After conducting some research in visual perception I went to an eye institute for potential bugs in my visual system.
September 6, 2023
September 5, 2023
Caltrain passengers
I took a slower train to work this morning, which moved more stably and thus allowed me to draw more stably as well.
Recently I felt more spontaneity with these impromptu mobile phone drawings while stuck with attempts for more ambitious drawings on a tablet.
Maybe I just need to lower my expectation and go with the flow.
August 28, 2023
Sunset
I saw some beautiful sunsets recently but could not manage to paint them to my satisfaction so I took a photo instead and drew over it.
I enlarged the moon for emphasis, but had some difficulty drawing the craters and eventually I switched to an old face reflecting a second meaning of sunset.
August 27, 2023
Flying low
I felt a bit sleep on a late Sunday morning while reading that paper about AI consciousness and authored this motion graphics over this photo I saw a few days ago to reenergize my mind.
August 23, 2023
Natural American Spirit
This is a 3D drawing inspired by a pack of cigarettes I found while hiking.
Compared to 2D drawing, 3D drawing requires more efforts to place all these volumetric strokes, but also does not bother with the camera perspective and proportion.
August 20, 2023
San Luis Rey mission
Drew after this photo by Henry P. Schmidt which I found mesmerizing and very different from other photos of the same mission I found online.
Ladybugs
Saw https://museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions/printing-protest and immediately visualized the ladybugs moving in my mind.
I extracted the foreground (ladies and bamboo sticks) and several individual ladybugs via https://segment-anything.com/ to, and animated them via Adobe Fresco Motion.
August 16, 2023
Water lavender
I am starting to experiment with https://feather.art/ which is an app (based on https://doi.org/10.1145/3528223.3530092) for painting in 3D via a 2D interface by specifying the support surfaces first followed by projecting the (screen) strokes onto them.
It took some time to get used to the workflow, but I like it so far.
August 5, 2023
Mapping a dog’s mind
Sitting a dog named Chewie, whose mind I tried to map as the following state machine:
Follow me around within 3 feel and eye sight.
Rest over a soft surface whenever possible (especially his beds which I can put where I want him to be).
Eat and drink when inside.
Pee and poop when outside.
Sleep, other than the above.