Learning to draw and paint (painting is just drawing with paint in a way) the process is exactly like training AI to do anything. You put into your head all the

Learning to draw and paint (painting is just drawing with paint in a way) the process is exactly like training AI to do anything. You put into your head all these rules and examples (books about art, images that you like etc) and set off. By setting off I mean daily - or more likely throughout the day - doodling and sketching whatever takes your fancy. Yes like training AI models the outputs at first are weird, but you keep the bits that look good and ignore the weird bits you dont want. Iterate and repeat. There are no magic shortcuts, you have to do the work of doing drawing but most importantly (in my opinion) dont throw away all your failures, keep them so you can see how far you’ve come. You have to be prepared also to let go all the notions of consciously learning how to do it, like learning to code for example. You have to let the model keep iterating. I still do a daily sketch (in pencil - simple lines) every day and when I can a painting. Eventually you train the bits of your brain that are involved and those rules get embedded. Now when I do a painting I dont have to think about the rules, they have been hard coded in some algorithm that I cant possibly understand but works. Even I am often amazed at what comes out. @chloegilbertartist on Instagram for some examples. You can see how things vary there, I’m still training the model ;)