The Palace Painting Collection and Empresses in the Palace Album are CG illustrations, and the details are super realistic CG illustrations. Not a comic book. "Comics" is an art form, a picture depicting life or current events in a simple and exaggerated way. Generally, methods such as deformation, analogy, symbol, suggestion and innuendo are used to form humorous pictures or groups of pictures in order to achieve the purpose of irony or praise. Some people and things are often satirized, criticized or praised by exaggeration, metaphor and symbol, which is very social and some works are purely for entertainment. Entertainment works are often funny and characterization. "From Baidu Encyclopedia

Chen's two picture books are only digital paintings of the characters in Zhen Huan's biography, and at best they are illustrated picture books.

It's not hand-painted, it's digital, or it's drawn by software on a computer with a graphic tablet.