How To Make A Mascot
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A familiar character that represents your band.
Estimated Cost: FREE
Estimated Time: Immediate preparation with immediate results.
Indie Guide Categories: Art & Graphics
What Do You Need to Do This
- A color palette
- Mascot ideas
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Directions
1. Draw a design or find a graphic designer to help you.
Your mascot should be a line drawing and not a picture. Check out our Art & Graphics category for help if you need a designer.
2. Add colors from your color palette for the design.
If you do not have colors yet, click here to find out how to make a color palette. You want to be consistent with your colors and that means sticking to it for your mascot.
3. Put mascot into a layered vector format
This makes it easy to work with the mascot, manipulate it, and put it into other pictures. Layers allow you to make changes to your mascot easily without having to create a brand new image everytime. Some good tools for this are Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop or GIMP. If you can't save it to a vector based format, save it at the highest resolution possible. You can always downsize the image later, you can never scale up the image without a loss of image quality.
4. Add your mascot to your website, album art, merchandise, and advertisements.
Continue solidifying your brand by adding your mascot to the things your fans will see.