cGAN-based Sketched Image Art Generator Using Deep Learning

Art is a creative way of expressing human emotions through sketches. Sketches can be black and white or grey or sometimes coloured. Coloured sketches express a human emotion effectively. Not all human beings can express their emotions through sketch but with advancements in technology machines can generate sketch images and add colours to them. Art Model is one such proposed method which helps humans to generate colourful sketch images which can be used in magazines or newspapers and save the time for sketch artists. The proposed model consists of three stages: data pre-processing, art generation and colour generation stages to obtain a beautiful coloured sketch. Generated sketch when compared with existing methods gives a better quality image. Experimental results for proposed methodology is evaluated using popularity index metric. Better sketch to image conversion can be seen as a part of the result.