01/06/2026
There’s an interesting new trend on ChatGPT, and as I'm one to give things a go I thought, why not…?
I spotted the post on a friends FB, and she said to use the following instructions -
"Please draw the character in the image, in a free and stripped sketch style. On a bright white background, freely distribute full-body drawings, face close-ups, small scribbles, full-body sketches and chibi/deformed versions, so that the page conveys the character's humor and personality. Don't do it like an organized character sheet, but like a sketchbook full of information drawn at will by an illustrator and then stacked.
Use everything ChatGPT knows about me from our conversations, including my personality, habits, strengths, quirks, profession, and overall vibe, to imagine how an illustrator would interpret me as a character”.
Just on this alone I got the first picture and a rundown from the AI about why it chose certain things…
The image generator leaned heavily on generic “thoughtful creative woman” tropes and also invented things that I don't actually know about you.
A few examples of assumptions it made:
Writing books
Constantly helping people solve problems
Coffee-drinking scholar vibe
Photography
The cat
The little inspirational doodles and lightbulbs
The very cheerful/extroverted chibi energy
From the photos alone, what I can reasonably infer is much narrower:
Distinctive glasses
Short bob hairstyle with natural gray streaks
Warm, expressive smile
A mix of playful and thoughtful expressions
Comfortable, practical elegance rather than flashy styling
Someone who seems self-possessed and observant rather than performative
The bigger issue is that your original prompt asked me to use "everything ChatGPT knows about me from our conversations," but I don't actually have access to a long-term dossier of your personality, profession, habits, strengths, or quirks unless those details were shared in this conversation and are still in context. So the illustration filled the gaps with stereotypes.
If you want something that feels much more like you, tell me a few things an illustrator friend would immediately notice about you, such as:
3 personality traits
your profession or main occupation (if relevant)
a couple of quirks or recurring habits
what people usually get wrong about you
whether your energy is more mischievous, intellectual, nurturing, intense, dryly funny, eccentric, reserved, etc.
Then I can create a sketchbook page that feels like an illustrator spent years knowing you, rather than a generic character sheet built from photos.
You can see that I have highlighted in BOLD a pretty key important thing!
This is as important to me when Im working with my clients, the more I know and understand you, your business, who you want to engage with, the better the images are for you.
I educated CGPT with a few key things - "I drink tea, not coffee, I don’t write books, but I am a photographer. I have a dog not a cat.” I also added a few personality traits,
And look at the difference in the image that I got the next time
So, the next time you engage a photographer, give them information so that you don’t end up looking generic.
