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Character Design

Every story starts with someone.

Marisol’s family, full body: father, sister, mother, Marisol hugging a dog, grandfather with a cane and grandmother

Characters designed to carry a story.

Marisol and her family, with expressions and poses that keep her recognizable through every mood and movement; the Bings, a period family drawn in graphite with head turnarounds; a boy and his red bird; and hairstyle studies. Each set explores how age, personality and body language can tell a story before the first word.

Format
character design: model sheets, expressions, poses and turnarounds
Readers
picture books, comics and early readers
Role
illustrator & character designer
Technique
analog + digital: hand-made watercolor textures and brushes; graphite

Personal work

Marisol

Marisol upside down, balancing on her head with her legs in the air, in a purple dress
Expression sheet: Marisol in color and many pencil studies of her face showing different emotions

The Bings family

The Bings, a period family in graphite: mother, boy and father with a moustache, with profile and front head studies

Rory & Nico

A boy with blue glasses and a red bird on his arm, with his expressions and studies of the bird, in a purple frame

Hairstyles

Boys’ hairstyles: four heads with different haircuts Girls’ hairstyles: four heads with different hairstyles