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Look, all I wanted was some cute kid art for where my grandkiddo takes a nap at my house. What do I find? AI slop, corporate characters, and beige everything. Beige balloons, beige elephants, beige rainbows.

I shopped local retailers, discount stores, online and Etsy. AI slop, slop, slop. "we use hand drawn art and only use AI to finish and make it better" <--no.

I found one artist on Etsy who said she hand illustrates and uses Procreate to digitalize. I looked up Procreate and as far as I can tell, no AI. I bought the cute frog picture.

This was after hours of looking for art online. Frustrated doesn't cover it, folks. It used to be easy to find hand drawn images. I'm sure they're still out there but the mountain of AI garbage is absolutely burying them.

One little picture isn't enough to brighten up the nap spot, so I resorted to fabric panels. I found two that are adorable at my locally-owned cotton fabric shop. I checked the artists who designed them, and as far as I can tell, no AI.