Adding characters to your coloring book helps create a more engaging and consistent experience for youn readers. Whether you’re creating a book around animals, people, fantasy creatures, or custom characters, you can define the characters you want to appear throughout the book and use them across multiple pages. This makes it easier to maintain a cohesive theme and gives your coloring book a unique personality.

After describing your coloring book, you’ll be presented with two character creation options. The first, “Scrively invents them,” allows the AI to automatically create characters that fit your coloring book’s theme and incorporate them throughout the pages.

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The second option, “Use my own,” allows you to customize the characters featured in your coloring book. 

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You can create new characters by adding your own photo.

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Or describe someone.

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When you’re ready, click “Draw the Pages” to move on to the next step.

For image-only coloring books, head over to our guide [here](https://support.scrively.com/hc/learn/articles/1781039734-working-with-the-editor) to learn how to work with the pages editor.

For captions & images coloring books, head over to our guide [here](https://support.scrively.com/hc/learn/articles/1781037891-writing-your-book) to learn how to write your book content.

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