I've had many, but a recent one was when I figured I'd try asking Claude for help with my attempts at learning to draw, specifically anatomy.

I uploaded one of my sketches and asked for feedback, expecting it to not be too useful, but it actually pointed out many issues that no one had ever pointed out to me, but perfectly explained some of the things that felt off to me. Out of curiosity I then also asked it to label the issues in the sketch. It wrote a python script with the coordinates to put everything at and labeled the sketch that way.

I'm still used to vLLMs not being that great at vision, so it was pretty surprising to get genuinely useful advice.

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loneboat 3 hours ago | parent [-]

That's super interesting! What sort of feedback? Anatomical feedback ("Uhh, that's not where arms go...") or drawing (like tips on shading etc...)?

	▲	hgoel 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It pointed out that the shoulders were too rounded and the perspective was incorrect for them, making it seem like the arm was just appearing out of the torso. It pulled up images to explain that I wasn't correctly indicating the deltoid's presence. This helped me understand why I felt that the shoulder was hard to distinguish from the torso. I also asked for help on how to make my posing less stiff and it used the Python script trick to roughly indicate the line of action and how they were very straight and parallel and to reduce stiffness I should have more curves etc. This wasn't really at the point where I even asked for shading advice.