Imagine someone told you to draw a pig and a truck. Maybe you’d sketch this: Easy enough. But then, imagine you were asked to draw a pig truck. You, a human, would intuitively understand how to mix ...

For artists, few objects are as challenging to capture as the human form. To render the figure on canvas or paper requires mastery of contouring, shading, perspective, proportion and countless other ...

While text-to-image models such as DALL-E 3 can create intriguing drawings, they lack a crucial component of sketching: the spontaneous, creative process where each stroke can impact the overall ...

Several years ago, there was a jovial debate why Chris Messina, a former Google designer who proposed Twitter use the hashtag to sort topics, did not patent the idea and make millions off it – it ...

It’s like Spotify, only for images. That seems to be the guiding principle behind Sketch-a-net, a new computer program that claims to yield “sketch recognition performance surpassing that of humans.” ...

Archaeologists have made an incredible finding of a human drawing that dates back more than 70,000 years, making it the oldest human drawing ever discovered. The rest of this article is behind a ...

Researchers have built the first computer program that can recognize hand-drawn sketches better than humans. Researchers from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have built the first computer ...

If we can teach artificial intelligence to draw, will that help us communicate with it? As someone who's involved in both the app and entertainment industries, I’ve been tracking the evolution of AI ...

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Your college art history textbook needs a new first chapter. The earliest known drawing in human history – a red, cross-hatched pattern that looks somewhat like a hashtag – has been unearthed on a ...