Sunday, 30 June 2019

Computer Assisted Drawings

This year I have been enhancing my drawing with artificial intelligence, and any other online programs I can find.  PaintsChainer colors my drawings quickly, but Google's Deep Dream Generator alters them even more.


GOOGLE'S DEEP DREAM GENERATOR

 Google's Deep Dream Generator is the most exciting online program I know of to alter my drawings.  It is an AI  (artificial intelligence) program, that both colors and adds textures to my drawings (like "texture mapping" on 3D files).  However, I have to do some post-production in order to make the best images.  Usually I just blend the original image with the AI one produced by Deep Dream Generator, by faded one over the other in Photoshop.

My drawing from the Ryder Studio drawing workshop
enhanced by artificial intelligence
using Google's Deep Dream Generator


I used a screen capture of the Marpi Biomes 
 as a style sheet for the above Deep Dream image



My drawing altered with Deep Dream Generator
and a lot of post-production  --
Then animated with EZ Gif


I downloaded this free image
and mixed it up with my drawing
on Deep Dream Generator
to arrive at the above drawings to make the animated GIF


Deep Dream Generator
and other post-manipulation



More distortion with Deep Dream Generator



Another drawing tweaked with 
Deep Dream Generator


I enlarged the above drawing twice online in Let's Enhance, and printed it out large (18 x 21 inches) at Graphic Sky Printing in Santa Fe.  Download the 8784 x 10480 pixel drawing here (13.31 MB).


Large print out of the above AI assisted drawing 
was enlarged, twice, with the online AI program Lets Enhance.  
Download the 8784 x 10480 pixel drawing here (13.31 MB).



Editing Process


Animated GIF with all the phases


The raw image
after my drawing was blended with the photo below
in Deep Dream Generator


This stringy photo was uploaded as the style source
to blend with my drawing
in Deep Dream Generator


The final image --
 I blended the raw Deep Dream image
with my original drawing 
by fading one over the other in Photoshop



Alternative and further manipulation of the same drawing
by John Tollett


Drawing altered using the 
Default Style
in Deep Dream Generator


My first experiment was in 2018
with Deep Dream Generator



PAINTSCHAINER

I often use the AI online program PaintsChainer to quickly color the drawings I scanned and uploaded to this blog.

Colored with PaintsChainer


Colored with PaintsChainer


Colored in PaintsChainer
and combined


Colored in PaintsChainer
and hue shifted in XnView



Colored by PaintsChainer


Etching colored in PaintsChainer


 Runway ML

Runway ML is a developing source of artificial intelligence programs, one of which I used to alter my drawing:

Altered with one of the programs 
from Runway ML



3D THIS

There are a lot of online app programs on the 3D This website that will alter one's drawings online.


Drawing altered in 3D This
Topographical Animation
(from the June 1st blog post)


OTHER ONLINE 3D EXPERIMENTS


Animating my drawn faces --
My drawing animated in 3D This, in the 3DFace app,
filmed with a digital camera, and uploaded to YouTube,
then converted into an animated gif in the 3D This i-Video app


(download obj file here)
(view online in online 3Dviewer)


This animated GIF
was created in Voxel Canvas,
uploaded to Mixamo,
filmed with digital camera,
and converted to animated gif with i-Video --
at the end of this May 23rd blog entry





Altered online in Lunapic (Psychedelic)



OTHER BLOG POSTINGS

Twists on Drawings 
blog posting


Holly AI


AI Painting


Over 200 drawings from my book -- Finish My Figure Drawings -- are available for download in high resolution, and can be manipulated by online programs.  All of these drawings are in the public domain.


All the drawings from my book
can be downloaded in high resolution


Programs





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    Solarplate -- Dan Welden printmaking workshop

    Dan Welden gave a free Solarplate workshop at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque on Saturay, June 29th.

    Eric Fischl did the below solarplate etching (1992?) with Dan Welden, entirely by wiping ink off the solarplate using his t-shirt.  There was no aquatint screen used at all in the below print:


    Eric Fischl solarplate etching



    It begins:
    Dan Welden taking the protective acetate off the solarplate


    Dan Welden made a loose image for his demo using Akua ink as a resist.  After rolling Akua ink on the solarplate with a brayer, he rubbed the ink off, revealing the plate.  The revealed areas of the plate will harden when exposed to the sun, and not take ink (in the intaglio process).  Thus a painterly kind of image can be made.


    Rolling Akua black ink onto the solarplate 
    (which will act as a resist)


    Putting the solarplate, which is on steel,
    on top of a magnet plate (which will be taped down)
    to keep it in place


    Wiping the Akua ink off the solarplate
    to create the image


    Corn starch can be added to the Akua ink to thicken it up
    (instead of mag),
    and can also be applied to the handles of the putty knives 
    to keep them intact


    Dan recommends the Russell Ink Knives
    available at Takach Press



    Drawing into the Akua ink
    with a plastic fork


    The final image


    The solarplate placed in the sun for a few mintues


    Taking the Akua ink off the exposed solarplate
    with a putty knife
    (which he can re-use)


    Washing the solarplate with a brush and water,
    to "develop" the image on the solarplate


    Drying the solarplate with a sheet of newsprint


    Putting the solarplate back out into the sun
    to "cure"
    (we left it out for about a half hour)


    Akua ink, rollers, drawing rags, cornstarch, putty knives


    The plate cleaned and ready to ink


    Filing down the sharp corners of the solarplate


    Inking the solarplate with Akua ink,
    using a brush


    Wiping the plate with newsprint pages
    (instead of a tarlatan)


    Rolling a different color ink onto the plate,
    to add a relief inked addition to the final print


    Last minute touches of color
    "a la pinkie"


    The inked plate ready to print


    Many different colors and effects 
    can be printed from the same solarplate


    Usually an image, such as a photo negative, is pressed onto the emulsion side of the solarplate, and exposed to the sun.  The dark parts of the negative will keep the sun from hardening the emulsion, and thus those parts will wash out, and then take ink later on in the intaglio process.

    Don Messec's solarplate image  --
    instead of using a photo negative,
    he ran a solarplate directly though an inkjet printer


    An artist can draw directly onto a piece of see-thru Mylar, and use that as a negative when exposing the solarplate to the sun.


    Solarplate print
    made from pressing a drawing on ground glass onto the solarplate,
    and exposing it to the sun


    Beautiful multi-plate colored print


    Don Messec's solarplate image
    started after running a solarplate directly though an inkjet printer


    Karen Hymer's print



    Brushes for sale
    at the Solarplate website


    Also Dan Welden recommends the Stabilo 8046 pencil

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