Sketch to Drawing - Introducing Promeai.com

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AI services I'll be sharing discoveries in AI, such as this free-to-use website Promeai.

It features several AI services, but for now I'm focusing on one in particular: Sketch Rendering.
Sketch Rendering is taking a sketch -- penciled, inked, or doodled image, and changing it into a 3D, realistic, or fully rendered image based on your drawing and text prompts. It still needs to be highly tuned. There is much to improve, and getting what you want is hard. That being said, the results are fascinating, and I can see great potential in AI doing this in the future.

Below is an inked sketch of a basket design I did years ago. It has enough detail to let the AI do its thing. I'm going to use my text description as follows: "(Yellow Moon Character with indent craters) (Easter basket) (red rocketship attached to a blue rope handle) (Plain white background)"
Note I use parentheses to group related words into phrases. On some websites, this helps the AI understand better.

I could generate the following images by importing this image and typing the prompt. The coloring and detailing are still random, even though I specified what colors should be used. Again, this technology is in its infant stage, and there is much to improve. But the results of 2D to 3D are quite amazing, especially considering the mere seconds it takes to generate such images.

Bear in mind I did prompt the same sketch quite a few times (about ten times, generating about 30 images), and these three were what I consider to be the best of the bunch.

The most frustrating thing about using AI is control. There are SO MANY factors to consider.
You must practice your typing descriptions, learn the way AI thinks, and use other AI tools to work around issues that occur.

So, give the website a try. It's free. It's fun. There are many other tools to experiment with there. It could be better, but it is free.
Here's the direct link: www.promeai.com/

Inktober 2018 - Day 05 CHICKEN

It was obvious Hector was going to be a problem as soon as he hatched.

Image inked with a Kuretake black pen brush on Canson marker Paper and colored with Copic markers.

Arrrggghhh! It's Another Quick Sketch Video: Inktober 2018 Day05 CHICKEN

Inktober 2018 - Day 04: SPELL

Inktober 2018 - Day 04 SPELL.
I like really stepping out of the norm, and here's a great example.
(Don't think you're going to find many other dancing vampires for today's Inktober.)

Full digital color version of today's Inktober

Inked with brush pen and then added type and background in Photoshop

I was originally going to submit only my hand-drawn images for Inktober 2018. But now, several days into this, I'm going to go back to the digital format that I used for the past few Inktobers.

Full color sans Text

I'm basically using a font to help create a cleaner and consistent look instead of my handwriting. To me, it looks and reads better.

Original pencil sketch

The original inspiration for this image was from an envelope with my doodles on the back

Inktober 2018 - Day 03: Roasted

My quickie image for Inktober2018 for Day03 for prompted word: ROASTED

Thought Process: I'm cheating a little. The prompt word immediately made me think of an image I did several months ago of a coffee mug design for my wife.

I wasn't happy with the way the mug came out, and my wife would often ask, "Is that supposed to be me?" I believe it was the way I drew it, and google eyes, and the blank stare that didn't make me completely thrilled with the original final image. So here's a revision of that image.

Revision of the coffee mug design I did for my wife. LINK HERE

Inktober 2018 - Day 01: Poison

My quickie image for Inktober2018 for Day 01 for prompted word: Poison.
Thought Process: I basically thought of a poison bottle. That's it.
Also posted a real-time video of drawing this image on IGTV. About 6+ minutes long. LINK

The first ink sketch for #Inktober2018 (following the prompt list of daily words.)

How different pens create different images

Someone wrote to me asking why I sometimes mention what pens I'm using for different illustrations. What you use often makes a significant difference in how your final image will look.

Below the middle image shows the original pencil sketch for my Day 01 Inktober 2018 entry. Note the difference of the outer two images on the left and right.

Showing how different brush pens can change the look of a drawing. Click on the image to see a larger version.

The left image is more detailed with finer lines because there was a harder point on that brush pen. So that inspires adding more tighter lines for shading and details. The image on the right was drawn with a softer brush tip, which makes it easier to create the flowing and thicker lines. That pen inspired me to use fewer lines and a simpler iconic look. The end results are quite different even though they were both based on the same pencil sketch.

The quick answer to that original question above:
By mentioning the items used to create an image, allows others to know how they could get similar results by using the same product(s).

Daily Post: Chicken Little (with video)

Today's sketch is one I had around for a while. This was a design for a story I wrote using known fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters. This is my version of Chicken Little. I know traditional, Chicken Little is a cute, little chicken in books, (or a big headed with glasses like in the animated movie.) I wanted very wacky. 

Digital color comp for Chicken Little character

Inking for Chicken Little

Daily Sketch: Bug

New concept sketch of a character I'm developing for my latest picture book manuscript, Bug. His name is Allen, a character with an extreme identity crisis.
Swipe to see the original sketch, inking, and color breakdown images.

Sidenote: I used an inking brush setting which resembles a leaky pen. I really like how fluid and random the line becomes.

Final color version

Original pencil sketch

Inking with some shading

Alternative image with color background