Create consistent illustrations for your brand

Use Ilus AI to generate cohesive, on-brand graphic drawings for your marketing materials.

Whether you're working with freelance artists or an in-house design team, creating consistent, high-quality illustrations for your brand can be a time-consuming and expensive process.

Ilus AI offers a solution to this challenge by allowing you to generate on-brand illustrations quickly and efficiently.

In this tutorial, we'll cover:

Setting up your Ilus AI account
Exploring and using pre-made illustration styles
Developing and training your custom illustration model
Generating and refining on-brand illustrations

Let’s dive in!

Step 1: Getting started with Ilus AI

To begin your journey with Ilus AI, follow these steps:

1. Visit Ilus.ai and click on "Try for free" to sign up for a new account.

2. Fill in your details to create your account. Upon signing up, you'll receive 3 free credits to start with.

3. Once logged in, navigate to the illustration generation dashboard at https://ilus.ai/generate.

On the dashboard, you'll see two main tabs:

Generate: For creating illustrations using pre-made styles
Fine Tune: For training your own illustration generation model

Step 2: Generating illustrations with pre-made styles

Ilus AI offers three pre-made styles for generating illustrations:

1. Ink Drawing: Best suited for character illustrations

2. Doodle: A versatile style for generating various types of illustrations

3. Flat: Primarily designed for character illustrations but can be used for objects as well

Let's create an illustration using the Flat style:

In the "Generate" tab, select "Flat" from the style dropdown.
Choose "Better quality" for more detailed results (note that this may take longer to generate).
In the prompt field, enter: "A man walking a dog on a sunny day"
Optional: Use the advanced settings to add negative prompts if there are specific elements you want to exclude.
Click the "Generate" button to create your illustration.

💡 Tip: Experiment with different prompts and styles to find the best combination for your brand's aesthetic. Remember, the Ink Drawing and Flat styles are optimized for character illustrations, while the Doodle style is more versatile.

Step 3: Fine-tuning your own illustration model

To create consistently styled illustrations that align with your brand, you can fine-tune your own illustration generation model. Here's how:

1. Switch to the "Fine Tune" tab on the dashboard.

2. Prepare 5-35 images that represent your desired style or object. Ensure these images:

Contain only the subject without background noise
Are in JPEG or PNG format
Don't exceed 4K resolution
Have some white space around the edges to prevent cutting off

3. Upload your prepared images to the fine-tuning interface.

4. Give your model a name and click "Start Training".

The fine-tuning process takes about 10 minutes to complete. Once finished, your new model will be available in the "Generate" tab under the style dropdown.

💡 Tip: For best results, use a consistent style across your training images. This will help the model learn and reproduce your brand's unique aesthetic more accurately.

Step 4: Creating consistent, branded illustrations

Now that you've fine-tuned your model, let's use it to create a branded illustration:

Go back to the "Generate" tab.
Select your newly created model from the style dropdown.

Enter the same prompt we used earlier: "A man walking a dog on a sunny day".
Click "Generate" to create your branded illustration.

You can now export your illustration in PNG format for free, or in SVG format for 10 credits.

💡 Tip: When using your fine-tuned model, you may still want to include style keywords in your prompts to reinforce the desired aesthetic. For example, "A man walking a dog on a sunny day, in a minimalist style" if your brand favors minimalism.

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This tutorial was created by Tanmay.