TYPE 02 / 16

The Elastic Band

Same person, different amount of alone time.

Style-wise you're twins — you decide the same way, love the same way, fight the same way. The only gap is how much room you need, and it's the gap you'll argue about forever. One of you is always slightly reaching while the other is slightly stepping back, and it snaps right back every time.

Where you match and where you don't

3 of 4 axes line up. Matching isn't automatically better — aligned axes feel effortless, opposite axes are where each of you covers the other's blind spot.

Steer Same spot: LeadEase Who picks the place, who keeps the plan alive, who just goes along with it.
Show Same spot: OpenSubtle Whether care comes out as words, or as lifts to the airport and relentless teasing.
Storm Same spot: ClearPatch What you do when something's wrong — say it this week, or smooth it over and wait.
Space Opposite ends: TightRoomy How much contact you need before it feels like drifting, and how much before it feels like too much.

Make it a picture

Every card below is this exact pair type. Pick the style — yours is drawn from your own photos.

Samples are illustrations of made-up characters. Yours is built from your own photos.

What you two will get

Example input photo — a fictional person

Example input photo — a second fictional person

Example result — the same two fictional people as boxed collectible figurines

Example result — the same two fictional people on a painted movie poster

Example result — the same two fictional people as a two-colour print

Two photos in → one card out, faces kept. Example uses fictional people. AI-generated.

Turn The Elastic Band into an illustrated card of you, made from your own photo. If your friend wants to be on it too, they add theirs — free.

Your card is finished when you get it. Adding your friend is optional, not the missing half.
If they do join, their photo is free — you only pay once.
Five extra regenerations included if you want a different take.
Your photo is never stored. To draw you, the image model has to see you — so the photo goes to our server and on to the model over an encrypted connection, lives in memory for that one request, and is discarded. Nothing is written to a database, file store, or log.
The only copy we keep, we can't read. If you send an invite, one copy is encrypted in your browser and held for 24 hours so your friend can complete the pair. The key travels only inside the link you send — browsers never transmit it to us — so we hold a blob we have no key for.

Images are AI-generated and labelled as such. Upload only a photo of yourself, and only if everyone in it is 18 or over — see the acceptable use policy. Every prompt is screened before anything is generated. How we handle your photo.