Some projects need a face that is not a photograph of a real person: a draft character, a mock profile, or a stand-in for a layout. The free AI face generator on CanvaPro creates a unique portrait from details you type, with no photo to upload and no account to create. The usual download does not pick up a watermark from the page.
The live form asks you to choose Male or Female, then fill in optional text fields: age (for example, 25), ethnicity (for example, Asian, Arab), hair (for example, red color hair with short or any), and props (for example, wearing a hat). You then pick a model: Nano Banana (the default), Ideogram, Grok, SeeDream, or Flux. Complete the security check and click Generate. Jobs often finish in about 10 to 30 seconds, depending on the model and server load. The new portrait appears in the output panel.
Details, not a source photo
Because there is no upload, the face is invented from your settings and the selected model. If a result feels too artistic or too generic, switch models and keep the same details so you can compare. You can generate more than one face by running the form again; each job returns a new portrait rather than a locked identity.
How to generate a face, step by step
- Choose Male or Female.
- Add age, ethnicity, hair, and optional props if you have a direction. Short, concrete notes work better than a long biography.
- Pick a model, complete the security check, and click Generate once.
- Review the portrait and download it if it fits the project. Keep a note of the settings so you can try a close variation later.
Use this ethically
These faces are synthetic. Do not present one as a real person, a real customer, or a real employee. Do not try to recreate a specific living person or a public figure. The tool is for unique, invented portraits, not for impersonation. If you need a professional-looking portrait from a selfie you already have, that is a different job on a different page.
If you actually need a professional portrait of a real person who has agreed to it, make a headshot from a selfie instead of inventing a face.
If the face feels off
Simplify the details, try another model, and run the job again. An expired security check can also stop a run. If you actually want a headshot based on your own photo rather than an invented face, use the AI headshot generator, which starts from a selfie you upload.
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A prompt that is too thin is a common cause. Tighten the description and generate again with the face generator, rather than editing a face you already rejected.
After you download the portrait
Look at it at the size it will appear in your layout. If you need a series, keep the written details consistent and change only one variable at a time. Store the file with those notes, and label the image as generated when a client, platform, or audience needs that context.
If you want a written brief from the still, the image to prompt tool can extract a starting sentence you can reuse.
Writing details that stay useful
Short, concrete notes work better than a life story. Age, a general appearance, hair, and one prop are enough for a first pass. If you stack too many instructions, the portrait can feel generic or internally inconsistent. Generate once, look at the result, then change a single field — hair, or a hat, or the model — if you want a close variation.
These faces are invented. That is the point, and it is also the limit. Do not use a generated portrait as a fake customer photo, a fake employee headshot, or a stand-in for a real person in news or official material. If a result happens to resemble someone you know, do not publish it as them, and do not try to steer the form toward a specific living person.
When you need a set of faces for a layout, keep the written details in a note next to each file, including the model you used. That is the only way to build a loosely consistent set, because the tool does not lock an identity across jobs.
A still you like can also be turned into a reusable brief with a guide on how to extract a prompt from an image.
A short checklist
- Choose Male or Female, then add age, ethnicity, hair, and optional props.
- Pick Nano Banana, Ideogram, Grok, SeeDream, or Flux.
- Click Generate once and wait about 10 to 30 seconds.
- Download the unique portrait, and do not present it as a real person.
If you are building a layout that needs more than one invented person, generate each face as its own job and keep the settings with the file. Do not crop or retouch a portrait in a way that implies it is a photograph of a real, named individual. If you need a face based on a real selfie instead of an invented one, switch to the headshot tool rather than trying to force this form to copy someone.
When you are ready, enter a short set of details, generate one face, and save it only after it fits the brief. A single honest, fictional portrait is more useful than a misleading stand-in for someone real.