Confessions of a researchaholic

2025-07-26

Pug into boiled egg

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 11:41 am
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I noticed that two of my recent quick sketches, one of a sleeping pug and another of an irregularly shaped boiled egg, have similar overall structures, and experimented to see how video generation would interpret their relationships.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DMlSkFWSPvR/

2025-07-20

Honey Bucket

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 11:36 am
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Walked by a Honey Bucket portable toilet and wondered how AI would interpret the logo.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DMVym75yeH2/

2025-07-19

English muffin pizza

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 10:19 am
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“English muffin pizza” means a pizza in the size of a muffin instead of a pizza topped with muffins.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DMTDXaIPvnd/

2025-07-16

Pizza with ants topping

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 4:20 pm
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After a day of jury service and before attending an evening fitness class, he bought a box of pizza from a nearby pizza shop for dinner. He ate two pieces and brought the rest inside the box to the class.

When he arrived at home after the class, he found the pizza crawling with ants, and realized that he had left the pizza out for too long without refrigeration.

After a quick web search, he found that the ants are a potential source of protein, and that the pizza is still edible, so he washed away the ants and ate the pizza.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DMMCB9rsw-C/

2025-07-14

A sleeping pug

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 8:33 pm
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Chewie is a pug who sometimes sits in my place.

He follows me everywhere when I move, and stays in his beds, which I position around me, when I stay put.

He is quite content for sleeping most of the time and does not seem to care about anything else.

He likes to chew carrot sticks.

He seems to know what I need him to do, and will do it automatically, like going into his cage when I am leaving, going out for a walk when it is time for his biological breaks, and dumping his biological waste when reaching his usual area.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DMTybGUy8U2/
https://youtube.com/shorts/QZC-jPEGYLY
https://www.behance.net/gallery/190359367/ExteriorMotoGStylus/modules/1323162713

2025-07-05

Impression of an artist selling paintings on the street

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 10:27 am
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While waiting for the traffic light near the intersection of Jefferson and El Camino Real on May 20 2025, I saw this artist in a hoodie and facial mask sitting against the wall outside a Whole Foods store, with several paintings and a sign that read “painting for sale”. I did a quick sketch on my mobile phone upon arrival at the Caltrain station, but could not figure out how to proceed it until today when I used it as a composition reference for Adobe Firefly text-to-image generation.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DLvGcf_vEdm/

2025-06-14

Flowery fire hydrant

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 8:01 pm
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I can see this fire hydrant across the street right outside my home office window, and recently it has been surrounded by blooming flowers.
The watercolor wet splatter brush helped me quickly create the flowers effect.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DK5-xlaOqEl/
https://youtube.com/shorts/GgaaarcNevg

2025-06-01

Aeonium

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 8:58 pm
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Saw this plant in the neighborhood and fascinated by its swirling leaves.
Instead of reproducing the exact details, I tried to capture the overall feels via freeform strokes.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DKYrhzLxwwu/

2025-05-26

Animated brushes

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 8:38 pm
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Animated brushes (e.g., AmberDraw) and motion brushes (e.g., Adobe Fresco) are complementary ways to “draw” single-frame animations.
Recently I have had a lot of fun experimenting with the former, either creating animations from scratch or adding animated brushes over a static drawing.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DKJCGO5xhdY/

https://www.instagram.com/kub1ai/p/DKGbzm1xMiv/

https://www.instagram.com/kub1ai/p/DKGbtKgRL4l/

https://www.instagram.com/kub1ai/p/DJ2lz9WSjDt/

https://www.instagram.com/kub1ai/p/DJ2ljWgSpkM/

https://www.instagram.com/kub1ai/reel/DJlLgXYOmWh/
https://youtube.com/shorts/NFvxPCQUG4s
https://www.instagram.com/kub1ai/reel/DJkv9BOSXcr/
https://youtube.com/shorts/f9RLMBIYl34

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