January 27, 2025

Drawn at Art Buddies in Albuquerque:

With colored Sharpies:

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AI ART

January 27, 2025

DEEPSEEK has been the big news topic of the day, and Matt Wolfe noted that the Chinese company released an AI image generator -- Janus-Pro-7B:

• (YouTube) DeepSeek - The Chinese AI That Crashed The Markets

I uploaded the first drawing of this blog post to one of their programs on Hugging Face -- Multimodal Understanding (Janus-Pro-7B) -- and asked it questions:

Multimodal Understanding (Janus-Pro-7B)

What is this?

"This appears to be a sketch of a person sitting down. The lines are drawn in a loose, abstract style, and the figure seems to be composed of various connected shapes and lines."

I then took the response above, and uploaded that as a prompt to generate images in the same program, and it generated the five figures below from the description of the first drawing in this blog post:

Multimodal Understanding (Janus-Pro-7B)

DeepSeek generated these figure drawings

from the description it made

 of the first drawing in this blog post

Below is the Midjourney result from the same prompt:

Multimodal Understanding (Janus-Pro-7B)

Midjourney

The Midjourney result

 from the same prompt

I continued to ask it more questions:

What style is this?

"Line drawing"

Is there an artist with a similar drawing style?

"The drawing style in the image appears to be a form of line art or sketch, which is a common technique in various art forms. This style is often used in comic books, cartoons, and digital art. The use of simple lines and minimal detail can be seen in works by artists such as:

1. **Jean Giraud (Moebius)**: Known for his intricate and detailed line work in comics and graphic novels.

2. **Frank Miller**: Known for his stark, black-and-white line drawings in works like "Sin City."

3. **Tim Burton**: Known for his dark, whimsical line drawings in films and illustrations.

4. **Jim Lee**: Known for his dynamic and detailed line work in comic books.

The style in the image is reminiscent of these artists, but it's not a direct replication. The simplicity and abstraction of the lines suggest a modern or contemporary approach to line art."

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NOTE that I did this twice on blog posts a few days earlier -- Brain Man and January 21, 2025 -- however apparently I was asking questions of an earlier version  on Hugging Face -- Janus-1.3B.

• Also note that the bigger DeepSeek model may not be so censored, as others have suggested
• (YouTube) Run DeepSeek R1 Privately on Your Computer
• (YouTube) The DeepSeek Moment and What's Next for AI

The General AI hasn't really helped me analyze my style or make better drawings -- YET.  However it's doing a lot better than last year 2024.