How to Turn Your Webnovel into a Webtoon Without an Artist

Why webnovel authors are a natural fit for AI comic conversion

Webnovel writers already produce long-form story content in text. The scenes are already broken into chapters. The characters already have names, appearances, and recurring traits. That is most of the work done.

What is missing is the visual layer. A webtoon episode is expensive to commission and slow to draw by hand. Drawing it from your own chapters with AI gives readers something to share and something that sets your story apart from plain text — without waiting for a contract or an artist.

This is not about replacing hand-drawn webtoons. It is about giving self-published authors a way to add a visual experience without waiting for a contract, finding an artist, or spending months in production.

Step 1: Set the project up for vertical reading

Create a project with the Korean webtoon style preset — delicate linework, refined faces, soft glowing color — and the 9:16 portrait page shape, which matches how webtoon readers scroll on a phone. Set the comic language to the language your readers read in.

If you already love the look of a particular webtoon, upload one of its panels and use "Extract style from comic image" to turn that look into a style description for your project.

Step 2: Bring your chapters in

Export your story as one UTF-8 .txt file and upload it; it is split into chapters for you. Choose the Chinese, Japanese, Korean split mode for CJK novels and the other mode for English and European languages. Webnovel chapters are often longer than a project chapter (3,000 characters at most), so one published chapter may become two or three project chapters — that is fine.

Still publishing? Add each new chapter by hand as you release it. Imported and hand-written chapters live in the same list.

Step 3: Draw the first episode

Open the comic assistant and ask: "draw chapter 1". It reads the chapter, draws a reference sheet for each recurring character, then draws the chapter as four-panel portrait pages. You can watch each step in the conversation.

Then read it the way a reader would. Is the protagonist the person your readers imagine? If not, change their description or redraw their sheet in the material library before going further — every later page is drawn from it. For a single page, just say what is wrong: "the second page should be at night".

Step 4: Keep up with your release schedule

Once the look is right, ask for ranges — "draw chapters 4 to 12" — and the assistant tells you what the batch costs before it starts, then works through the chapters in order. You can stop a run from the header of the assistant window and resume it with Continue; pages already drawn stay drawn.

The project remembers the cast and the art direction, so next week you can add the new chapter and say "keep going from chapter 13". When the story ages a character or leaves them scarred, a new version of their sheet starts from that chapter, and the earlier episodes keep the earlier look.

How to use the pages once they are ready

• Put a page at the top of each chapter post, so readers see the scene before they read it.
• Share single pages on Instagram, TikTok or Pinterest with a link back to the story.
• Build a short visual preview of the first chapters for readers deciding whether to follow you.
• Turn the strongest page into a short animated clip for a teaser.

Make sure you hold the rights to the original story. Pages drawn from your own original writing are yours to use; check each platform's policy on AI-generated images before posting.