Using AI To Create A Coloring Book

[Millard Grubb]

Recently I took a trip to visit relatives out of town for a youngster's birthday party. My wife asked about making a coloring book for a couple of the younger kids.

I logged in to my ChatGPT account and got started.

I had created images using prompts in the past so I thought I could do the same with a coloring book.

I loaded a couple of pictures and with a prompt about kids in super hero costumes.... poof... a nice cover was created. I had to do a little tweaking to get the picture just right, but the output went remarkably well.

The next part took some time but worked out better than I could of thought.

My wife provided me with a story line and I started to just prompt the story line... bit by bit. I specifically asked for line art so it would create coloring page art.

As each page was created I saved it and moved on.

I was surprised that simple ChatGPT could create pages that it did. What is important to note here is that I was specifically prompting what the output was going to be every step of the way. For example: Create a simple line art image of grandma (reference image 1) sitting at a table eating a donut.

An image was then created that I could download and place in the coloring book. I used PAGES in my Mac to create the coloring book.

AI might not be as creative as people or at all, but with specific prompting, can help you with a task you weren't able to do before.

This coloring book is a perfect example of help because I have never been an artist or as the joke goes, "I couldn't even draw a straight line". My wife gave me the story from a text and I was off to the races.

Using AI to help is the key in my mind. NOT as a replacement... but as an assistant.