Quoted from Aurich:Maybe. When I look at it I see a lot of nuance that a human eye did. Look how the light was brought around the edge of the sleeve on the gun arm to help define the dimensionality, that wasn't in the photo.
I'm not trying to call this a work of art. It's a trace job over a stock photo, a realllllly well known one that we all recognize right away. The composition doesn't interest me. The whole playfield style overall isn't doing it for me.
But it's not fair to just call it filtered photos, there's more going on with all of this than that.I hear you. I've got over 2 decades of Photoshop experience myself, there's always a trick. But I don't see it here. That's not a Find Edges job, there's too much nuance in the line work.
Anyways, I don't care. If I'm wrong and that's some slick filtering work, good for them. If it's all hand drawn, cool. I think the end result feels generic, because regardless of technique it's too familiar of an image.