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🎨 Picture Book Studio

A picture book from a single idea.

Type the story. Pick the art style. Get a finished, illustrated book you can sell or print.

✓ 8 art styles✓ Characters stay the same✓ Print-ready PDF
Picture Book Studio12 pages
Fen did not like the dark.Page 1 of 123300 x 2550 pxCover and back cover drawnCharacter sheets locked, every page illustrated

A real picture book, written and illustrated in the studio.

8 art styles
The same story, eight looks
Up to 25
Pages, with presets from 8 to 25
11 x 8.5 in
Landscape pages, full bleed
300 DPI
Print-ready PDF, cover to back cover
01Art styles

Eight looks. One story.

Every picture below is the same scene, drawn eight ways. Pick the one that fits your book and the whole book is drawn that way.

Soft watercolor. Washes, paper grain, gentle edges. Every page in the book is drawn this way.

Restyle

Change the look. Keep the words.

Switch the style after the book is finished and every AI-drawn picture is redrawn.

Your words are untouched, and so is any picture you uploaded yourself.

Soft watercolor: a child in a red sweater sits on the grass holding a puppy, with a pond and a tree behind them.
Page 7, unchanged
Rowan held the puppy while the ducks went by.
02How it works

Two sentences in. A finished book out.

Say what the book is. The studio writes the rest.

The studio writes and illustrates every page, then draws a front cover and a back cover. You never start from a blank page.

It marks the most cinematic moments as spreads, so one wide picture runs across two facing pages.

New picture book3 steps
Your ideaA shy little fox who's scared of the dark learns the night forest is full of friends...
How many pages
Story, 10 pagesStyle: Soft watercolorReady
03Characters

The cast that stays the same.

Character sheets are drawn first, so everyone looks the same on every page.

This is the part most AI illustration gets wrong. Ask for twelve pictures of the same child and you get twelve different children.

Here the child on page three is the child on page eleven: same face, same hair, same red sweater.

Character sheetDrawn first
RowanRed sweater, brown curls
Front
Side
Three-quarter
Every page is drawn from this sheet
Page 7. Afternoon, under the tree. Same Rowan.
04The editor

Six tabs. Everything in the book.

It arrives finished. Nothing about it is locked.

Every word and every picture is yours to change, from the title on the cover to the copyright page at the back. Nothing goes back to anyone for approval.

Building longer-form work as well? See the eBook Creator.

Book editor6 tabs
PagesEvery page in order, with the words open for editing.
Reorder pagesRewrite the textText on the pictureOr a band above or below
05Narration

The book can read itself aloud.

Page by page, or one file for the whole book.

Narrate it page by page and a child taps through at their own pace. Or take the whole book as one stitched MP3: a bedtime audiobook, a lead magnet, something to hand to a class.

More on narration and voices on the Audiobooks page.

NarrationMP3
Page 1Narrated
Page 2Narrated
Page 3Narrated
Page 4Narrated
Page 5Narrated
One file for every page in the book
06Output and print

A flipbook to read. A PDF to print.

Made to be read on a screen and printed on paper.

Send the PDF to a printer. What comes back is a real book, with nothing left for you to fix.

It behaves like any other book on your account. Put it in a membership, or see the Monetization page for every way to sell it.

Output and print300 DPI
One page, 11 x 8.5 in
3300 x 2550 px
One spread, two facing pages
6600 x 2550 px
ISBN barcodeA real scannable code on the back cover
FlipbookFor readers
Landscape PDFPrint-ready
Bios and copyrightFront and back
Then it is just a book
Sell it
On your storefront
Bundle it
With your other books
Teach with it
Invite students
Publish it
Or keep it private

The characters look the same on every page. That was the part I thought I would have to pay someone for.

Sarah M., Children's author

Wrote and illustrated her first picture book without hiring an illustrator.

07The MLA difference

The old way starts with a brief and a wait. This starts with a sentence.

MLA
Hiring an illustrator
✓Every page illustrated from one or two sentences
Write a brief, then wait for the first sketches
✓Character sheets are drawn first, so the cast matches
Style notes, revisions, and hope
✓8 art styles to compare before you choose
One illustrator, one style
✓Change the style later and every picture is redrawn
A new look is a new commission
✓Cover, back cover, and a copyright page
Usually a separate brief
✓Print-ready landscape PDF at 300 DPI
Ask for the print files and check them yourself
✓The book can read itself aloud
Book a narrator on top
✓Sell it, bundle it, or hand it to students
Finding somewhere to sell it is still your job
08Trust & security

Your book is yours. The story, the art, and every page of it.

No training on your data
We never use your books or your artwork to train our AI models. Your stories stay yours.
Secure encryption
Your pages and images are encrypted in transit and at rest on secure servers, with industry-standard protection.
Private by default
Your book is visible only to you. Nothing is shared unless you choose to publish it.
Download anytime
Your PDF and your images are always yours to download, print, or sell, with no lock-in.
Full IP ownership
Everything you create on MLA belongs solely to you. Your story, your art, your revenue.
Built to SOC 2 standards
Your data is handled to SOC 2 security and compliance practices, with formal certification in progress.
09Getting started

Three steps. A picture book you can hold.

Step 1
Type the idea
One or two sentences is enough. Say whether it is a made-up story or a real topic you want explained for children.
Step 2
Pick pages and a look
Choose a page count, then one of 8 art styles. Or let the studio pick a look to suit your story.
Step 3
Read it or print it
Flip through it on screen, download the print-ready PDF, or put it on your storefront like any other book.

Which plans include it

  • Picture books / month
    Hustlers
    2
    Founders
    10
    Legends
    50
    Enterprise
    Unlimited

Compare every plan

You have the story. Now it has pictures.

Type one or two sentences, pick a look, and the studio writes and illustrates every page. Character sheets, a cover, a back cover and a print-ready PDF come with it.

7-day free trial. 30-day money-back guarantee. Your book stays yours.