Sunday 31 March 2024

MARCH SUMMARY -- 2024

March 2024 was a big month with 27 blog posts -- as I made more progress with life drawings, prints and AI Art.  Plus I posted a lot of WebAR (Augmented Reality) links, and had ChatGPT write a few simple art programs.

LIFE DRAWINGS

Of course my main goal is to improve my figure drawings:



My favorite drawings this month were sparse and sketchier:











I also started to draw with Conte Crayon in order to get darker:



PRINTMAKING

Printmaking thawed out in March 2024. I laser engraved a lot of linocuts to make AI relief prints.  We printed those during Henry Morales' opening at the Sanitary Tortilla Factory on March 8th, 2024 in Albuquerque.  Virgil Velasco, Ellie Weadock and Henry Morales made a lot of progress on their BIG INK print collaboration.  And I went to the Panel Discussion at the El Paso Museum of Art for the NEXOS ENTRE RAICES exhibition:


I used PhotoMosh to convert and massage my AI images into black-and-white images ready for the laser engraver:

Then we printed and framed five laser engraved linocuts to hang at Quelab:




We also made great progress on the BIG INK collaborative print:



Virgil's section of the BIG INK woodcut


Ellie's BIG INK section
ready to proof


On March 23rd I saw the NEXOS ENTRE RAICES exhibition and panel talk at the El Paso Museum of Art:



John Tollett laser engraved one of my drawings into linoleum at Make Santa Fe, and printed it in two colors:




COMPUTER ART

ChatGPT3 Programs

Bob at Quelab helped me write SIMPLE ART PROGRAMS with ChatGPT 3.5, which can be used online:



The Online PROGRAMS (refresh browser for new image):
WebAR

I crafted some Augmented Reality figures that one can experience with their smartphone -- WITHOUT downloading any apps -- using WebAR:



I uploaded some of my 3D AI figures to Southwest Cyberport with WinSCP, to host my AR experiences:
I got back into Midjourney on March 1, 2024:



"--cref" followed by the URL of the source image



At first I was having a hard time getting anything I liked out of Midjourney -- but then I generated a lot of desert scenes in the style of Moebius:


However I was most pleased with the ROPE IMAGES that Midjourney generated. Moreover unlike what Adam Savage asserts, I think my AI ROPE generations "smell of a strong point-of-view!"

SPECIFICALY I "blended" this particular rope image below with other drawings and images, to get the best results:

This particular rope image
gives me the best results
when "blended" in Midjourney








I converted 25  ROPE images -- into diptychs with depth maps (using RGB-Depthify) -- so that they can be seen as hologram after uploading them to the Looking Glass Portrait Display:

DOWNLOAD:  240315__Rope_holograms.ZIP (6.5 MB)
25 images to be seen as Holograms








LEONARDO.AI continues to add new features (and I can't keep up):

HAIPER

HAIPER is a new AI program that allows me to generate two seconds of video for free:



Adric writes:  scaniverse now supports gaussian splatting:

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