And frankly, I didn't believe that we could develop a "recognisable" style of featured images while using stock photos.
But I didn't have a solution for that problem. And that bothered me a lot.
They were clearly custom made, because there was a consistent style to them.
I loved them!

Luckily, Dmitry was a fan of good design too, so he allowed me to hire a contractor to do illustrations for our blog articles.
I opened behance.net & started searching.
So I sent a private message to the author, @krolone , and asked if he was open for some freelance work.
He said he was. 🥳



Our output was about 1 post per week and he never failed us! 💪
We got quite a bit of positive feedback from people in our industry, as they saw those images in their social feeds.




But we thought that this investment was perfectly justified.
Other than making our content more visible on socials, those quality illustrations implied that our content was just as good.
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And @krolone would then bring it to life with his unique twists :)
Let me know if you have any further questions!