Hi there, my name is Aldora Wang from Beijing, China. I am currently a BFA senior student at Parsons School of Design majoring in Design and Technology. I started the project Unconstrained Creation 101 because of my appreciation for children's creativity in art.

大家好,我是王芊多娃,你也可以叫我阿朵拉,我来自中国北京。我目前是一名大四学生,就读于帕森斯设计学院,学习交互设计。 我开始无拘束的创作101这项目是因为我喜欢和欣赏儿童的艺术的创造力。

Unconstrained Creation 101 is a web-based, interactive, and communicative project that cherishes and supports children's artistic creations and provides an opportunity to showcase children's artwork.

无拘无束的创作101是一个基于网络和沟通的可互动项目,我们珍惜和支持儿童的艺术创作,并提供一个展示儿童艺术作品的机会。

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Generator and Facial Recognition

Children's drawings have many characteristics. Although juvenile, they are meaningful and have their own styles. The children's art is a conscious or unconscious expression of the young artist, in other words, their art creation can reflect themselves and their feelings.

儿童画有许多特点。虽然是稚嫩的,但它们是有意义的,有自己的风格。儿童艺术是年轻艺术家有意识或无意识的表达,换句话说,他们的艺术创作可以反映他们自己和他们的感受。

However, not all kids get opportunities to share and not all works get the appreciation they deserve. Instead of not paying attention or judging from an adult perspective, people should learn and understand children’s art with an attitude of appreciation. I hope all of us adore, appreciate, and support children’s art.

然而,并非所有的孩子都有机会分享,不是所有的作品都能得到应有的肯定。人们应该以欣赏的态度来学习和理解儿童艺术,而不是不关注或从成人的角度来评判。我希望我们大家可以欣赏和支持儿童艺术创作。

This website gives children the opportunity to exhibit their artwork and accepts submissions. If you or your children are interested in showing your artwork to a wider audience, please contact email aldorawang116@163.com.

这个网站让儿童有机会展示他们的艺术作品,并接受更多投稿。如果你或你的孩子有兴趣向更多人展示艺术作品,请联系电子邮件 aldorawang116@163.com。

The children’s drawing portrait generator, a part of the project, is a collaboration with the children from Aimei’s Time Art Studio. They are Zihan Fei, Qing Ge, Lixuan Lu, Puhan Sun, Jiayi Wan, Yuanqi Wang, and Wanying Zhao. Wenjiu Sun and Meng Yang are teachers and facilitators who helped me contact and arrange meetings. Doudou Ma, Dodo Ma and, Qianxi Zhang are also involved in the generator project.

作为项目的一部分,儿童绘画肖像生成器是与爱美时代艺术工作室的孩子们合作完成的。他们是费子涵、葛晴、卢屴瑄、孙朴涵、万佳依、王源启和赵婉莹。同时孙文九老师和杨萌老师协助我完成了生成器项目。马豆豆、马多多和张倩茜三位小朋友也参与了生成器项目。

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Project Poster

Aimei's Time Art Studio is primarily designed to teach children how to draw and paint. However, it is not just an art studio, it is a community that gathers hundreds of people. There are people from different generations growing together, appreciating and supporting each other. We hope the studio can be like a plant that performs photosynthesis, has a direction and has possibilities. Right, in time, to the sun.

艾美时光是一个艺术工作室,主要是为了教小朋友学画画。但又不只是一个艺术工作室,它是一个社区,一个小团体,聚集了几百号人。这些人里有老有少,在一起成长,相互欣赏,互相扶持。希望它能像一株植物,可以进行光合作用,要有方向,也得有可能性。对的,在时光里,向阳而生。

Through facial recognition, the generator will randomly generate a unique and colorful portrait for the user. The portrait belongs to the user and the creators. The goal of this portrait generator is to give both kids and adults a playful experience and to bring the creators and the audience closer together.

通过面部识别,生成器将随机为观众生成一个独特的、丰富多彩的肖像。它们属于用户和创作者。这个肖像生成器的目标是给孩子和成人带来游戏体验,并拉近创作者和观众之间的距离。

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Paper Prototype

The facial elements that assembled the portraits are materials adapted from real children’s drawings. During the process, I invited three children Doudou Ma, Duoduo Ma, and Qianxi Zhang with me to make paper prototypes. The making experience was playful and the prototype outcome was fun to look at. Later, I invited the children from Aimei’s Time Art Studio to participate in the portrait generator project, and we communicated and created through Tencent meetings.

组建肖像的面部元素是由真实的儿童画为基准绘制的。在这个过程中,我邀请了三个孩子马豆豆、马多多和张茜熙和我一起制作纸质版原型。制作的经验是游戏性的,原型的成品也很有趣。后来,我邀请了爱美时光艺术工作室的孩子们参与到肖像生成器项目中,我们通过腾讯会议进行交流和创作。

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Paper and Digital Version of Puhan Sun's Drawing

Most of the young artists drew their element materials on paper. Then, I organized and converted the submitted materials into digital versions and put them into the children’s drawing portrait generator, which randomizes portraits for the audience.

大部分小艺术家们在纸上绘画了脸部元素素材。我把提交的材料整理并转换为数字版本,并把它们放入可以生成儿童画肖像的生成器中。

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Installation sketch

The portrait generator is written in P5.js sketch and uses clmtrackr which is a javascript library for fitting facial models into faces in videos or images and is distributed under the MIT License. The portrait generator is not only showing online but also will be showing locally through an interactive installation during the thesis show at Parsons School of Design.

人像生成器是用P5.js sketch编写的,并使用了clmtrackr,这是一个在MIT许可下发布的javascript库,用于在视频或图像中拟合面部模型。儿童画肖像生成器不仅在网上展示,还将在帕森斯设计学院的毕业设计展览期间通过互动装置展示。

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Installation process photo

Please respect all the artworks exhibited here, and do not use or alter children’s art creations for any purposes without permission. We encourage you to use the generated portraits for non-commercial purposes, for example as social media avatars or as wallpapers. For any questions you have or would like to contact an individual artist, please email me at aldorawang116@163.com.

请尊重这里展出的所有艺术作品,未经许可,不要以任何目使用或改变儿童的艺术创作。我们鼓励你将生成的肖像画用于非商业目的,例如作为社交媒体的头像或作为壁纸。如果你有任何问题,或想联系小艺术家,请发送邮件给aldorawang116@163.com。

Thank you to all the children who participate in this project, and a special thank you to Wenjiu Sun, Meng Yang from the studio, and my thesis professors Melanie Crean, Charles Huang, Ernesto Klar, Benjamin Norskov, Xin Xin, and Or Zubalsky.

在这里感谢所有参与这个项目的小朋友们、来自画室的孙文九和杨萌老师,以及我的毕业设计教授们 Melanie Crean, Charles Huang, Ernesto Klar, Benjamin Norskov, Xin Xin, 和 Or Zubalsky。