How to Create a Full Merch Collection for Your OC with AI

What would your OC look like if they had their own merch collection? Like an anime sticker sheet that you can customize based on your character’s personality and description. Using an AI sticker generator, creating one is possible.

What if you can complete your merch not just with a sticker sheet, but a customized phone case and a character-themed nail art? In this tutorial, we’ll use PixAI Studio to create a full character merch set for our OC. Let’s start generating!

Start with One OC and One Merch Theme

We’ve explored different characters as we worked with PixAI Studio. In this tutorial, let’s do a Punk Skater OC.

This punk skater OC is a famous skater who has long black hair with a few dark-red streaks. His outfit revolves around loose, faded shirts or drop-armhole tank tops paired with faded pants. His piercings and skateboard are his main accessories. His color palette mainly revolves around charcoal black, faded grey, dark crimson, and off-white.

I want his merch to give an underground skate brand punk vibe. We can call it “Midnight Skate Club”. Let’s use his main visual elements and color palette across all AI merchandise design.

Step 1 — Create Character Stickers with “Come Closer”

A midnight skate club sticker sheet sounds like the perfect first OC merch for me, but if we have to start creating it from scratch, it can be challenging. The good thing is, with an AI sticker generator, we can clone a ready-made sticker sheet template to start with. Let’s start creating it!

1. Go to the official PixAI Studio workflow article and find the Come Closer — Die-cut sticker sheet template. It should be named Template 4 under Image Templates, Merch & Good Series.
2. Click Clone this template now, and it will direct you to the template workspace.
3. Click View process, then in the upper right corner, tap Clone workspace. You should be able to see the cloned workspace in your canvas like this:

4. Now, let’s use our OC and replace the character from the template. If you already have your OC image as we do in this tutorial, you can simply replace the default image nodes by deleting them, clicking Add node, choosing Image, and tapping Upload an image. From here, you can upload your OC image and connect the image node to the sticker sheet.

Your workspace should now look like this:

However, if all you have is a prompt, you don’t have to delete the default image nodes. You can just input your own prompt into the image nodes’ default prompt, adjust some settings in the toolbar if you like, and hit Generate. It should generate 4 image nodes of your OC to choose from.

If your OC is ready, we can proceed with customizing our sticker sheet. I want to emphasize the punk vibe on the sticker sheet. We definitely need the “Midnight Skate Club” text to appear on the sticker sheet. A different character pose, just to give it more change. We also need charms and elements to strengthen the overall visual mood of the sticker.

The default input in the template prompt actually makes it easier for us to incorporate the changes that we want. Instead of building a complete prompt, we can just tweak the default prompt with our own character details.

Just like this:

I mainly added text, changed the pose, added customized decorations, and changed the background and grid of the sheet. I also used PixAI Edit Pro so every detail will be generated as we want it to be. Using the OC image as the reference also helped in keeping the character description consistent as we generated.

You can see the elements incorporated into the generated result, just like what we wrote in the prompt. I really liked the text stickers the most; as you can see, I didn’t specifically write in the prompt a full, detailed description of how the other decorations should look. Still, it was able to pick up the concept and generate decorations that match our character.

You can change your OC outfit, its air color, the pose, and even change the overall concept direction if you want. Just make some adjustments and generate until you achieve your desired sticker sheet merch.

Step 2 — Turn the Same OC into a Phone Case with “By Your Side”

Let’s match our Midnight Skate Club sticker sheet with a customized phone case. Our goal for this merch is to make the sticker sheet and the phone case design feel connected. Like they’re part of our OC’s merch set.

Follow these steps to create:

1. Let’s start by finding our phone case template. Go to the official PixAI Studio workflow article and find the By Your Side — Phone Case Product Shot. It should be under the Merch and Goods Series, template 5.
2. Click Clone this template now, and you’ll be directed to the workflow template.
3. Click View process, then click Clone workspace in the upper right corner.
4. You should be able to see the cloned workflow on your canvas like this:

5. Replace the default character with your OC by adding an Image Node and uploading your OC image. Connect the image node to the phone case image node template. You can tweak the prompt in the default prompt box. If you don’t have your OC image, click Generate and choose one that you like the most.

6. Now, let’s add some descriptions that we want to see in our phone case. The phone case template already has a prompt that you can just tweak to make the creative process easier. You can change some details and input your desired descriptions to achieve your concept.

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After that, tap Generate.

I kept the main elements that describe our OC. I customized the phone case with a charm skateboard and chain to further emphasize the branding. I incorporated some decorations from the sticker sheet as a design, like the chains and other silver decorations. This makes it feel like the two merch items belong to a set, and not a completely unrecognizable design.

Step 3 — Create Matching Character Nail Art with “At Your Fingertips”

Let’s finish this merch set with a matching nail art inspired by our OC:

1. Go to the official PixAI Studio Workflow article and find At Your Fingertips — Character-Themed Nail Art. It should be under the Merch & Goods Series section.
2. At the bottom of the template section, click Clone this template now. It will direct you to the template’s workspace.
3. Click View process, then proceed by clicking Clone workspace in the upper right corner of your screen.
4. The cloned workspace should show on your canvas like this:

5. Let’s replace the default character with our OC. Just repeat the same process that we did in other templates earlier. Click Add Node, choose Image, then tap Upload image, then upload your OC image. Connect the image node to the nail set template.

Our goal is to design the nail set with decorations and colors that match the personality of our OC and the rest of the merch. We definitely want to use the charcoal and deep crimson colors in our nail set, and decorate each with cybersigilism patterns and silver chains or elements.

All we have to do is tweak the default prompt and change some details with descriptions that describe our punk concept.

I really liked how the deep crimson and charcoal black blended together. I also liked the chains, as it makes this merch feel connected to the others that we did earlier. I also added another set of nails with the same design but a different length. You can also do this with your nail set, explore different color palettes, add more decorations, and explore how you can incorporate your own OC descriptions into your merch visuals.

Put the Full OC Merch Collection Together

We’ve successfully created a merch set for our punk skater. Now, let’s take a closer look at each one. Although they present the same aesthetic and personality, I think the merch that preserved our OC most clearly is the sticker sheet. I really liked how the secondary stickers complemented the personality of our OC.

The consistent use of the color palette really makes the three merch feel more connected with each other. The chains and other decorations also established the main designs of the merch. I think out of the three merch that we made in this tutorial, the sticker sheet and the phone case feel more believable as merch. They both have other elements that make them more customized. The nail set looks good, but if we remove our OC picture and the title, it may look like a random deep crimson and black nail design set.

I personally like the sticker sheet the most. I think the decorations and how we positioned our OC really work well together in building our custom character merchandise.

How to Make the Merch Collection Feel More Consistent

If you’re planning to make your OC’s merch collection, you may consider these tips before you start:

• Establish your visual elements and theme direction
• Repeat or stick with symbols and accessories that match your OC
• Keep the outfit aligned with your theme
• Customize your merch
• Avoid making big changes to your character and the concept as you generate
• Use your OC image, or a merch image that you generated, as a reference for your next merch

More OC Merch Ideas to Try

There are a lot of concepts waiting for you to try. With your OC or favorite character, you can expand and explore more concepts that match your creative imagination.

You can explore:

• Seasonal sticker sets
• Alternate phone case colors
• Matching merch for two OCs
• Themed nail collections
• Holiday merch
• Different outfits for the same character

Conclusion

An AI sticker generator can give your own character merch that feels exactly like them. With PixAI Studio workflow templates, creators can explore other merch designs to build their own chosen concept direction. Just like what we did in this tutorial: choose your OC, clone Come Closer for the sticker sheet, find By Your Side for the phone case, use At Your Fingertips to create a character-themed nail set, and there you have a full merch collection for your OC!

You can explore different anime merch designs without building each one from scratch. PixAI Studio provides a collection of workflow templates that you can clone to make your creative process with you in control. Create a full merch set inspired by your own character with PixAI Studio!