The profile you wrote becomes the face
AI draws an avatar straight from a character card with a name and an appearance — no prompt to write from scratch. On a paid plan, make a turnaround reference sheet and keep the same character in scene illustrations and manga panels.
Get started nowLitMemo's AI character generator draws a character's face from the name on their character card and what you wrote on the Appearance tab — hairstyle, hair color, eyes, build and so on. On the free plan it draws a square head-and-shoulders avatar on a plain single-color background. Paid plans draw that avatar at higher quality and add a reference sheet with a front/side/back full-body turnaround plus expressions on one page, and scene illustrations with backgrounds. The reference sheet is sent along every time a manga panel is drawn, so the character stays the same person from panel to panel — without training a LoRA.
"I want AI to draw my OC, but every time I get a different person. Is training a LoRA really the only way to make it remember my character?"
General-purpose image AI starts from zero every time you send a prompt. It doesn't know your character's name or personality, so it can't draw the same person twice. Ask about it online and the usual answer is "train a LoRA" — but that needs a set of pictures of the same character first, and an OC whose face isn't settled yet has nothing to start from. What you need is something that starts from the profile you've already written, and keeps the face as a reference once it's settled.
The core features of AI character generator — draw your OC's face from the character profile you already wrote
An avatar, straight from the character card
Once the character is saved, press "AI generate" under the avatar. The name and whatever you wrote on the Appearance tab go to the AI as they are, so there's no separate prompt to write. You get a square head-and-shoulders portrait on a soft single-color background — easy to tell apart at a glance in your character list. Not quite right? Press "Refine", write one line about what to change, and it redraws from the original with that change in focus. The new picture appears next to the old one so you can choose which to keep.
- Drawn from the name and appearance you wrote — no prompt needed
- Square, head-and-shoulders, plain-background avatar
- Refine names only what to change; compare old and new, then choose
How you write the appearance changes the face
The AI receives what's on the Appearance tab; empty fields aren't sent. Write only "black hair" and you'll get any black hair at all. Write "shoulder-length black hair, flipped out only at the ends", "upturned eyes, grey irises", "a small mole under the left eye", and the face gets much closer to one only this character has. Personality and backstory aren't drawn directly, so anything you want to show in their looks should be rephrased and written on the Appearance tab.
- Hair: length, color and how it falls (e.g. shoulder-length black hair, flipped out at the ends)
- Eyes: shape and color separately (e.g. upturned eyes, grey irises)
- A mark: a mole, a scar, an accessory they always wear — one thing only they have
A reference sheet that fixes the face (paid plans)
On a paid plan, "AI-generate reference sheet" makes a character reference sheet: front, side and back full-body views plus close-up expressions, all on one page. It's a design baseline on a white background, and every later picture of this character is drawn to match it. You can also upload a reference sheet you drew yourself, and choose per character which images the AI receives.
- Front, side and back full-body views plus expressions on one page
- Upload your own drawn sheet as the reference if you prefer
- Choose which images the AI receives, per character
The same character in scene illustrations and manga panels (paid plans)
With a reference sheet in place, describe what the character is doing and generate a single illustration with a background. In manga production, the reference sheets of the characters in a panel are sent along every time that panel is drawn. Instead of redrawing from zero like general-purpose AI, it has a baseline to follow, so panel 1 and panel 30 are far less likely to show two different people. A manga book can also have an art style set, and every panel in that book is drawn in it.
- Scene illustrations: describe the scene, get a single picture with a background
- Manga panels: the reference sheet is consulted every time
- Set an art style per book so the panels match
How it keeps drawing the same character without a LoRA
The usual advice for getting AI to draw your own character again and again is to train a LoRA — training data made just for that character, often with a recommendation to gather ten or more full-body pictures from different angles first. LitMemo instead sends the character's reference sheet to the AI as a reference image with every generation. All you need is one reference sheet and a written appearance. Want to change the face? Replace the sheet, and the next picture follows it.
- No training images to collect, no model to train
- The reference is one sheet plus the appearance you wrote
- Replace the sheet and the next generation follows it
Have you run into this too?
「Your OC's profile is written, but you still can't picture their face」
Draw one avatar from the card with their name and appearance. Look at the face you get, change the appearance to "sharper eyes" or "shorter hair", and draw again. A few rounds of this and the face that words alone couldn't settle starts to take shape. The free plan gives avatars to up to 2 characters, though redraws come out of your monthly credits — for lots of tries, a paid plan fits better.
「You turned the story into manga, and the lead looks different in every panel」
On a paid plan, make a reference sheet for your lead first; every storyboard panel then consults it when it's drawn. Set an art style on the book as well, and the whole chapter reads as the same lead in the same style.
「An ensemble cast so large you can't tell who's who in the character list」
Give each character an avatar and you can find people by face, not just by name. Paid plans have no limit on how many characters can have avatars.
The usual way vs LitMemo
| The usual way | LitMemo | |
|---|---|---|
| Where drawing starts | A fresh prompt every time | The character profile you already wrote |
| Drawing the same character again | Redrawn from zero each time | Reference sheet consulted every time (paid) |
| Locking in your own character | Collect images and train a LoRA | One reference sheet as the baseline |
| Where profile and art live | Notes in one place, images in a folder | Together on one character card |
| Redrawing | Start over if you don't like it | Refine what to change, compare old and new |
Get started in four steps
- 1
Create a character
Add a character on the Characters page, enter a name and save
- 2
Write the appearance
On the Appearance tab, write hairstyle, hair color, eyes, build — whatever should show in the picture
- 3
Generate the avatar
Press "AI generate" under the avatar, check the credit cost, and generate
- 4
Set the reference with a sheet
On a paid plan, generate a reference sheet as the baseline for scene illustrations and manga panels
Frequently asked questions
Yes. The free plan can AI-generate character avatars. The first one costs 8 credits and a redraw costs 6. The free plan receives 20 credits each month, shared with every other AI feature. On the free plan, up to 2 characters can have avatars, and avatars you upload yourself count toward those 2. Paid plans generate at higher quality and add reference sheets and scene illustrations.
The free plan draws a square, head-and-shoulders avatar. A paid plan's reference sheet puts a front/side/back full-body turnaround and expressions on one white-background page. It's a design reference; there's no option to export a transparent-background standing sprite.
On a paid plan, make a reference sheet for that character. It's sent to the AI as a reference image every time a scene illustration or manga panel is drawn, so there are no LoRA training images to collect. You can also upload a sheet you drew yourself as the reference.
Put every feature you want drawn on the Appearance tab. Empty fields aren't sent to the AI, and personality and backstory aren't drawn directly. Give hair its length, color and how it falls; give eyes a shape and a color separately; and add one thing only this character has, like a mole or an accessory — that makes them easier to tell apart from the rest of the cast.
A redraw doesn't replace the original straight away — it appears next to it, and you choose which one to keep. A redraw uses credits too, and keeping the original doesn't refund them. When you know exactly what to change, Refine names it and redraws from the original.
Image generation is limited to all-ages content. Characters in a book or world with Open Creation (which may include mature themes) turned on can't have images generated.
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