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I enjoy experimenting with different materials, textures, and lighting to create images that feel unique. For this concept, I combined torn paper elements with dramatic colored lighting to build something that felt both fashion-focused and unexpected. Projects like this are what keep photography exciting for me because they allow me to take a simple idea and push it in a different direction.
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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!
✨ I'm exploring different sticker directions for YOURA.
One set focuses on everyday moments, while the other emphasizes simple emotions and expressions.
Which one would you download and use more often?
⬅️ Left or Right➡️ ?
I'd love to hear why. Your feedback will help shape the final sticker pack. 💛
🚀 YOURA is also competing in the Recraft Challenge. If you enjoy the project, I'd really appreciate your support:
Every reaction, comment, and share means a lot. Thank you! ✨
#recraftchallenge #stickerdesign #characterdesign #aiart #design
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