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Friday, 31 July 2020

June and July Review

During the Covid Summer of 2020, I continued to push my drawings as far as I could through the software of the Internet.


ANIMATED STILL FIGURES

Spinning shapes
enhancing the forms


I try to think in 3D when I was learning to draw the figure with a pencil on 2D paper.  I would break the forms up into spinning shapes and perpendicular lines passing through the model.  The free 3D program Blender 2.8 allowed me to realize those spinning shapes and piercing lines as I imagine them.


January 28, 2017
Deep Dream Generator
Weavesilk
Blender 2.8
EZGif
Lines piercing the figure drawing
St Sebastian style


I would like to see a drawing program, when one can draw on the screen while shapes spin in 3D.  Perhaps one could choose, spin and orient these shapes from a menu of primitives.



VORONOI STYLE

When I transfer the style of a Voronoi image to my figure drawing in Deep Dream Generator, it thickens up my pencil lines.  Using Photoshop Elements, I blend the result from Deep Dream Generator with my original figure drawing to get exactly what want.


The lines of my drawing
thickened with a Voronoi style


https://websvg.github.io/svg_voronoi_gen/
I created two Voronoi images with this program,
and overlapped them in Photoshop Elements to create the image above.
I then transferred that image to my drawings
in Deep Dream Generator.


April 13, 2017
Deep Dream Generator
The lines of my drawing
thickened with a Voronoi style



ONLINE ART PROGRAMS

There are a lot more free online art programs that will alter my drawings than when I last looked (about 2016).  Here are some examples below:


NVIDIA GauGan
Collage made with a background
created in the NVIDIA GauGan online software




GoArt can convert my drawing
into a lot of different styles



GITHUB PROGRAMS

I trolled GitHub (now owned by Microsoft) for art software, after I realized that a lot of these odd online art programs originated there.

Triangulator 
is one of the programs on GitHub


One of my drawings
redesigned in an infinite pattern


Portrait done on 
July 14, 2020



Most of the GitHub programs generated interesting images that I could download and use as style references, to apply to my drawings in Deep Dream Generator.


I applied the style of a GitHub image
to my drawing
in Deep Dream Generator


I applied the style of a GitHub image
to my drawing
in Deep Dream Generator


PIFuHD

PIFuHD is a software demo program in Google's Colaboratory that will convert a 2D photo into a 3D object.  It did not work that well using my drawings, but it does work alright with frontal photos of people taken standing up.

Unlike most of my drawings
my most realistic drawing worked
in PIFuHD



AUTOMATED ART GENERATORS

There are a lot of programs that will generate art from scratch, sans artist, and I made a whole blog posting about many online automated art generators.


As an example, I started by downloading a person that does not exist, and uploading her to other online art generators.

I started with someone who doesn't exist


This Person Does Not Exist
To make a panting that never existed


This Person Does Not Exist
And then let another AI program 
create sisters and cousins that don't exist either


Net Art Generator
Just type in 
the name of the artist and title --
and the Net Art Generator downloads from the Internet
to create a masterpiece like this


DRAWINGS ALTERED IN 3D

I played around in Blender 2.8 to see how I could push my drawings into something different.  I noticed that I liked the 3D results that included a hand drawing, more than entirely computer generated 3D images.  I am fairly biased, but the computer images seem colder to me.

From June 23, 2020


From June 2, 2020


From June 16, 2020



PAINTINGS

Peter Synek saved a lot of the paintings I was going to toss when I moved to Juarez in 2007.  I posted pictures of these salvaged paintings in June:



Old painting


Old painting


Then I used the old paintings as style references in Deep Dream Generator.  That is, I transferred the style of these paintings to some of my pencil drawings, and was fairly pleased with the results.




One of my pencil drawings
after I applied the style of one of my paintings to it


One of my pencil drawings
after I applied the style of one of my paintings to it


3D IN CROSSVIEW

It was easy to create a kind of 3D image in Photoshop Elements.  I made a stereoscopic pair of images by slightly shifting one image to the left or right from the other image.  When one overlaps these two images -- by crossing their eyes -- one figure will float over in front of the other.  

This is a tangible 3D illusion that happens in your head.

Overlap the two images
by crossing your eyes
to see one image in 3D


ONLINE MODELS

In addition to drawing online every Tuesday night with the Santa Fe Argos group, I also found a couple of websites that offered models to draw -- namely Croquis Cafe and Sketch Daily.


Model from the Croquis Cafe


Sketch Daily
model reference website


John Tollett made two videos about the drawings from the Santa Fe Tuesday Night Drawing group:

Video of the Santa Fe Tuesday Night Drawing Group
(featuring one of my drawings)


And the sequel:

Tuesday Night Drawing Encore,
also featuring one of my drawings




DEEP DREAM GENERATOR
April Update

Deep Dream Generator upgraded their online AI program to deliver a higher resolution result.  I also played with the Settings, to get stronger  (and weaker) style transfers.

This is a higher resolution 6 MP result,
at a stronger style transfer setting



DOWNTOWN ALBUQUERQUE
A Covid Summer

Days after the July Art Walk in downtown Albuquerque, people started painting graffiti murals on the boarded up windows.  I documented the evolution on this blog.


Evolution of downtown Albuquerque
during the Summer of 2020



ONLINE SOFTWARE
AND RESOURCES
From June and July



*Online Model References:


*Animated St Sebastian:


*July 14, 2020

"A curated list of awesome projects, works, people, articles, and resource for creating art (including music) with machine learning."



*July 7, 2020






OTHER





*Other Online Interactive Art Programs



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