Ai in the Visual Arts Classroom #1

Let’s have a play with how Ai can assist us as educators in the classroom environment.

Our Year 11s are doing portraiture for their unit – and we wanted to use Ai as a tool for inspiration.

First we warmed everyone up with some contour drawing. Contour drawing is a single lined drawing where the pen does leave the page.

We began by doing a blind contour drawing of themselves (with a mirror or their laptop camera for reflection) – they were asked to draw for a solid 3 minutes, not looking at their page, or lifting their pen.

Secondly, we completed the same task, but students could look at the page, but still their pencil could not leave the surface. This drawing was to go for 3 minutes also.

Lastly, students were asked to draw twice more, using only basic shapes to create a portrait. Both 3 minutes, both allowed the pencil to lift from the page. The first, students completed blind, and the second, completed with eyes on the surface.

After the giggles and jokes were finished at their completed work, we used an Ai app (Vivid Ai) to compute their drawing an interpret it as best it could. See some results below:

BLIND CONTOUR DRAWING – 3 mins: