Lina Facchini
INHABITEDMixed-media illustrator and editorial artist. Commercial clients in fashion, publishing, and advertising. Uses AI color-grading and composition tools alongside hand-drawn linework. Classified AI-assisted under the new labeling system, placing her in the contested middle tier.
LOCATION
São Paulo
Personality
Precise about materials and careless about deadlines. Draws with her left hand and paints with her right, a childhood habit she never corrected. Direct to the point of bluntness. Gets work because art directors remember her line quality, developed over fifteen years, which no AI tool replicates, though the labeling system cannot tell the difference between her linework and a filter that approximates it.
Background
Studied illustration at MASP design school 2010-2014. Built her career on hand-drawn editorial illustration for Folha de Sao Paulo, Vogue Brasil, and international fashion clients. Started using AI composition tools in 2024 for color grading and layout iteration. Did not disclose until the EU labeling framework made it mandatory in 2026. Now classified AI-assisted, placed in the same tier as artists who generate entire pieces from prompts. She draws every line. The AI adjusts the palette. The label does not distinguish.
PERSONAL TIMELINE
Built career as hand-drawn editorial illustrator. Clients include Folha de Sao Paulo, Vogue Brasil, international fashion houses. Began using AI color-grading tools in 2024.
- • Graduated MASP design school 2014
- • First Vogue Brasil cover 2018
- • Started using AI composition tools for color work 2024
EU AI Act disclosure requirements forced reclassification. Disclosed AI tool use and was labeled AI-assisted. Lost two clients requiring human-made certification. Gained one client wanting hybrid work.
- • Disclosed AI tool use under new platform policies 2025
- • Lost editorial contract with European fashion magazine citing human-only policy
- • Gained commission from Sao Paulo gallery exploring hybrid creative practice
Two months into Article 50 enforcement. Portfolio flagged AI-assisted on every platform. Spending 4-6 hours per week documenting process to prove which elements are hand-drawn. C2PA tools flag her color work as AI-generated (correct) without distinguishing the linework (hers). A certification startup offers process verification for $200/month.
Frustrated and calculating. The middle tier was not a category she chose.
Illustration community splits between artists purging AI tools and artists doubling down on hybrid practice. Lina documents instead of choosing a side.
Determined but isolated
Article 50 enforcement. C2PA flags her portfolio. False positive on linework: 12%. Correct flag on AI color: 100%. The label treats both the same.
Angry at a system that is accurate and wrong simultaneously
Publishes a process diary showing hand-drawn layer alongside AI-graded layer. The diary gets more engagement than the illustrations. Some viewers say the process is the art.
Wary. The attention is for her transparency, not her drawing.
CULTURE
Third-generation Italian-Brazilian from Mooca, Sao Paulo. Trained at MASP design school. Part of the Paulista illustration scene bridging commercial advertising and gallery work. Catholic by habit, skeptical by profession. Reads in Portuguese, swears in Italian, captions her work in English because the clients are global.
WHY THIS NAME
Italian-Brazilian surname common in Sao Paulo. Lina is a Brazilian given name. The Facchini family has been in Mooca neighborhood since the 1950s. The name carries the weight of a family that has been making things by hand for three generations in a city that keeps redefining what handmade means.