Upload a photo, choose your style and medium, and get a personalized painting guide — complete with a reference drawing, your extracted color palette, and instructions matched to your skill level.
No credit card needed · Free forever plan available
8 Painting Styles — choose your artistic voice
5 mediums · 8 special effects · 2 skill levels · 7-day free trial
How it works
No art experience needed. ArtSketch Guide does the analysis — you just paint.
Portraits, landscapes, still lifes, pets — anything works. ArtSketch Guide analyses the colors and shapes to build your personalized guide.
Eight painting styles from Realism to Surrealism. Five mediums including Watercolor, Acrylics, and Gouache. Set your skill level and ArtSketch Guide adjusts the complexity of every instruction.
ArtSketch Guide extracts your palette directly from the photo, runs Sobel edge detection to build a reference drawing, then generates step-by-step instructions tuned to your chosen medium and skill level.
Each step has a checkbox. Tick it when you're done and it fades into the background so you always know exactly where you are in the process. Generate a new guide anytime to start fresh.
What's included
ArtSketch Guide does the analysis work so you can focus on the painting.
Sobel edge detection turns your photo into a clean contour guide. Sketch these lines onto your canvas or paper before painting.
K-means clustering pulls the exact colors from your photo. Swatches come with mixing recipes so you know exactly what to put on your palette.
Every step is written for your chosen medium, style, and skill level — with block-in and local-color illustrations generated from your photo.
Tick each step as you finish it. Completed steps fade out so you always know where you are in a multi-hour session.
Drag the divider to compare your original photo against the stylized result — helpful for judging how much to simplify.
Curated brush, paper, and paint suggestions for your specific medium and skill level, so you buy only what you actually need.
Pricing
The core guide generator is free forever. Premium unlocks every style, medium, and effect.
What painters say
From first-timers to experienced hobbyists — ArtSketch Guide meets you where you are.
"I've always wanted to paint my garden but never knew where to start. The reference drawing alone was worth it — I just traced the lines lightly and suddenly I had a composition."
"The color palette pulled from my photo matched so perfectly that I didn't have to guess at mixes at all. The Gouache instructions are surprisingly detailed for a beginner."
"I use it to prep demos for my workshop students. Being able to generate a Golden Hour version of any photo, with instructions, saves me hours of planning every week."
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