Confessions of a researchaholic

2023-11-04

A frivolous drawing of a serious topic

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 11:48 am
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[The title of this post is suggested by GitHub co-pilot, and I decided to keep it for fun. A more suitable title would be “spot the difference, by generative fill”.]

Seeing the original photo under https://www.famsf.org/stories/whos-that-lady-tudor-portrait gave me ideas about changing some of the objects for fun, and later I realized that this can be an exercise of applying Photoshop generative fill to create a “spotting the difference” game.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/183818983/SpotTheDifferenceByGenerativeFill

The file is under https://photoshop.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:d22a5ee5-42b8-49dd-8af7-110256990e77 in case you want to see the detailed editing prompts and region masks.

2023-10-29

Spider web 3D drawing

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 9:20 pm
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Spiders are fascinating creatures that can weave intricate webs much bigger than themselves.

2023-10-25

He either reads fast enough or pees slow enough

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 10:01 pm
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Seeing some people peeking into their phones while doing other stuff, I always wonder if the small screen is really more interesting than the big world around us?

2023-10-24

Sketching with finger instead of stylus

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 3:09 pm
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The ease with finger sketching over a smart phone made me realize maybe I should try to do this on a tablet as well; maybe my hands are inherently not all that stable holding a stylus.

2023-10-22

There is a piece of mouth inside my desk drawer

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 10:10 pm
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Once, when I was at first grade, there was a homework assignment about filling-in-the-blank for a Chinese language class.
I was short of time and/or patience so I finished it as quickly as possible.
The day after submitting the assignment, the teacher came to me and asked why “there is a piece of [mouth] inside my desk drawer”, which I apparently wrote by looking at only “a piece of [ ]” without the rest of the sentence.

Pumpkins – generative fill experiment

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 11:43 am
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I used the same text prompt “pumpkins” to generatively fill regions within the graphical sign on the left and the yard on the right via Photoshop, and the corresponding results faithfully observe the surrounding contexts (graphical and physical pumpkins).
The motion graphics over the white arrow is added via Fresco.

2023-10-17

Quick finger sketches of public transport passengers

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 6:31 pm
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With fewer strokes it is more important to place them more strategically to depict the essence of the subjects.

2023-10-15

Face relief on a candelabra

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 10:35 pm
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I noticed this small face relief carved on a candelabra that was meant to be part of Thomas Wolsey’s tomb.

2023-10-13

Flip hair style

Filed under: Imaginary — liyiwei @ 10:37 pm
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During a dream on Oct 10 2023 morning I saw a guy with a hair that can flip open from the back like a carpet to reveal his scalp.

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