I don’t usually make self portraits, but recently my master printmaker colleague lent me a pair of wrist cuffs to protect my wrists and shirt sleeves from ink while wiping.
When I put them on he suggested he take a photograph and I took up a number of poses including a boxing type display of the cuffs.
Looking at it I thought it could be a good image for a self portrait as it was humorous and not like mike usual presence. Before I attempted a drawing ( I did later) I thought what would AI make of it? A chat gpt instructor offered a p[opular option:
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I uploaded my image and used the instructor’s theme park prompt
and ……
A bit to cartoon like I requested …
Still not satisfiedEngaged, but still not satisfied I requested ……
I got it back! and noticed there were no cuffs!
They were not like the ones in the original photograph …
Too aggressive …
Cuffs stayed the same length, but now I am smiling again.
I printed it out to review:
But even with AI enhancement it did not have the attributes and idiosyncrasies of a hand drawn image. Both it and the theme park image have screen image values, but not those of a drawing on paper.
M iPad Apple Pencil drawn self portrait:
Perhaps I should pick up a graphite pencil and draw on paper.
