I’ve recently picked up some adult coloring books. With Easter weekend here, I thought it would be fun to color something festive, so I chose a picture of a rabbit surrounded by flowers. I enjoy coloring, but I always hit a moment of paralysis when faced with a blank page, trying to decide how the finished product should look. I’m not great at design.

It reminded me of high school jazz band. In my senior year, we played a piece that featured an extended improvised trombone solo. The sheet music only had chord changes and no notes. That blank space terrified me. I was so intimidated I couldn’t bring myself to practice. The first time I got through the solo without freezing was the dress rehearsal. I made it through the concert, but I wasn’t happy with how I played.

Now, as a web developer, I face blank spaces of a different kind. Empty text fields, empty files, blank code editors. And now, unlike in high school, I have help.

I took a picture of the uncolored page, a rabbit among daisies, and uploaded it to GPT-4o. I asked it to suggest colors. 

It responded with a spring-inspired palette.

Bunny

• Fur: Light gray or soft brown

• Inner ears and nose: Soft pink

• Eye: Black with a small white highlight

Flowers

• Petals: Sunny yellow, lavender, coral, peach, pink, soft orange

• Centers: Yellow or gold, maybe dark brown

Leaves and Stems

• Greens like leaf, mint, olive, and forest green

Background

• Pale blue or turquoise sky, or leave it white for a clean look

It even asked whether I wanted something natural or something more whimsical, like rainbow petals and a pastel bunny. I followed up with “What would it look like?” and it generated a sample image of a gray rabbit surrounded by pink, yellow, and purple flowers.
 

It wasn’t an exact match to my coloring page, but it gave me the spark I needed. I asked whether I should use crayons, markers, or pencils. GPT recommended a combination, but I went all in with colored pencils.

Here’s what I ended up with

Could I have done that on my own? Sure.
Did I get there faster and with more confidence using AI? Definitely. And that’s how I use AI in my web development work too. It helps me move quicker, build smarter, and unlock ideas I didn’t know I had.

Back to that jazz solo. If I had been given a few notes to work from, just enough to get started, I could have practiced and made it my own. That experience taught me how hard it can be to start from nothing.

Now, I think of AI as a creative partner. It helps me explore possibilities, overcome hesitation, and get moving when I’m stuck. Whether I’m building something on the web or filling in a coloring page, it’s there to collaborate, not to take over.

Just for fun, I asked GPT to turn my coloring page into a CSS layout. It generated some HTML and CSS, gave me a downloadable file, and let me preview the result.

The output?

So maybe AI hasn’t quite mastered bunny-themed web design. But it can still help you hop over creative blocks a lot faster.