Character Design Mentorship

In this new drop, I’ve got some news that might interest you, or someone you know, on their artistic journey.

✨ I’ve joined forces with THU (Trojan Horse Was a Unicorn) as part of their mentorship system. ✨

I’m opening a limited offer for 7 artists who want focused, personalized guidance.

How the mentorship works

• Sessions: 6 individual 1-hour sessions.

• Frequency and Duration: Up to you — ideally monthly to do a follow up for 6 months.

We’ll analyze your work and define clear next steps based on your profile, goals, and context.

👉 Check the mentorship here

To view the offer, you’ll need a THU account (it’s free).

Any questions or consideration send me a message here or through Instagram.

Mentorship Approach

I believe improvement comes from practice and repetition.

This mentorship is for you if you want to:

1. Improve your character design skills.

2. Polish your portfolio so it’s clear and focused.

3. Learn how to tell a story through your portfolio. How you think is what art directors care about most.

4. Understand how to think about character design (the key factor that most people miss when building a portfolio).

This is not a rigid program with fixed assignments. Instead, we’ll adapt everything to your goals, your rhythm, and your way of creating.

Each session builds on the previous one: we’ll review progress, identify strengths and weaknesses, and adjust the plan so you always know what to focus on next.

Why Characters?

I love designing almost everything, and I know many of you do too, but characters tend to sit at the center of it all.

They are the foundation of interesting stories. We instinctively turn everything into characters: landscapes, props, even abstract ideas. Our brains are wired to see life everywhere and imagine things coming alive.

Even though I have work on Character design for some time now, this last year I have been specially focused on them, so that’s where I can help the most. Whether your goal is animation or video games (the approach differs, and I’ll adapt to your focus).

A Note on Teaching

I won’t dwell on impostor syndrome (it’s too much of a cliché in art circles) but it hits hard when you consider teaching or showing your process to others.

For a long time, I associated teaching with being above others, and that made me uncomfortable.

Over time, my perspective changed.

Teaching isn’t about hierarchy, it’s about passing knowledge forward and you taking whatever works best for you.

It is just sharing.

This newsletter started as a way to share what I know and what I’m living as an artist.

Through writing, I discovered that I enjoy sharing ideas, developing them, and dissecting how art works for me.

That’s the same mindset I’m bringing into this mentorship.

See you around, stay weird.

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