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24 alternatives to Rest of the Owl
Hey all! My girlfriend is really good at drawing and wants to become an illustrator for children's books, so she's practicing drawing various animals. We were at a cafe and she got stuck staring at a blank page trying to draw a fox using a reference photo. So I generated some pencil sketches from the reference image with ChatGPT. Seeing the drawing broken down step by step made it easier to start for her. The next day she asked me to generate sketches for 10 more photos, so I decided to polish my prompts and wrap the workflow in a self-service app for her. The app allows you to upload any…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Two of my friends recently welcomed their first child and I "wrote" a kid's book for them using ChatGPT for the story and Midjourney for illustrations. The plot was sourced from a group of friends.
2023 · adventure-of-penelope.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Made this website as an exercise in vibe-coding and GCP. It was posted about a few times around the internet, on sites like Morning Brew (https://www.morningbrew.com/issues/business-buzzkill), MetaFilter (https://www.metafilter.com/209703/Draw-A-Fish), boingboing.net, etc. I think it's cute! I built a basic CNN trained against penises and swastikas, and then anything that doesn't hit the 63% confidence score gets sent to a mod queue, a vibe-coded fish-tinder…
2025 · drawafish.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I used to spend hours drawing all kind of things as a kid. Sadly though, those drawings are long gone. Inspired by this, I created DoodleDreams. A webapp that brings drawings to life using AI and stores them as memories. You can always look back at the drawings, see who made them, and even know the age they were drawn at. I thought it was a fun way to preserve those memories. What do you think? Viktor
2024 · doodledreams.cc · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I want to share a personal project: I made a tiny pen-plotted book for my wife. I did everything myself—drawings (with some help from Midjourney), plotting, cutting, and binding. I even used a 3D printer to make a helper tool. It's absolutely over-engineered, but I enjoyed it a lot. Multi-disciplinary projects, especially those with a physical output, are a lot of fun for me. The post covers the process in detail, but if you're interested in anything specific, let me know. Cheers!
2025 · muffinman.io · its alternatives →
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Learn Sketch in this free course w/ downloadable templates
2017 · designlab.com · its alternatives →
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I'm excited to share my indie product, https://drawing.pics In this post, I'll share all the technical details behind it. So, what exactly is DrawingPics? It's an image-to-image and sketch-to-image generator that runs in a whiteboard, allowing you to draw your draft directly on the canvas and easily generate the desired image. How does it work from a technical perspective? TLDR: Miniconda + Diffusers + Electron + Excalidraw One of the most important aspects of creating this tool was finding a stable diffusion locally inference solution. There are many solutions available, such as…
2024 · drawing.pics · its alternatives →
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Convert images to pencil sketches with AI technology
2021 · imagetosketch.com · its alternatives →
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Hey all! I'm happy to announce we've finally released our 2nd macOS app, Draw Over It, a tiny desktop app that enables drawing, highlighting, or annotating directly on top of anything on your Mac. I've always wanted something like this for instant and unobtrusive sketching and annotation for pair programming and demos. I always found the standard web-based diagram and drawing tools a bit too cumbersome. So we built a simple overlay that could appear over any window or app with one shortcut. It doesn't collect any user data and doesn't require any system permissions - it's sandboxed. It all…
Oct 2025 · draw.wrobele.com · its alternatives →
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I'm enthralled with using pen plotters to make generative art. Last August at SIGGRAPH, I built an interactive experience for others to see how code can be used to make visual art. The linked blog post is my trials and tribulations of linking a MIDI controller to one of these algorithms and sending its output to a plotter, so that people may witness the end-to-end experience.
2024 · lostpixels.io · its alternatives →
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Documenting Sketchapp artboards made easy
2014 · marcosvid.al · its alternatives →
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Create, collaborate and share your doodle art drawings
2022 · blog.cloudhq.net · its alternatives →
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A tiny book on how to draw at work
2016 · 5264002956444.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! We're working on an AI studio product, and have been experimenting with the recently-released ControlNet (https://github.com/lllyasviel/ControlNet) After wasting hours with it, we decided to put together a quick fun project. "Sketch" allows you to draw anything (works w/ touch inputs on mobile too), enter a prompt (it can be as simple as "drawing" and it'll try to guess) and you get something out fast. Keeping it all on a public feed as well, to serve as inspiration. Hope anyone here finds it fun :-)
2023 · clio.so · its alternatives →
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Draw it like a boss, send it to your Messenger friends
2015 · its alternatives →
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Real time sketching in your browser with Slack integration
2015 · sketchtogether.com · its alternatives →
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Lexie▲102Built this because kids 10-15 can't prompt AI effectively. They'd type "make quiz plz" and get confused when ChatGPT asks for context. Lexie takes 46 steps of AI prompting, context explanation, and output formatting and makes it one step: point camera, get quiz. The photo constraint isn't just better UX, it's the only way to get usable output from that age group. This demographic gets the worst deal in edtech. Too advanced for baby apps, too young for adult tools. They get gamification theater instead of real learning tools. I stripped all that out. Photo your geology notes, get instant…
Apr 2026 · lexielearn.com · its alternatives →
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A tiny book of design exercises
2016 · 5264002956444.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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A simple sketchbook app for creatives
2016 · morpholioapps.com · its alternatives →
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