PSA FOR ARTISTS!!!

There’s a new rise of art stealers using AI object removers to get rid of watermarks. However, there is a very easy way to combat this.

Put a watermark in the most complicated area of the drawing. AI is stupid so it will fuck everything up.

For example:

Here’s an image I drew, putting the watermark in the hair. However, if you use AI retouch to remove it;

It isn’t very obvious that it was removed and an art thief could easily get away with stealing it. However, if I put the watermark on the faces and use retouch;

It is very obviously altered.

I’ve tried this on my other pieces too, and it works.

Hope this helps!

(Please ignore the fact that the middle image has a slightly different font; I was using pictures left over on my device and that one was old)