Make your own colouring page

You write what the picture should show, and we draw it with clear black lines, ready to print and colour in. It all happens in the box What shall we draw? in My pictures. You need an account and a few crayons.

How to write a good description

What works best is one thing doing one thing, somewhere. For example, a moose playing the guitar by a lake, or a hamster riding a Ferris wheel. A few tips:

• One main character. A cat comes out clearer than a whole class on a school trip.
• What it is doing, and where. That gives the picture something to be about.
• Fun rather than long. One sentence is enough. A long story is hard to draw on a single page.
• No names. Write "a boy playing football", not "my brother Charlie playing football". What you write is sent to an AI service that draws, so do not write names or anything else about yourself or anyone else. The picture turns out just as nice.

You can write in English, or in any of the other languages the site is in.

The light bulb with ideas

If you do not know what you want to colour, press the light bulb next to the box. It lights up and suggests an idea. Press Another idea for the next one, or press the idea to use it. You can swap the underlined words for your own before you draw.

Style, paper and suggestions

Under the box you can choose, if you like:

• Style. Classic is cute and clear, as it always was. Fairy tale has castles, trolls and enchanted forests, Action speed and energy with more detail, and Manga clean lines and big feelings. Patterns gives mandalas and swirls to fill in, and Space planets, rockets and robots. Traditional tattoo draws what you write in thick black lines like an old-school tattoo, Kawaii makes everything round and cute with little happy faces, Stained glass divides the picture into many small panes like a church window, Art nouveau draws it in flowing, elegant lines, Japanese woodblock in flat shapes and swirling lines, and Pixel art builds it from squares to fill in one by one. The style changes how the picture is drawn, not what is in it.
• Paper. Portrait, landscape or square.
• Suggestions. 2 suggestions cost 2 crayons, 4 suggestions cost 4 crayons. The more suggestions, the more different they are from each other. Next to Draw you can see what it costs and how many crayons you have left.

While we draw

It takes a moment, usually less than half a minute. You can leave the page in the meantime: the pictures are drawn anyway and are in My pictures when you come back. You can have 2 rounds going at the same time, with several suggestions in each. If you send the same description again, with the same style, paper and number of suggestions, while we are drawing it, we stop it. Wait until the pictures are ready.

If it does not work

• We cannot draw this picture. There are things the AI service will not draw. Try describing something else.
• The drawing did not work this time. Something went wrong on our side or at the AI service. Feel free to try again.

Either way, you get your crayons back. If the picture did not turn out the way you imagined, change the description or choose another style and draw again.

The AI gets things wrong sometimes. A picture can turn out better than you imagined, or wonderfully weird. Have a laugh, change the words or press Use again and try another style. The i button beside the heading says so too, along with what a picture costs and how what you write is used.

Afterwards

Open the suggestion you like and press Print. How the crayons work, and how you get more, is explained in how Pyssly's crayons work.

Beside each round in My pictures are your words, the style, the paper and how many suggestions there were. Press Copy to copy the description, or Use again to put it back in the box with the same choices, ready to change and draw again.

Cannot find the answer? Write to [email protected] and we will reply.