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AI Generated Images
I've been playing around with AI generated images using Disco Diffusion for a few days and find it very intriguing. DD is open source software that Google Colab provides free access to (as you might expect, you can get nicer features by paying) and can also be run from home. It is a text-to-image generator, meaning you enter a description called prompt, adjust a bunch of parameters to your liking, and watch as an initial colour noise develops into something it "thinks" you described. [Allow me to deviate a bit here: there is a lot of confusion about what computers can and can't do and even more about the capabilities of AI. Right now, they are just dumb machines. Yes, they can produce smalltalk - who can't - and as with any task, if we can use the computer's strength, it shows better results than humans, for example in diagnosing skin cancer, because no human can compare millions of images. But they are just machines. They can't think. They are not alive. We cannot trust them to make
Busy Bee
Buzz, Buzz
Unlike many people I know my workload hasn't lessened because of the pandemic, so I'm hard at work on computer games ("Roidwars" - blow up asteroids, then use their resources to blow up your competition, go ask configrw (https://www.deviantart.com/configrw) about it), book covers (my long collaboration with author Aaron McQueen aka McQueenSerialFantasy (https://www.deviantart.com/mcqueenserialfantasy), about to publish his Steampunk adventure novel "The Balero Affair"), card games, roleplaying supplements, even a language learning app.
To the Gallery
I'm also working on pimping my traditional fine art portfolio, because, current events not withstanding, I am aiming to enter the gallery world. This year. F
A Late Happy 2020
Start of the Year
I hope you've all had a good start into the new year! Any resolutions worth mentioning? I started by playing some more games - contrary to my usual habit of waiting until a game has received all possible DLCs and updates, I already played Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and loved it very much. Finally another Jedi game, and it does all I loved about the old ones and then some, yay!
New Sketchbook Printed
As for the past two years, I created a small book compiling may fast works from the previous year. My 2019 works are collected in the "Skizzenbuch 2019", available in my Etsy store as print version (foreword in German, other
The Challenges of October
Month of Fear challenge
I participated again in this year's Month of Love art challenge on Tumblr. I'm often told my work was dark (of course I feel that I'm only putting things as they are ;)) so this is basically the ideal challenge for me. This year's themes were Monsters - Above, Below, Within, Without, and Unseen. These are my contributions; the traditionally painted ones are available in my Etsy shop (use coupon DAMOF36 to get them for a price between friends).
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InkTober Challenge
I'm very happy that I also found the time to take part in the InkTober
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Helpful as always
But I am still curious about some points:
How do/did you decide what to practice and whether it is time to try something new?
How do/did you identify your comfort zone?
But I am still curious about some points:
How do/did you decide what to practice and whether it is time to try something new?
How do/did you identify your comfort zone?