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Found in r/crappyoffbrands. Typical dollar store fare. Are these real artwork or is it slop?
(lemmy.world)
Yeah, also wondering what country these came from.
this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2025
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The only one that looks real is the bottom right Santa. The carousel looks passable, until you notice they're all facing the same direction and that's not what carousels do. The weird faux-tree one, the base is so awful it hurts
Bottom right looks the least AI for sure, but the composition is a bit sus to me. Santa on an armchair with quilts, donuts (?), and a teddy bear is really disjointed, but not outside the realm of someone making choices incomprehensible to me.
I'd say that one is very good slop, but still just slop. Hat's pompom and right hand's thumb look like a blend of the tree. The image in the cup is a blend of the tree and a mistletoe branch. His jacket's right cuff looks odd, and isn't as thick as the left one. The symbols/shapes in the guilt has no sensible patterns. Santa's choice of snacks is weird: Shouldn't he be eating something like cookies, instead of that blurry mess of donuts?
That's slop. It's the most convincing to be sure.
The pieces that are supposed to look like they have brush strokes all have bizarre looking strokes. Bottom right Santa has weird fuzzy strokes that would not be possible with a brush, and that digital art programs really try to prevent you from doing.
The teddy bear and the white puff of his jacket would be done with a randomized splatter brush, and that's clearly the look the AI was trying to copy but didn't get it quite right.
A lot of it is hiding in the fact that this is just bad artwork. The kind of thing a graphic design student might pump out in an afternoon for a quick paycheck. So instead of that kid being able to afford pizza this week, the dollar store saved 100 bucks on this crap.
Those weird fuzzy strokes look a lot like something my grandmother would do when she painted with oils- she'd often revisit a painting a week or 2 later, and blend brushstrokes that stood out to much with a bit of diluted solvent painted on with a brush.
Some of them do kinda get that look, others look like they're just blurry.