My current goal is to blend my Figure Drawings with AI and Printmaking -- to make something that I could hang on a wall and exhibit:
Laser engraved into linoleum,
one of my drawings altered by AI
I laser engraved into linoleum
at Quelab
The laser cutter has been revived at the new Quelab location, and is stronger than before. Therefore I could laser engrave in one pass (instead of two), and cut through the linoleum with three passes (instead of 7):
Engraving:
SPEED -- 150POWER -- 80
Cutting:
SPEED -- 20POWER -- 100
The 6x6 inch linocuts take between 30 minutes to an hour to laser engrave into linoleum with one pass.
Laser engraved
on May 18, 2025
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I started with the image below, generated from the KREA model based on my drawings -- "KRRRL Book":
What the linocut print should look like
The file to send to the laser cutter
The Print
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What the linocut print should look like
The file to send to the laser cutter
The Print
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The original image
The file to send to the laser cutter
The Print
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The original image
The file to send to the laser cutter
The Print
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The original image
The file to send to the laser cutter
The Print
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The original image
The file to send to the laser cutter
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The original image
The file to send to the laser cutter
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The original image
The file to send to the laser cutter
I altered my figure drawings will all the AI firepower that I had -- specifically in KREA and our local install of Stable Diffusion, which accept my figure drawings, and Midjourney when there is no nudity (as Midjourney censors fiercely). The ultimate idea was to generate something that would print nicely, after being laser engraved into linoleum.
I often cheated in order to get images that print better as linocuts. I first flipped a line drawing image into it's negative, to get an image with mostly black areas. Then I would upload that negative image into the AI programs, which would generate an image with more flat black areas, which makes better relief prints:
The image I like
and its negative
However I have not been able to get AI to thicken the lines of my figure drawing, which would probably lead to even better relief prints.
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