Chris Raroque

Instead, what I did was I fed in this, this was a hand drawn illustration that my fiance did of our dog Luna.

And I told it, okay, can you use this as a reference and now make me a ghost based off of this?

It didn't actually follow the illustration style that closely, but I did notice that there were some elements that kind of was retained.

Like,

Some of the shadow is very similar.

That's a little trick that I've learned.

If you pay someone for some original art, there's a high chance that the iterations that you get will just be a lot more unique.

Everyone is doing this right now.

I'm now seeing a lot of people using AI for illustrations.

This is now becoming a more common theme.

So to stand out, you will have to either be really creative with how you're generating these, or again, I would recommend commissioning an artist, getting some sort of first version done, because then at least you know it is unique.

And it's actually cheaper than a lot of people would think.

I think you can probably get an artist to do a very first version for you for like $200, $300 or something.

And then obviously once you have the actual mascot, you can make infinite iterations just like I did.

It does have some shadow, so it's definitely not fully 2D.

I think it was a little closer.

It has some depth.

I think what I would do is I would say, just follow the same vibe as the original image.

Yeah, and let's just see what it does here.

Typically, I do have to do this a few times.