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Penny began as an unfinished doodle in a designer's sketchbook, until the day she tumbled through the screen into the digital dimension. Now she's made of both worlds at once: torn paper and glowing pixels, handmade and rendered.
She's convinced the cursor is a shooting star, loading bars are caterpillars becoming butterflies, and Wi-Fi is just a kind of wind...because everything amazes her. Her enormous eyes aren't for seeing; they're for noticing the tiny wonders everyone else scrolls right past.
Penny is the face of Penny Papercraft — a crafting world, community, and app for creators who blend traditional artistry with AI — and living proof that handmade and high-tech were never meant to be rivals.
View the project here: https://www.recraft.ai/project/438f2f8b-7002-4bdd-bffb-9be8685afae5
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MÉL THE SEAL — Remote Work Solutions for Tired Creative People
Meet Mel: a sleepy harbor seal built from lavender raff, client revisions, lofi beats, low battery mode, and tiny wins.
What started as a small painting of a seal with cosmic eyes became a full mascot-led brand world. I developed Mel’s personality, origin story, visual identity, comic series, emotional language, packaging, merch, stickers, social content, and a card game for freelancers surviving the workday.
The goal was to create more than a cute mascot. Mel needed to feel like the same character everywhere: in a comic panel, on a coffee cup, inside a sticker pack, on a hoodie, and in a tiny animated moment of client-revision panic.
Built with Recraft Studio:
Character exploration, reference-image workflows, V4.1 Vector identity studies, packaging and merchandise applications, social assets, storyboards, and image-to-video experiments.
Always tired. Often late. Still shows up.
Full Case Study: https://www.recraft.ai/project/2a11d3ab-1851-4c5e-b259-3e3a54b46633
My loom is in the comments.
This character represents my turbulent introvert soul!!!I like it very much!!!Are you planning to make it as a telegram sticker? If yes, I'm willing to buy it!
Meet Lil A 👼, a mascot for a creative studio built to make brands harder to forget.
Lil A is a soft angel from a surreal world where angels stand for the anti-boring. Their job is to enter the ordinary world and make it other. They show up when an idea feels too normal, too flat, or too easy to ignore. They turn ordinary objects, simple messages, and unfinished ideas into visual moments people remember.
The project shows how a studio mascot can live across identity, posters, stickers, social formats, and motion while keeping the same character and mood
And yeah, this is our entry for the Contra × Recraft competition.
Project link: https://www.recraft.ai/project/0145727e-1747-455e-8289-089e14795a13
Wow, Such a cool mascot! Love Lil A
Meet KAYA, the self-appointed manager of a coffee that never hired him.
Kaya is a cat shaped like a jar of kaya (that is how I got the inspiration😉of the character), the coconut jam we love in Malaysia.
Round, orange, and permanently unimpressed, he guards the sacred ritual of the slow breakfast, coffee, half-boiled eggs, and toast done properly or not at all.
He judges anyone who orders takeaway, naps on the till during rush hour, and has never once moved for a customer.
In Malay, "kaya" means coconut jam, and also rich. He is both.
One cat, one wordmark, one rule: orange belongs only to him.
Built entirely in Recraft, character sheet, expression sheet, name-logo, jar label, poster, stickers, menu, merch, and his own cartoon show.
Same cat. Same judgment. Different assets.
Slow mornings only. ☕
Recraft Project URL: https://www.recraft.ai/project/d3778493-0e89-41d6-9971-4e9eed96b160
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