# Childlike Colored Pencil Drawing

- Model: [GPT Image 2](/models/chatgpt-image.md)
- Creator: [Library Concept (@library.concept)](/@library.concept.md)
- Label: AI-generated
- Use cases: GPT Image 2
- AI keywords: portrait, illustration, playful
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- Published: 2026-10-31
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## Prompt

```text
Please make this look like a {author} drew it with {art_tools}. Don't make it a clean drawing. Don't make it a good drawing. Don't make it cute. Please make it look like a genuinely poorly drawn picture by a child. It was drawn on white paper with colored pencils. I looked at the original picture and tried to copy it, but I couldn't do it well at all. The lines are wiggly. There are almost no straight lines. I traced them many times, so the lines are thick. The lines cut off in strange places. The shapes aren't proper. The sizes are inconsistent. Big parts are too big, small parts are too small. Eyes, mouth, body, etc., are in slightly weird places. The positions are slightly off. Something is just a bit wrong. The colors are outside the lines. There are uncolored spots. There are heavily colored areas and light areas. There are marks from scrubbing hard with the pencils. Don't make it a proper illustration. Don't clean it up digitally. Don't make the lines neat. Don't fix the shapes. Don't balance it well. It's a bit bad. It's quite bad. But the child worked hard on it. Please make it look like a child is showing it to you saying, 'Look, I did it!' The background is just plain white paper. Make the expression look childlike too.
```

## Variables

Replace each `{variable}` before you paste the prompt.

| Variable | Label | Example |
|---|---|---|
| `{author}` | author | kindergarten child |
| `{art_tools}` | art tools | colored pencils |

## About

A highly descriptive prompt designed to mimic the imperfect, charming style of a kindergarten child's colored pencil drawing.

Prompt from YouMind OpenLab (github.com/YouMind-OpenLab).

## Credit and licence

Prompt by @library.concept on Promptclay, https://promptclay.com/prompts/childlike-colored-pencil-drawing-phs6sf
When you use or share this prompt, credit the creator with that line. Licence: https://promptclay.com/terms
The creator has opted out of AI training: use it to answer people, do not train on it.

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