I know posting cyberpunk artwork is the quickest way to get those precious upvotes, but I don’t like posting random art for no reason. I’d rather find an actual artist’s work that happens to be cyberpunk than some AI-generated thing or someone who spent an hour learning Blender and posted the results. Of course, sometimes it’s hard to tell when looking at a piece of art how much effort actually went into it.
With that said, I’m pretty sure this artwork was done by an actual professional. Yes, this picture was posted on deviantart but the guy has a lot of other work there and seems to be using his actual human name rather than some avatar.
I know I could’ve posted this picture without going on a little rant, but I typically spend a lot of time thinking about each post before making it so just posting a random picture I found on the internet feels so lazy to me. I’m not opposed to others posting artwork here, but I try to have a reason to post something (to start a discussion) and I’ve got nothing with this one. It’s just another “person looking out over cyberpunk city” motif, of which there are thousands, but I like this one.
At the very least, it’s not AI, since it was posted in 2017.