Scribblification: The Viral AI Prompt That Makes Your Photos Look Terrible

Scribblification: The Viral AI Prompt That Makes Your Photos Look Terrible

How to use these prompts

What they are for

Steps

  1. Choose a prompt that matches the result you want and prepare a clear reference image when the prompt calls for one.
  2. Copy the original English prompt and paste it into Gemini, GPT Image, Seedream, or another compatible image model.
  3. Generate once, then refine one detail at a time—such as the outfit, lighting, framing, or background.

Good to know

The local-language text below each prompt is an explanation for reading and search. For the most consistent generation results, copy the English original. Always review identity, text, anatomy, and factual details before publishing.

Most AI image prompts try to make your photos look better.

Scribblification does the opposite.

You upload a polished portrait, selfie, pet photo, or couple shot and ask AI to redraw it as badly as possible.

Think shaky black lines, weird eyes, terrible proportions, messy hair, and the kind of drawing someone might make in MS Paint with a mouse.

The trick is simple:

Make it look terrible — but still recognizable.

What Is Scribblification?

Scribblification turns a normal photo into an intentionally bad doodle.

The best results usually have crooked outlines, oversized eyes, strange proportions, messy scribbled hair, awkward expressions, and rough crayon or MS Paint-style coloring.

If you can still immediately tell who or what it is, the prompt worked.

Example 01 — Professional Portrait → Terrible Doodle

Original → Scribblified

Example 01 — Professional Portrait → Terrible Doodle — AI photo prompt example

A clean studio portrait suddenly looks like someone tried to recreate it from memory in 30 seconds.

Prompt

Original English Prompt
Redraw this portrait as an intentionally terrible amateur doodle. Use shaky black outlines, badly drawn facial features, uneven eyes, incorrect proportions, messy hair, and crude coloring. Make it look like someone recreated the photo in MS Paint with almost no drawing skills. Keep the person, pose, and main facial features recognizable.

Example 02 — Fashion Portrait → Childlike Scribble

Original → Scribblified

Example 02 — Fashion Portrait → Childlike Scribble — AI photo prompt example

Fashion photos work especially well because the original is so polished.

The bigger the contrast, the funnier the result.

Prompt

Original English Prompt
Turn this fashion portrait into a badly drawn childlike sketch. Use crooked lines, uneven facial features, messy scribbled hair, awkward body proportions, and rough crayon-style coloring. Keep the same person, pose, outfit, and basic composition recognizable, but make the drawing intentionally clumsy and funny.

Example 03 — Cute Pet → Bad MS Paint Drawing

Original → Scribblified

Example 03 — Cute Pet → Bad MS Paint Drawing — AI photo prompt example

This works surprisingly well on pets too.

Big eyes, strange legs, and messy fur can make an already cute photo look completely ridiculous.

Prompt

Original English Prompt
Redraw this pet photo as a hilariously bad MS Paint-style doodle. Use shaky black outlines, oversized uneven eyes, awkward legs, messy fur, simple shapes, and crude coloring. Preserve the pet’s distinctive features, pose, and expression so it is still clearly recognizable.

Example 04 — Couple Photo → Awkward Doodle

Original → Scribblified

Example 04 — Couple Photo → Awkward Doodle — AI photo prompt example

Couple photos are especially fun because AI has twice as many faces, expressions, and proportions to mess up.

Prompt

Original English Prompt
Turn this couple photo into an intentionally bad amateur doodle. Use shaky outlines, uneven faces, awkward proportions, messy hair, simple shapes, and childlike coloring. Keep both people, their pose, clothing, and interaction recognizable while making the final drawing look hilariously low-skill.

Why Did This Go Viral?

Because everyone immediately wants to try it on themselves.

You see someone else’s result, upload your own photo, laugh at what AI does to your face, and post it.

That makes Scribblification naturally shareable.

It’s not about creating the prettiest AI image.

Sometimes, a terrible doodle is much more fun to share than another perfect cinematic portrait.