How to play Draw Your Hero
Draw Your Hero is a free draw a stickman game where everything comes from your pencil. Start by drawing your hero: a classic stickman, a knight, a robot or a cat. Then guide it through twelve little scenes. The hero walks on its own until something blocks the way, and you solve the problem by drawing. Draw a key and the door opens, draw an umbrella and your hero stays dry, draw a ladder and up the wall it goes. A doodle-recognition AI checks every drawing, so it has to look like the real thing.
- Draw your hero and press Use my hero (or pick the ready-made stickman).
- Your hero walks until it reaches an obstacle and tells you what it needs.
- Draw that object in the box. When the AI recognises it, it appears in the scene and solves the problem.
- In bridge scenes, draw a line across the gap and press Walk!
- Reach the green flag to finish the scene and unlock the next one.
Tips
- Draw the typical version. The AI learned from millions of quick doodles, so draw objects the way most people would: simple, big and centred.
- Watch the speech bubble. It shows what the AI sees right now. If it sees something else, add the detail that makes your object obvious.
- More than one answer. Some scenes accept several objects: a dark cave can be lit by a light bulb, a candle or even the sun.
- Bridges need to touch both sides. Start the line on the near edge and finish it on the far edge, and keep it fairly flat.
- Give your hero legs. The legs of your drawing swing as it walks, so heroes with two clear legs look best.
The twelve scenes
Your adventure starts with a simple gap to bridge, then a locked door, a rain storm, a tall wall and a dark cave. Halfway through you cross a wide river by boat, feed a hungry bear, melt a block of ice and cut through a giant spider web. Near the end a dragon blocks the road, and the final scene is the royal gate, where your hero needs a crown to get in. The bears, dragons and spiders are real doodles drawn by people, just like the examples the AI learned from.
More AI drawing games
Like having an AI judge your drawings? Race the clock in Quick Draw, battle a bot inDraw Battle, or turn your doodle into a fighter inDraw a Monster.
Draw Your Hero FAQ
How does Draw Your Hero work?
First you draw your own stickman hero; the game turns your drawing into a character whose legs swing as it walks. The hero then walks through 12 scenes, and each scene has an obstacle. Most of them are solved by drawing an object, such as a key for a locked door or an umbrella for the rain, which a doodle-recognition AI has to recognise. Some scenes ask you to draw a bridge over a gap instead.
The AI does not recognise my drawing. What can I do?
Draw the simplest, most typical version of the object, big and in the middle of the box: a key is a circle with a stick and two teeth, an umbrella is a dome with a hooked handle. The speech bubble shows what the AI currently sees. If you are stuck, press Show me how to see a faint example drawn by a real person.
Can my hero be anything, not just a stickman?
Yes. Draw a robot, a cat, an alien or yourself. The game uses the bottom third of your drawing as the legs and swings the left and right halves, so drawings with legs at the bottom walk best.
How do stars work?
Solve a drawing scene without the Show me how hint for three stars. In bridge scenes, a short, efficient bridge earns three stars. Stars and unlocked scenes are saved in your browser.
Is it like Draw a Stickman: EPIC?
It is inspired by the same idea of drawing your own hero and the things it needs, but Draw Your Hero is an independent, free browser game with its own scenes and an AI that checks your drawings.
Does it work on phones?
Yes. Draw your hero and the objects with your finger. The game is free and needs no download or account.