KRЯRL DЯAWINGS: August Summary 2023

August 2023 was a big month for both PRINTMAKING and AI ART.

PRINTMAKING

The new classic photo of the Albuquerque printmakers:

August 8, 2023

Virgil Velasco, Craig, Ellie Weadock,

Henry Morales, Cody Kamrowski

Southwest Print Fiesta Print Exchange 2023

I combined both printmaking and AI Art by laser engraving an image I generated with Leonardo.AI, and printing an edition of it, for the Southwest Print Fiesta Print Exchange 2023:

Southwest Print Fiesta 2023 Print Exchange

I laser engraved and printed an AI image

for the Southwest Print Fiesta Print Exchange 2023

Southwest Print Fiesta 2023 Print Exchange

Pulling an edition of 45 prints for the exchange,

in Henry Morales' studio

When one scans his smart phone over my print, a 3D AR tapir materializes in space (on the phone), without downloading an app. However this AR (Augmented Reality) is a huge nosebleed to actually use:

Augmented Reality Print Exchange

I enhanced my print

with AR (Augmented Reality)

PIKA LABS

Southwest Print Fiesta 2023 Print Exchange

I rejected printing the small round laser-cut version

as it looked too lonely when printed on 8x8 inch paper

(but it made a great AI animation)

PRINTERS PLANET Festival

We participated in the PRINTERS PLANET Festival in Santa Fe on August 13, 2023:

SUMMARY -- PRINTERS PLANET 2023 -- August 13

PRINTERS PLANET -- Santa Fe, August 13, 2023

TORTILLA PRESS Printing -- during The PRINTERS PLANET

Ellie Weadock and Virgil Velasco

made most of the Tortilla Press prints

at the PRINTERS PLANET in Santa Fe

SUMMARY -- PRINTERS PLANET 2023 -- August 13

We met both Rex Culp and Caryn Crimmel at the PRINTERS PLANET vendor market, and later Henry Morales pulled new perfect prints for them in his studio in Albuquerque:

August 8, 2023

A run of Rex Culp's prints

in Henry Morales' studio in Albuquerque

I delivered those prints to the artists in Santa Fe during a drawing session at Argos Studio/Gallery on August 29th, 2023, where I also put up a pop-up print show:

August 29, 2023

Caryn Crimmel next to her print

at the pop-up print show in Santa Fe

The portable Laserpecker 2 quickly and safely cut EVA foam, which we then used to print on the Tortilla Press:

EVA Foam printing

Laser-cut EVA foam

The initial idea was to laser-cut and print live in Santa Fe for the PRINTERS PLANET -- however we decided against that as there was a chance that the laser cutter would tip over and injure someone.

Julianna Kirwin wheat pasted this print outside on the wall of her studio in Albuquerque:

August 24, 2023

This wheat pasted print

really resonates with the neighborhood

AI ART

AI ART (Artificial Intelligence Art) has really escalated recently, and I got access to the powerful new programs starting last August 2022, a whole year ago. I tried to come to grip with all this progress by making a blog post:

Blog post: A Year of AI ART Innovation

We started at the beginning of the month when Grant lent his computer with a powerful RTX graphics card to Quelab on August 2nd. A week later it was running Stable Diffusion, after Adam installed and tweaked Automatic 1111.

Automatic 1111 -- Stable Diffusion

By the end of the month

I was "improving" my drawings

using Stable Diffusion at Quelab

We downloaded a lot of AI models from CIVITAI, and also the AI model trained on my drawings in Open Art -- model_20221213233657.ckpt (2 GB).

They have to be uploaded to the "models/Stable-diffusion" folder.

There is also a way to train AI models for use in Stable Diffusion -- LoRAs

One of my ultimate goals it to have AI "correct" or influence my figure drawing in real time, sort of like what Scott Eaton does:

Drawing Caffeinated Diversions

Adam also applied his magic so that I could use this Quelab computer remotely, and make AI art on my laptop at home and at the coffee house, by using AnyDesk.

AI ANIMATION

I discovered PIKA LABS for making animations using AI, and used it to make animations of my Midjourney AI creations (I had early access since July 21st, but was too busy to get to it before August). I made two YouTube videos of the best results:

More PIKA LABS

Midjourney and PIKA LABS by Krrrl

More PIKA LABS

Short AI animations

to animated GIFs

More PIKA LABS

Short AI animations

to animated GIFs

I took a step further and made a longer AI video in Deforum, using Stable Diffusion in Automatic 1111

on the beefy computer that Grant lent us at Quelab, based on my drawings:

August 14, 2023

Deforum AI Video of Krrrl Drawings

Adam made a great AI video with Deforum:

YouTube: screen printing with stable diffusion and deforum

InPainting

NOTE: Midjourney came out with "inpainting" in version 5.3 (I mentioned this on August 21st)

2D-to-3D AI

On August 3rd, 2023 I got access to a 2D-to-3D program -- CSM (Common Sense Machines) -- that worked in Discord:

2D to 3D -- CSM

2D-to-3D

CSM in Discord

2D to 3D -- CSM

Tim even helped me make a 3D print

from the CSM file

at Quelab

AI QR Codes

QR[X]

August 7, 2023

Customized AI QR code

that directs to this blog

Augmented Reality

We figured out how to deliver AR (Augmented Reality) without downloading an app, but the whole process was a huge nosebleed.

Augmented Reality Print Exchange

This QR code goes to the WASM-AR website

This whole experience hinges on WASM-AR, which is the software that recognizes the image when the smart phone is hoovering over it (in landscape orientation), and places the AR image on top. The AR image has to be hosted on a server (it can't be in Dropbox or Gdrive).

PROGRAMS