Leonardo AI Character Reference Tutorial (2026) | Create Consistent AI Characters with Pose & Style
Learn how to create consistent AI characters in Leonardo AI using Character Reference, Pose Reference, and Style Reference. This step-by-step tutorial shows how to generate the same character with different poses, expressions, outfits, environments, and artistic styles. Based on the tutorial, Character Reference works best with images originally generated in Leonardo AI.
Leonardo Ai recently released their character reference feature which makes it much easier to prompt for consistent characters with their Ai Image model!
In this video we'll take a look at all the different ways we can use the character reference feature for creating characters with different backgrounds, settings, clothing & fashion, camera angles, facial expressions, and art styles.
Most importantly, we can combine the character reference feature with Leonardo Ai's pose reference tool to control the specific poses of our characters, which is a major upgrade over other Ai image generators.