Not long ago I found this tool called AutoDraw: https://www.autodraw.com/
The tool allows users to draw something, and the AI completes it via a guessing mechanism. Imagine the old game Pictionary but now the AI is the player and is trying to guess what you are drawing.
As a fun thing, I’ve decided to create a village based on drawings of a ‘house’.
The menu shows suggestions for images. There are plenty of styles – particularly for houses. The experiment can go beyond that. It can be used for note-taking, for example, but to what extent is the AI biased, and how might the recommendations influence your decisions for the design? Is it robbing me of my ability to draw? To do research and think visually about what I mean by a house? Potentially yes. What happened to observational drawing?
How much of it might limit my design intentions? How would the tool limit my thinking, and how might I connect with existing schema and artefacts?
It may limit a bit what we can do and remove the rough edges of drawing. I don’t think it replaces any drawing at all. Do I want to use it in the future? Not sure, maybe not.
As such, I leave a note here – and a doodle from 2017 Inktober.
Hey,
Spotted “your”, possibly a typo. You might like to quickly verify with spellalert.com or someting like it.
Regards,
Elizabeth