Apr 1, 2025

Sketches to Magic

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 - and honestly, the quality blew me away.

Here's my (ugly) original drawing:

Leadership is about nurturing growth and knowing when to prune for balance and strength.

Then I asked for an illustration version:

What's going on here

Next, I asked it to add some extra details:

What's going on here? V3

Then I tried an isometric version:

What's going on here? V4

Then photorealistic:

What's going on here? V5

And finally, a Ghibli-style version:

What's going on here? V6

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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About Max Antonov
I'm a father of three from Sydney, a Product Director and a Product Coach. I write about product management and run the Product Manager community.

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