Apr 1, 2025
Yeah, everyone's talking about ChatGPT image generation online - and I get it. It's addictive and pretty entertaining.
One of the cooler ways to use it is by turning a rough sketch into something way more polished.
Here's one of my early, messy drawings I made for the “Cultivate and Cut” post. I always meant to come back and clean it up but never got around to it. So I asked ChatGPT to turn it into an illustration...the quality blew me away.
Here's my (ugly) original drawing:
Then I asked for an illustration version:
Next, I asked it to add some extra details:
Then I tried an isometric version:
Then photorealistic:
And finally, a Ghibli-style version:
I'm definitely going to keep playing around with turning my sketchy concepts into full illustrations. This is just too much fun.
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