Brian Chan

Figure drawings of nude woman in purple and pink shades, digital media

Figure drawing practice, Apple pencil on Ipad with Sketchbook App.
Drawn at the Boston Figurative Art Center.

"Here's what GPT had to say" has the same energy as a toddler who walks into the room and says "Look what I found in the toilet!"

Blue tones sheet with numerous figure drawings of nude male model.

Figure drawing practice from the Boston Figurative Art Center. Digital drawing done with Ipad.

Any time someone says they used AI for something I immediately take them less seriously. It is not able to do the jobs we ask it to do with any reliable amount of accuracy, AND it was built off of stolen data.

And it's done! Now I have a posable hand model for costume mannequins and for drawing practice.

#hand
#mannequin
#3dprinting

Computer rendering of articulated mannequin hand

Check out my current project: I'm making a posable mannequin hand. I modeled this in Onshape.

#mannequin
#hand
#onshape

Calligrapha is an apt name for this genus of beetle. Woburn, MA. I have only seen two of these during my years of taking macro pics!

Sony alpha 6300 with Laowa 85mm lens and custom diffuser.

#beetle
#macro
#insect

Palestine does not belong to Israel or the US or any of it's billionaire syncophants. Free Palestine!

Origami cicada, designed and folded by me from one square of paper.

I've designed about 4 or 5 cicadas over the past 20 years, but this one has that vibe I was looking for. The timing was right since I completed it last year, during the historic cicada emergence.

#origami
#cicada
#insect

Origami sculpture of a red rock crab

Red rock crab (Cancer irroratus) origami, designed and folded by me. This is a variation of a crab design I did almost 20 years ago.

Sending thoughts of care and butt stuff.

German Opposition Gambles With Far-Right on Immigration, and Loses Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to toughen rules on immigration. It did not pay off.

In an effort to portray himself and his party as tough on immigration, Friedrich Merz, the leader of the poll-leading Christian Democrats, pushed a series of measures tightening borders and accelerating deportations through Parliament this week. He did so with help from the hard-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD — parts of which have been classified as extremist by German intelligence agencies. On Friday, the gambit ended in a crushing legislative defeat for Mr. Merz, dissent in his own party and jubilant claims of new legitimacy from the AfD, a chain reaction that could rattle Mr. Merz’s comfortable seat at the top of the polls. Mr. Merz’s willingness to rely on support from the AfD, broke a taboo in German politics that had endured since the end of World War II.

Lessons to be learned:

1. Centrists align with far-right to look tough on immigration
2. Centrists gain nothing
3. Far-right wins more power

When I'm on other platforms, I divide my macro photos to separate channel. I'm thinking now, why complicate things? Here's a fly.

Photos taken with Sony Alpha a6300 with Laowa 85mm macro lens and custom 3D printed diffuser.

"Into bouldering?" "AM NOW!"

I'm afraid I can't be of much help, I haven't used those printers before - but if it were up to me, I would carefully take it apart and try to see what the problem is.

Yeah, as it was known in the Americas!

A space gun from Mospeada anime, made from paper

I found myself in LA without a 3D printer, so I crafted this prop the traditional way, with paper, knife, and glue.

#mospeada
#anime
#cosplay
#papercraft

OpenAI scraping our collective intellectual property and then getting upset that deepseek might’ve done the same to them is not the double standard I wanted to see today. Hahahaha fuck all of them.

⚠️ Google has given you access to The Computer That Lies.

⚠️ You are now required to use The Computer That Lies.

Thanks! I will do a post soon on how I crafted it from paper.

Digital monochrome drawings of a seated and sitting nude woman,

Figure drawing practice, done at the Boston Figurative Art Center.

Drawn with Apple Pencil, Ipad and Sketchbook app.

Let me know if the proper nudity filters are working. I do like that we have the option to tag our work appropriately rather than see everything banned with inconsistent criteria.

What kinda stuff?

Closeup of mospeada suit that I built

Wide shot of the armor suit, green armor panels and a fabric base, with a mirrored dome visor helmet

My most recent project, the armor suit from the anime Mospeada from the 1980s. I got to meet Shinji Aramaki and Keiichiro Maeno, anime and toy designers who worked on the real thing!

I designed the suit using Onshape and printed out the pieces on my custom 3D printer.

#mospeada
#anime
#cosplay

TALENT: "very talented!" when years of study and practice culminate in someone implying you didn't work to become skilled

talent

Why not all of the above!

Using ChatGPT is like the most unsexy thing a man can do

Two poles anthropomorphic lions smiling and holding a sign that says: be yourself. It has trans and rainbow mark on top.

My way of treating the inflammatory symptoms that reading the news has given me the last few weeks.

Hi everyone, I just joined! Expect to see posts about my origami, illustration, costumes, and other miscellaneae.