I was born in Guatemala and raised on Long Island. I love to draw from life and make stories in my free time. I'm committed to creating narratives that feature Latinx protagonists. I want to make stories young me would have loved to read. I believe diversity in children's media benefits everyone.
Good characters make stories memorable. These are characters from stories I'm working on and stories I wish I'd worked on.
Drawings and their time-lapse replays were made on my iPad using Procreate. Every snack you see here was eaten immediately after I finished drawing it.
When I was a kid, my dad had many different cars. They weren't the nicest or newest models, but he loved them all.
I drew each cloud in real time on my iPad using Procreate. Clouds are tricky.
I brought watercolor paper and a pen with me on my daily subway commute. I drew a lot of people and never once got yelled at. A few times someone would catch me looking at them, but I'd just avert my eyes and pretend I was thinking about the weekend. I colored each drawing with watercolors during my lunch break.
Mito is based on the spooky
"true" stories my mother and
abuelita told me as a child.
It will be told in English,
Spanish...and Spanglish.
Coming soon.