Can’t Draw Characters? Create Highly Detailed Characters from Simple Drawings and Prompts Free with Realtime Canvas by Leonardo.AI

Positive you might use Leonardo.ai’s common textual content immediate to picture generator however that may be very hit or miss, and should take many generations earlier than you lastly craft a fancy immediate that is getting one thing near what you had in thoughts.

Realtime Canvas, however, allows you to craft a easy textual content immediate and draw a tough picture, each of which you’ll hold refining till you get a remaining, actual time, up to date picture that appears near (and possibly higher than) what you had in thoughts.

Utilizing Realtime Canvas

You will see two canvas home windows aspect by aspect. The one on the left is the drawing window. You do not want any sort of drawing pill, drawing along with your mouse is ample. The canvas window on the best is the ultimate picture, up to date in actual time, as you make modifications to both the left canvas window, immediate, or one of many different settings across the display screen.

A lot of the instruments are fairly simple to understand simply by clicking and seeing what they accomplish that I am not going to clarify all of them. I am going to merely describe my course of that I discovered received nice outcomes.

It is best to begin with the textual content immediate field beneath the left canvas. The immediate will give the AI clues about what you are making an attempt to attract. For instance, in case you actually draw a stick determine, the AI will know you are in all probability making an attempt to attract a human kind. Nonetheless it will not know you are making an attempt to create a ‘Full physique, entrance going through, African feminine with massive eyes broad open, caricature, cartoon type’ with out these particulars in your immediate. (see picture beneath).

Begin out with a immediate thought in your character after which draw a stick determine within the pose that you simply want. The AI can nonetheless get fingers incorrect, with an incorrect variety of fingers. Generally you may repair this simply by making the fingers of your stick determine extra outstanding as I’ve carried out right here.

For characters that you simply intend to rig in an animation software program, like Cartoon Animator 5, it is a good suggestion to begin your drawing with a stick determine, in both an A or a T pose, after which construct out from there. Observe that colours in your drawing may even have an effect on the output to a point. You can even use the colour picker to alter the background base coloration as properly.

Colours can have an effect on the output. How a lot will rely in your Inventive Energy setting beneath the output canvas. A decrease setting will trigger the AI to stay nearer to your immediate and drawing.

Each line you draw is added as a separate object so, in case you get an arm within the incorrect place, as an alternative of erasing and redrawing, you should utilize the choice software to maneuver and resize it (it’s also possible to change the layer order with the arrows beneath the chosen half).

Differ your remaining output utilizing the type setting field beneath the output canvas window. It is price making an attempt every type as a result of the distinction will be fairly appreciable, altering your character’s look solely. Happily you may trip between types with out one you want being regenerated simply since you modified types.

Don’t fret an excessive amount of in case your character has a barely distorted face or the fingers aren’t fairly proper. Once you really feel such as you’re nearly there clicking the ‘Immediate Refine’ button will do a cross that acts like a remaining clear up. Sometimes I discovered the model earlier than clicking this seemed higher. The excellent news is, the unique picture is saved, together with the refined model. No have to undo. You can even proceed to work in your character after urgent the button.

When you’re completely happy click on the ‘Upscale Picture‘ button, this seems to be the one approach to save the picture to your Leonardo Private Feed. For those who’re discovering the default upscale settings aren’t to your liking, click on the cog icon on the button to check out a few of the alternate settings.

When you’re out of the Realtime Canvas Editor, find your character in your private feed. Choose which model you wish to use as a rigged, animated character from the drop down checklist beneath the picture.

Realtime Canvas Does Backgrounds Too

You possibly can just about design something with Realtime Canvas. It does have a particular type setting for environments however, in creating backgrounds for animation, a few of the different types labored equally as properly.

Realtime Canvas can be utilized to design nearly something, together with backgrounds.

It took me fairly a little bit of adjusting to get my again alley scene (above), regardless of the drawing wanting fairly easy. Initially the AI needed to present me a view wanting down the alley so you might see buildings on either side however I needed this aspect on view of only one wall part.

Then it took fairly a little bit of tweaking of the drawing, simply to get the door beneath the awning, to be acknowledged as a door by the AI. Clearly I received there ultimately. I did lose my grate on the street, which was there in early iterations, however I used to be fairly pleased with the end result in any other case.

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