People truly have special eyes...or something.
The sketch-like art style is messy to the point of it being chicken scratch. Like a rough draft of a manga, but they just published it and said the cover art will sell. It legitimately hurts my eyes and backgrounds are illegible. I feel lost, like where the heck are they??
I'm with you on this. I don't see what "good art" other see.
It's kinda easy to throw AI accusations nowadays, and I don't want to do that, but at the same time there are a bunch things that don't make sense for a human to do in the way this is "inked". Lines thickness, textures and amount of details are all over the place, clothes folds are especially aggravating.
Granted, they've been an artist since way before AI was a thing, but they've always been amateurish and inconsistent (imo), browsing through their pixiv show some blatant anatomy crimes and flat compositions right next to complex poses and perspectives.
All in all I don't know what to make of this artist. I'm not saying they're using AI, but wouldn't be surprised if they were. If they're not I'd love to see their process though, to know how they end up with such a mess on the page.