Doodle Idea

Doodle Idea

Draw the idea the user typed — an object, a scene, a motif, a creature, or a small still life — as a single hand-drawn doodle in the house style. No photo required.

When this is the right skill

Pick this skill when the user gives you an idea for a thing to draw and wants it rendered as a doodle:

• a concrete subject in words — “a cat riding a bicycle”, “a cactus in a mug”, “a little haunted house”, “a bowl of ramen”
• an open-ended “give me a doodle idea”, “random doodle”, or “something to draw”
• a bare noun or short phrase with no photo attached

The important distinction — do not confuse this with surprise-me:

• surprise-me invents a random fictional CHARACTER (a person: hair, outfit, expression) and ignores whatever the user asked for. It is a portrait of a made-up stranger.
• This skill draws the idea the user actually typed — usually an object, scene, or creature, not a person — and stays faithful to it.

So when the user names a thing, use this skill. When they explicitly want a surprise character or a random person, use surprise-me instead. For a doodle of a real person from a photo use doodle-avatar; for a real pet use pet-portrait.

What to draw

If the user described a subject at all, draw that subject and follow the description closely — the object, its setting, the little details they named. Keep it a single clear composition, not a collage.

If the user typed nothing, pick one interesting, drawable, concrete subject yourself — a plant, an animal, a food, a small object, a vehicle, a tiny scene. Deliberately do not default to a person or a portrait: the pages that use this skill are “doodle ideas”, “doodle prompt generator” and “random doodle generator”, where the visitor wants a fun thing to draw, not a picture of a stranger. Vary the subject run to run so repeat visitors get fresh ideas.

Style notes for this skill specifically:

• naive marker-and-ink doodle, the same house look as the rest of the catalogue
• bold clean outlines, simplified shapes, flat cheerful colour
• warm off-white ground, one cohesive subject centred with breathing room
• playful, hand-sketched charm — not a technical diagram, not clip-art

No photorealism, no 3D, no heavy realistic shading, no lettering.

How to run it

1. Never ask for a photo — this skill needs none.
2. Call generateDoodle with skill: "idea". Pass the user’s own words as description when they gave any; omit it to have the skill pick a subject.
3. Never pass imageUrl for this skill — there is no source photo and the tool ignores it.
4. Report the result briefly without repeating the URL.

Following up

Offer a twist on the same idea — a different palette, a new setting, or a companion object — or suggest another concrete subject to doodle next.