KRЯRL DЯAWINGS: October Summary -- focus on AI Art

AI Art (Artificial Intelligence Art) took a quantum leap when Deep Dream Generator added their "Text 2 Dream" option (on September 29th, 2022 I believe), based on Stable Diffusion.

July 18, 2017

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AI Art -- VQGAN+CLIP

Improved VQGAN+CLIP

My drawing transformed into this

Fake Egon Schiele

So naturally I started transforming my drawings with "Text 2 Dream":

Finish My Drawings

June 22, 2013

A drawing from my book

transformed by "Text 2 Dream" (middle)

then I used the result to generate another fake figure drawing (right)

October 11, 2022

A drawing I made in October

transformed by "Text 2 Dream" (middle),

then the result was further transformed again (bottom)

I even transformed other artists' drawings with "Text 2 Dream":

RICH's life drawing into AI pencil drawing:

Deep Dream Generator (Text 2 Dream)

Rich's pencil drawing

transformed by "Text 2 Dream"

I transformed KEN ROMIG's drawing, twice, with "Text 2 Dream" in Deep Dream Generator:

Deep Dream Generator (Text 2 Dream)

First AI generation --

prompt: "Sitting female model in front of a mirror at a life drawing session"

Deep Dream Generator (Text 2 Dream)

Ken Romig drawing refried --

Second AI generation,

fake Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Improved VQGAN

I then recycled a lot of the fake AI images I generated last year (2021) in the new "Text 2 Dream" option of Deep Dream Generator:

AI Art -- VQGAN+CLIP

Improved VQGAN+CLIP

I used "Text 2 Dream" to transform and improve

some of the fake images I generated in VQGAN last year

Exquisite AI

I used "Text 2 Dream" to generate a lot of fake images by famous artists based on the same figure drawing from my book. Then I made an "Exquisite Corpse" from three of the best transformations:

Variations on a figure

EXQUSITE AI CORPSE

July 14, 2014

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Pattern styles in Deep Dream Generator

Variations on a figure

Below are the three fake image ingredients -- Egon Schiele, Salvador Dali, Robert Williams -- that I cut up to make the AI Exquisite Corpse:

BEST AI FIGURES

AI 3D

"Text 2 Dream" transformed some of the figure drawings I made in Paint 3D:

prompt: "Two people facing each other"

prompt: "Floating human figure"

Fake MICHELANGELOS

prompt: "Sitting figure in the style of Michelangelo"

From a collaborative drawing

I made with John Tollett

prompt: "Sitting figure in the style of Michelangelo"

Fake EGON SCHIELES

prompt: "In the style of Egon Schiele"

Fake ROBERT WILLIAMS

Fake Robert Williams

Fake KRRRL into Fakes by other MASTERS

I started with a fake drawing in my style that the computer generated last year (2021), and used AI to transfer more style and color to it. From that drawing I asked "Text 2 Dream" to generate new fake variations by great master artists:

prompt: "Sitting lady in the style of John Everett Millais"

John Everett Millais

prompt: "Sitting lady in the style of Anthony van Dyck"

Anthony van Dyck

prompt: "Sitting lady in the style of Caravaggio "

Caravaggio

prompt: "Sitting lady in the style of Norman Rockwell"

Norman Rockwell

GREEN FAKE MASTERS

prompt: "Woman riding a bicycle Jacques-Louis David"

My drawing refried twice

into a fake Jacques-Louis David

prompt: "Lady drinking coffee by Holbein"

My drawing refried twice

into a fake Holbein

prompt: " In the style of Lawrence Alma-Tadema"

My painting

converted into a fake Lawrence Alma-Tadema

YouTube Videos

I created a lot of short YouTube videos to show off my new AI creations (which can be viewed in sequence on the PLAYLIST):

Krrrl Drawings transformed by "Text 2 Dream"

3D drawings altered by AI

Krrrl 3D drawings into Fake Michelangelos

Krrrl drawings into Fake Egon Schieles

Krrrl Drawings into Fake Robert Williams

Fake Masterpieces from a Fake KRRRL drawing

False green Master figures based on a KRRRL drawing

AI Holograms

Some of the AI generated images lead to good holograms. I transformed the depth map in the hologram below (right) with "Text 2 Dream." When I placed it beside the original AI image, generated in Midjourney, it still read as a hologram after I uploaded it to the Looking Glass Portrait display:

Midjourney

DPT Large

Holograms on GDdrive

Deep Dream Generator (Text 2 Dream)

Improved VQGAN+CLIP

I altered the depth map (right) with AI

and it still read as a hologram

in the Looking Glass Portrait display

PRINTMAKING

We drew in Henry Morales' studio, and printed on his presses immediately afterwards in his studio:

October 3, 2022

Henry Morales

printing in his studio

I passed out some 6x6 inch squares of Expanded PVC Foam (which I bought at Port Plastics) on which the artists could draw the model in pen. By pressing down hard enough on with the pen, they would gouge the PVC foam, essentially carving into the surface, but without a knife. Then we could ink the foam and make relief prints, as if it were carved linoleum.

Below is the process of creating Rich's print:

Rich drawing/carving on the PVC foam

with a ball point pen

Rich drew the model with a ball point pen,

pushing deep into the PVC foam

The resulting print

from the "pen-carved" PVC foam

Note: Due to shortages I am having trouble getting the Expanded PVC Foam. However I was able to order it from Amazon.

The wonderful thing about working with Expanded PVC Foam squares is quick turnaround. We can pass them out to the artists, let them draw/carve during the figure drawing session, and immediately print the plate with the Tortilla Press. The artist can walk out with a print in the same session.

Upcoming Print Exchanges:

Remarque Print Exchange 2023 -- 8x10 inches, registration deadline December 18, 2022
Print Santa Fe Print Exchange 2023 -- 12x12 inches, registration deadline December 15th, 2022
Plus the next tiny OPEN PRESS print swap will be announced sometime in November.

BEST DRAWINGS

I even drew some figures that I liked in October:

October 3, 2022