Ai Image Generation

My daughter asked me to draw her a shark. I can’t draw. What I can do is open Claude Code and describe what I need, so that’s what I did — and it turned into a small, ongoing project of making coloring pages for a 3-year-old. The Need: A Blank Page, on Demand Store-bought coloring books run out, and they’re never quite the right animal on the right day. My daughter wanted a shark family — a papa shark, a baby shark — right then, not the next time we happened to be at a bookstore. What I actually needed was a way to turn “draw me a shark” into a printable page in a few minutes, using tools I already had open. ...

Most of the 36 pictures in part one got one AI generation and, at most, one round of revisions — generate, glance, done. One took five. It’s 오빠 생각, “Thinking of My Brother,” an old Korean folk song, the kind of thing grandparents still hum — and one of the few songs in that whole library I’ve actually sung to my daughter myself, at bedtime, not just something we play from a folder. ...

I have a set of Korean children’s Bible verse audios. It’s a set of 10 short verses. Each verse is set to a simple song. This helps with memorization. This set was in a folder structure, just like the nursery rhymes I talked about in Part 1. It had the actual audio files and a list of titles. A three-year-old child cannot read these titles. The idea of one picture per item already worked once. So, this became the next clear candidate. Honestly, this was the part I cared about most. ...

My daughter is three. She can’t read yet, which means for months there was a whole folder of songs in her Kids Player that only I could operate. She’d point at the tab, I’d scroll the list of titles, and she’d wait for me to land on the right one. She could listen to the songs. She just couldn’t choose one herself. That’s a small thing, but it bothered me more than I expected. Everything else in her player — her audiobook sets, her story tab — she already drives on her own, by tapping a cover image. This one folder of family and folk songs was the exception, and the only reason was that it had titles instead of pictures. ...

Part two covered the tool Claude and I built to manage lyrics and images per song. This part is about the actual picture-making — which took more trial and error than the tool itself did. You’d never really used AI image generators before this. What changed? Nothing had needed one. I’d poked at a couple out of curiosity, the way most people have, but nothing in my daily life depended on a generated image. Once I decided the song tab genuinely needed one picture per song — good enough that my daughter would want to look at it — that curiosity turned into something I had to get right. ...