April 6, 2021

The Tuesday Night drawing group of Santa Fe drew together online using Zoom, because of the Covid 19 quarantine.

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Dada NYC

Deep Dream Generator

Photoshop Elements 2021

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(Webp file)

DADA NYC

Online drawing thread

I have been drawing the live model in Dada NYC, an online community that allows an artist to answer another artist's drawing, ultimately creating a drawing thread.  This night I "answered" two of Holly Grimm's drawings from the same session; and she "answered" one of mine -- all practically in real time:

Dada NYC

I immediately "answered" one of Holly's figure drawings

(this thread now has 18 drawings to date, 210407)

I then altered my drawing in Deep Dream Generator

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I applied the style of this drawing,

which I created in Paint 3D,

to my Dada NYC line drawing above

in Deep Dream Generator

Deep Dream Generator

The original drawings on Dada NYC

Holly Grimm "answered" 

one of my drawings from the same session,

with a sketch from a different pose

Later John Tollett further improved the piece...

...and it was spotted at the Louvre

Below is another drawing thread, where I "answered" the figure that Holly Grimm drew in the previous pose, on Dada NYC, and then I altered both of our figures in Deep Dream Generator:

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Deep Dream Generator

The original drawings on Dada NYC

I immediately "answered" the drawing Holly Grimm made

of the previous pose 

• I also drew in Dada NYC on March 9, 2021

DRAWINGS IN PAINT 3D

Paint 3D

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All the drawings that night

which I made in Paint 3D

Download all the "drawings/sculptures" below -- 210406__drawingsGLB.zip (9.94 MB)

All the multiple images below are just different views of the same 3D figure:

Google Poly

Imagine these 3 images in succession 

on a Lenticular Business Card

3D Builder

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These figures were "decimated" in 3D Builder first,

to reduce the size of the 3D file

Blender

Photoshop Elements

I used the Grease Pencil function in Blender

to alter a few of the shapes

 in the toothpaste PNG drawing above

• YouTube tutorial: Grease Pencil from Mesh - New Feature in Blender 2.9

Lines added later in Paint 3D

Paint 3D

Photoshop Elements 2021

Further altered in Paint 3D

and Photoshop Elements 2021

I used the Blender add-on "Tissue" to make the fuzzy parts of the figure below:

YouTube tutorial:  How To Install And Use Tissue Addon In Blender 2.83

Blender (Tissue add-on)

I imported the figure into SculptGL online, to bend and warp the shapes:

SculptGL

SculptGL

Blender (Tissue add-on)

SculptGL

• DOWNLOAD and alter all the 3D GLB files of the above drawings-- 210406_drawingsGLB.zip (9.94 MB), except for the two that were altered with the Tissue add-on in Blender.  "Tissue" increased the file size of the 3D file ENORMOUSLY!

• John Tollett's drawings from the same session actually resemble the model.
• Likewise so Raye Leith's drawings were more realistic

AUGMENTED REALITY

I made an Augmented Reality scene with three of the figures above, viewable with the Adobe Aero Mobile app:

*Augmented Reality scene*

210406__Drawings (2.68 MB)

John Tollett filmed this Augmented Reality on his iPhone (on April 13th).   Unfortunately he could not enlarge the figures in the Adobe Aero app, so they look like insects:

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Lenticular Business cards could preview the Augmented Reality with three images in succession, and one could print the AR Code image on the back of the business cards (could the business cards also double as programmable iBeacons?).

What if someone were to take pictures of my bad Augmented Reality drawings in front of sites all over the world, like they were the gnome sculpture in the movie Amelie:

GLOBAL FANTASY:

My bad Augmented Reality drawings

could go worldwide!

DOWNLOAD and alter the 3D file of this scene with three figures -- 210406_three.glb (2.65 MB)

Unfortunately I don't see any way to view the AR scenes in the Oculus or other VR headsets, at least at the moment (how about on Apple AR Glasses, or AR contact lenses?).

DEEP FACE DRAWING

I uploaded my drawing into the DEEP FACE DRAWING demo to see what kind of face it would put out.  There is a Medium article and a Jazza YouTube about this AI program:

Deep Face Drawing

Even the Deep Face Drawing's interpretation

did not look like the model

Paint 3D

3D effects with 2D images

in Paint 3D

Tanya

Tanya Rich drew with us again, but this time from her home in Florida:

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John Tollett's drawings

of Tuesday night models

animated with the Remini app

John Tollett made his painting sing

with an Apple app:  Avatarify

John Tollett took this picture of me

in front of my sculpture in Barelas

when he came down to Albuquerque for coffee

3D Printing

It got ugly

I need to start 3D printing my figure drawings at Quelab hackerspace.  The floating parts of my drawings really do not lend themselves to 3D printing.  For instance, I converted the first 3D drawing in this blog post from a GLB to an OBJ file (using Blender), and imported it into Slic3r (the program that generates G code for the 3D printer to use). 

The figure imported fine, as one can see in the top screen grab of the image below.  However when I clicked "Preview," it looks like the 3D printer was going to create the second screen grab.

So I checked the "Generate support material" box in Slic3r.  However the "Preview" didn't look much better.

Slic3r

UGLY

1) the 3D file imported into Slic3r slicing software

2) the print "Preview" (circle with dot in the center)

3) the "Preview" after adding "support material"

*This was not going to print pretty*

• Holly brought up artist Agnieszka Kurant

• I watched the Web presentation from Mexic-Arte by Latino art collector Dr Gilberto Cardenas on April 3rd

• Greg Klein joined us for Quelab chat; he is part of the Albuquerque Game Developers Guild
• YouTube tutorials for Unity:  Make A Game In Unity With No Experience
• WebXR article
• How about Augmented Reality for several users at the same time -- Android AR multi-user games, Apple iOS 12 multiuser AR game