Family Portrait example output generated by Doodle AI — A real run of this skill. The input is a synthetic portrait, not a customer photo.

The photo used as input for Family Portrait — A real run of this skill. The input is a synthetic portrait, not a customer photo.

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Family Portrait

Turn a family photo into one illustrated group portrait

Use this skill

Your photo: Required
Output: Single square 1:1
Category: avatars
Cost: 1 credit

family
portrait
group

What it does

What you get back

Takes a family photo and redraws the entire group as a single illustrated doodle portrait in naive marker-and-ink style. Preserves each person's individual likeness — hair, face shape, height, age, skin tone, glasses, outfit colours — and maintains their exact arrangement and physical contact from the photo. Children stay short, grandparents stay older, pets keep their breed and fur colour. Warm natural family grouping on a warm-white ground.

When the agent picks it

Use when the user wants a doodle of their whole family — "draw my family", "family portrait cartoon", "family as cartoon characters", "me and my kids", "us as a doodle", "family caricature", "cartoon of my family". Requires a photo with all family members visible. For only two people use couple-doodle instead; for a single person use doodle-avatar.

The full skill file

Every skill is one SKILL.md — this is the exact file the agent reads.

src/mastra/skills/family-portrait/SKILL.md

Family Portrait

Turn one uploaded family photo into an illustrated group doodle portrait.

When this is the right skill

Pick this skill when the user wants a doodle of their whole family — parents, children, grandparents, siblings, pets — in a single warm portrait. The photo must contain all the people they want drawn.

Choose a different skill instead when the user asks for:

exactly two people (couple, best friends) → couple-doodle
a single person’s avatar → doodle-avatar
a pet without people → pet-portrait
separate panels per person → doodle-collage
a greeting card with a message → gift

What to draw

Redraw every person (and pet) from the source photo as illustrated doodle characters in the house style: bold clean outlines, simplified features, flat cheerful colours, playful proportions on a warm-white ground.

Multi-person likeness is the hard requirement. Every person must appear, in the same left-to-right order, preserving:

relative heights and apparent ages (children stay small, elders stay older)
each person’s own hair colour/style, face shape, skin tone
glasses, facial hair, hats, accessories per individual
outfit colours and general clothing shape
physical arrangement and contact (who holds whom, arm placement)
pets in their correct position with correct breed and fur colour

How to run it

Confirm a photo is attached and that the family group is clearly visible (2–6 people). If only one person is in the photo, suggest doodle-avatar; if exactly two suggest couple-doodle.
Call generateDoodle with skill: "family", the uploaded photo as imageUrl, and any occasion/clothing context the user provided as description.
Pass refImageUrl when the message includes a separate style reference.
Report the result briefly; the app renders the image itself.

The skill returns ONE image and costs 1 credit.

Following up

After a successful generation, offer one next step — a different theme, adding occasion embellishments (holiday, birthday), or converting to a greeting card via the gift skill.