"In art, it's OK to fail," says iBoda CEO Professor Sunah Kim.

"You can draw a different way, next time. "

Continuing to draw and learning from "failures", she explains, is how students learn to draw well.

"If you stop there (after failing), you will never draw, and you will say, 'oh, I'm not that creative.'"

And her South Korea-based personalized art education platform encourages everyone, both to keep practicing, and to enjoy exploring, their creativity.

In the process, students get to harness AI as an implement, self-evaluate their work and receive guidance from art education experts from Hanyang University in Seoul.

AI for the individual creative

With programs for both art students and teachers, iBoda assesses a student’s artistic tendencies, as well as the art styles they prefer. Then, based on these findings, the platform customizes art lessons to that individual’s interests and abilities.

It also tracks a student's learning journey, by automatically generating a portfolio of their work. Finished art can be uploaded to a virtual gallery and students are encouraged to self-assess, as well as receiving feedback from instructors.

And it's all about having fun, while learning and creating.

Professor Kim, who holds multiple art-education credentials, has been an artist for as long as she can remember. She is a Professor in the Department of Art Education at Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea. She chairs three art-related graduate programs at HYU, as well as serving as Director of the university’s Art Gifted Education Institute. In addition, she is the Director of the Hanyang Education in Art + Design Lab.

Professor Kim shared the story of the iBoda platform, offered a look at the ways it works and discussed the ways she’d like to expand the platform in the future.