I was puzzled by a mysterious Latex compilation error only to find out the culprit as an incompatible style file in the folder.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/212732601/ImplicitInput
2024-04-10
2024-04-01
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
2024-03-11
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
2024-02-25
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
2024-02-21
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
2024-02-11
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
2024-01-30
Group urban hike
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
2024-01-20
Sleeping profile
Rainy Saturday, writing, drawing.
https://youtube.com/shorts/JWvLbMC-kI4
https://www.behance.net/gallery/189507309/SleepingProfileSofa