AI Photo to Line Drawing
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AI Photo to Line Drawing

Turn a photo into a line drawing in seconds. Upload a portrait, a pet or a place and get back clean line art, a shaded pencil sketch or a minimal fine-liner drawing - the same face and the same scene, drawn by hand.

Your photo, drawn - not reimagined

Likeness comes first.
  • Same face, same age
    Faces are redrawn with the same eye shape, nose, mouth and jawline. No slimming, no bigger eyes, no smoothed-out wrinkles.
  • Same scene
    Pose, framing and every object in the background stay where they were, so a line sketch from a photo still reads as that photo.

Three drawing styles

Line art, pencil or minimal.
  • Line drawing and pencil sketch
    Ink outlines with light hatching, or a graphite pencil sketch with cross-hatching and tone - switch between them on the same photo.
  • Minimal line art
    Thin single-weight outlines with no shading at all, for tattoo stencils, engraving, embroidery and cutting machines.

Clean output you can use

Print, trace or cut.
  • Pure white paper
    Black and grey lines on true white, with no colour cast, so the drawing prints cleanly and drops straight into a design.
  • 1K or 2K
    1K for sharing and profile pictures, 2K when the line drawing is going to be printed, framed or traced.

How to turn a photo into a line drawing

From photo to line art in three steps.
Upload your photo
JPG, PNG or WebP. Portraits, pets, houses, rooms and street scenes all work - a sharp, well lit photo gives the cleanest lines.
Pick a drawing style
Line drawing for ink outlines with light shading, Pencil sketch for graphite hatching and tone, or Minimal line art for thin single-weight outlines only.
Download the drawing
Get the line drawing back at the same framing on clean white paper, at 1K or 2K, ready to print, frame, trace or share.

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Got a photo you would like drawn?

Try photo to line drawing free with one picture and see it turned into line art in under a minute. No drawing skills required.