Artificial Intelligence creating Fake Bad Krrrl Drawings

I trained my drawings with the StyleGAN2 program in Runway ML in order to create fake Krrrl drawings.  The AI (artificial intelligence) program created thousands of drawings in my style, sketches that I did not draw.

Playlist of FAKE Drawings

created in my style

StyleGAN2 Blog Posts

• Runway ML -- 1st Model
• Double Fake Drawings
• Looking for Faces -- StyleGAN2 Default Settings in Runway ML
• More Fake AI Drawings -- Truncation .8, Sampling 1
• Even More Fake Drawings -- Highest Settings
• Further Pushing My Fake Drawings
• Runway ML -- 2nd "Model" (more short poses)
• Runway ML -- 3rd "Model" (based on long poses)
• August Summary
• Artificial Ignorance

StyleGAN2 Models

(1024 x 1024 images)

1st Model: "Book_model_final.pkl" (364 MB) 

3rd Model: "Long_Krrrl_Drawings__final.pkl" (364 MB) 

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1st MODEL

I uploaded all the 201 high resolution drawings from my book into the StyleGAN2 program and made the 1st "model" that then produced infinite fake drawings in my style.  I "trained" on the model of bird drawings.

"Book_model_final.pkl" (364 MB)

(1024 x 1024 images)

"1st Model"

fake Krrrl drawing

made by the computer

This model was made 

from all the 201 drawings in my book

I then applied color and style to the Fake Drawings using another AI program -- Deep Dream Generator :

I further pushed the fake Krrrl drawings

with Deep Dream Generator

While I was impressed with the Fake Drawings that the computer generated, it often obliterated the faces.  So I went back into the model and cherry picked the Fake Drawings with the best faces:

Cherry picked Fake drawing

with a better face

I played with changing the settings of the sampling distance -- Truncation .8, Sampling 1.  The Fake Drawings looked more coherent.

Fake Drawing after changing the settings

to Truncation .8, Sampling 1

I changed to the highest settings -- Truncation 1, Sampling 1 -- and was more pleased with the resulting Fake Drawings.  The lowest settings -- Truncation 0, Sampling 0 -- did not work, just giving me a single Fake Drawing.

The highest settings

gave me the most varied and satisfactory

Fake Drawings

How far could I push my Fake Drawings?

I tried to push these Fake Drawings

even further

2nd MODEL

Later I uploaded 1456 short pose drawings from this blog to make the 2nd"model" that produced a little different fake drawings in my style.  The larger data set is supposed to give better results. I "trained" this model on the 1st Model I made.

"Second Model"

fake Krrrl drawing

made by the computer

3rd MODEL

Lastly I uploaded 348 long pose drawings to make the 3rd "model"   I "trained" this model on my 2nd Model.  I think this model generated the best Fake Drawings.

"Long_Krrrl_Drawings__final.pkl" (364 MB)

(1024 x 1024 images)

 

The "3rdModel"

generated the best fake Krrrl drawing

The above Fake Drawing

further edited in Deep Dream Generator

Note:  While I made this 3rd Model public on Runway ML, it has only been run once, making it probably the least popular model of all time.

ARTIFICIAL IGNORANCE

I wanted to subvert the machine learning system in order to create something entirely different.

Half Krrrl/half bird

hybrid style

To create something unexpected, I started with the same process as with the 1st Model -- training the 201 drawings from my book on a model of birds. However this time I arrested the training process at only 1000 steps, so that the drawings were half bird/half Krrrl.

Half bird, half Krrrl drawings

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RUNWAY ML TUTORIALS

I watched the Runway ML tutorials by Derrick Shultz and Lia Coleman.

• Intro to ML Art with RunwayML Week 1 (Machine Learning 101, the RunwayML interface)
• Intro to ML Art with RunwayML: Week 2
• Intro to ML Art with RunwayML: Week 3

UPDATE (January 22, 2022):  I posted the 3rd model to Justin Pinkney's "awesome pretrained stylegan2" collection on Github, and Mark Hanslip from the UK used it to make an audio-visual presentation  --"Gandering."