Busy April in review

During the Covid 19 shelter-in-place in April 2020,  I was busy pushing my drawings through all the free art software I could find online, and creating 🎵YouTube playlists🎵.

"April 21, 2020"

Mayan Nouveau? --

next to the Aztec sculpture Coatlicue

To go to the original blog posting, click on the images below: or  click on the link in the "quotes" at the top of the images.

"London Drawing"

I drew online using Zoom

with the Brixton Life Drawing group in London

on Tuesday, April 28th

"More Edges"

My composition 

in the "Art as Antibodies" contest for New Mexican artists

"Samba Dancing Drawing"

There is a better version of this

on SketchFab

"Digital Experiments"

Beginning to push the digital possibilities

at the beginning of April

"Pattern Styles in Deep Dream Generator"

Lots of kaleidoscope-like pattern backgrounds

 made in LView Pro

(Image/Effects/Pattern-Symmetric)

I started the month by outlining gesture drawings in old newsprint pads, and making PNG files from them with transparent backgrounds.  The transparent PNG files are easy to collage in Photoshop Elements.

"Kaleidoscope Patterns"

Composition made with gesture drawing PNG file

using Photoshop Elements

PNG files

Below are links to the best PNG files this month (with transparent backgrounds), and everyone is encouraged to make their own compositions.  Just click on the thumbnail image and download the larger file.

All 52 of the large PNG files on this blog post can be downloaded here in one zip file (19.83 MB).

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Sample Compositions

"More Fun with PNGS"

The photos are from the rail yards 

in Barelas, essentially downtown Albuquerque

Free PNG from pngimg.com

combined with my PNG

Unusual PNG files

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46	47	48

 Group PNG files
click image for larger PNG to download

"April 29, 2020 -- Croquis Cafe"

"Close to the Edge -- Part 3"

"Edging Towards Composition -- Part 4"

"April 29, 2020 -- Croquis Cafe"

Altered with Deep Dream Generator

Also over 200 drawings from my book are available for download in high resolution at this link.

Download my drawings

to finish them

3D Printing

"April 7, 2020"

JJ from Quelab

3D printed a lithophane

 of one of my drawings

File Downloads

• All 52 of the large PNG files (with transparent backgrounds) on this blog post can be downloaded here in one zip file (19.83 MB).

• Download 3D files created in April:

• Samba dancing OBJ - 17.59 MB (and FBX - 5.58 MB) -- from Samba Dancing Drawing
• Disintegrated figure OBJ - 6.96 MB -- from More Fun with PNGs
• Belly dancing  OBJ - 5 MB (and FBX - 8.5 MB) -- from April 29, 2020 -- Croquis Cafe

• The OBJ files can be imported and altered in SculptGL, a 3D program online:

"More Fun with PNGs"

The "disintegrated" figure OBJ

altered in SculptGL

• The FBX files are animation files made in Mixamo, and can be uploaded and viewed online in Creators 3D.

• Over 200 of my drawings are available for download in high resolution.  They are in the public domain.

Free Softwares

These are on the free art softwares I used to push my drawings in April 2020:

Free online programs:

• Deep Dream Generator* (AI program that applies style of one image to target image)
• PaintsChainer (AI program that colors images online)
• Remove.BG (removes background)
• Vectorizer (makes vector and STL files from images)
• EZGif (makes animated GIFs online)
• Waifu2x (increases the resolution of images)
• Easy Stereogram Builder (make your own "Magic Eye" piece in 3D from two images)
• Geopattern (type in a word, and it gives you a background)
• PhotoMosh (strange animated treatments to images)

3D

• SculptGL (3D sculpting program)
• Mixamo* (rigs OBJ files and makes them dance in animation)
• STL Viewer (viewing STL files online -- limit 35 MB)
• Creators 3D (plays the animated FBX file made in Mixamo)
• SketchFab (upload and share 3D files online)
• 3D This (3D Photo Effects) (turns 2D images into 3D)
• Make Sweet (3D logo generator)

• Kapwing (takes sound out of videos)
• PStoPDF (shrinks video files)

• Croquis Cafe (not software, but offers models online for drawing)
• pngimg.com (download free PNG files, with transparent backgrounds)
• Mayan Translator (translates words into Mayan glyphs)
• An Automatic Art Title Generator (names your artwork)
• Yandex (the Russian search engine)
• Baidu (the Chinese search engine)

*free, but registration required to use program

Free downloadable programs:

• XnView (for organizing and editing image files)
• LView Pro (downloaded image editing software -- key: right click exe file, and "run as administrator," license ID 486-434-128-136)

• AnamorphMe! (creates anamorphic images, to be viewed obliquely)
• Instant Meshes (to reduce the size of 3D files)
• Marpi Biomes (3D forms downloadable as PLY files)

Check out an even more robust listing of free art software.

I also used Photoshop Elements extensively.  It is not free, but also not too expensive on Amazon.   I have not tried the Gimp, which is a free download, and is supposed to do a lot of the same things that Photoshop does. 

I also downloaded Blender 2.82a, with the anticipation of pushing my drawings even further through free 3D software.

"More Edges"

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April Index
of blog postings

• April 7. 2020
• Digital Experiments
• April 14, 2020
• Edgy
• More Edges
• Close to the Edge -- Part 3
• Edging Towards Composition -- Part 4
• Samba Dancing Drawing
• April 21, 2020
• Kaleidoscope Patterns
• More Fun with PNGs
• Pattern Styles in Deep Dream Generator
• London Drawing
• April 28. 2020
• April 29, 2020 -- Croquis Cafe
• Busy April in review

FUN FACT:  If you Google the name of this blog -- KRЯRL DЯAWINGS -- and look through the "images" search, pretty much everything that shows up is from this blog.

Meanwhile, Doug Weber was painting Mat Bevel's portrait.