KRЯRL DЯAWINGS: June 2019

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 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

3D Face Reconstruction from a Single Image

(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

Deep Dream Generator
Deep Art
Instapainting
pixtopix-tensorflow
PaintsChainer
Colorize Photos
Deep Color
Runway ML
Ganbreeder
Remove Image Background
Let's Enhance -- AI program for making low resolution pictures into higher resolutions
Magenta -- tensor flow art

3D This
Voxel Canvas
SculptGL -- online 3D sculpting tool
UseCubes -- 3D voxel online sculpting tool
Mixamo
Online 3D Viewer
Google Poly -- 3D object search engine

Mandlebulb 3D
http://sirxemic.github.io/ifs-animator/ -- fractal generator
Free patterns
Marpi Biomes
Coolors -- color scheme generator
Plaidmaker
27 pattern generators
Noise texture generator
pixabay-- free searchable images
Images from the Met collection

This Person Does Not Exist -- AI people online
D-Wave LEAP -- free minute of quantum computer time
AI creates sounds never heard before
Onshape

I may start working with digital sculpture again:

Posting about digital sculpture possibilities

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.