Wand

Wand is an AI drawing app for iPhone and iPad that takes a rough sketch to a fully rendered image in seconds, and has since been acquired by Krea. I worked on the product as designer and advisor, shaping a UI that keeps the creative flow fast and direct, so the AI behaves like another brush rather than a prompt box.

Artists were the audience, so control mattered more than magic. Every AI step in the interface is visible, reversible and adjustable, and nothing asks the artist to leave the canvas. The imagery below is Wand's own.

Sketch, then render

The core loop is draw, describe, tap. Strokes go straight onto the canvas, the wand renders them in a second or two, and a morph slider decides how far the result can drift from the original lines. Turned down, the render hugs the sketch; turned up, the AI is free to interpret.

Sketch to render

Draw, describe, tap the wand, then dial how far the AI may drift

CanyonPortrait

Sketch

Describe what you want to see

Draw on the canvas, then tap the wand

pencil + prompt → render in ~1.5 s · morph 0–100% blends your lines and the render · strokes you add are kept

Styles you can drag

I designed styles as objects rather than settings. Dragging one over the canvas previews it in real time before anything is committed, and letting go applies it to the same composition, so trying seven directions takes seconds instead of seven prompts.

Style tray

Drag a style onto the canvas to preview it live; let go to apply it

Fantasy

rainbow over a forest path, wildflowers

FantasyWatercolorRetro animeUkiyo-ePhotorealPaintingTarot

Drag a style onto the canvas

7 styles from Wand's library · live preview on hover · drop or tap to apply · composition is kept

Editing just one part

Iteration rarely means starting over. A lasso locks everything outside the selection, and the prompt only acts inside it, so an artist can change the canopy without losing the path they finally got right.

Regional edit

Lasso one part of the image and change only that, without re-rolling the rest

Lasso a region

Describe what you want to see

Prompts appear once a region is selected

Draw a loop on the image, then pick a prompt

lasso → masked, feathered re-render · prompts act inside the selection only · everything else is locked

A model of your own

For working artists the most valuable style is their own. A few images of their work go into a private dataset, Wand trains a personal model, and it sits next to the base model as one more option to render with. Models stay private to the artist who trained them.

Private model

Teach Wand your own style from a handful of images, then render with it

BaseMy style

Dataset 0/6

Your artwork

Add 4 more

Base model

rainbow over a forest path

Add your images, then train

4–6 images · private to the artist · train once, switch models per render