Are you like me, saving interesting stickers whenever you see them? Do you admire the fun and playful stickers designed by others?
Perhaps you want to have your own personalized stickers, but faced with the complex design process, you don’t know where to start?
Now with Midjourney, you can easily create various styles of stickers, make money, and I’m sharing these methods with you~
Before we start creating, we can search online for characters we like and reference images to create your personalized stickers.
At the same time, you can refer to the design styles of stickers to get more ideas and inspiration~
Sticker Magic Formula
Formula: Theme background + Environmental atmosphere + Style reference
Magic words: multiple poses and expressions
Auxiliary words: Emoji design, Manga style, Cartoon style, Illustration style, The maiden of the ancient style, white background, happy, angry, sad, cry, cute, expecting, laughing, surprise, shyness, High quality, niji 5 (mode), style cute
Using the sticker magic formula, add the style you want, such as manga, cartoon, illustration, ancient style, and various other styles, add various expression and action description words, and you can generate sticker effects with diverse styles that are interesting and personalized.
Step One: AI Generation of Various Styles
1. Manga Style
Manga Character
Description: pokemon x y girl using her laptop, in the style of light orange and orange, caricature-like illustrations
We can design a girl with your favorite manga character image, working and studying on a computer, with various exaggerated expressions and life-like scenes, very suitable for our office workers’ stickers.
You can also upload your favorite sticker images, reverse engineer keywords or modify keywords, and you’ll see the girl’s expressions and actions become more and more vivid and cute~ Change to various expressions and actions you want, such as half-body, happy, surprised, etc., to express your emotions.
Cute Boy
Description: Cute little boy with short hair, emoticon package, 9 emoticons, emoticon Symbol table multiple postures and expressions, anthropomorphic style
After sharing the girl’s, here’s a set of boy stickers, anime-style cute boy stickers, with big bright eyes, giving a lively and cute feeling. Exaggerated actions and funny postures add fun and entertainment.
2. Cartoon Style
Super Cute Little Girl
Description: an image showing a girl in different poses, in the style of light brown and yellow, cartoon realism
Cartoon style often uses bright, full colors to create a lively and cheerful atmosphere. Exaggerated expressions better convey the character’s emotions and increase visual appeal.
The little girl is super cute, and we can further optimize details, change your favorite hair color, multiple angles, expressions, actions, and scenes to meet your personalized needs.
Cute Little Rabbit
Description: A drawing for the rabbit daily timetable stickers, duckcore plush doll art exaggerated poses
We can also design your favorite small animals, such as soft and cute little rabbits.
Chatting with friends and sharing the joy of food, enjoying comfortable sleep, feeling happy moments, showing your playful and cute side, conveying warmth and beauty, these soft and cute little rabbits, inspired by daily scenes, express emotions for you and bring joy to people~
3. Illustration Style
Description: A can girl holding a book, multiple poses and expressions, illustration set
Illustration style, with bright colors, smooth lines, and vivid images, easily attracts people’s attention. It’s often applied in children’s books, advertising, and other fields.
You can also add your own hobbies as keywords, such as a cute little girl who likes to read and study~ Add captions to the above stickers you like to express the girl’s inner feelings and love for reading~
4. Ancient Style Maiden
Description: the beautiful princess woman in china stickers, in the style of emotive gestures and expressions, multiple screens, academic, white background, light green and light black
The character of the ancient maiden has delicate and exquisite features, wearing traditional ancient costumes such as Hanfu, Tang suits, etc. These costumes showcase the style of ancient culture, giving a sense of classical beauty and elegance.
Light green is a fresh, natural color that gives a sense of tranquility and comfort. The free and pure ancient style maiden stickers make people feel comfortable and pleasant.
Step Two: Add Personalized Text Creativity
For personalized creativity and to make the stickers come alive, we can design a consistent theme background for the stickers, such as a girl working on a laptop.
“Let me think, brick-laying, completed, working person…” Doesn’t it look exactly like you at work? PS design software, add some popular internet phrases to make the stickers more interactive and relatable.
We can also add some humorous and funny captions and animation effects to our stickers to enhance their fun and attractiveness~ When adding captions, pay attention to choosing fonts that coordinate with the sticker style to make the overall look more aesthetic.
Step Three: Upload Stickers for Monetization
For monetization, search for the WeChat Sticker Open Platform: https://sticker.weixin.qq.com, upload your stickers, register an account on the homepage, fill in the artist information, upload the sticker album, follow the prompts step by step to submit for review, and submit the sticker works. After approval, you can list the stickers to generate income.
Official Sticker Making Standards:
Chat stickers: Need 16/24
Artist avatar: Create a square canvas, it’s recommended to choose a larger size, a good reference is 2048×2048
Artist homepage, sticker homepage: Reference size 7500×4000
Reward guide page: Reference size 7500×5600
File format conversion: Convert the designed stickers into common image formats, such as PNG or GIF. Ensure that the stickers can be displayed and used normally on different platforms.
Things to Note:
How to Make Character Expressions More Vivid?
Midjourney’s latest Niji 5 mode can achieve more precise and stable image generation and processing, and has a very good effect on the generation and imitation of anime styles. To make character expressions more vivid when making stickers, we need to switch to Niji 5 mode.
Summary
Creating your own unique stickers not only showcases your creativity and personality but also brings more fun to chatting. Start trying to make them now, unleash your creativity, and let stickers become your unique language for communicating with friends!
You can try to find suitable channels and e-commerce platforms for selling stickers, cooperate with them, or open an online store for sales and orders.
You can also promote on various social media platforms, such as Xiaohongshu, WeChat Moments, etc., to increase the exposure and popularity of your stickers and attract more users to purchase and use them.