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AI pictures could be a good source of knowledge in terms of f.e. composition and use of color, but AI still messes up a lot of details or nuances about architecture, furniture and other details, as well as the consistency of lights and shadows, so I definitely don't recommend studying them directly.

If you want to learn creating beautiful anime / visual novel backgrounds, I recommend studying backgrounds of existing animes and visual novels (for me these were Nichijou and Clannad), as well as artists like しおん - https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/14707888 or _LM7_ - https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/420928

For the AI backgrounds in this post, I recommend to exclusively use them as a) draft backgrounds while developing a visual novel to then later replace with actual custom backgrounds; b) as finished assets in context that welcomes AI assets to be used, or c) as basis for rich thorough overpainting to take them as a sort of sketch and transform them into something that doesn't have any of the dumb AI artifacts and visual glitches and actually shows your own unique artstyle.

Thanks for the info! I'm going to use manga/anime background references to create scenes, and maybe some ai generated art ( which I'll make sure to modify to make crisp, or just use as a reference! ) Thanks again!