🌟 16. Using Google Auto Draw for Fun and Learning!

• 🖌️ A while ago, Google made a cool drawing game called “Quick Draw” where you sketch, and a computer guesses your art!
• 🎮 It wasn’t just for fun—Google was teaching its AI to understand our doodles.
• ✨ Now we’ve got something new: Auto Draw!

What’s Auto Draw?

• 🎨 Auto Draw is a simple tool for drawing with neat features like color filling, resizing, and text adding.
• 🤖 But, there’s a magic twist: Google’s AI helps turn your wiggles into awesome pictures!

How Can Auto Draw Make You an Artist?

• 🐕 Struggle to draw a dog? Just try a rough doodle.
• 🎈 Auto Draw’s AI will figure out you’re drawing a pooch and suggest a super clipart doggo to use instead!

Ideas for Using Auto Draw at School

• 🏫 Teachers and kids can use Auto Draw for cool projects.
• 📚 Make sketch notes, infographics, or fun drawings.
• 📝 Learn about AI while you draw and have a blast!

So go ahead, give Auto Draw a try and make your doodles dazzle! 🌈✏️

How to use Auto Draw

Auto Draw is a very simple tool to use, but here are the basic directions to get you started:

• Go to the Auto Draw site at: http://autodraw.com
• Click “Start Drawing” to begin.
• You will now get a blank drawing canvas.

The tools you have available to use include:

• Select – Use this to click on and select any item on the canvas
• Auto Draw– Freehand draw and get suggestions from Google’s AI for matching replacement images
• Draw – Freehand draw with no AI suggestions
• Type – Use this to add a textbox to the drawing
• Fill – Use this to fill in or change the colors of an item
• Shape – Insert shapes including rectangle, triangle, and circle
• Color – Choose a color for filling, drawing, or typing
• Zoom – Zoom in and out on your drawing
• Undo – Undo the last changes you have made
• Delete – Remove the selected item

You can also click the menu icon in the top left corner of Auto Draw (looks like three horizontal lines) to get these options:
Start over – This will erase your current drawing and give you a new blank canvas. You can pick landscape, square, or portrait, but can also resize the canvas afterwards if needed.

• Download – Save a PNG image of your drawing to your local device.
• Share – Get a link to share an image
• How – To- See a quick overview of how to use the Auto Draw.

While using the program you can resize the canvas by dragging the triangle handle in the bottom right corner of the canvas. You can also use the scroll bars to move up and down, or right and left if needed.

The Auto Draw Tool

As mentioned earlier, the program is very simple to use, so most folks should be able to jump right in and get started. However, the one feature that makes this tool different from other graphics programs is the Auto Draw feature. Since that is what sets this program apart, let’s take a look specifically at how that works.

First, you need to select the Auto Draw tool.

• If you want to change the color to draw with, you can do that now using the color tool, or can always change that afterwards with the fill tool.
• Now go ahead and make your doodle.
• As you draw, Google’s AI will try to guess what it is you are trying to make.
• Across the top of the screen, you will see a scrolling list of suggested images that Auto Draw thinks may match your drawing.
• If you like one of them, simply click the suggested image and it will replace your doodle.