Anybody else like to figure out which of Redd’s paintings are fake the old-fashioned way?

[Sicariana]

Idk I think that if I did it the "old-fashioned way", my collection would be completed by 2046 at the earliest.

 

[Lotusblossom]

I didnt know they actually look different they look the same to me so I thought they were but I've literally only seen redd like once

 

[Dunquixote]

I initially wanted to but I ended up consistently using this website to help me.

 

[Alicia]

I use an online guide because of how infrequently Redd shows up on my island, I don't want to end up with a fake painting when I could get a real one that I don't have yet!

 

[Rosch]

I try to spot it myself first. Then check a guide to compare and see if I got it right before buying.

 

[Shellzilla_515]

Yeah, I try to find out the old fashioned way if paintings are real or not. While it's more painful getting a fake painting because of rare visits from Redd, it feels so rewarding, just like the early days where we didn't have internet to rely on tips to overcome challenges that stumped us. If I somehow didn't want to do that, I could resort to using the art museum in my New Leaf to distinguish the returning art whether it's real or not. I'm on my own for the brand new ones.

 

[ceribells]

I look them over pretty carefully and come to my own conclusions, but I usually check a guide to make sure I'm right before buying. I work in an art museum so I'm more often than not right (just having been grilled on these artworks all through highschool and college). I admit Asian art isn't a particular strength of mine, so I'm iffy with those.
You just never know when something's going to come back around so I don't wanna miss the real one.

 

[John Wick]

I can hardly see them the light is so bad.
I have to take a pic with my phone and zoom in.

 

[Manah]

I use a guide to find out the name, then I compare it to the original. When I find a difference I still chec if I'm right, though I suppose with three characters I just need to skip one that's an obvious fake and buy the rest.

 

[Alienfish]

Not really, they changed so much fake details to this game so I google unless I know/remember for certain something is real.

 

[Insulaire]

I feel like the change to the Girl With a Pearl Earring is at least pretty obvious to anyone who knows what the painting is actually called, but some of the changes are pretty hard to spot, like a missing hat or different colors

 

[minimoon]

I tried doing it this way the first time he came to my island... And I failed and got a fake. So never again.
I guess I'm bad at spot the difference! (It was Vermeer's The Milkmaid)

 

[Miss Misty]

I do, mainly because I haven't found an online guide I actually like & can stand looking at. Most of the real ones I've seen so far haven't been hard to parse out.

 

[Etown20]

If Redd showed up more frequently, I think it would be fun, but since getting authentic art for the museum is so rare, I just want to make sure I get the right one and always look it up.

While a few are obvious, some are really tricky. I took four semesters of art history in college and there are a bunch I would still miss.

 

[PoptartPresident]

To be honest not really. They made it nearly impossible to really tell if something is "off" about an art piece I haven't seen before in real life. Yes of course I know a couple of the art pieces here and there, but a laaarge majority of the art scultupes/paintings, I'm pretty unfamiliar with.

 

[Misha]

YES!!!! I first try to look if I can spot it without a reference picture, since I'm doing art history as part of my course and should really know most of the works he has for sale by heart. Then I go look up the paintings on wikipedia or something and either doublecheck or look for differences that way. It's harder because you never know how many are fakes, but it's been a lot of fun to do. I have not been wrong so far!

 

[sleepydreepy]

I think that sounds fun and I would totally do that if Redd appeared more often. Before the update I only got Redd like 3 or 4 times total and felt like I couldn't afford to accidentally purchase a fake. Hopefully with the update I'll get him more often and maybe I'll start figuring out which paintings are real myself!

 

[Saga]

I have tried that, but there have been a number of times when I couldn't find the art piece I was looking for (such as the terracotta soldier - there are thousands of different ones, so Google Images was no help), and I got too frustrated to continue.

TBH, I also feel like I can't risk getting it wrong because I would be really upset if I missed a real art piece. The museum takes long enough to fill up as it is! So even when I was trying to do it the old fashioned way, I always checked against a guide after I thought I had figured it out. Good thing I checked, too, as there was an instance or two when I had thought a fake was real.

 

[LuchaSloth]

With the infrequency in which Redd actually shows his jerkface in my town, I'm not taking any chances with buying a forgery, tbh. He finally showed up yesterday, and I took great care to make sure I got the real painting. Bringing the total of my art gallery to...3. *tumbleweed*