佛曰： 一花一世界，一木一浮生， 一草一天堂，一葉一如來。
April 19, 2024
April 14, 2024
Total solar eclipse – before, during, after
Attempt with simplest possible vector graphics to depict the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 that was not visible in my geographical location.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/196204141/TotalSolarEclipse
April 13, 2024
Woodpecker
I recorded a woodpecker pecking on a utility pole and would like to create an animated sketch in sync with the sound.
I started with a rough manual drawing by Adobe Fresco and used it as the structure reference for Adobe Firefly.
I then selected the bird as the foreground object into another layer and generatively filled the background via Photoshop.
I imported the psd file into After Effects and control the rotation of the bird via the sound of the captured video (following this example).
https://www.behance.net/gallery/196145773/Woodpecker
April 1, 2024
Street pianist
This is an attempt to depict the visuals appearing in my mind while listening to this podcast about a guy who played the particular piano piece “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence” by Ryuichi Sakamoto outdoors to express his personal and shared public sorrows.
Roughly speaking, the visuals are inspired by the scenes in the 2002 film “the pianist” but with the guy playing the piano on the street within a ruined city.
(It seems less dramatic in reality.)
I could draw the scenes out of my head but it might take too much time (which I don’t have right now), so I decided to give generative AI (in particular, Adobe Firefly) a try.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/195294181/StreetPianist
March 11, 2024
Buddha’s hand citron
I received one buddha’s hand citron in this week’s food delivery, and did a quick sketch of it before zesting its unique aroma into tea, salad, and yogurt.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/193668455/BuddhaHand
February 25, 2024
Voronoi cookies
I placed the cookie batter drops too close to one another and they expanded into Voronoi regions during baking: photo, and the “corrected” version by ComfyUI image-to-image with (de)noise value 0.5 and v1-5-pruned-dmaonly checkpoint.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/192421251/VoronoiCookies
Missed opportunity
When I boarded Caltrain 313 at San Jose on Thursday February 22, 2024, I saw a guy deep in sleep with his head resting on the window. The face constituted an excellent drawing subject but I decided to finish my dinner first. Then the train conductor came to check tickets, and the guy had none and was asked to leave the train at the next stop.
Afterwards I did a quick sketch from visual impression and produced a variation via image-2-image diffusion. Neither could catch the original face which I could better capture on spot.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/186107513/PortraitsMotoGStylus/modules/1088458927
February 21, 2024
Visualizing dreams
One main reason that I would like to be able to draw is to share what I saw in my dreams which tend to be vivid and unusual. This is difficult enough due to both the required skills and the ephemeral nature of dreams. But how about visualizing other people’s dreams based on their descriptions?
https://www.behance.net/gallery/192128691/BakeryHouseDream
February 11, 2024
Murakami monster drawing experiment
Based on a (human-sized) monster sculpture by Takashi Murakami that I saw in a recent exhibition I did a quick rough drawing via Fresco with outlines and color-fills in separate layers, and then fed the outlines-only and color-fills versions to an image-to-image ComfyUI workflow. The results are very interesting and capture the style of the original artist quite well.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/191299777/TakashiMurakamiMonsterSculpture