Why Can’t Artificial Intelligence Programs Draw Hands and Feet?

Artificial intelligence that can transform anything that comes to our mind into pictures in the style we want; It reveals very interesting results when the subject is hand and foot drawing. Sometimes people adds extra fingerssometimes is missing and even the fingers are not where they should be.

If you are like me; If you are an expert and trained in visual arts You may be guessing the reasons for this failure of artificial intelligence. However, in our world where technology has developed so much, this is a surprising situation for all of us.

Even to the point of dropping artificial intelligence into the language of social media…

“And if you never learn to draw hands, AI can’t copy you and make hands right.”

“Expectation: AI art can draw anything!
Fact: The art of artificial intelligence in hand drawing.”

“Being bad at hand drawing: Me and artificial intelligence”

Let’s take a look at the hands and feet drawn by artificial intelligence programs. Is it really as bad as it is exaggerated?

Hands drawn by Leonardo.Ai:

Feet illustrated by Leonardo.Ai:

Hands drawn by Dall-E:

AI, we get you, because you’re not the only one struggling with drawing hands and feet.

If you have tried to draw a person before, you probably had a hard time drawing hands and feet. Because even when you go to a painting course (if you don’t have any training in this subject before) At first, you are asked to draw the hands and feet only as a silhouette. In order to detail the drawing and put it all on paper correctly, first of all, to understand human anatomy, to know angle and measure, to have knowledge of proportion must.

So what you see on the model’s body from which muscle or bone the indentations or protrusions originate you can understand and draw a more accurate picture. But when it comes to drawing hands and feet, it’s not just artificial intelligence; we humans can have a hard time too.

The reason of this; The hands and feet have movable and highly detailed parts (like the fingers), although they cover a very small part of the human body.

It is not easy to draw these limbs, which occupy a very small area of ​​the human body and have a lot of detail. Because you need to know the skeletal and muscular systems of the hands and feet separately and to be proportional to the human body. Each person’s hand and foot size and finger length are different from each other. Another confusing issue… As this is the case, the more fingers there are, the more confused the artificial intelligence programs that transform the text we write into a picture within minutes.

Of course, artificial intelligence, like the human brain unable to complete or imagine objects correctly. This is before “One hand has 5 fingers” saying Even if they have learned, it causes the fingers to be missing or extra or not in the right place in the images where there is more than one hand.

If the human brain He can accurately complete the objects he sees. For example When you first look at the image we had Midjourney draw (above) of the Uruk-hai race in the Lord of the Rings universe extra fingers You may not have noticed. The reason why we often do not notice the mistakes in the images created by artificial intelligence is this little game our brain plays for us. Just like we watched when we were little. cartoon characters with 3 or 4 fingers Just like we realize that as we get older.

In portraiture, it is not as unsuccessful as hand and foot drawings.

You can draw a skull and put thousands of different portraits on it because although the dimensions of our skulls change, the shape does not change much, except for exceptions. Eye sockets, nasal protrusion, and mouth It’s usually always in the same place.

Moreover, the skeletal system in our heads is different compared to our fingers. less mobile and less detailed. So where our eyes, nose or mouth should be is much more predictable.

Let’s take a look at hand and foot anatomy.

We have 3 different knuckles for each finger on our hands (except for the thumbs). to draw a hand anatomically correct placement of each fold, indentation and protrusion needs.

So these countless details on our hands and feet, Our musculoskeletal system is quite complex to artificial intelligence. Moreover, as we have just mentioned, we all have different hands and feet.

For this reason, it is necessary to add a little creativity to drawing hands and feet.

Artificial intelligence programs generally work on learning. Can process and analyze data, but When creativity is involved, it cannot produce successful results.

When you ask the AI ​​to draw only one hand, the probability of success increases, but like two people holding hands cannot creatively complement the size and posture of all fingers on the hand in more complex patterns. So AI can give you something that already exists, but don’t ask it to be creative.

Another AI program asked ChatGPT, “Why are AI programs so bad at drawing hands and feet?” We asked him, and he explained why they couldn’t draw hands like an artist as follows:

So, can artificial intelligence be successful in drawing hands and feet one day?

Midjourney A National Football Team drawing.

It is not very difficult to draw a hand alone, but it is quite difficult to fit it into a whole and convey the details correctly. How many hands, feet and fingers and fingers are in the text you want the artificial intelligence to draw; his head will be just as confused. For this reason, in the “prompts” we entered giving more detailed information about hands and feet We can help them make a successful drawing.

With the development of artificial intelligence technology, it is of course possible for them to produce flawless drawings one day. However, it is not possible for him to be able to make creative drawings with an aesthetic understanding. For learning-only programs We must not forget that they are. We already know that even though they’re programmed, they don’t always act “right”.