AI drawing generator
Turn a photo into a hand-drawn illustration
Upload a photo of a person, pet, or place and generate a pencil sketch, ink drawing, or line-art illustration that keeps the likeness but trades the photograph for hand-drawn character.
No subscription. Top up from $5. Pay only for what you generate.
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Seedream 4.5
Seedream 4.5 is the reference-stylisation workhorse — it holds the subject's likeness and pose while restyling the whole image as a drawing. Strong at distinct media: graphite sketch, ink linework, watercolour wash, clean coloring-book outlines.
How it works
Step 1
Upload your photo
A clear photo of the subject — person, pet, building, scene. Seedream uses it as a reference so the drawing keeps the likeness and composition.
Step 2
Name the medium and style
"Soft graphite pencil sketch with light colour wash" or "clean black-and-white ink line art." Naming the medium precisely beats a vague "make it a drawing."
Step 3
Say what to keep
Add "keep the face, pose, and composition the same." Seedream preserves the subject well across a stylised restyle when you tell it to explicitly.
Step 4
Iterate and download
Try a different medium, a tighter crop, more or less colour. Every variant lives in the same thread. Download and use them however you want.
Example prompts
Restyle this photo as a soft graphite pencil sketch with a light colour wash — keep the face, pose, and composition the same, visible pencil hatching, paper texture, gentle shading.
Turn this into a clean black-and-white coloring page — bold even outlines, no shading or fill, simple shapes, plenty of white space, suitable for children to colour in.
Anime-style line-art coloring page — clean black outlines, expressive faces, no shading, white background, ready to colour.
Frequently asked questions
When you ask it to. Add "keep the face, pose, and composition the same" to your prompt — Seedream 4.5 preserves the subject well across a stylised restyle. Without that instruction, expect more creative drift.
Pencil sketch, charcoal, ink line art, pen-and-wash, watercolour, comic-book inks, clean coloring-book outlines, and more. The more precisely you name the medium, the closer the result.
Yes. Ask for "clean black-and-white outlines, no shading, white background" and you'll get printable coloring-book line art. Works from a photo or from a text prompt.
Yes. Everything you generate is yours to use however you'd like — prints, merch, client work, content. No attribution, no extra licensing.
Pay-as-you-go from $5 at 100 credits per dollar — most drawings come in well under a dollar each on Seedream 4.5 1K. New accounts also get free trial credits to try it.
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