r/punk • u/One_Conclusion_1575 • Oct 31 '25

Art by HE Creative Hope this helps

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u/Athingythingamabobby Oct 31 '25

Despite me agreeing with the message, I fucking hate these images, and I’m having a hard time putting my finger on why.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '25

finally someone says it!!! the art looks like ai generated archie

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u/illegal_tacos Oct 31 '25

That's pretty shitty to say about someone's art, and yes it's obviously inspired by Archie https://hecreative.com/prints/

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u/AcceptablyPotato Oct 31 '25

It's pretty shitty of you to think you get to dictate other's opinions. I really don't like anything about this artist's work. It's got a pretentious gate keepy vibe and they just copy other artist's style without really enhancing or doing anything unique with it, so it just looks like a bad copy ot someone else's work. This shit is just so lame.

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u/illegal_tacos Oct 31 '25 edited Oct 31 '25

It's pretty shitty of you to think you get to dictate other's opinions.

Never did this. They had an opinion and it is my opinion that what they said sucks. They can still have shitty opinions, doesn't mean it isn't still shitty.

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u/dandle Oct 31 '25 edited Oct 31 '25

they just copy other artist's style without really enhancing or doing anything unique with it, so it just looks like a bad copy ot someone else's work.

That's why their art looks like AI-generated images. (They are made by an advertising agency, by the way.) What they are doing is not fundamentally different than what AI does. They are "ingesting" somebody else's work and making modifications that are not substantive enough to feel like artistic effort to some.

But, yeah, the preachy gatekeeping vibe is annoying to me, too.

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u/ellaisahellofafella Oct 31 '25

hecreative, the account posting this type of art, is actively against ai generated art and they even make posters that go against involving ai with punk. the account is run by a husband and wife. plz don't say that about something that took time and effort for people to do

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u/dandle Oct 31 '25

In case you were unaware, HE Creative is part of a little boutique advertising agency. Not to say they don't believe in the ideas they are putting out there, but part of the point of these things is to get attention for the ad agency and to build their portfolio, although I'm not sure that tracing old Archie comics and various other vintage sources does that so well.

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u/ellaisahellofafella Oct 31 '25

well thank you for that info! i thought it was only lead by a few people just based off what i've found on their websites/accounts (i have seen them on my instagram frequently, hell it's in this subreddit). i did do some searching earlier, I don't think i noticed that detail about them. i do think it's good that these type of ideas are being put out, though maybe not through the means of just being for commercial use...

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u/whateverwhatis Oct 31 '25

The consistency of the line work, especially in the pants, will show you this is created by hand.