Crayon & Doodle 2: 12 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 2.
- 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 12 looks
1. Japanese Notebook Doodle
Look for: Warm faint graph-paper texture, broken black lines and colored-pencil scribbling, dot eyes and a short mouth, scattered fine marks and pale casual fills; no added writing.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Warm faint graph-paper texture, broken black lines and colored-pencil scribbling, dot eyes and a short mouth, scattered fine marks and pale casual fills; no added writing.
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. Indie Zine Rough Drawing
Look for: Rough brown-black colored-pencil contours, muted green-blue-yellow, repeated scratchy paper marks and simple naive facial rendering.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Rough brown-black colored-pencil contours, muted green-blue-yellow, repeated scratchy paper marks and simple naive facial rendering.
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. Crayon Editorial
Look for: Obvious diagonal short crayon strokes, overlapping strong blue-green-red color, warm cheek accents, coarse paper gaps and lively round graphic eyes.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Obvious diagonal short crayon strokes, overlapping strong blue-green-red color, warm cheek accents, coarse paper gaps and lively round graphic eyes.
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. Colored Pencil Diary
Look for: Repeated fine colored-pencil hatching, bright blue-green with warm red, clear paper grain, small gently rendered eyes and light softly modeled volume.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Repeated fine colored-pencil hatching, bright blue-green with warm red, clear paper grain, small gently rendered eyes and light softly 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.
5. Naive Folk Cartoon
Look for: Saturated red, green, blue and yellow crayon with opaque paint, blunt rounded color shapes, dot features and uneven fills with natural white paper gaps.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Saturated red, green, blue and yellow crayon with opaque paint, blunt rounded color shapes, dot features and uneven fills with natural white paper gaps.
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. Primitive Marker Cartoon
Look for: Irregular heavy black marker contours, bright crayon fills, expressive mouth marks and warm cheek accents, naive graphic shapes and visible paper friction.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Irregular heavy black marker contours, bright crayon fills, expressive mouth marks and warm cheek accents, naive graphic shapes and visible paper friction.
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. Awkward Cute
Look for: Rough crosshatched colored pencil, large expressive graphic eyes, irregular rounded contours, warm cheek accents and handmade asymmetry.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Rough crosshatched colored pencil, large expressive graphic eyes, irregular rounded contours, warm cheek accents and handmade 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.
8. Heta-Uma
Look for: Naive crayon drawing, sparse tiny features, cheerful loose contours, uneven colored fills and obvious paper gaps; retain the original person's age and proportions.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Naive crayon drawing, sparse tiny features, cheerful loose contours, uneven colored fills and obvious paper gaps; retain the original person's age and proportions.
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. High-Saturation Social Doodle
Look for: Vivid crayon doodling, heavy black lines with red, blue and green, expressive facial marks, coarse-grained fills and direct forceful strokes.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Vivid crayon doodling, heavy black lines with red, blue and green, expressive facial marks, coarse-grained fills and direct forceful strokes.
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. Childlike Crayon Naive Style
Look for: Rough crayon and brown-black contours, uneven green-blue-yellow-red fills, naive small facial marks and simplified forms with obvious paper friction; retain original age and proportions.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Rough crayon and brown-black contours, uneven green-blue-yellow-red fills, naive small facial marks and simplified forms with obvious paper friction; retain original age and proportions.
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. Warm Gouache & Colored Pencil Storybook Character
Look for: Mixed gouache and colored-pencil paper texture, yellow-blue-green color, fine hatching, rounded facial planes and tiny eyes, volume shaped by grainy strokes.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Mixed gouache and colored-pencil paper texture, yellow-blue-green color, fine hatching, rounded facial planes and tiny eyes, volume shaped by grainy strokes.
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.
12. Soft Crayon & Sumi-e Cat Storybook
Look for: Soft paper grain from crayon and ink, yellow-green-gray-cream colors, dry black contours, tiny curved eyes and warm cheek accents, light short-stroke coloring.
Copy this prompt:
Restyle the uploaded photo using this visual treatment: Soft paper grain from crayon and ink, yellow-green-gray-cream colors, dry black contours, tiny curved eyes and warm cheek accents, light short-stroke coloring.
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.