Gesture Draw ✍️
Want to add some loose, expressive lines to your sketches? Gesture Draw ✍️ is great for capturing movement and energy, perfect for rough, gestural drawings. Whether it's quick studies or dynamic poses, this LoRA keeps things sketchy and full of life. Skip the overly polished look—get that natural flow with confident strokes and light details.
trigger word: gstdrw
Enhance your prompts with: black and white, rough lines, movement, expressive strokes, light smudges, fine pencil, charcoal sketches, dynamic gestures, minimal backgrounds
Also - see u/NobodyButMeow's comment below to find my complete LLM System Prompt for creating prompts that fit this LoRA🛝 You can run this on glif - glif - Gesture Draw v1 by an303042
❣️ This LoRA was trained as part of glif.app loradex project - Check out their Discord for more details.
⚡Enjoy and post your results please!
prompts in the above comparison: gstdrw, XXXXXXXX, black and white, rough lines, movement, expressive strokes, light smudges, fine pencil, charcoal sketches, dynamic gestures, minimal backgrounds
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This is a great LoRA! I had a lot of fun with it.
But you really need to use an LLM such as ChatGPT to help you prompt it.
I looked at the workflow created by an303042 at https://glif.app/@an303042/glifs/cm17glmbj0000ip48zf8chfst and extracted the LLM prompt used there for generating the prompt. Just cut and past the following into ChatGPT:
Please refine for me some image prompts to suit a gesture drawing, emphasizing fluid movement, energy, and expression. The strokes should be confident but fine, capturing the gestural essence of the subject without becoming too heavy or thick. Avoid overworking the lines--focus on simplicity and spontaneity. The background should remain minimal, with only light smudges or soft hints of depth. While the majority of lines should be fine and delicate, it's ok to use bolder lines if the subject matter calls for it. Be sure to specify whether the drawing uses pencil, charcoal, or ink, ensuring the medium complements the subject matter. Describe the paper's texture (creases, weight, etc.) and color (white, light yellow, gray, or brown--all very delicate and subdued colors, almost white), ensuring it enhances the organic feel of the drawing without appearing flat or overly digital.
For Examples:
For "A cat wizard": "A delicate gesture drawing using fine, flowing lines that capture the magical and fluid movement of a whimsical cat wizard. The cat is drawn with a combination of light pencil and subtle ink lines, emphasizing its graceful stance as it conjures a spell. The strokes are gentle, yet they confidently suggest the wizard's arcane energy, with only a few smudges hinting at depth in the background. The lightly textured, soft-gray paper adds an organic touch without overwhelming the fine details, enhancing the subtlety of the cat's mystical motion."
For "A dancer in mid-leap": "A gesture drawing rendered with thin, expressive lines capturing the dynamic movement of a dancer frozen in mid-leap. The lines are delicate, drawn with a fine pencil, tracing the motion and energy of the leap without overpowering the sense of grace. The background is left mostly untouched, with only faint strokes suggesting the space behind the figure. The paper is a pale yellow with a slightly rough texture, giving a subtle depth to the composition without detracting from the airy quality of the dancer's pose."
Only output the enhanced prompt, applying a deep understanding of gesture drawing and visual arts. No explanations, just refine the prompt.
You can see some of the images generated by such prompts here: https://civitai.com/posts/8163434
Thank you so much trying out my LoRA! I'm really happy you are enjoying it.
Yes, running the prompt through an LLM helps a great deal. This is true pretty much whenever prompting for a style, unless one has a huge vocabulary and is not afraid to use it :)
When building glifs, the bar is set very very low - it needs to be built in a way that anyone can run the glif and get a somewhat satisfying result, which is why an LLM is absolutely crucial there.
When using the LoRA locally, a higher technical understanding, along with a more specific intent, is assumed.
I do appreciate your post - While my original model description included several recommendations for additional terms to use in the prompt, I have now made it clearer, and referenced your comment should people want the full prompt. Thanks for flagging for me ❤️
Oh, and thanks for posting on the model page! that really helps a lot ⚡
@an303042 You very are welcome.
Yes, glif is a great idea, and by building an LLM into it, you've helped people make it a lot easier to use the LoRA.
I like to play with prompts, so I do enjoy the flexibility you've built into your LoRA. By adjust the prompt, one can get different "gesture styles", which is very nice.
This LoRA was in my "to be tested" list for so long and today I finally tried it...it's amazing. Especially after generating and looking at so many AI images with excessive details...a minimalistic style like this is such a breath of fresh air. Makes me wanna actually pick up a pen and draw. Thank you for making this. ☺️
Do it! and then train a LoRA on your work 😍
Thank you so much for the kind words. Feedback is the best 🙏