Drew characters by hand, scanned, filled with base colors using GIMP, then AI-enhanced using Gemini to add texture and a consistent style. The squid mascot at the top is a webm video with transparent background; my original drawing made into video by Gemini.

For the texturing/shading, I found an image online with shading and color pallette that I liked and made Gemini normalize all my drawings to that style. The characters themselves look basically the same as I originally drew them aside from a few minor details but it's mostly the shading that was taken to the next level.

I had published the website with my original drawings before for several months and then decided to AI-enhance a bit later once Gemini came out