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Single Line Doodle

Illustration · Line Art · Minimal

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Single Line Doodle, One wobbly line, no shading, and more personality than it has any right to — Cat, nine strokes

Single Line Doodle, One wobbly line, no shading, and more personality than it has any right to — Figure with a small accessory

Single Line Doodle, One wobbly line, no shading, and more personality than it has any right to — Vertical crop

Single Line Doodle, One wobbly line, no shading, and more personality than it has any right to — Set of four doodles

Single Line Doodle, One wobbly line, no shading, and more personality than it has any right to — Detail of the line

Recipe

The style is the recipe. The subject is yours.

GPT Image

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Updated 3 Aug 2026

Full sentences. Describe the scene, then the medium, then the flaws you want kept in.

Make it yours

The recipe is the style, not the picture. Put your own subject in and the prompt updates.

Prompt

A naive single line doodle of a cat making a heart shape with its paws, drawn in one uniform weight black line on plain white. Wobbly hand drawn quality rather than smooth vector curves, no shading, no fill, no texture, minimal detail: two dot eyes and a simple mouth. Off centre on the page with generous white space. Charming and slightly clumsy.

Use the examples as a reference

Download the examples

Send the example as an input image to the images.edits endpoint alongside the prompt, or attach it in ChatGPT. It follows composition closely, so describe your subject firmly or it will copy the example.

Recommended settings

Size: 1024 x 1024
Quality: Medium
Background: White
Output: PNG

Tips

1Wobbly rather than smooth is the instruction that stops it becoming a clean vector icon.
2Give a stroke budget. "Drawn in about ten strokes" produces real restraint.
3Off centre placement reads as hand drawn. Perfect centring reads as software.

Things to try

5 variations

Continuous line

drawn without lifting the pen once

Set of expressions

the same character with four different faces

With one colour

a single flat colour shape behind the line

Marker weight

a thick chisel marker line instead of a fine one

Filled black

the same drawing as a solid silhouette

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