Photo to Sketch

Upload it in /app/image, pick Seedream 5.0 Pro and name the drawing style: graphite pencil, charcoal, ink pen or colored pencils. Describe the paper and shading — fine hatching, smudged shading or no shading for line art — and for people add “keep the face and identity the same”. A photo with clear light and shadow gives the best drawing.

Yes, to start. A new Kenerate account gets free starter credits on sign-up, and Flux 2 Dev is on the free plan. Bigger jobs, like 2K drawings on Seedream 5.0 Pro, use one-time credit packs rather than a subscription, and credits never expire. Downloads have no watermark, so a test sketch is ready to share.

Yes. Ask for a clean black ink line drawing with no shading on a white background, like the urban street sketch on this page. For coloring pages from a photo, ask for clean outlines only. Ink gives the cleanest lines, while pencil adds fine detail and charcoal adds bold contrast if you want shading back.

Yes, when you ask. In our tests Seedream 5.0 Pro kept faces recognisable in pencil and charcoal when the prompt said “keep the face and identity the same”. Start from a sharp photo with clear light and shadow, because the model copies the face from it. Use your own photo, or one you have permission to use.

Name the tool, the paper and the shading, then ask to keep the subject. The pencil portrait on this page used: “Turn this photo into a realistic graphite pencil sketch on white paper, fine hatching and shading. Keep his face and identity the same.” Swap in charcoal, ink pen or colored pencils for other styles, or say “no shading” for line art.

Yes, in your iPhone's browser — there's no app to install. Open the Kenerate web app, upload a photo from your camera roll in /app/image, pick Seedream 5.0 Pro or Flux 2 Dev on the free plan, and name the drawing style, such as graphite pencil or charcoal. Download the sketch with no watermark and save it to your photos.

Yes. Use our sketch to image tool: upload the drawing, describe the finished image you want — a photoreal render, a product photo or a coloured illustration — and ask to keep the same shape. The model keeps your lines and proportions while adding materials, colour and light. Clean, dark lines on white paper work best.