Confessions of a researchaholic

February 25, 2024

Missed opportunity

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 3:45 pm
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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

Filed under: Imaginary — liyiwei @ 6:19 pm
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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

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 6:47 pm
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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

January 30, 2024

Group urban hike

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 5:27 pm
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As part of the lab offsite, we took an urban hike between 601 Townsend Street and the Mission-Dolores Park. The weather was unusually nice for January in San Francisco, and this is actually the first time I walked through the neighborhood between Mission and SoMa which has this interesting industry-under-the-highway feel.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/190359367/ExteriorMotoGStylus/modules/1076608513

January 20, 2024

Sleeping profile

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 4:54 pm
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Rainy Saturday, writing, drawing.

https://youtube.com/shorts/JWvLbMC-kI4
https://www.behance.net/gallery/189507309/SleepingProfileSofa

January 14, 2024

Chewie

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 9:53 pm
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The dog slept a lot and thus remained stationary for a good drawing subject.



https://www.behance.net/gallery/188961613/ChewieJan2024

December 31, 2023

Buffet

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 1:47 pm
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Is buffet an expression of gluttony, aside from catering for workspace events which can be more convenient than sit-down meals.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/186107513/PortraitsMotoGStylus/modules/1062082245

December 30, 2023

Water-pipe bumper

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 6:21 pm
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I spotted this water tanker with a front bumper made of water pipes, took a photograph, and later photoshopped imaginative water spills and other effects.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/187784895/WaterPipeBumper

December 27, 2023

Pareidolia

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 6:24 pm
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Some nebulous patterns, such as a few strokes, can be perceived as something meaningful (e.g., faces) due to how our brains works with respect to evolution, and may look like something else to other species.

Art is perhaps an application/exploitation of pareidolia.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/186107513/PortraitsMotoGStylus

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