Scribbleborn
Drawn by them. Painted by us.
Bring your child’s drawing to life, and cherish it forever — painted properly, every wonky line just as they drew it, with them written into the story.
Acquired from the fridge
Monster With Three Legs
Crayon on printer paper. Artist aged five.
Scribbleborn edition
Wobblewick in the Long Grass
Painted portrait. Commissioned by his artist.
Same three legs. Same crooked teeth. Nothing tidied up.
Try it now
Got a drawing nearby? Let’s meet them.
Free, no account, about a minute. Show us the drawing and meet the creature your child invented — with a name, the things we noticed, and the first page of a story where the two of them find each other.
The drawing
Tick the box so we know you're a person. Then we read.
Three-Legged Meadow Grinner
Wobblewick
Three legs that could not agree on a colour, one arm curled like a question mark, and considerably more teeth than strictly necessary.
Wobblewick has three legs, and not one of them has ever walked in the same direction. This is why he is always slightly late, and why he arrives from somewhere nobody expected. On the morning Maya finds him, he is standing in the long grass behind the shed, grinning at a sun he has drawn himself. “You are the one,” he says, “who gave me the curly arm.”
Keep it forever
One payment of $1. No subscription, no stored card, nothing to cancel later. Payment is handled by Stripe; we never see your card details. See our refund policy.
Two real children, nine seconds
Watch their drawing come to life
Every wonky line is theirs. We keep it that way.
Most things that redraw children’s art quietly correct it. They straighten the legs, even out the eyes, and hand back a creature your child doesn’t recognise as their own. We do the opposite, because the wonky parts are the part that’s them.
Before a single brushstroke, we write down exactly what your child put on the page — three legs if there are three, one arm longer than the other if that’s how it went — and every picture is painted from those notes. So the creature on page eleven is still the one they dreamed up on the kitchen floor.
How it works
Three steps, about a minute
Photograph the drawing
On the fridge, on the floor, still sticky. A phone photo is genuinely fine.
Meet the character, free
We give the creature a name, tell you what we noticed, and write the first page of their story. No payment, no account.
Cherish it forever, for a dollar
The finished painting and the whole story land in your inbox, usually within a few minutes and always the same day — ready to frame, and to send to everyone who’d smile.
The collection
What a dollar gets you
Nothing renews. Nothing subscribes. You buy a thing, you own the thing.
We’d rather label the last two honestly than take your money for something we can’t post yet. Tell us which you want and it decides what we build next.
Your child's photo
What we do and do not do with it
We use the photo to make your thing, and that is all
It is processed to paint the portrait and write the story you asked for.
We delete it after thirty days
Your finished files stay yours forever. The original photo does not stay with us.
We never post your child's art or name
Nothing goes on our social accounts unless you write to us and say yes.
We do not sell or share your data, ever
No advertisers, no data brokers, no mailing list you did not ask to join.
We do not train anything on your child's drawings
Your child's work is not a dataset. It is your child's work.
The full detail is in our privacy promise.
Plainly stated
How the paintings are made
The portraits are produced using AI image tools, directed by a written description of your child's actual drawing. We are telling you this in large type, on the page, because you deserve to know before you spend anything, and because plenty of companies would rather you did not ask.
What we will never do is imply a person sat down and painted it by hand. The original drawing is the source and the star. Everything we make points back to it. The longer version is our AI policy.
Questions people actually ask
Before you send us anything
My child's drawing is a scribble. Will this work?
Usually yes, and scribbles often turn out best. If what comes back does not look like what your child drew, tell us and you get your money back. If we genuinely cannot read the drawing, we will say so rather than invent something.
How long does it take?
Meeting the character is instant and free. The painted portrait usually arrives within a few minutes, and always the same day, and more pictures of the same character take the same. The picture book takes up to two days. A printed hardcover ships within a week.
What if we do not like it?
Write to us and we refund it, including the printed book. You do not have to send anything back, and you can keep the files.
Can I use the painting on a birthday invitation or a t-shirt?
Yes. It is your child's character and you can do what you like with it personally, including printing it. We only ask that you do not resell the artwork itself as stock art.
Do you need my child's real name?
Only a first name, only so it can appear in the story, and only if you want it there. Leave it blank and the story simply says “the child”.
Do I have to make an account?
No. Meeting the character needs nothing at all. Ordering needs an email address so we have somewhere to send the files.
Where we are right now
We are new, and we would rather say so
Scribbleborn opened this year and we are still small. We have no thousands of five-star reviews to show you, and we are not going to manufacture any. What we can offer is a dollar, a refund if it disappoints, and a reply from a person when you write to us.