Today’s odor comes from chestnut. I just bought a pack.
In autumn and winter, the taste of sugar-roasted chestnuts (糖炒栗子) is always mouth-watering. You’d better wait for the hot chestnuts just out of the wok. They exude a so sweet smell you cannot avoid.
The process of roasting is unique. It mixes chestnuts and sand.
But my drawing today is not ideal. 
It’s hard to draw a simple object.
Try to play 水调歌头（Prelude to Water Melody) with ~6 different instruments.
Prelude to Water Melody is an ancient Chinese poem. It has been set to music, and the song is popular in different generations of China
The wiki link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuidiao_Getou
The piano, you know.
Every artist enjoys having the idea that their originality stands out and that their work is completely unique. But if you put in the time and effort, you’ll find that uniqueness is just a romantic idea that doesn’t really exist in the idealized form that people think it does.
Is it stealing, copying, or inspiration if you utilize someone else’s artwork and artificial intelligence to create your own? The largest issue still is: Who owns AI-generated art once it has been produced?
Artificial intelligence (AI) has long produced art. But this year’s technologies, such DALL-E 2, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, have allowed even the most inexperienced artists to produce intricate, abstract, or lifelike pieces by merely entering a few words into a text box.
The topic I want to choose is the impact of AI-Generated Art on traditional artists, because of the recent news about An A.I.-Generated Picture Won an Art Prize. and I also noticed that there are more and more digital artists trying to create AI art, which they think is the future trend and similar to the NFT market.
I tied to narrow down my focus using a system map and also used different AI-generated art engines (software) to explore.
Prompt: Digital artists creating AI-generated art and win the prize
By deepdreamgenerator
System Map:
Today, 1979’s Mobile Suit Gundam represents robot anime’s biggest hit, a success to the point where it has become a genre unto its own. Although it debuted in 1979, it wasn’t until the following year that the plastic models based on the series became hits, or until the release of the three-part theatrical edition in 1981 that the series itself achieved truly massive success. For this reason, this report treats Gundam as an Eighties phenomenon.
The early 1970s marked another stage in the evolution of robot animation. The turning point came in 1972, with the broadcast of the television series “Mazinger Z” (based on a comic by Go Nagai).
The show marked the dawn of the robot anime era. The robot characters of these shows differed from their Sixties counterparts in three main ways. 1970s robot anime
characters are defined by:
1) Their giant size
2) The fact they were piloted rather than controlled externally
3) Their ability to transform and/or combine
These characteristics led to a new development: the shows acting as vehicles for toy sales. It also occurred in parallel with the trend of “motorization” – the spread of personal car and motorbike ownership in Japan. This image of robots as drive-able vehicles proved irresistible to a new generation of young viewers.
I’ve been doing some research on the differences between History and Memory and came across this article from an organization called Commonplace that chronicles the history of early American life.
One of the big quotes in this reading states, “Memory is passed down through generations, history is revised.” This led me to think about the mechanism or the system where memories are intaken and transformed into their way to history. I started to picture a Suessical type illustration or machine. Understanding this”machine” is something I might explore in the next few days. 
Today I began reading a journal article, Sunscreens and Photoaging: A Review of Current Literature, which touched a bit on the different wave lengths of light on the Electromagnetic Spectrum. I realized a few connections that this topic has to previous interested of mine in the past, which is kind of cool – it’s seem there is an underlying theme that I hadn’t realized.
From that article, I was really interested in getting to compare the wavelengths of rays that are visible vs ones that are not. And seeing which wavelengths are harmful vs ones that are helpful. It’s such a small difference in the length of a light ray that can change it into something really dangerous.
Updating to add some notes I took while reading the article and to provide some further explanation of the image above. The color spectrum + the gray on either sides is illustration the different wave types, in order of their wavelengths, from smallest to largest. The blue is sunscreen – I’ve been playing around with the idea of what it would be like if in the future, fashion evolved to valued brightly pigmented face makeup with sunscreen properties. I don’t think that this future is that far off, and am interested to dig more into that line of thought. And the pink circles are the skin, with different rays effecting different parts of the skin layers.
My topic is something to do with the conflict of using the Swastika symbol in modern-day society due to the fact Hitler adopted the symbol and used it for evil.
This is a wide and complicated topic, and I aim to understand it better from all perspectives. To start, I started from where I’m most familiar with, its association with Buddhism.
The format I’m using for daily practice is to draw and collage directly on the iPad. I’m very new to the iPad, as I’ve been a little bit conservative and old school when it comes to drawing, and have only tried out the iPad for the first time two months ago. Recently download the drawing app, I am still very beginner with all the functionalities, and thought the daily practice is a good place for me to do some exercise about it as well.
Day 2:
Avalokitesvara figure from Chinese Buddhism:
When the Buddhism was imported to Han Chinese culture, there are some changes for the figures of Avalokitesvara. We can see the figure’s transition from west to east across China. In the westernmost city of China, Dunhuang caves painting show the characteristics of Avalokitesvara as similar as Indian style. However, it already merged Han Chinese aesthetics. Foe example, the face and body changed to east Asian looking. Also, the gender of Avalokitesvara is always female in Han Chinese culture. When we look at the east part of China, the clothes, hair style and race all changed to Chinese. Besides, most of the Avalokitesvara’s figure in east side of China don’t have thousands of arm and eye. They looked more like regular people.
I shift the topic to odor. From today I’ll find the odor and draw it.
Today’s odor comes from osmanthus(桂花). The smell of osmanthus fills the streets during this season in China.
When I was drawing it, I noticed that its flowers were clustered but also sparsed.
I’m curious about from which part the smell comes. Petals or stamens? I should try to figure it out tomorrow!
(Not good at drawing. It’s colored by PS. But fun too.)
