Leonardo AI
Leonardo AI specializes in generating consistent characters, game assets, and concept art. With fine-tuned models for specific styles and a powerful canvas editor, it's the top choice for game developers and concept artists.
How to Get the Most Out of Leonardo AI
Generate Consistent Game Characters Across Multiple Poses
Create a character in Leonardo using one of its game-asset fine-tuned models (like Leonardo Diffusion XL or RPG 4.0). Once you have an approved design, use the Character Reference feature to lock the character's appearance and generate additional poses, expressions, and costume variations — all maintaining visual consistency. This is far faster than commissioning individual illustrations for each pose.
Use the Canvas Editor to Extend and Modify Images
Open any generated image in Leonardo's Canvas Editor and use the outpainting feature to extend the scene beyond the original borders — expand a portrait to a full body, or a room to a wider environment. Use inpainting to select specific areas and regenerate them with a new prompt while keeping the rest of the image intact. This iterative refinement workflow produces much cleaner results than trying to get everything right in a single prompt.
Train a Custom Model on Your Art Style
Upload 10-20 images of your own artwork or a specific style you want to replicate, and Leonardo trains a custom fine-tuned model on your data. Every image you generate with that model carries your style's distinctive characteristics — brush stroke quality, color palette, compositional preferences. For studios producing large volumes of content in a consistent house style, this eliminates prompting overhead entirely.
Our Take
Leonardo AI is the best choice for game developers, concept artists, and anyone needing character consistency across multiple images — its specialized models and Character Reference feature solve problems that Midjourney simply doesn't address. The Canvas Editor is also more capable than most competitors for iterative image refinement. For overall image quality on diverse creative subjects, Midjourney's aesthetic is hard to beat. Leonardo's free tier is generous and a good way to evaluate whether the game-asset specialization justifies upgrading.
Frequently Asked Questions
✓ Pros
- Specialized game asset models
- Consistent character generation
- Canvas editor for fine-tuning
- ControlNet support
- Active community
✗ Cons
- Token limits on free plan
- Interface can be complex
- Less versatile than Midjourney
- Smaller community