Colossal Coloring
Colossal Coloring started as a personal project with two things to prove: that printable coloring pages could be worth printing, and that AI-assisted illustration could produce something real with the right process behind it.
The Challenge
Every Site I’d Found Had the Same Problem
Cluttered layouts, low-res exports, designs that looked cheap at full print size. The gap was obvious as a parent. Less obvious was how hard AI illustration would be to get right. Raw output looked promising at a glance and fell apart under inspection: random limbs, visual artifacts, compositions that didn’t hold together. Getting from “interesting generation” to “file worth printing” took far more iteration than the prompt alone could handle.
The Solution
AI Generation Was Step One of Five
The pipeline: AI generation for the base image, Topaz AI to push resolution, Adobe Illustrator image trace to convert to clean vector, then export as a branded PDF. Page content and subject research also ran through AI, with editing passes before anything went live. Photography was an overhead shot of my son coloring with crayons, real rather than stock, which was the right call for a site aimed at parents.
The Results
Thirty Pages That Print
About 30 pages are live. No media spend, no conversion data. Parents responded well early on, kids stayed engaged with the pages, and every file holds up at full print size. The more durable result: a repeatable AI-assisted illustration workflow that produces print-quality output from scratch.
