The useful result
Create three scenes in which the same fictional character is clearly recognisable.
- Create three scenes in which the same fictional character is clearly recognisable.
A children’s story, a mascot or a product comic needs the same character on every page. Image tools can drift between separate generations, and OpenAI says recurring characters or brand elements can be hard to keep consistent. Google’s guide describes mixing reference images into new pictures.
The practical answer is to stop describing your character from memory. Make a character sheet once, write a fixed description card, and reuse both for every scene, changing only the action and the setting. A short checklist then catches drift before you publish.
The examples below are illustrative exercises, not recorded results from any tool. Sources were checked on 24 October 2026; menus, limits and prices change, so confirm details on the linked pages.
Before you start
- An image generator that accepts reference images, or one that holds a long edit conversation
- A fictional character idea (not a real person)
- A document to store the description card
Review evidence
Documentation-based review · 2026-10-24
Primary documentation and official guidance checked on 24 October 2026. Examples, checks and exercises are original illustrations, not recorded tool tests. Cover artwork is a conceptual illustration.
Write a fixed description card
List the features that must never change: face shape, hair, skin or fur colour, outfit, three distinctive marks and a four-colour palette. Keep the card to about ten lines and paste it unchanged into every prompt. Do not add new features later; changing the card changes the character.
Character card: [name], a [age or species] with [face shape], [hair or fur], wearing [outfit]. Distinctive marks: [1], [2], [3]. Palette: [four colours]. Flat storybook illustration style.Example / expected result
Illustrative example; not a recorded model result.
Card: “Pip, a small fox with a white tail tip, round teal glasses and a mustard scarf. Palette: orange, cream, teal, mustard. Flat storybook style.”
Check your result
The card names at least three distinctive marks that you could spot from across the room.
Generate a neutral reference sheet and reuse it
Ask for one sheet with the character front-on, from the side and three-quarter view on a plain background, with no props. Pick the best one and save it. For each new scene, attach the sheet as a reference where your tool allows it, paste the card, and change only the action, camera and setting line.
Using the attached character sheet as the exact reference, draw [name] [doing action] in [setting]. Keep the face, outfit, marks and palette identical to the sheet. Only the action and setting change.Example / expected result
Illustrative example; not a recorded model result.
Scene line: “Pip reading a map at a bus stop in light rain.” Everything else is the card and the sheet.
Check your result
The reference sheet shows the same face and outfit from three angles, and each scene prompt differs from the others only in the scene line.
Check every scene against a six-point list
Hold each new image beside the sheet. Check face shape, hair or fur, outfit, each distinctive mark, palette and proportions. Reject the scene if any one fails and regenerate it from the card rather than re-describing the character in new words.
Check your result
Each accepted image passes all six checks, and rejected images are discarded, not “fixed” by changing the card.
When it goes wrong
Separate generations can still drift, so plan to discard some. Do not rely on a model to remember a character between unrelated chats. Use fictional characters or your own photos with permission; do not build a character from a real person’s image without consent.
Make it your own
Create a card and sheet for a fictional mascot, then make three scenes: at a desk, at a bus stop and at a market. Score each against the six-point list and keep only passing images.
Useful next resources
Sources and review
- OpenAI: image generation guide (text, editing and consistency notes)
- Google: image generation and conversational editing
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