Meet the dogs! These are the three main characters from my children's book and I'll give a brief intro to each of them.
Seth is the tiny black chihuahua who's rambunctious spirit tends to be at odds with his own insecurity about his size.
Chester is the round loveable Pug who loves "people food" as much as he loves comic books.
Winston is the brown dachshund who prefers watching science documentaries with his owner over digging for bones or running around in the yard.
I realized that writing and storytelling were dormant passions of mine halfway into art school and that's when I began to start studying the craft. But the initial inclination goes back further, as I recently found a comic book that I wrote and illustrated when I was 10 years old. If I ever get brave enough, maybe I'll post something from it, haha.
I'm in the process of revising my work as I've learned any good writer should, but these characters are pretty much here to stay. Hope you enjoy!
Thanks for the post! Your paintings and sketches are awesome, can't wait to see some of these rides come to life one day!
ReplyDeleteLove it Mauricio, really successful character design here, you definitely get a feel for their personalities from just looking at them.
ReplyDeleteP.s please post your comic from when you were 10!
Great work Mauricio! I love the expression of Chester, he seams to be a funny dog. haha...
ReplyDeleteThe dogs look great, Mauricio, glad you're finding the time to do this, it's important. We all need to pursue our own projects but's it's difficult when working all day creating art for someone else. Before you know it, it's been years and still nothing of your own. I'm currently working on my first book of cartoons and it's a slow process, but finally happening.
ReplyDeleteHey, I used to make comics book too, in junior high school with friends, made a stack of them, but I hated the way they looked years later and threw them all out. Big mistake. As crappy as they were I wish I hadn't done that. I'd like to see you post those comic books. I still may have one left, I'm going to look for it.
These are great Mauricio! Lots of fun and great designs!
ReplyDeletecute doggies :) i like them!
ReplyDeleteTheyre all so cute! Winston is my favorite haha :) nice stuff!
ReplyDeleteThose look great! Hey I always wanted to ask you but I always forget. Why is your avatar a bird?
ReplyDeleteAwesome blog, and great teaching as well. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge with us:)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the compliments, everyone! And Ki-Ke, no problem. I enjoy teaching so it's kinda natural for me to share that stuff.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the compliments, everyone! And Ki-Ke, no problem. I enjoy teaching so it's kinda natural for me to share that stuff.
ReplyDeleteomg, great work ! love it :)
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