“People would ask me what is it that you make, and in a self-effacing kind of way I would say ‘Oh, it’s just doodles.’ In a funny way, it stuck over the last 20 years or so, and now I have people emailing me and saying, ‘I make doodle work just like you!’” “It was meant to be a bit of a gag,” he said, speaking from his studio at the Invisible Dog Art Center, in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn.
Burgerman has worked with major brands, like Nike, MTV, and Apple, and along the way he’s been spreading the gospel of doodling among children and adults alike, through various books and workshops. Maybe you’ve spied his dancing noodles mural at Xi’an Famous Foods in Chinatown, or the scribble-filled sneakers he designed for Puma. It’s possible you’ve seen his work via Instagram (he often draws funny faces on photos of food or adds dancing hot dogs to New York street scenes last year, his Instagram Stories were featured at the Tate Modern in London) or in the pages of a clever children’s book, like the new title Rhyme Crime. Prominent among such “doodle artists” is the British, Brooklyn-based artist Jon Burgerman. Today, over five decades later, a wave of artists continues to employ doodling as a viable method to fuel creativity-and even, in the case of a few, a full-fledged creative career.
DOODLE MONSTER MURAL SERIES
It’s no surprise that the great 20th-century French artist Jean Dubuffet conceived his most famous series of paintings and sculptures, “L’Hourloupe,” while talking on the phone and doodling with a ballpoint pen. Not quite the stuff of nightmares.Doodling-the free-wheeling approach to drawing favored by kids and artists alike-may at first seem like a mindless or futile activity, but research in recent years has proven that it aids concentration and creativity.
It’s monstrous, but not necessarily a monster. Our attempt below, for example, looks like a knock-off Gruffalo depicted using mud.
However, painting one yourself takes more time and effort than you might think. If you load up Chimera Painter you can see some of the preset monsters and they’re impressively cohesive. Once the model has been trained on this data, users can then paint their own segmentation map which is then rendered using photorealistic textures. Each image is paired with a “segmentation map” - an overlay that divides the monsters into anatomical parts like claws, snouts, legs, and so on. They trained a machine learning model on a database of more than 10,000 sample monsters, which were themselves in part procedurally generated using 3D models rendered in Unreal Engine. The researchers gave themselves the challenge of creating artwork for a fictional fantasy card game, in which players combine features from different monsters and battle them like mutating Pokémon. The fantasy card game prototype imagined by Google’s AI researchers.
DOODLE MONSTER MURAL SOFTWARE
The team behind Chimera Painter explained their methods and motivations in a blog post, saying the idea was to create a “paintbrush that acted less like a tool and more like an assistant.” Chimera Painter is just a prototype, but if software like this becomes common it could “reduce the amount of time necessary to create high-quality art,” claim the team. Nvidia has done it with landscapes before MIT and IBM did it with buildings and now Google is. This sort of dynamic is becoming a relatively common one in machine learning. The tool is called Chimera Painter and uses machine learning to generate imagery based on users’ rough sketches. To back up this claim with incontrovertible evidence: here’s an AI tool made by Google researchers that turns doodles into weird monsters. To quote Google CEO Sundar Pichai: AI is “more profound than fire or electricity.”
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