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Turn a Photo Into a Line Drawing With AI

Easily and instantly turn a photo into a line drawing with AI in LightX. Transform portraits, landscapes, architectures, or illustrations into black and white or colored line art.

A man’s portrait transformed into various artistic line drawing styles using AI, showcasing fine details and shading.

How to create line art from a photo with AI?

Step 1

Upload image

Drag and drop your photo, either in the JPEG or the PNG format, into the tool.

Step 2

Add prompts or reference image

Describe your line art in words. Or, upload a reference image for the AI to mimic the same style.

Step 3

Generate and download

Click “Generate” to finally create your line art. Then, download it directly to your device.

A beautiful, delicate line drawing of a woman with soft, flowing outlines generated on LightX.

Give AI a reference for your desired line art

Upload an image of the line art you want as a reference, and the AI will mimic the same style in your image.

A beautiful, delicate line drawing of a woman with soft, flowing outlines generated on LightX.
A highly realistic line drawing of a woman, preserving intricate facial details and contours.
A close-up portrait with facial features intact, converted into a fine line drawing using an AI generator.

Describe your line art with a text prompt

Detail your line art in words, and AI will generate your photo based on the same in just a few seconds.

Prompt 1:
high-contrast pencil line art of a sharp-featured male portrait with expressive strokes and detailed shading
Prompt 2:
Pencil line art of a male portrait with bold strokes, detailed shading, and realistic features
Prompt 3:
simple pencil line art of a male portrait with clean outlines and minimal shading
A young boy’s face seamlessly transformed into a sketch-like line drawing with clean, crisp outlines.
Prompt 1:
high-contrast pencil line art of a sharp-featured male portrait with expressive strokes and detailed shading
Prompt 2:
Pencil line art of a male portrait with bold strokes, detailed shading, and realistic features
Prompt 3:
simple pencil line art of a male portrait with clean outlines and minimal shading

Create a black and white line drawing from photo

Let your photos make a statement with the simplicity and clarity of a black and white line art. Easily convert photos to line drawings with AI in LightX. This timeless aesthetic, featuring highlighted shapes and structures, minimalism, and versatility, is suitable for both creative and professional purposes.

A simple yet elegant line drawing of a girl, capturing her facial structure with delicate strokes.

Transform portraits, landscapes, and every photo to line art

Make every photo stand out by turning it into a striking line art with LightX.


1. Portraits: A line art portrait simplifies your features into clean outlines, giving an elegant look.


2. Landscapes: Make a line drawing from a photo of a landscape to portray the nature with clear shapes and contours.


3. Architecture: Obtain precise, clear-structured drawings of different architectures in the form of a line art.


4. Illustrations: Convert illustrations to line art for a simplified, bold, and more expressive appeal.


5. Coloring books: Turn a photo into a line drawing for coloring books, which encourages an easy creativity.


6. Logos/Icons: Line art logos or icons are more recognizable and memorable when used in branding.


7. Stencil designs: Generate a line drawing from a photo and use it as a stencil for craft or painting. 

A highly detailed line drawing depicting landscapes, buildings, and people with precise, intricate strokes.

Turn a picture into a line drawing with colors

Edit your photo into a catchy colored line art with a lively and engaging appeal in LightX’s line art maker. These colors add vibrancy and emotion to your line art, which makes it look more expressive. This colorful personality of your line art makes it perfect for use in today’s modern designs.

A colorful artistic line drawing of a man, blending vibrant hues with fine sketch-like lines.

Create line art online in different styles

Generate line art in many different techniques, any of your choice. Try a detailed line art that keeps all the details from your original photo. Or, convert your photo to outline drawing for free in a minimalist style. It possesses clean outlines and no extra detail. Or, make a sketchy line art featuring a hand-drawn-like aesthetic with textured lines. Even create a cartoonish line art with thick outline and exaggerated touch.

A very simple line drawing of a woman in a minimalistic style, with clean and subtle outlines.

Try the LightX app to turn photo into line drawing

If you just love line arts, create as many as you want from your photos, anytime, anywhere, on your iOS or Android device using the LightX app. Get flawless results in seconds and share online across different social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, or Snapchat.

A high-quality, shareable line drawing created using an app, featuring bold and refined strokes.

Transform your photos into so much more

Explore a lot more beyond line art in LightX. Turn your photo to sketch—a pencil sketch, an ink sketch, or any other. Convert your photo to painting, an oil or watercolor painting, effortlessly. Try the AI photo to AI art feature, as well. The AI My Photo tool lets you enhance any ordinary photo of you.

A woman’s face beautifully converted into a line drawing and artistic painting using LightX AI.

Why choose LightX’s AI line art generator?

1

Clear and precise results

Get a line art design that looks like it was designed by a professional with clear, sharp lines and minimal distortion every single time.

2

Maintains originality

The AI, when turning your photo into a line art, makes sure to keep the features of the subject or object as they are.

3

Printable line art

Have a high-quality line art design ready in a matter of a few seconds only that you can download and print or share online.

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Frequently Asked Questions

For sure! You can use LightX’s AI outline generator from a photo to turn your group photo of family or friends into a line art that looks beautiful.

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