@inproceedings{williford2019drawmyphoto,
author = {Williford, Blake and Pahud, Michel and Hinckley, Ken and Doke, Abhay and Hammond, Tracy},
title = {DrawMyPhoto: Assisting Novices in Drawing from Photographs},
organization = {ACM},
booktitle = {C & C 2019, Proceedings of the 12th conference on Creativity and Cognition},
year = {2019},
month = {June},
abstract = {We present DrawMyPhoto, an interactive system that can assist a drawing novice in producing a quality drawing by automatically parsing a photograph in to a step-by-step drawing tutorial. The system utilizes image processing to produce distinct line work and shading steps from the photograph, and offers novel real-time feedback on pressure and tilt, along with grip suggestions as the user completes the tutorial. Our evaluation showed that the generated steps and real-time assistance allowed novices to produce significantly better drawings than with a more traditional grid-based approach, particularly with respect to accuracy, shading, and details. This was confirmed by domain experts who blindly rated the drawings. The participants responded well to the real-time feedback, and believed it helped them learn proper shading techniques and the order in which a drawing should be approached. We saw promising potential in the tool to boost the confidence of novices and lower the barrier to artistic creation.},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/drawmyphoto-assisting-novices-in-drawing-from-photographs/},
}