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D&D Character Art Generator — portraits, tokens and your whole party

Describe your tiefling warlock, dwarf cleric or elf ranger — race, class, gear and mood — and get a painted fantasy portrait back in seconds. Then turn the same face into a round token for Roll20 or Foundry, or line up the whole party.

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  • GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst
  • A painted portrait of a crimson-skinned tiefling warlock woman with ram horns and gold eyes holding a green eldritch flame
  • A painted portrait of a dwarf cleric with a braided copper beard in plate armour with a sun emblem, a warhammer on his shoulder
  • A painted portrait of a silver-haired wood elf ranger in a green hooded cloak with a longbow and a hawk on her shoulder in a misty pine forest
  • Full-body art of a bronze dragonborn paladin in silver plate and a blue dragon tabard with a longsword and shield on a cliff under storm clouds
  • Any race and class
  • Round VTT tokens
  • Same face across images
  • No watermark

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Quick answer

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How do you make D&D character art with AI?

A D&D character art generator paints a tabletop RPG character from a text description: you name the race, class, gear, pose and setting, and an image model draws the portrait. On Kenerate AI, GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst made a tiefling warlock, a dwarf cleric, an elf ranger, a dragonborn paladin and a five-hero party lineup on the first try each, and turned the tiefling into a round VTT token that kept her face. It's AI art for personal and fan use — D&D-style, not official Wizards of the Coast artwork.

Key facts

Characters made
4 portraits + 1 party of 5
Token
Round VTT token from the same portrait
Model
GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (OpenAI)
Free start
Starter credits; Qwen Image 3.0 on the free plan
Watermark
None

Gallery

Four heroes, a token and a party

Real GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst results, one try each. Open any one to copy the full prompt and run it with your own character.

Same prompt

Portrait in, token out

The tiefling portrait went back in as a reference with a short edit prompt. Face, horns, gold eyes, earrings and the violet coat carried over into a round token with a bronze ring.

PromptTurn this tiefling warlock into a round virtual tabletop token for Roll20 or Foundry VTT: her head and shoulders centred inside a circular frame with a thick ornate bronze ring border, keep the same face, crimson skin, curved ram horns, gold eyes, black wavy hair and violet high-collared coat, green eldritch flame glow at the edge. Plain flat white background outside the circle. No text.

  • Portrait: Turn this tiefling warlock into a round virtual tabletop token for Roll20 or Foundry VTT: her head and shoulders centred inside a circular frame with a thick ornate bronze ring border, keep the same face, crimson skin, curved ram horns, gold eyes, black wavy hair and violet high-collared coat, green eldritch flame glow at the edge. Plain flat white background outside the circle. No text.PortraitText to image
  • VTT token: Turn this tiefling warlock into a round virtual tabletop token for Roll20 or Foundry VTT: her head and shoulders centred inside a circular frame with a thick ornate bronze ring border, keep the same face, crimson skin, curved ram horns, gold eyes, black wavy hair and violet high-collared coat, green eldritch flame glow at the edge. Plain flat white background outside the circle. No text.VTT tokenEdit of the portrait

How to

How to use the d&d character art generator

Time needed
Steps
4 steps

  1. Step 1

    Open the Image Studio

    Go to /app/image and sign in free for starter credits.

  2. Step 2

    Describe your character

    Race, class, gear, pose, framing and art style — copy any prompt on this page as a start.

  3. Step 3

    Generate and pick

    GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst made each of our characters in one try; regenerate if a detail is off.

  4. Step 4

    Make the token

    Add the portrait as a reference and ask for a round token frame, then download — no watermark.

1Describe your image2Pick an image model3Set the aspect ratio and size4Click Create5Open and download your image
Kenerate AI Image Studio with a text prompt typed into the prompt box

Open Image Studio and type what you want to see — subject, style, lighting and mood.

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Prompts, styles, references, edit, Arena & chat

Chapters

Tips

Prompts that get your character right

What worked in our tests.

  • Start with race and class together: “adult tiefling warlock”, “dwarf cleric”, “dragonborn paladin”.

  • Name the features that make the race read: horns and tail, braided beard, pointed ears, scales and a dragon head.

  • Give the class its gear: a pact tome, a holy symbol, a longbow and quiver, a sword and shield.

  • Pick the framing for the job: chest-up for a character sheet, full body for a mini or standee, head and shoulders for a token.

  • Say “painterly digital fantasy illustration” and a light source — candlelight, rim light, dawn mist.

  • For a token, re-use your portrait as a reference and ask for a round frame on a plain background.

Models

Models for D&D character art

What each model is good at. Open any one straight in the generator.

  • GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst title card — glowing sunburst-coloured 3D lettering on a bold magazine-cover-style layout

    OpenAI

    GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst

    Reference images
    Up to 16
    Output
    1K–4K

    Best for

    Made every image on this page

    Open GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst

  • Google

    Nano Banana 2.1

    Reference images
    Up to 14
    Output
    Up to 4K

    Best for

    Built for keeping the same character

    Open Nano Banana 2.1
  • Qwen Image 3.0 title card — neatly written on a café blackboard menu board in a sunlit café
    Free plan

    Alibaba

    Qwen Image 3.0

    Reference images
    Up to 3
    Output
    1K · 2K

    Best for

    Free plan

    Open Qwen Image 3.0

FAQ

D&D Character Art Generator questions

How do I make D&D character art with AI?

Open Kenerate's Image Studio, pick GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst and describe the character: race, class, gear, pose, framing and art style — for example “adult tiefling warlock with crimson skin, ram horns and gold eyes, holding a green eldritch flame, chest-up, painterly fantasy illustration”. Our tiefling, dwarf, elf and dragonborn each came out right on the first try.

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Is there a free D&D character art generator?

You can start free: a new Kenerate account gets starter credits on sign-up, and Qwen Image 3.0 is on the free plan. GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst, used on this page, costs 7.2 credits a portrait at 1K, paid from one-time credit packs that never expire. Downloads carry no watermark.

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Can it make tokens for Roll20 or Foundry VTT?

Yes. Add your portrait as a reference and ask for “a round virtual tabletop token, head and shoulders inside a circular frame, plain background”. Our tiefling token kept her face, horns and coat inside an ornate bronze ring. Kenerate gives you the image; you upload it to Roll20, Foundry or another VTT yourself, and you can cut out the background with a background remover if your VTT wants transparency.

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Can I keep the same character across several pictures?

Yes — re-use an image you like as a reference and describe only what changes, such as a new pose, scene or token frame. GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst kept our tiefling's face in the token edit. Nano Banana 2.1 is also built for keeping the same character across shots.

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Which races and classes can I make?

Any you can describe. We tested a tiefling warlock, dwarf cleric, wood elf ranger and dragonborn paladin, plus a party with a half-orc barbarian, human wizard, halfling bard and tiefling rogue. Name the features that make the race recognisable — horns and tail, a braided beard, pointed ears, scales — and the class gear.

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Can I make my whole party in one image?

Yes. List every hero with race, class and one or two props, and ask for a lineup. Our five-hero party came out with every character distinct; the half-orc's tusks were barely visible, so call out any must-have detail clearly or regenerate.

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Is this official D&D art?

No. It's AI-generated, D&D-style fan art made from your descriptions, not artwork from Wizards of the Coast. It's fine for your own character sheets, tokens and campaign handouts; if you plan to sell anything, check the rules for the game system and setting you use.

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Is the art made by AI or a person?

By AI. Every image on this page came from GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst on Kenerate, one try each, with the full prompt shown. If you need hand-drawn art for a commission or a publication that bans AI art, hire an illustrator.

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In depth

D&D Character Art Generator, explained

What works, what to avoid, and how to pick a model.

On this page

What goes into a good D&D character prompt

An image model only knows what you write. “A tiefling” gives you horns and red skin; “an adult tiefling warlock with a pact tome on a chain and a green eldritch flame” gives you a character with a class you can read at a glance.

We built every prompt on this page from the same parts, and you can swap any of them:

  • Race and age: “adult wood elf”, “adult dwarf”, “adult bronze dragonborn”.
  • Class and gear: warlock + pact tome, cleric + holy symbol and warhammer, ranger + longbow and hawk, paladin + sword and shield.
  • Look: hair, beard, skin or scale colour, eyes, armour colours, emblems.
  • Framing: chest-up for a sheet, full body for a standee, head and shoulders for a token.
  • Style and light: “painterly digital fantasy illustration”, candlelight, rim light, dawn mist.

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We build and run the Kenerate generator. Every example is a real output of the model named under it; models and presets were checked against the app's code.

Sources: Kenerate Image Studio · D&D Basic Rules — Character species and classes (D&D Beyond)

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