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Turn Your Photo Into Anime, Cartoon or Comic Art

Upload a real picture and the AI redraws it as a drawing. Three styles, one click each, about a minute per conversion, and your face stays recognisable in all of them.

Your photo
Drop a photo here or click to choose
JPG, PNG or WebP. Up to 500 KB on your plan, 10 MB on Pro.
Faces, pets, groups and places all work.
The photo you uploaded, ready to convert
Pick a style
A free account is needed, and it takes about 30 seconds to create. No card.
Your illustration
Your drawing appears here.
Upload a photo, pick a style, then hit the button.
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Real output

One Photo, Three Different Art Worlds

Each row starts with a single photograph, then shows what came back from each style. These are untouched tool output, not hand-drawn mock-ups.

Original photograph: a smiling woman with curly dark hair in daylight
The photo
The same portrait redrawn as anime, with clean line art and flat cel shading
Anime
The same portrait redrawn as a cartoon, with rounded shapes and bright colour
Cartoon
The same portrait inked as a comic panel, with bold outlines and hard contrast
Comic
Original photograph: a man in a denim jacket walking on a sunny street
The photo
The street photo redrawn as anime, with cel shading and a stylised background
Anime
The street photo redrawn as a cartoon, with smooth shapes and warm colour
Cartoon
The street photo inked as a comic panel with heavy outlines
Comic

Both people are AI-generated, so no real person's likeness is used to advertise the tool. Your own photo is deleted after conversion.

Getting started

From Camera Roll to Character Art in Three Steps

There is no prompt to write and nothing to install. The drawing instructions for each style are already tuned, so the only decisions left to you are the photo and the look.

1

Upload a clear photo

Sharp, well lit, face easy to see. A normal phone photo is perfect. iPhone shots saved as HEIC need converting to JPG first, which heic.now does free.

2

Pick anime, cartoon or comic

Each style sends the AI a different set of drawing instructions. Not sure which suits your picture? The comparison below breaks down what each one does to a face.

3

Download your illustrated self

About a minute later the drawing appears in the shape you uploaded. Download it, or send the same photo through the other two styles and pick a favourite.

The three looks

Anime, Cartoon or Comic: What Each One Does to a Face

They are not three filters of the same drawing. Each style changes different things: the line weight, the eyes, the colour, and how much of the original lighting survives.

Anime

The most transformative of the three. Eyes grow larger and catch a highlight, the line work turns clean and deliberate, and colour arrives in soft cel-shaded bands rather than photographic gradients.

  • Best for portraits and close-ups
  • Keeps hair shape and colour
  • Backgrounds simplify a lot

Cartoon

The friendliest result and the safest bet for a group photo. Shapes round off, colours brighten, proportions get a gentle nudge, and the shading stays smooth and even, like a still from an animated feature.

  • Best for families, kids and pets
  • Most forgiving of busy photos
  • Reads well at small sizes

Comic

The boldest and the most graphic. Heavy black ink defines every edge, halftone dots stand in for soft shading, and the contrast is pushed hard, so dramatic light in the original photo becomes an asset.

  • Best for action shots and scenery
  • Loves strong side lighting
  • Prints and screen-prints well
Ideas

What People Do With Their Illustrated Portraits

An illustration says something a photograph cannot. It is recognisably you without being a picture of you, which turns out to be useful in a lot of places.

Profile pictures with personality

An anime or cartoon version of your face works everywhere a photo feels too formal or too exposed: Discord, gaming profiles, work chat, forum avatars.

Gifts that took thought

A comic panel of a couple, a cartoon of somebody's dog, a framed anime portrait of a friend. It costs a photo and a minute and lands far better than a gift card.

Stickers and prints

Bold outlines survive being shrunk to sticker size or printed on a mug or a shirt. The comic style in particular was built for ink on paper.

Content that keeps a face private

Creators who do not want their photograph indexed everywhere use an illustrated likeness instead: the same recognisable person, without the searchable face.

Party and event invitations

Cartoon the guest of honour and drop them into the invite. Birthdays, hen parties, retirements and team send-offs all work better with a face on them.

Characters for a story

Writers and game masters photograph a friend, convert them, and use the result as reference art for a character. Faster than commissioning and free to iterate.

Getting a better result

How to Get a Drawing That Still Looks Like You

The AI can only draw what it can see. Almost every disappointing result traces back to the photo rather than the style.

  • Fill more of the frame with the face. A head and shoulders photo converts far better than a full-length shot taken from across a room. If the face is small, crop in before uploading.
  • Use soft, even light. Daylight from a window is ideal. Hard overhead light carves shadows that the AI reads as facial features and draws in.
  • Take the sunglasses off. Eyes carry most of the likeness, and every style redraws them. Hats and hoods are fine; anything covering the eyes is not.
  • Skip the beauty filter. Filters have already smoothed away the detail the AI needs, and stacking a drawing on top of a filter tends to produce a generic face rather than yours.
  • Rescue small or grainy pictures first. An old photo from a phone camera gains a lot from a pass through the AI image upscaler before it gets converted.
  • Run all three styles before deciding. Photos are unpredictable: a picture that makes a flat anime frame often makes a superb comic panel. Three conversions cost you three clicks.
Ground rules

An All-Ages Tool, On Purpose

Every photo is checked for adult content before it goes anywhere. Nudity and sexual imagery are refused at the upload step, the picture is never sent for conversion, and nothing is charged for a refused upload. This is deliberate: the point of the tool is family photos, pets, profile pictures and gifts, and it stays that way.

Use pictures you have the right to use. Converting your own photo, or a friend's with their blessing, is exactly what this is for. Uploading a stranger, a celebrity or anyone who has not agreed is not, and neither is using an illustration to imply somebody said or did something they did not.

Your upload is deleted once the conversion finishes. The illustration is kept in My Files so you can download it, for 24 hours on a free account and for as long as you subscribe on Pro and Max. Nothing you upload is sold, shared or used to train AI models. The full detail lives in the privacy policy.

Allowances

Free and Pro Limits for Photo Conversions

A free account is the entry ticket, and it costs nothing. Here is exactly what changes when you upgrade.

Starting out free

  • Photos up to 2 MB
  • Small watermark on the drawing
  • Illustrations kept 24 hours
  • No card, no expiry

On a paid plan

  • Photos up to 10 MB
  • No watermark, full resolution
  • Illustrations kept while you subscribe
  • 133,000 tokens per conversion, about 187 a month on Pro

Everything else included

  • Face swap for photos, GIFs and video
  • Image generation, upscaling and editing
  • AI chat with every major model
  • 7 days free, cancel anytime
Questions

Photo to Anime Questions, Answered

Will the drawing still look like me?

That is what the instructions ask for: same face, same pose, same hair and clothes, drawn in a new style. A sharp, well-lit, front-facing photo comes back clearly recognisable. Sunglasses, heavy shadow, motion blur or a face that fills only a small part of the frame all make the likeness drift.

What is the difference between the three styles?

Anime gives clean line art, large expressive eyes and soft cel shading. Cartoon rounds everything off with bright saturated colour and friendly proportions, the look of a western animated film. Comic inks the picture with heavy black outlines, halftone dots and hard contrast, like a page from a comic book. The same photo through all three looks like three different pieces of art.

Is it free?

You need a free account, which needs no card, and free conversions carry a small watermark. Pro and Max results come back clean and full resolution and are saved to My Files. Each conversion costs 133,000 tokens from a Pro monthly allowance of 25 million, which works out at roughly 187 illustrations a month.

Can I use photos of other people?

Only with their permission. Converting a friend's photo for a gift or a group chat is fine when they are happy with it. Do not upload pictures of people who have not agreed, and do not use the result to suggest someone said or did something they did not.

Does it work on pets, groups and places?

Yes. Dogs, cats, couples, family groups, cars and landscapes all convert, and the comic style in particular suits scenery. Group photos work best when faces are reasonably large in the frame; in a wide crowd shot the smaller faces lose detail.

What happens to the photo I upload?

It is screened for adult content, sent for conversion and then deleted. The illustration is saved to My Files so you can download it, for 24 hours on a free account and for as long as you subscribe on Pro and Max. Nothing you upload is sold, shared or used to train AI models.

Why was my photo rejected?

This is an all-ages tool, so every upload passes an automatic adult-content check before anything else happens. Nudity and sexual content are refused, and you are not charged for a refused upload. The occasional false positive happens with swimwear or close-up skin; a different photo usually goes straight through.

How is this different from Image Restyle?

Image Restyle is the open-ended tool: you write your own prompt and can ask for oil painting, watercolour, 3D render or anything else. This page does one job with three tuned presets, so there is nothing to write and the anime, cartoon and comic results are more consistent than a prompt typed from scratch.

Can I sell or print the illustration?

The output is yours to use personally or commercially, including prints, stickers and merchandise. Two limits apply: only convert photos you have the rights to, and do not imitate a living artist's signature style or a studio's trademarked characters.

Nearby tools

More Ways to Reshape a Picture

This page does three styles properly. When you want something else done to a photo, these are the tools built for it.

Restyle it your own way

Write your own style prompt: oil painting, watercolour, pixel art, 3D render, pencil sketch, anything you can describe.

Change the photo, not the style

Change what is in the photo rather than how it is drawn. Swap the background, recolour clothes, add or remove objects.

Put a different face in

Put one person's face onto another photo. There are dedicated versions for GIFs and video clips too.

Draw one from nothing

No photo needed. Describe a character or a scene and 19 models will draw it from nothing.

Rescue a small photo

Enlarge and sharpen a small photo before converting it, or blow the finished illustration up for printing.

Guess the age in that photo

Since you already have a good photo open: find out how old a vision model thinks you look.

Three Styles, No Watermark, One Free Week

A free account draws your photo in any of the three styles with a small watermark. Pro removes it, returns full resolution, keeps every illustration in My Files, and unlocks the rest of the tools, from AI chat to video face swap. The first 7 days cost nothing.

See What Pro Includes