Dorian Iten Accuracy Exercises

Level 1: https://youtu.be/HMX3K3YMbd8

Level 2: https://youtu.be/ecJO1LnjXpA

Level 3: https://youtu.be/LPywXVsRKT0

Accuracy guide:https://dorianiten.gumroad.com/l/accuracy?layout=profile

Use code "DORIAN" to get it for free.

The above videos + the accuracy guide is the easiest way to develop her observational abilities. No pencils, no knitting needles, no measuring shit. Just train your eyes to be so accurate you can draw anything with no effort, perfectly. This takes years.

Try at least 30 minutes a day. She shouldn't be depressed if it comes out badly, she should just do a bit every day and try her best.

Ethan Becker Dragging Art over Reference: https://youtu.be/RXb-Y_kz2aU

The above link is the same thing, just applied to cartoons / animation industry.

These are very important, because observational skills give her the ability to duplicate her instructor's strokes. In other words, it's impossible to properly learn construction, gesture, anatomy, lighting, composition, color, if you cannot even emulate what the instructors are showing you. Observational skills are like reading skills for writers. Reading by itself cannot get you good writing skills, but it's a necessary foundation that you build your writing skills upon. Reading and writing is both important for the writer, and 2d + 3d skills are both important for the artist.

There are many ways. Hampton, Vilppu, Weston, Peter Han, Loomis, David Finch, etc. I recommend torrenting a course / downloading a book for her and getting her to follow it. Do one lesson a week. DO NOT RUSH. Repeat the homework over and over again, even if she think she's already good at it. She wants to practice the same lesson beyond the point of boredom. When she's done with a course, go back to the first lesson and repeat the course.

All form drawing courses pretty much teach the same things too. One is not necessarily better than the other. But some teachers might say things in a way that makes more sense to you, so it doesn't hurt to poke around and see which works best for her.

Some courses which might interest her:

Ron Lemen: https://www.youtube.com/@RonLemen/videos

Glenn Vilppu: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Fr4y1q7nK?p=2

David Finch: https://davidfinchart.com/where-to-start-and-where-to-go-from-there-a-roadmap-to-professional-quality-art/

Don't do all 3 at the same time, just pick one and stick with it.

The above links mostly concentrate on figure drawing, which is probably the best way to improve her drawing skills. If she can draw human characters, she can draw anything! Ron Lemen's youtube is pretty much a complete, overly-detailed college course on figure drawing, so if you just do that, you'll go from knowing nothing to knowing how to paint a figure in full tones. I, however, love Vilppu much more. I think he's much more skilled than Ron Lemen, at least when it comes to imagination drawing. He can be difficult to get into, but the more you draw, the clearer his words become. All 3 courses are very good though, you can eventually get around to studying all of them.

Now for the David Finch roadmap, I think this is the best one to follow out of all 3, because of how concise and simple it is. Also, Finch gives you a direct transition from fundamentals into making the exact kind of art you'd like, whereas with Vilppu you're stuck with Renaissance drawing and the transition to anime or whatever is kinda difficult. When you get to the Bridgman step, remember that you don't have to use Bridgman, swap it out for any other anatomy book, I suggest . And make sure to use the Cognitive Drawing method instead of the more difficult, impractical method he outlines in the guide.

drawabox.com is a great course that'll teach her draftsmanship, basic perspective, and construction

These two links are a collection of art resources, references, communities, channels, and video courses that cover every major subject:

https://hackmd.io/7k0XRnIQR6SValR77TDfZw?view

https://sites.google.com/site/ourwici/

Gesture drawing and quick-pose drawings are important too. Practicing this will preserve the energy in her drawings. quickposes.com

sketchdaily.net

characterdesigns.com

lovelifedrawing.com

posemy.art

line-of-action.com

In fact, generating an image using a powerful AI model takes as much energy as fully charging your smartphone, according to a new study by researchers at the AI startup Hugging Face and Carnegie Mellon University. However, they found that using an AI model to generate text is significantly less energy-intensive. Creating text 1,000 times only uses as much energy as 16% of a full smartphone charge.

Their work, which is yet to be peer reviewed, shows that while training massive AI models is incredibly energy intensive, it’s only one part of the puzzle. Most of their carbon footprint comes from their actual use.

The study is the first time researchers have calculated the carbon emissions caused by using an AI model for different tasks, says Sasha Luccioni, an AI researcher at Hugging Face who led the work. She hopes understanding these emissions could help us make informed decisions about how to use AI in a more planet-friendly way.

Luccioni and her team looked at the emissions associated with 10 popular AI tasks on the Hugging Face platform, such as question answering, text generation, image classification, captioning, and image generation. They ran the experiments on 88 different models. For each of the tasks, such as text generation, Luccioni ran 1,000 prompts, and measured the energy used with a tool she developed called Code Carbon. Code Carbon makes these calculations by looking at the energy the computer consumes while running the model. The team also calculated the emissions generated by doing these tasks using eight generative models, which were trained to do different tasks.

Generating images was by far the most energy- and carbon-intensive AI-based task. Generating 1,000 images with a powerful AI model, such as Stable Diffusion XL, is responsible for roughly as much carbon dioxide as driving the equivalent of 4.1 miles in an average gasoline-powered car. In contrast, the least carbon-intensive text generation model they examined was responsible for as much CO2 as driving 0.0006 miles in a similar vehicle. Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion XL, did not respond to a request for comment.

AI startup Hugging Face has undertaken the tech sector’s first attempt to estimate the broader carbon footprint of a large language model.

The study provides useful insights into AI’s carbon footprint by offering concrete numbers and reveals some worrying upward trends, says Lynn Kaack, an assistant professor of computer science and public policy at the Hertie School in Germany, where she leads work on AI and climate change. She was not involved in the research.

These emissions add up quickly. The generative-AI boom has led big tech companies to integrate powerful AI models into many different products, from email to word processing. These generative AI models are now used millions if not billions of times every single day.

The team found that using large generative models to create outputs was far more energy intensive than using smaller AI models tailored for specific tasks. For example, using a generative model to classify movie reviews according to whether they are positive or negative consumes around 30 times more energy than using a fine-tuned model created specifically for that task, Luccioni says. The reason generative AI models use much more energy is that they are trying to do many things at once, such as generate, classify, and summarize text, instead of just one task, such as classification.

Luccioni says she hopes the research will encourage people to be choosier about when they use generative AI and opt for more specialized, less carbon-intensive models where possible.

“If you’re doing a specific application, like searching through email … do you really need these big models that are capable of anything? I would say no,” Luccioni says.

The energy consumption associated with using AI tools has been a missing piece in understanding their true carbon footprint, says Jesse Dodge, a research scientist at the Allen Institute for AI, who was not part of the study.

Comparing the carbon emissions from newer, larger generative models and older AI models is also important, Dodge adds. “It highlights this idea that the new wave of AI systems are much more carbon intensive than what we had even two or five years ago,” he says.

Google once estimated that an average online search used 0.3 watt-hours of electricity, equivalent to driving 0.0003 miles in a car. Today, that number is likely much higher, because Google has integrated generative AI models into its search, says Vijay Gadepally, a research scientist at the MIT Lincoln lab, who did not participate in the research.

Not only did the researchers find emissions for each task to be much higher than they expected, but they discovered that the day-to-day emissions associated with using AI far exceeded the emissions from training large models. Luccioni tested different versions of Hugging Face’s multilingual AI model BLOOM to see how many uses would be needed to overtake training costs. It took over 590 million uses to reach the carbon cost of training its biggest model. For very popular models, such as ChatGPT, it could take just a couple of weeks for such a model’s usage emissions to exceed its training emissions, Luccioni says.

This is because large AI models get trained just once, but then they can be used billions of times. According to some estimates, popular models such as ChatGPT have up to 10 million users a day, many of whom prompt the model more than once.

Studies like these make the energy consumption and emissions related to AI more tangible and help raise awareness that there is a carbon footprint associated with using AI, says Gadepally, adding, “I would love it if this became something that consumers started to ask about.”

Dodge says he hopes studies like this will help us to hold companies more accountable about their energy usage and emissions.

“The responsibility here lies with a company that is creating the models and is earning a profit off of them,” he says.

Evo psych is bs and smarter people than I have discussed at length why that is. This pattern of behavior though is def something I've experienced and observed throughout my life, especially as the majority of my hobbies and workplaces have always been male dominated. What fucked me up the most tho was the form this behavior took in the .mil. It’s notable bc the .mil has an extreme and explicit form of institutionally enforced hierarchy so the behaviors are particularly toxic and unsubtle and vile.

I refrain from going into how race and class and sexuality etc affected the dynamics not because I didn’t see or experience it, but because I don't want to write ten thousand words rn. I might type it out and clean it up and post it here at some point bc it's been rattling around in my head for years and I need to process it. Until then, assume everyone involved is a wh*te cishet enlisted soldier from families of similar income levels.

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The acceptance from high skill males was conditioned on demonstrated competence. There's always an initial distrust from the misogyny ofc, but the second I or any girl proved we could hang (i.e. be good at the job and perform at least some aspect of masculinity), the most skilled and professional guys took us under their wing and kept other boys from fucking with us.*

Skilled males treated the unskilled women slightly worse than they treated similarly unskilled men. Unskilled males treated unskilled women with more contempt than they treated other unskilled men, and the skilled women on par with the below average men.

If a woman met or exceeded the current cultural beauty standard (and thus performed too much femininity to be taken seriously by brains riddled with patriarchal brainworms), she was taken less seriously by both groups than plain janes and uggos—I counted myself among the latter and it was repeatedly made clear to me that my assessment was correct—that were at similar competence levels. If she was skilled she was taken slightly less seriously than the skilled plains/uggos. If unskilled she was take much, much less seriously.

Regardless of competence the attractive women had more success at the social aspect of the job and thus had slightly more opportunities given to them by less skilled males that had a high enough rank to grant them favors they hoped would result in them getting their dick wet. They often succeeded because they mostly targeted low ranking women who couldn’t really say no because of the implication.

High rank unskilled males treated the unskilled plain/uggo women with disdain but more or less ignored them like they ignored low ranked unskilled men. With skilled plain/uggo women they had active contempt for them and went out of the way to fuck with them. If a skilled plain/uggo woman didn't have the protection of a high rank skilled man of equal or higher rank to the high rank unskilled man, skilled plain/uggo women were in for an especially miserable time.

Now that I pass as a cis guy and am stealth irl, I feel an immense relief that I'm no longer subjected to the treatment women get.

I'm still a militant feminist and revel in using cis male status to advocate for women and shut misogynistic behavior down, but like yeah, not being treated with automatic contempt because of my gender is so freeing. It's a similar reduction in the background stress I got from getting top surgery, and I sincerely cannot emphasize enough how freeing top surgery was.

Tbh it feels silly to say but I think I've got a sort of survivor's guilt from it. Because of the dysphoria rather than the hardship of being perceived as a women there's no way in hell I would ever go back, but I do feel like I abandoned the homies.**

*when I was in there was a soldier shortage and almost every unit was understaffed, so idk how much of this "acceptance" was driven by the necessity of needing every able body they could get to do the job. I'm curious to know if the pattern holds when they've enough skilled males. I’d also be interesting in knowing how each job and each branch’s culture influences the pattern.

**Until I was able to articulate this to myself, I respected but didn't really fully understand why some binary trans men that identified strongly as a butch lesbian or even non butch lesbian prior to realization/transitioning continued do so after transitioning. Like there's a whole culture to being a woman, a stronger culture to being a lesbian, and an even stronger culture to being a butch lesbian–culture and community is such an essential part of our lives that dropping them is like chopping off a favored limb, and no one should be obligated to chop off a limb.