How to Use Google’s Autodraw Tool to Create Your AI Art Starting Images

Google's AutoDraw app upgrades your image-sketching game. See how this can speed up the task of generating initial images for AI art models.

In my first post, I showcased how you can turn rough sketches into polished pictures using text-to-art AI tools.

This works because AI is pretty damn good at working with even the poorest of scribbles, so even my crappy drawings could be turned into something workable.

Still, having a better starting image definitely helps the AI do a better of generating the outcome you want. Poor initial images need more tweaking, prompting, and trial-and-error to beat the desired result out of the algorithm.

Luckily, I’ve stumbled upon Google’s AutoDraw tool.

I found that AutoDraw serves as the perfect bridge between my initial scribbles and the starting image I’d like to feed to the AI model.

And it’s completely free to use!

Let’s check it out…

What is AutoDraw?

It’s basically Microsoft Paint on steroids.

When you visit the AutoDraw website, you’ll be met with a familiar interface:

Most of this is pretty run-of-the-mill Microsoft Paint …