AI images experiment (1)

 

An experiment with creative use of AI. 

I used an old drawing (La piscine des erreurs, from september 2016), applied reverse prompting and used the resulting texts (with some adaptations) to generate a few AI images. I used stable diffusion 3.0 through the Openart platform. Most of the results were not to my liking, I noticed that you will need some tweaking of the prompts to get nice results. Then I used one of the better images as inspiration to make a new drawing. See above, the one with the drapes. 

Then I converted the drawing through reverse prompting into an AI image again, see below. I will use that one to draw something new again. Interesting results. 

 

Little monsters

 

2 fantasy monsters, just scribbling away.

Bookbinding

 

For a holiday, later this year, I wanted to create a sketchbook of my own design. with different types of paper, and another size. So I made my own sketchbook with a size about 19x19cm, which I finished it yesterday. I used "Coptic binding", a bookbinding system that enables to keep your book totally flat. Handy for sketching. It was fun to do, I hope it will work out well.

Oniropolis

A fantasy drawing, Oniropolis (dream city). Inspired by Piranesi and Sant'Elia. One of these drawings that develop on the way.
 

Dungeons and dragons

My son plays Dungeons and dragons with a close group of friends. Buddies he still sees every friday evening, from his highschool days. He is the DND-master, that means he determines the story. They did a difficult quest, and just lost in the final battle. It happens. He asked me to make a drawing of his group (the Carnelians), and I came up with this. 

Ink drawing, scanned and filled with digital colouring. Really fun to do.

Wolf skull

 

Wolf skull. It was drawn with hard carré pastels, on a piece of paper they use to fill the voids in those far too large Internet shopping boxes.

Soul draining

 

I still record my dreams, for more than 3 years now. I already recorded and sketched about 370 or so.

This was an image from a dream I woke up with on May 23rd.. A metallic hovering machine with a writhing soft underbelly, draining the soul out of an old collapsed building. And a boy hiding behind a burnt out car. Weird, I know.

Sunday afternoon at the reservoir

 

Some doodling led to this image. Atramentis brown ink, and washed out brown Pentel color brush. I had that brush lying around unused for more than 10 years. I finally found use for it.

Charcoal

 

Excercises in charcoal. Left the usual willow charcoal, right siberian compressed charcaol. Both wahsed out with water. I personnaly like the siberian charcoal better.

Magpie

Doodling, I saw this magpie during my running training today, wanted to draw it at home. I am always fascinated by these birds.

Best wishes for 2023

 

Merry Christmas and the best wishes for the next year.

My wife made this tableau, including the ceramic and decorated trees.

Dimmuborgir

 

Luchtime doodle. Based on a picture of the quite alien looking Dumuborgir landscape in Iceland.

Terramining

 Just doodling.

2 trees

 

Experimenting with colours. Above trying something the Mark Folly watercolour way. 

Below: a tree in coloured inks, made by flowing inks on moist paper.

Last days of the firestorm

I start with a random line, then another one......
 

Barcelona

 

As part of a "drawing"game, a group of us split up the map of Barcelona. I choose one, which I worked out. All drawings will lead to a patchwork of a map of Barcelona. Bolow the yet unfinished status as of yesterday.

An initiative of Laura Sfiat from Boston.

After the rain

Trying out watercolours. After an example by Dan Marshall. On Fabriano paper.

The darkest is just before dawn

To finish the year. The darkest hour is always just before dawn. Maybe a good motto to start the year.

The drawing is based on an image in the Gipi comic "unastoria".

Sabrina model

Live model drawing session: sketches. Each about 6 minutes.
 

Terramining

 Random sketches.