Ridiculously Bad MS Paint Scribble Art Prompt
Redraw this photo as if it were sketched by someone with no artistic skill, using a mouse in a basic paint program. Use crude, wobbly outlines, mismatched proportions, and flat, slightly-off colors filled in messily outside the lines. Give the subject an oversized head, tiny disproportionate hands, and a crooked, lopsided smile. Use a plain white background with no shading, gradients, or texture -- pure flat color blocks only. The worse and more amateurish it looks, the better; this should look like a deliberately terrible five-minute doodle, not a polished illustration.
As AI-generated images have gotten more polished and photorealistic, a new trend has gone the opposite direction on purpose — deliberately crude, wobbly, MS-Paint-style scribbles shared specifically because they look bad. This prompt is written to get the joke right: genuinely amateurish, not just “cartoon style.”
What this produces
Expect a crude, flat-colored doodle with wobbly outlines, mismatched proportions, an oversized head, and tiny disproportionate hands — the visual signature of the trend. There should be no shading, no gradients, and no polish anywhere in the result; if it looks skilled in any way, it has missed the point.
Variations
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Redraw this group photo as if sketched by someone with no artistic skill, using a mouse in a basic paint program. Keep each person barely recognizable but rendered with crude, wobbly outlines, mismatched proportions, and flat, slightly-off colors filled in messily outside the lines. Give each person an oversized head, tiny disproportionate hands, and an uneven, lopsided smile. Use a plain white background with no shading, gradients, or texture — flat color blocks only. The worse it looks, the better.
Redraw this photo as if sketched by someone with no artistic skill, using a mouse in a basic paint program. Use crude, wobbly outlines, mismatched proportions, and flat, slightly-off colors filled in messily outside the lines. Give the subject an oversized head, tiny disproportionate hands, and a crooked, lopsided smile. Add a short, crudely hand-written caption at the bottom in the same rough style, in a color that clashes slightly with the background. Plain white background, no shading or gradients — pure flat color blocks only, deliberately amateurish throughout.
FAQ
Why would I want deliberately bad art?
It’s a humor trend — the gap between a real subject and a hilariously crude rendering is the whole joke, popular for profile pictures and group-chat gags.
The output looks too good — how do I make it worse?
“Bad drawing” isn’t enough. Specify the failures: wobbly single-pixel lines, default-palette colors, wrong proportions, visible eraser smudges — models over-polish unless told exactly which flaws to keep.
Which model handles this best?
Any current image tool can do it — results differ mostly in how well the model resists “fixing” the style mid-image, which the explicit flaw list in this prompt exists to prevent.
