New Mexico had the most Covid restrictions in the United States, nevertheless 2020 was an oddly productive year for me. Sheltering-in-place, I resolved to push my drawings through all the art software I could find on the Internet.
This year started off with a bang. Until March I kept busy with exhibitions, pulling the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta out of the Las Cruces Museum of Art in January, showing the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange in Taos (January 10 - February 9), and visiting Mexic-Arte in Austin to see some of the prints we donated on exhibit.
Soft Exhibition: John Tollett printed one of my AI altered drawings onto a fuzzy blanket:
DRAWING LOCKDOWN
In mid-March we abruptly went into lockdown over Covid and all the drawing sessions and galleries closed down. However the Tuesday Night Santa Fe Drawing Group started drawing again online, barely missing a beat (thank to the efforts of Holly Grimm). I also drew a couple of times online with a London Drawing group, as well as on Croquis Cafe and Sketch Daily.
- Best Drawings of 2020
- Best AI Drawings 2020 -- Part 1 and Part 2
- Best PNG Drawings 2020 -- Part 1 and Part 2
- Los Tres Gatos of Guadalajara hosted a series of print workshops/talks on Instagram in 2020, including this one with Horned Toad Prints in El Paso.
- One of the prints (not mine) from the "Desert Triangle Print Carpeta" (a project I commissioned) made it into and exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum -- ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now.
- I submitted 15 drawings and a 200 word essay to The Drawing Center in New York City. They will let me know at the end of January 2021 if I was accepted or not.
- John Tollett made several movies in 2020, many based on the Tuesday Night Santa Fe drawing group, such as:
- I learned that Richard Williams (1931-2018) wrote perhaps the first computer art program in the 60s when he was teaching mechanical engineering at the University of New Mexico, according to this radio program on KUNM. Dr Richard Williams used to draw with us in Albuquerque in the open figure drawing sessions.
- Download "Book_model_final.pkl" (364 MB) -- PKL file of the first StyleGAN2 "model" made in Runway ML by training from the drawings in my book (1024 x 1024 images)
- Download "Long_Krrrl_Drawings__final.pkl" (364 MB) -- PKL file of the third StyleGAN2 "model" made in Runway ML by training from the long drawings on this blog (1024 x 1024 images)
--The 360°/3D video compilation below is even better
- Online Programs Altering My Drawings (huge list of free art software)
- Artificial Intelligence Creating Fake Bad Krrrl Drawings (using StyleGAN2)
- Best PNG Drawings 2020 -- Part 1
- Best AI Drawings 2020 -- Part 1
- Best Compositions 2020
- Best PNG Drawings 2020 -- Part 2
- Best AI Drawings 2020 -- Part 2
