Turn a sketch into finished art in your house style

Last updated: October 12, 2026

Take a rough pencil sketch to finished art in your studio's house style, keeping the pose, proportions and design the artist drew. Use it for characters, props and whole scenes, from first concept to art ready for review.

What you'll make

One finished, colored and shaded image per sketch, at the sketch's framing, in the same rendering, palette and lighting as your approved art. It lands as a version of the sketch, so the drawing and the render stay side by side for review. From there it can go on to a turnaround, a cut-out or a 3D model.

Before you start

A clean scan or photo of the sketch: flat, evenly lit, cropped to the drawing. Clear lines matter more than finish.
The house style, in one of two forms: two or three approved pieces in your library for a one-off, or a trained reference set when the style is used week after week (see Reference sets).
Each render costs Creative Units; the cost depends on the model and the output size. See Creative Units.

Bring the sketch in

In a session, press ⌘K (Ctrl+K on Windows), choose Add asset…, pick the sketch and click Select 1 asset.
Hover it on the board and click View. The edit bar sits under the image.

Render it in the house style

This is a prompt edit with your approved art attached as the style to match. Edit an image with a prompt covers the edit bar in detail.

In the edit bar, click + (Add to prompt), choose Attach files or photos, pick an approved piece in the house style and click Select. To use a trained style instead, choose Add a reference set and pick it.
Ask for the render and name what must survive from the drawing: Render this pencil sketch as finished character art in exactly the painted style of the attached warden: the same soft rendering, muted palette, warm studio light and plain backdrop. Keep the pose, proportions, hammer, apron coat and boots exactly as drawn.
Click Edit image. The viewer stays open while it renders.
The render joins the strip beside the sketch. Compare the two: silhouette, pose and every prop the sketch shows should be there.
If something drifted, click the sketch in the strip and run the edit again with a sharper instruction. Edit from the sketch each time, not from a render: each pass re-renders the whole image.

Take it further

Turn the character to the other views with Change an image's camera angle, or pose it with Pose a character.
Cut it out for a game screen with Remove an image's background, or separate it into parts for rigging with Split an image into layers.
For a final paintover, take the render into Photoshop with the Layer panel (Install the Layer panel in Photoshop) and finish it by hand. Layer gives you the rendering pass; the last details are the artist's.

Hand it off

Open the render and use Download, or Download as... to choose PNG for a lossless file or PSD to open it in Photoshop, and to scale it under Size. For a review deck, select the sketch and the render on the board and download them together.

Scale it up

Train the style once. When more than a handful of sketches will go through this, train a reference set on fifteen or so approved pieces that share one look, and attach it instead of loose images. Every artist then renders against the same definition of the house style. See Create a reference set.
Batch the sketches. Build a workflow with an Images input for the sketches, a Reference Sets input for the style and an Edit Image node, and run a whole sketchbook page at a time. See Edit images in a workflow.
Review before it goes on. Judge renders against the sketch side by side, not on their own. Admins can add Output Scoring rules in the workspace's AI controls to score each render against the style automatically.
Hidden-object scenes. Sketch the room with every object placed, render it in the house style, then make the find-the-difference or object-swap versions as prompt edits of that render, so the scene stays the same and only the objects change.

If something goes wrong

The pose or proportions changed. Say keep the pose and proportions exactly as drawn, and make the sketch's lines darker and cleaner before you bring it in. Faint lines leave the model to guess.
The render looks generic, not like your style. Attach two or three approved pieces that agree with each other, name what defines the style (rendering, palette, light), or attach a trained reference set.
Parts of the reference art appear in the render (its character, its props). Say in the prompt that the attached art is a style reference only, and pick reference pieces whose subject is unlike the sketch.
The render keeps the paper texture or pencil marks. Ask for a clean finished background, or remove the paper tone from the scan before you bring it in.