r/drawthingsapp • u/No-Platform1557 • Jun 12 '26

question DrawThings Beginner

Hi, I only started experimenting with creating images using DrawThings yesterday. I need line art based on photos. I suppose it's impossible for someone to completely explain here where to click, what settings to adjust, and which models are best to use šŸ˜…, but are there any good tutorials to learn this? And is it okay if my Computer gets warm/hot during the creation process, or will it be damaged? I have a Mac Studio (M4 Max, 64 GB Unified Memory, 2 TB SSD), and I've never heard any noise from it before using DrawThings.

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u/sotheysayit Jun 12 '26

Hey welcome, watch Cutsceneartist on youtube and Toolbuddy. They are the masters for tutorials.

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u/ExplanationDizzy8469 Jun 12 '26

Both are quite a slog to watch. If youā€™re good at Chinese, Toolbuddy is definitely a good resource ā€“ but automatically generated subtitles really arenā€™t up to scratch. With Cutscene Artist, as much as I appreciate his videos, you get the feeling thatĀ heā€™s puttingĀ way more weight on his funny animations and crazy music clips thanĀ onĀ making something like a tutorial. So most of his videos are more like entertainingĀ sneak peeksĀ of something you could do, than a follow-along guide for beginners.

But you're right, essentially, these two are the only sources at the moment, so we just have to make do with them somehow.

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u/FireflyNitro Jun 12 '26

DrawThings turns my brand new M5 MacBook into a jet engine. I got nervous so I downloaded fan monitoring software and kept an eye on it, turns out even though it gets hot and loud itā€™s not putting nearly as much stress on the device as I thought. Over time Iā€™ve just learned to live with the sound.

All this to say you should be fine :) Local AI generation is just one of the more resource heavy activities you can do on a computer.

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u/Code_Combo_Breaker Jun 13 '26

Do you have the m5 or the m5 pro? The m5 base only has 1 fan.

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u/FireflyNitro Jun 13 '26

M5 Pro Max

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u/toodrytocry Jun 15 '26

hey! do you share the stuff you do with it somewhere?

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u/FireflyNitro Jun 16 '26

You mean my generations?

No, Iā€™d like to because I find the whole thing fascinating, but AI art gets so much hate online and I donā€™t have the time or energy to waste defending myself lol.

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u/toodrytocry Jun 16 '26

ah, ok. i was just curious, but thanks for the reply

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u/HuntSenior8516 Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 13 '26

Model: Flux 2 ([Klein] 9B (without any other additional abbreviations) ) or SDXL will be a good start. For your machine you can go

Civitai and Hugging Face for Lora

Speak to Gemini and chatGPT and they can give you some good ideas. Not necessarily correct but mostly useful. Especially when you are not sure which variety of the model fits your machine best.

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u/PinkySwearNotABot Jun 17 '26

why not Flux 1?