Inktober already

In case you hadn’t noticed I haven’t been posting much here, Mainly because I had eye troubles (again) and couldn’t see. So any computer work was a total strain. I also hadn’t done anything on social media for a couple of months, which was a good thing really. Instagram is really the only thing I check occasionally these days. However my eye is getting better and I have previously enjoyed doing the Inktober challenges. So I’m going to try draw something every day this month. Following their official prompt list.

The first topic is pretty simple. It’s Apple. First of all I thought of trying to draw a laptop with an Apple logo. I’m not an Apple fanboy and I don’t have any apple gear so forget that. Instead, I just got a nice green apple put it on the table after breakfast got out a new sketch book and my new favorite Tombow pens. Keep it simple, no need to go overboard on the first picture.

Now to keep going every day for the rest of the month.

Autodraw, another AI assisted drawing tool

I am late discovering this experimental tool from google labs, called autodraw.com. It dates back to mid 2017 and uses the same technology to guess an object as google's quickdraw. Only this time it lets you sketch out the object you want and "It pairs machine learning with drawings from talented artists to help everyone create anything visual, fast." 

Its as simple as that. The graphics are good (created by graphic artists), with Creative Commons Licensing, so free for non-commercial use, easy to download and use. Its also a bit of fun  although you may find it quickly reaches its limits of what it might recognize.

Marvin returns for INKTOBER inspiration

Marvin : Mate how about cleaning me up and colouring me.
Norm : But I'm not suposed to use a computer for inktober sketechs
Marvin : I fell nude in raw ink
Norm : OK, Just for you.

Alvin Crashes My Instagram

Me: Alvin what are you doing in my instagram posts? Alvin: Lila made me do it!

A post shared by Norm Hanson (@oz_endless_summer) on Jun 4, 2017 at 10:14pm PDT

I'm not sure what bought hin out but yesterday Alvin insinuated himself into my Endless Summer Instagram photostream. Well he has a point I'm doing a daily drawing project for a month and he is hand drawn, after all.