Introducing Scribble Style — AI Illustrations That Look Like They Were Drawn in MS Paint With a Mouse
We just launched a new style on Irasutoya Pro, and it might be the dumbest thing we've ever made — on purpose.
It's called Scribble Style, and it generates illustrations that look like they were drawn in MS Paint with a mouse by someone who is trying their best, sort of. Jagged single-pixel lines. Flat fill colors. White background. Wobbly outlines. Subjects that are vaguely recognizable but also confusingly off.
It is, technically, terrible. That's the point.
Why "Bad on Purpose" Is Actually Great
For the last two years, every AI image tool has been racing to look more polished, more cinematic, more "professional." Smooth shading, depth of field, golden hour lighting, you know the drill.
Meanwhile, the most viral images on the internet keep looking like this: a guy with three teeth, drawn in MS Paint, with a caption that doesn't quite match the picture. "Ugly art" is a whole aesthetic now. Reaction images are getting worse on purpose. The polish stopped being funny.
So we built a style for that. The Scribble prompt explicitly tells the model:
Draw it in the most clumsy, scribbly, and utterly pathetic way possible. Use a white background, and make it look like it was drawn in MS Paint with a mouse. It should be vaguely similar but also not really.
And then we just let it cook.
What Scribble Style Is Good For
Honestly, this isn't the style you reach for when you want a presentation slide or a children's book illustration. (We have six other styles for that.) Scribble is for:
- Reaction memes — when "thumbs up emoji" doesn't carry enough emotion, but a polished anime girl carries too much.
- Shitposting — a bone-deep online art form. Scribble fits like a glove.
- Group chat in-jokes — generate a terrible drawing of your friend with no context. Send it. Vanish.
- Stickers that look hand-drawn — the wobbly aesthetic translates beautifully to Telegram and WhatsApp sticker packs.
- Birthday cards from the kind of friend who would draw you a bad picture instead of buying one — peak personality, zero effort, infinite love.
How to Use It
- Open the generator.
- Switch the style picker to Scribble Style.
- Either upload a photo (image-to-image — turn anything into a scribble) or type a prompt (text-to-image — describe a scene).
- Hit generate. Receive nonsense. Forward to group chat.
You can use it in both modes — image2image (redraw a photo as a scribble) and text2image (generate a scribble from a description). Both work, both will make you laugh.
A Note on Quality
We tuned the prompt to keep the subject recognizable while letting the execution be bad. So you'll still be able to tell that's supposed to be a dog, or a coffee cup, or a person yelling at a cloud. It just won't look like anyone competent drew it.
If the result comes back too polished, regenerate. The model sometimes tries to "help" by adding shading or anti-aliasing. Tell it no. Worse is better.
Try It Free
Scribble Style is live now alongside our six other illustration styles — Irasutoya, Ghibli, Chibi, Anime, Pixel Art, and Watercolor. Try it for free. No signup required to generate your first one.
Make something bad on purpose. The internet needs it.
