AI and Digital Tackle Mickey’s Drawing Board

I don’t know if you have noticed, but I have. My artwork is going down hill due to arthritis in my fingers.

So, I have been trying to do something about it. I now own a computer stylus and a Chromebook with a touch screen. My daughter downloaded a digital drawing program for me and showed me how it works. And shortly after that, my Chromebook shorted out or something and now needs expensive repair. I am typing on my HP laptop now in order to continue writing. But for the art I had to go with an interim digital art program that employs AI to redraw your colored pencil and pen-and-ink drawings digitally mimicking what it sees and trying to copy your basic style.

The program does its darndest to get it right, and it got close. But my one-of-a-kind toucan threw it off. The best version of it is an owl with a deformed branch curling over its head. The AI also guessed an owl with a cell phone over its head. Here’s another guess;

In this earlier version, somebody was apparently throwing a wallet at the owl’s head.

This is one of my better works, done back when I could draw better. It’s an Island Girl picture inspired by my wife and one of my sons. (Neither of them actually look like the picture of them.)

This one is close.

This one is closer. You have to do it over until you get what you want.

This is what I settled for, appropriately cropped and focused.

So, the journey has begun. I will do what I can with what I have.