Pink and blue left over
by the hot summer air in
the evening walk
2022-09-05
Impression of a sunset
2022-09-04
A caterpillar sleeping inside an avocado bed
With the same subject title, I created multiple outcomes via manual drawing and DALL-E-2 with different styles hints.
digital art
natural illustration
oil painting by Rembrandt
manual painting with Fresco (took about an hour)
2022-09-03
2022-08-31
No-parking tree
I noticed how the no-parking ground marking seems to be crawling upon this tree near the Vancouver convention center, and envisioned these graphical effects.
2022-08-29
Sumika takeout receipt
I envisioned this graphical version of the text receipt from a recent restaurant takeout.
https://youtu.be/9lw_dInSXOA
2022-08-27
I see a ghost in a horse painting
A horse painting that used to hang on a high wall recently broke its rope and fell to the ground, which gave me a chance to close examine it and spot this white ghost hidden within the broad brush strokes.
2022-08-24
Tornado
The term trash tornado I heard from this podcast inspired me to create this motion graphics based on a branch I was just working on.
https://youtu.be/qq_wk39xOi4
https://youtu.be/vSkoH5WN-vk
2022-08-14
Corgi cam
If you have attended SIGGRAPH this year, you probably have noticed this Corgi cam inside the experience hall of the Vancouver convention center.
I am not sure if there was a live video feed, whether someone was behind the camera, and what was the purpose of this whole setup (except for people to play with the dog), but below is my sketch of my (imaginary) mental image of the Corgi cam based on a reference photo.
2022-06-22
Midjourney
I did some experiments with Midjourney’s prompt-based image generation.
(I am glad that the site imposes GPU compute constraints as otherwise I might be tempted to spend endless time exploring the rabbit hole.)
The first one came from a real life experience I encountered the very same morning: A painting by Joan Miro of a laptop computer that still works after being cracked open by heat coming from the office window, after some iterations here is one I like:
The second one also came from a real-life experience, which I iterated to bring out the vegetables from: A vegetarian descendant of Genghis Khan