Lines

Draw: photo to line drawing with AI that runs on your device

Hand-drawn ink lines, placed where an illustrator would put them, then traced for the pen. Suits portraits and objects. A neural drawing model runs in your browser; the first use downloads it.

Good for a hand-drawn look from a neural model. The first use downloads about 45 MB the first time: a 17 MB drawing model plus the engine that runs it; after that it runs on your device.

Try Draw on your image → Compare all styles

Controls

Look · Which drawing the model makes. Switching look downloads another 17 MB model.
Line strength · How much of the drawing to keep. Lower keeps only the boldest lines.

More controls

Bridge gaps up to · Joins broken line ends closer than this, so strokes read as one.
Ignore fragments shorter than · Throws away line pieces shorter than this, which are usually noise.

Matryoshka dolls photo as a hand-drawn ink line drawing of one doll’s face, made by a neural model — Slide to compare. A test render on A5 with 8 mm margins and a 0.3 mm pen: 126 paths, about 3 minutes to plot. Your photo, paper and settings will give different numbers. Photo: Matryoshka dolls, Wilfredor, 2021, CC0.

Slide to compare. A test render on A5 with 8 mm margins and a 0.3 mm pen: 126 paths, about 3 minutes to plot. Your photo, paper and settings will give different numbers. Photo: Matryoshka dolls, Wilfredor, 2021, CC0.

How to turn a photo into a line drawing

Open Draw in the editor and add a photo. Portraits and single objects on a plain background work best.
The first time, Draw downloads its drawing model: about 45 MB, a 17 MB model plus the engine that runs it. After that it runs on your device.
Choose a Look, Clean ink lines or Pencil sketch. Switching look downloads another 17 MB model.
Use Line strength to keep only the boldest lines or more of the drawing, and Bridge gaps to join broken strokes.
Download an SVG in millimetres for a pen plotter or a Cricut pen, or a 1-bit PNG for a laser.

What the model does

Draw uses a neural drawing model that puts lines where an illustrator would, instead of on every edge, then traces the drawing into strokes a pen can follow. The model runs inside your browser, so the photo is never uploaded, and there is no account and no watermark.