https://ddstudio.mcntech.com/blog/ Recent content in Ideas and guides on Doodle Dragon Studio Hugo en-US Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ddstudio.mcntech.com/blog/why-their-drawing-should-stay-wonky/ Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ddstudio.mcntech.com/blog/why-their-drawing-should-stay-wonky/ <p>There is a failure mode with this kind of tool that is worth naming early.</p> <p>You take a child&rsquo;s drawing — a house with a chimney at forty-five degrees, a six-legged dog, a sun that takes up a third of the sky — and you run it through an image model, and back comes a competent, symmetrical, entirely generic illustration of a house. The chimney is straight. The dog has four legs. The sun is a reasonable size.</p> https://ddstudio.mcntech.com/blog/ten-books-to-make/ Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ddstudio.mcntech.com/blog/ten-books-to-make/ <p>The hardest part of making a book with a child is not the app. It is deciding what the book is about. Here are ten that reliably work.</p> <h2 id="1-the-one-about-the-pet">1. The one about the pet</h2> <p>Six pages. The dog wakes up, the dog does four things, the dog goes to sleep. Your child will have opinions about all four things. This is the best first book anyone can make and it takes an afternoon.</p>