Lopsided Crayon Doodles: Image Skill for Claude Code & Codex

A pear-shaped crayon creature in a green rain hat drums on a bucket while three snails in red boots follow through puddles

A toaster strumming a fork, an egg-cup creature drumming on a teapot and a striped cat tooting a kettle, drawn in crayon

A sleepy turtle tows a little mail cart and hands blank parcels to a jellyfish, a crab and a pufferfish among crayon sea grass

Runs in

Install guides

Claude Code Cursor

Generates with

Host Agent LLM

Uses tools

FAL

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What you get

Fresh crayon-and-pencil scenes that look cheerfully hand-drawn while the file stays crisp, full size and clean
A set recipe for doubled outlines, lopsided shapes, patchy fills, bright hues and lots of bare white paper
Prompt patterns for a lone character, a loose sticker-style group or a small story moment
A FAL helper that writes the paid request to disk before polling, picks it up again when rerun and never sends a replacement on its own

Good fit

Lighthearted article art, social posts, greeting cards, stickers and family campaigns
Creators who want an illustrated series people recognize, built from short scene ideas
Ideas that get better with warmth, imperfection and a little comic awkwardness

Not for

Photorealism, glossy 3D, clean vector or polished luxury art direction
Exact logos, heavy lettering or type that must be flawless
Copies of famous characters, protected artwork or a supplied picture's layout

Content publishingSocial mediaCreative previsualizationMake a doodle illustrationcrayon doodlenaive artcolored pencilcute characterswhite paper

About this Skill

You say/ours-wonky-cute-doodles Draw a round potato-shaped baker pulling a lopsided loaf from the oven while two tiny mice in aprons cheer from a flour sack.

Write one line about a scene and you get a sharp picture that looks drawn by a cheerful kid with stubby wax crayons and scratchy pencils: outlines traced twice, color that spills past the lines, mismatched eyes and stick limbs, all on plain white paper with room to breathe. The agent builds a brand-new cast from circles, beans and boxes, writes one prompt from a set recipe and makes a single paid request to GPT Image 2 on FAL. Then it checks that the clumsiness lives in the marks and the file itself is never blurry or damaged.

How it works

Name one subject or a small scene, and add colors, mood or format only if they matter.
Keep drawn roughness apart from file quality: a crisp canvas, with the clumsiness in the strokes.
Invent a new cast from basic shapes and arrange it flat on white paper with space around it.
Write a single prompt from the recipe and generate one picture, saving the paid request first.
Check outlines, real crayon grain and stray lettering, then change one thing per round.

Checked before delivery

The file is crisp and correctly sized; all roughness is in the drawn marks, never blur, pixelation or compression damage
Outlines drawn twice, patchy fills with white gaps, uneven pressure and a short bright palette are visible, and every character reads at thumbnail size
Characters, props and layout are new; no famous character, logo, watermark, signature or unplanned text
validate-output.mjs passes on the image and the prompt file, and exactly one paid request is made per approved generation

What you need before you start

You bring: A subject, or a scene in a sentence or two · Optional: where the picture goes or its aspect ratio · Optional: a short palette, a mood, a few props or who does what · Optional: images you own to guide the subject, and exact short words only if they are truly needed
Dependencies: Node.js 20 or later, for the bundled generation script · A FAL account whose API key is set as FAL_KEY, used by the bundled script; FAL bills every generation or edit
Outside costs: FAL_KEY
Last tested: v1.0.1 — Claude Code / Codex / Cursor

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FAQ

Will a rough look give me a small or broken file?

No. The picture stays sharp and full size. The rough feel comes from visible crayon grain, outlines traced twice, white gaps in the fills, uneven pressure and proportions that are odd on purpose.

How detailed does my request need to be?

A subject or one sentence about a scene is plenty. Add a palette, a mood, a ratio or a few props if you want to.

Can I build a matching set?

Yes. Hold the paper, the mark-making, the color rules, how faces are drawn and the layout rules steady, and change only the scene and its new characters.

Is an API key required?

For the bundled helper, yes: it needs Node.js 20 or later and a FAL key, and each request spends paid credits. If your host has a built-in image tool, it can use the same recipe and skip the helper.

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