Crayon & Doodle 1: 11 Photo Styles and Their Prompts
Turn a photo into a loose drawing with visible hand-made marks. Compare scribble density, paper texture, contour looseness and the amount of color crossing the edges.
Make your look in Vidream
- Open Cartoon and choose Crayon & Doodle 1.
- Browse the examples below and select the filter with the matching name.
- Upload a clear photo with the face and main subject fully visible.
- Generate your image, then check the face, hands, outfit and background before saving it.
Choose your photo: Photos with a lively, easy-to-read gesture and a simple background.
How to use the prompts
Each prompt below is a self-contained recipe for one uploaded photo plus written style instructions. Use it in an image-editing tool that accepts a photo and a text prompt. No second style image is needed. In Vidream, choosing the named filter uses its preset treatment.
The gallery shows the current Vidream filter examples in a 3:4 display crop. The written recipes describe those looks; a new generation can vary in fine detail and likeness.
All 11 looks
1. Raw Zine Diary Cartoon
Look for: Overlapping rough colored-pencil and crayon marks, loose black contours and red, yellow, blue and green accents; uneven coverage on coarse sketchbook paper.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Overlapping rough colored-pencil and crayon marks, loose black contours and red, yellow, blue and green accents; uneven coverage on coarse sketchbook paper.
Keep the original people, facial identity, age, skin-tone relationships, hairstyle, pose, clothing, objects and setting. Translate the same facial features into this treatment while retaining their proportions and emotional intent. If the photo has no people, apply the treatment to its existing scene and objects.
Apply the described look consistently across the subject and background. Preserve the main spatial relationships and keep the face and important details fully visible in a single 3:4 vertical composition. Do not add people, props, text, logos, watermarks or panels.
2. Deliberately Bad Absurd Doodle
Look for: Naive uneven black doodle strokes, repeated loose outlines, dot eyes and simplified facial marks; abundant white paper and almost no modeled volume.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Naive uneven black doodle strokes, repeated loose outlines, dot eyes and simplified facial marks; abundant white paper and almost no modeled volume.
Keep the original people, facial identity, age, skin-tone relationships, hairstyle, pose, clothing, objects and setting. Translate the same facial features into this treatment while retaining their proportions and emotional intent. If the photo has no people, apply the treatment to its existing scene and objects.
Apply the described look consistently across the subject and background. Preserve the main spatial relationships and keep the face and important details fully visible in a single 3:4 vertical composition. Do not add people, props, text, logos, watermarks or panels.
3. Handwritten British Anti-Inspiration Cartoon
Look for: Loose pen sketching on warm aged paper, thin gray-green washes and small red accents; broken construction-like strokes and charming facial asymmetry.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Loose pen sketching on warm aged paper, thin gray-green washes and small red accents; broken construction-like strokes and charming facial asymmetry.
Keep the original people, facial identity, age, skin-tone relationships, hairstyle, pose, clothing, objects and setting. Translate the same facial features into this treatment while retaining their proportions and emotional intent. If the photo has no people, apply the treatment to its existing scene and objects.
Apply the described look consistently across the subject and background. Preserve the main spatial relationships and keep the face and important details fully visible in a single 3:4 vertical composition. Do not add people, props, text, logos, watermarks or panels.
4. Raw Emotional Internet Doodle
Look for: Repeated tangled black lines construct the forms; oversized white graphic eyes and tiny pupils, blue-green-red pencil scumbling with exposed paper.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Repeated tangled black lines construct the forms; oversized white graphic eyes and tiny pupils, blue-green-red pencil scumbling with exposed paper.
Keep the original people, facial identity, age, skin-tone relationships, hairstyle, pose, clothing, objects and setting. Translate the same facial features into this treatment while retaining their proportions and emotional intent. If the photo has no people, apply the treatment to its existing scene and objects.
Apply the described look consistently across the subject and background. Preserve the main spatial relationships and keep the face and important details fully visible in a single 3:4 vertical composition. Do not add people, props, text, logos, watermarks or panels.
5. Low-Fi Frenzy Cartoon
Look for: Rough mouse-drawn black scribbles, asymmetric graphic eyes and expressive mouths, loosely applied pink, green and blue; energetic marks overshoot contours.
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Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Rough mouse-drawn black scribbles, asymmetric graphic eyes and expressive mouths, loosely applied pink, green and blue; energetic marks overshoot contours.
Keep the original people, facial identity, age, skin-tone relationships, hairstyle, pose, clothing, objects and setting. Translate the same facial features into this treatment while retaining their proportions and emotional intent. If the photo has no people, apply the treatment to its existing scene and objects.
Apply the described look consistently across the subject and background. Preserve the main spatial relationships and keep the face and important details fully visible in a single 3:4 vertical composition. Do not add people, props, text, logos, watermarks or panels.
6. Chaotic Color Doodle Crowd
Look for: Dense free heavy black curves with neon yellow, green, pink and blue, iconic eyes and mouth, visible doodle pressure and bold color fields.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Dense free heavy black curves with neon yellow, green, pink and blue, iconic eyes and mouth, visible doodle pressure and bold color fields.
Keep the original people, facial identity, age, skin-tone relationships, hairstyle, pose, clothing, objects and setting. Translate the same facial features into this treatment while retaining their proportions and emotional intent. If the photo has no people, apply the treatment to its existing scene and objects.
Apply the described look consistently across the subject and background. Preserve the main spatial relationships and keep the face and important details fully visible in a single 3:4 vertical composition. Do not add people, props, text, logos, watermarks or panels.
7. Pop Magazine Doodle Overlay
Look for: Bold black-and-white cartoon strokes with vivid pink and yellow accents, graphic facial symbols, hand-marked edges and strong texture-versus-flat-fill contrast.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Bold black-and-white cartoon strokes with vivid pink and yellow accents, graphic facial symbols, hand-marked edges and strong texture-versus-flat-fill contrast.
Keep the original people, facial identity, age, skin-tone relationships, hairstyle, pose, clothing, objects and setting. Translate the same facial features into this treatment while retaining their proportions and emotional intent. If the photo has no people, apply the treatment to its existing scene and objects.
Apply the described look consistently across the subject and background. Preserve the main spatial relationships and keep the face and important details fully visible in a single 3:4 vertical composition. Do not add people, props, text, logos, watermarks or panels.
8. Raw Symbolic Graffiti Figure
Look for: Raw totem-like black lines and dry-brush scumbling, dirty-white paper with red, yellow and green accents, skeletal graphic reduction and scraped layered marks.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Raw totem-like black lines and dry-brush scumbling, dirty-white paper with red, yellow and green accents, skeletal graphic reduction and scraped layered marks.
Keep the original people, facial identity, age, skin-tone relationships, hairstyle, pose, clothing, objects and setting. Translate the same facial features into this treatment while retaining their proportions and emotional intent. If the photo has no people, apply the treatment to its existing scene and objects.
Apply the described look consistently across the subject and background. Preserve the main spatial relationships and keep the face and important details fully visible in a single 3:4 vertical composition. Do not add people, props, text, logos, watermarks or panels.
9. Notebook Lifestyle Doodle
Look for: Warm notebook-like paper, repeated short colored-pencil strokes and casual black contours, visible paper texture, graphic features and uneven fill.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Warm notebook-like paper, repeated short colored-pencil strokes and casual black contours, visible paper texture, graphic features and uneven fill.
Keep the original people, facial identity, age, skin-tone relationships, hairstyle, pose, clothing, objects and setting. Translate the same facial features into this treatment while retaining their proportions and emotional intent. If the photo has no people, apply the treatment to its existing scene and objects.
Apply the described look consistently across the subject and background. Preserve the main spatial relationships and keep the face and important details fully visible in a single 3:4 vertical composition. Do not add people, props, text, logos, watermarks or panels.
10. Fast Family-Essay Sketch
Look for: Rough overlapping colored pencil and crayon, simple black contours, arc-like expressive eyes and open mouth marks, blue-green-yellow-red color crossing edges with exposed paper.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Rough overlapping colored pencil and crayon, simple black contours, arc-like expressive eyes and open mouth marks, blue-green-yellow-red color crossing edges with exposed paper.
Keep the original people, facial identity, age, skin-tone relationships, hairstyle, pose, clothing, objects and setting. Translate the same facial features into this treatment while retaining their proportions and emotional intent. If the photo has no people, apply the treatment to its existing scene and objects.
Apply the described look consistently across the subject and background. Preserve the main spatial relationships and keep the face and important details fully visible in a single 3:4 vertical composition. Do not add people, props, text, logos, watermarks or panels.
11. Editorial Doodle
Look for: Simple black lines with coarse green, blue and orange crayon fills, obvious fibrous paper, dot eyes and an arc mouth, short shape strokes and casual overshooting color.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Simple black lines with coarse green, blue and orange crayon fills, obvious fibrous paper, dot eyes and an arc mouth, short shape strokes and casual overshooting color.
Keep the original people, facial identity, age, skin-tone relationships, hairstyle, pose, clothing, objects and setting. Translate the same facial features into this treatment while retaining their proportions and emotional intent. If the photo has no people, apply the treatment to its existing scene and objects.
Apply the described look consistently across the subject and background. Preserve the main spatial relationships and keep the face and important details fully visible in a single 3:4 vertical composition. Do not add people, props, text, logos, watermarks or panels.
Refine the result
Describe the drawing tool and how it moves: overlapping crayon, broken pencil, loose contour or uneven fill. Keep the subject recognizable through silhouette and pose.
Perfect vector edges can remove the intended hand-drawn feel. Preserve the irregularities that make the selected example distinctive.
Keep the same source photo when comparing recipes. Change one style instruction at a time so you can see what actually changed.