Tio Diablo (Regular Version)

Here are my character designs for Carla’s Uncle Eddie or “Tio Diablo” as he is affectionately called by Carla. The character went through a few different design stages before I was finally happy with this version. He’s a bit of a rock star so I wanted to give him sort of a Dave Navarro/ Dweezil Zappa look (but a little more subdued). I am spending a lot of time developing the characters and I think that it’s going to pay off in the long run. The same goes for clothing, each character is going to basically have a style guide and have different clothes and outfits but they will keep within a certain range.

Tio Diablo is physically built like Carla’s dad, but will have a different silhouette with his hair, clothing, posture etc.. I plan to have family resemblances through out all the characters without falling into the trap of making them all look alike. I plan to give Diablo some tattoos, but have yet to come up with anything concrete. I like the idea of all three uncles and Carla’s aunt having some tattoo that they all got when their brother (Carla’s dad) died as a tribute.

All in all when it comes to character design, I must stress patience. Don’t force a character to happen or settle on a design that is “good enough”. I drew several face shapes for diablo before I found the right one, some were round, some were long. Experiment with it until the character fits, you will be glad in the long run.

Tio Frio!

Here is my character reference I drew for my comic I am working on. His name is Alfredo Calaveras but Carla calls him "Tio Frio" because of his ice powers. The character is a cool vato into hot rods so I went with a cholo/rockabilly theme with him. This is the version of him when he is not powered up (I'm going to do some more action poses later on so I will post those in full color).