A note on ethics and copyright

The assistant stays in the margins

Use a tool to sort references, clean a scan, draft a sentence, enlarge a file, or remind you of a checklist. If the result is the thing you sell or post as your drawing, you should be able to point to the marks you made.

Do not present a generated image as a caricature you drew. Guests and clients can tell when the hand is missing, and they came for the hand.

Copyright is not a vibe

A reference is safe to draw from when you made it, someone licensed it to you, or the rights holder put it in the public domain or under a license you can actually read. A chatbot saying "this is fine" is not a license.

Reverse image search and the license label on a museum or Wikimedia page are the check. Public-domain studies of old work are a tradition. Asking a model to imitate a living illustrator is not a study. It takes a style that person is still using to eat.

Training data is a real argument, not a footnote. Many image models were trained on pictures scraped from artists who never agreed. Adobe says Firefly is trained on Adobe Stock and licensed or public-domain material. That is Adobe's claim about Adobe's model. Other tools make other claims, or none. Pick with your eyes open. Pigment does not certify any company's training set.

Clients, students, and faces

A commission, a guest's caricature, and a student's sketchbook are private unless the contract or a clear yes says otherwise. Do not upload them to a public generator, an upscaler that keeps files, or a background remover "just to try."

Workshops need a photo question asked out loud: may this be posted, may it include faces, may the drawing be shown. Silence is not a yes. Children's faces are a higher bar. When in doubt, leave the photo off the internet.

Caricature of a real person at an event is usually a keepsake. Using that face in an ad, a package, or a political post is a different job, with different permission. Write the difference down before the night starts.

What enlargers and video models add

Some upscalers mostly sharpen. Others, notably creative upscalers such as Magnific, can paint texture that was not in the file. Compare before you print, and do not call an invented texture "the original marks."

Image-to-video tools often change hands, likeness, and lettering. If a frame lies about the drawing, do not post it as the artwork. A screen recording of the real process is the honest timelapse.

EbSynth's frame propagation is texture synthesis from your frames, not a model trained on other artists. Their optional image generator is a separate feature. Read the current product page before you upload client work.

Money, contracts, and this directory

No page here is legal advice, tax advice, or your price. A model can format an email or list questions. A lawyer reviews a real contract. You pick the fee after you have counted your time.

Tool prices are omitted on purpose. They change, and a wrong number is worse than none. Affiliate buttons stay off until the owner turns them on, and then they will be marked sponsored.

If a use case and a company's marketing disagree, believe the current product page and your own test on a copy of the file. This directory describes roles, not a guarantee.