Can I take a photograph and make it a cartoon image?

[Spectra13]

With your banner, you need to think what situation it's going to be used for. I don't do gaming, so I don't 'feel' what I'm trying to create.
The bit I do know:
Platform games I think of Mario, long rather than tall background. Wiley Coyote springs to mind for some reason.
Halo type: dark, tech suits, distant planets and the ever present square barrelled, oversized gun.
Fortnite/Pokemon type: bright colours, sharp edges, lots of action and movement.

Now, I'm probably off on my visual interpretation due to my lack of understanding gaming. Have a go. Pick a genre and see if you can make an image that makes you 'feel' the style of game.
As an example, does the UWD image give you an idea of what the music may be like?
With your banner I was stuck on the cartoon aspect, so went with Mr Lichtenstein's Ben Day dots.

Well, for gaming, I do a bit of variety besides platform and Fortnite/pokemon, I never got into those. Now, my thing is, I'm not sure if you know what it is but, I have aphantasia.
To put it simply I have no imagination, lol . But, in all seriousness, if you asked me to stand in an empty room and you described in great detail, say a beach, I wouldn't be able
to picture it in my mind. It's just not something I can do, for some reason. That's why everyone here has been so helpful since you've given me a jumping-off point and I can
mess around and figure out what works best.

The UWD image gives me a kind of underground punk rock or even heavy metal kind of vibe. I do actually like the other cartoon version of the banner my dad and I had a good
chuckle at it, like it was making me seem like someone famous. But, like my dad says, "Fake it til you make it".

Did you look at the link to the Google Drive I provided, just because I noticed that you're still messing around with the first iteration of that cartoon. The ones in the Google Drive
have no watermark so they should be easier to mess around with.