Sunday, 16 February 2025

February 15, 2025

On February 15, 2025 we drew at the PRESS CLUB in Albuquerque -- Ben Harrison organized the event:




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OTHER ARTISTS

Drawing at the PRESS CLUB








Friday, 14 February 2025

February 13, 2025

We drew at the Edith Bunker in Albuquerque, with Monty Singer, Brian Gonzales and Cody Kamrowski:





Conte


Charcoal


Acrylic Paint




With colored Sharpies



The AI version



Thursday, 13 February 2025

February 12, 2025

We drew at FUSION in Albuquerque:






























Smartphone HOLOGRAM

At Quelab Ally 3D printed a cylinder that makes fake holograms with your smartphone:


I still want to create a sculpture that one controls with their smartphone, so Adric sent me these links below to that end:
Perhaps we can program an NFC tag that takes a viewer to a website that allows them to control a sculpture


Wednesday, 12 February 2025

AI ART Curves

GOOGLE has recently come out with IMAGE FX and WHISK, both for free right now (with daily limits).  And KREA.AI has come out with a "chat" feature to generate AI images:

IMAGE FX

IMAGE FX uses the Google's latest "Imagen 3" for text-to-image:



WHISK



In December 2024, Google launched -- WHISK -- which combines images using AI, and does almost as good of a job as Blending and Moodboards in Midjourney:








The WHISK images all have elaborate prompts -- like the following for the above image:

"A photorealistic image, muted cool tones, slightly grainy texture, bright outdoor lighting casting distinct shadows. A middle-aged man with light skin, dark hair, and a beard, wearing a long coat and breeches, stands in a black and white woodcut-style field. He holds a long staff. A small peccary is near his feet. The man is depicted in realistic detail, contrasting with the black and white woodcut background. The background shows simple houses, indistinct people, and rolling hills under a lightly clouded sky. The ground is uneven, showing patches of grass and bare earth. The overall composition is simple, focusing on the man and the peccary in the foreground. The style is a blend of photorealistic detail for the man and animal and a black and white woodcut style for the background landscape."

On February 5, Google released it's Gemini Studio 2.0 Flash in GOOGLE AI STUDIO.


KREA AI

On February 8, 2025 (the day after it came out), I tried the new "CHAT" feature of KREA.AI (which I believe is based on DeepSeek).  I just uploaded my drawing and chatted with KREA to generate images.  This feature is available for free at the moment:

prompt: "make a drawing of a woman using this style"
(from my drawing of February 7, 2025)

The best result

prompt: "can you apply the style
 of the first drawing that I uploaded
 to the last drawing that you generated"

The results, not really in my drawing style

The best result,
but still not really in the style of my drawings

prompt: "Can you make that drawing 3D isometric"
(from my drawing of February 7, 2025)


Ultimately I talked KREA.AI into generating the image below, which is nothing like my drawing:

KREA seems to have 
completely forgotten my drawing style

And then I further altered the above image:



CHATTING NOT NEW

While I casually "chatted" with KREA to generate AI ART images -- this approach is not entirely new.  I "CHATTED" with Google's 1.5 Flash model last December to generate images:



HOWEVER I am still unable to make FAKE KRRRL Drawings with these new AI ART programs.

  • Meanwhile I still have not been able to pay for Midjourney, and thus have not used that program all this month so far, February 2025.
    • UPDATE (February 14, 2025) -- I got back on Midjourney

It is challenging keeping up with the AI ART developments in the early months of 2025.