One line portrait poster, personalised — your photo in a single line

Your photo — a couple, a family, one person — redrawn in a single thin, continuous black line on a white background: faces, hair, shoulders, with lines that join where people hold each other close. The names can be written underneath in handwritten lettering, with an optional line of text: a date, a few words. Four line colours to choose from: black, midnight blue, terracotta or sage green.

A sharp, well-lit photo where every face is clearly visible, facing the camera or at three quarters. A phone photo is enough — JPG, PNG or WEBP, up to 25 MB. The background always disappears (the paper is white). On our tests, a bride and groom photographed full-length from a little way off were drawn too; the drawing then stops at the waist or the knees. With three tries per photo, you see the result before you order.

Yes. An artificial intelligence draws the portrait from your photo in about thirty seconds: it is not an illustrator’s line. You see the result before you order, and exactly that image is what we print, in our workshop in Aveyron — nothing is redone or retouched between the screen and the paper. The colour of the line is applied to the drawing by our site, not by the AI: it is the same ink every time.

What we aim to keep are the features that make each person recognisable: the hairstyle, glasses, beard or moustache, a woolly hat, plaits, the age of a face. On our tests — a couple embracing, a family of four, grandparents with their granddaughter, four children, a man with glasses, a bride and groom — those features came through; fine details (the folds of a garment, a beard, a bouquet) are simplified or a little tangled. The drawing is made by artificial intelligence: the likeness is not guaranteed, and it is never that of a photograph. You get three tries per photo, in the line colour of your choice, and the names are written separately: you can change them without redrawing. Once you have ordered, the drawing you saw is the one that is printed; like any personalised poster, it cannot be returned, except for a defect or an error on our part.

On our tests, from one to four people were drawn in full: one person alone, a couple, a family of four with a child on his father’s shoulders, four children sitting together, two grandparents with their granddaughter. Two people embracing have their lines joined where they touch. We have not tried more than four. A pet in the photo is not drawn: in our test, a dog lying across a woman’s lap vanished from the drawing.

Ask for a good photo of the couple or the family — from the big day, a dinner, a weekend — or pick one you already have. You see the drawing before you pay: if you don’t like it, try another photo rather than giving it as it is. Write the names underneath and, as the line of text, the date: “Married 6 September”, “Together since 14 June 2014”. For a wedding anniversary, a birth or Valentine’s Day, order at least ten days ahead; the print-ready file arrives by download link within the day.

Yes, among four: black (the classic, selected by default), midnight blue, terracotta and sage green. You choose it before the drawing is made, at the top of the form, and it only changes the ink, not the way of drawing. Drawing it again in another colour draws the photo afresh (a new try, a slightly different line); until you do, the drawing shown is the one that is printed, in its colour.

The first names or the family name (36 characters at most), in handwritten lettering in the colour of the line, for example “Emma & James” or “The Murphy family”, and an optional line of text of 48 characters at most: a date, a few words. These words are written by our site, not drawn by the AI: they are printed exactly as you typed them. You see everything before you order.

It is the “one line art” style: a drawing that looks continuous, where the line seems never to leave the paper. It is made by artificial intelligence, and looked at very closely the line sometimes picks up again, or doubles on a garment or in the hair: we do not promise a single line in the strict sense, but the effect of one thin, even line, without shading or fill.

It is only used to make your poster. It is stored in a private space, never published, and we delete it thirty days after shipping — or after purchase, for the print-ready file — along with the painted portrait. Location data in a phone photo is removed as soon as it is uploaded. To be painted, the photo is sent to an artificial intelligence service (Google), which receives it for that purpose only.

A4, 30 × 40, 40 × 60, 50 × 70 and 70 × 100 cm: standard frame sizes, easy to find (IKEA, HEMA, Action, Desenio). Optional wooden frame on the A4 and 30 × 40, in black, white or natural, with acrylic glass; the larger sizes ship rolled, to frame at home.

250 g/m² satin matte paper, lightfast pigment inks. Printed to order in our workshop in Aveyron, whatever the size. Shipped rolled, in a sturdy long cardboard box; the A4 travels flat, in a stiff card envelope, and a framed poster in a cardboard box.

Yes. The print-ready file contains all five sizes, each as a PDF and as a 300 dpi PNG — ten files in all, by a download link sent after payment, to print wherever you like.

Printed within 48 hours, then delivered to your home or a pickup point — home delivery only for the 50 × 70 and 70 × 100. The download link for the print-ready file is sent the same day.