I honestly have no preference with whether there’s official art in the WIP thread or not. But I wanted to put emphasis on how I loathe AI imagery so I voted for that. As an art lover it makes me upsetti spaghetti to see them so prevalent.
It’s understandable that commissioning artists might not be a viable option, but there are still alternatives! I was absolutely delighted when I came across a WIP post that used Picrew portraits for the character art (with a link to the Picrew and the artist’s Twitter! Triple points!!). And they looked so great and cute! Okay heck I’ll just link the post But yeah I don’t mind either way if there’s art or not, but for the love of art, I hope to see more of that and less of the AI thing.