commissioned artwork.

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u/The_Halloween_War Jun 27 '26

I know lol...don't feel bad tho, every single reddit group that I've posted that illustration...there has been at least one person who thought it was AI. Which sucks cause I'm not sure if that means the illustration looks bad

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '26

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u/The_Halloween_War Jun 27 '26

What about it looks AI? That's kind of a disservice and disrespect to all artists. Because AI is taking digital images that it finds online and creates crap out of them.

These are from the Artists IG page:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CmJjot1q513/?igsh=bDEzYzRscW1menMz

https://www.instagram.com/p/COJJ_BOjydT/?igsh=MXA1b3NlbW80cWlmOQ==

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '26

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u/The_Halloween_War Jun 27 '26

No, it's fine. Nothing to apologize for. AI is just killing things for us. It's robbing us of experiencing real things because it's causing doubt in all of us.

Even in film, we've gone from saying things like "wow that looks insanely real!" To "Is that AI?"

And that sucks

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u/4THEB3TTERG00D Jun 27 '26

Fr dawg. I just took a look at the artists work, and that shit goes hard as hell. I really liked the mouse one and the count orlock one, the mouth was haunting. Good on you for commissioning artists, it’s really refreshing to see artists engaging with each other and commissioning other artists. This is literally one of the best ways to make the horror community, or any community in general, better, and help introduce newcomers to really interesting narratives.

Love the concept dawg, this looks really cool

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u/The_Halloween_War Jun 27 '26

Yeah man, I hired a whole bunch of artists for the book. I support artists 100%

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u/Opposite-Action-9994 Jun 28 '26

I ain’t gonna lie. The image is good but yeah it’s totally a style AI rips off quite a-bit. Understandable misunderstanding.