Creating Modern Pinup Style Coloring Pages with AI: A Member-Only Prompt Collection (Patreon)

Hello wonderful creators!

You all had the chance to vote for the next e-book coloring page collection you wanted, and the votes are in! The majority voted for spicy pinup-style images.

I’m going to make this collection available to members only, partly because I found it a little tricky to get good coloring page results for more female-focused designs. One of the biggest challenges was that Midjourney has restrictions on certain words you can use.

And obviously, I don’t want to create anything explicit in any way.

My page isn’t geared toward that sort of content, but as a woman, I’m always open to exploring images of women in a fun, playful, confident, slightly spicy style. I think there’s something really empowering about creating this kind of imagery from a female perspective, especially when the goal is classy, creative, and artistic.

For this collection, I tried to stick to classy, artsy, vintage-inspired designs. The biggest issue I ran into was that Midjourney often added too much shading to the images, which doesn’t always work well for coloring pages.

That’s also part of why I’m making this member-only.

I ended up taking some of my favorite images from Midjourney and bringing them into ChatGPT to turn them into cleaner, more coloring book-friendly designs.

I’ll share some examples below so you can see the difference. ChatGPT can create very stylized images that don’t always look as natural, so creating the images there from scratch wasn’t ideal. Midjourney, on the other hand, created more natural-looking results, but often added a lot of grayscale shading. By combining the two tools, I ended up with some really nice final designs.

Below, you’ll find examples of what both ChatGPT and Midjourney can do. Then, at the bottom of this post, I’ve shared the e-book with 30 prompts you can use to create your own images.

Just be mindful of the language you use when generating these types of prompts. Depending on the AI generator you’re using, certain words may be restricted or may lead to content issues.

This collection was not created for sexually explicit designs, so please don’t take these prompts in that direction.

I simply thought this would be a fun choice for those interested in playing around with classy, playful, vintage-inspired feminine images.

I hope you create something really cool.

Happy AI image generating!

An example of a chatGPT AI generated image that's very stylized and less natural in appearance.

How I Used ChatGPT to Turn Midjourney Images into Better Coloring Pages

One thing I quickly discovered while creating this collection is that Midjourney is great at creating beautiful, stylish images, but it doesn’t always understand what makes a strong coloring page.

Even when I prompted for “outline only” or “coloring book page,” Midjourney sometimes added too much shading, gray tones, soft gradients, or extra details that looked pretty as an image but weren’t ideal for coloring.

So my workaround was to use Midjourney and ChatGPT together.

First, I created the original image concept in Midjourney because I liked the overall poses, styling, vintage feel, and composition it gave me. Then, I downloaded the Midjourney image and imported it into ChatGPT.

From there, I asked ChatGPT to simplify the image and recreate it as a cleaner coloring book page. My goal was to keep the same general character, pose, outfit, and theme, but remove the heavy shading and turn the design into a black-and-white outline illustration.

The prompt I used was something like:

“Turn this image into a clean coloring book page design. Remove the shading, grayscale, and background clutter. Keep the main character and overall pose.”

This helped create a design that felt much more usable as an actual coloring page instead of just a black-and-white AI image.

It wasn’t always perfect on the first try, because AI loves to sneak in little shadows and extra details like it’s being paid by the grayscale. But by asking for cleaner outlines, less shading, and more open coloring areas, I was able to get much better results.

For me, the best workflow was:

Midjourney for the original concept + ChatGPT for cleanup and coloring page conversion.

That combo gave me the most polished results for this particular collection.