Character consistency is the thing every illustration tool promises and then quietly fails at. This one held for twelve pages.
I wrote a bedtime story for my daughter about a fox who is afraid of the dark. I described the fox once, in detail — rust coat, cream chest patch, one slightly bent ear, a green scarf — and then asked for each scene. Same fox every time. Same ear. Same scarf. Different pose, different room, different mood, but unmistakably the same animal.
The watercolour texture is soft without going mushy, and the faces carry real emotion instead of the blank AI smile.
We printed it. My daughter thinks I drew it. I have decided not to correct her.
Twelve illustrations, one chat, one evening. I cannot draw at all.
If you have been wondering whether you can make a real picture book without hiring an illustrator, the prompt is below — and the whole trick is in how precisely you describe the character the first time.