A black and white half body drawing of two characters, Nieves and Lalo. Nieves is short and Afro-Colombian. She has long, very curly, black hair. She has a big smile and stars in her eyes. She wears a long coat and two pairs of glasses. One pair of glasses is on top of her head. This pair of glasses has a cloud shape for one lens and a half moon shape for the other lens. On top of her nose, Nieves wears the second pair of glasses. Lalo is tall and dark-haired. He is a white Colombian. He has vitiligo. He wears a tank top and glasses. He has a confused, worried expression as he looks at Nieves. Lalo's speech bubbles are on the left, as he is, and similarly, Nieves' speech bubbles are on the right, as she is. The first speech bubble is the largest. It's from Nieves, "Why do people have such depressing funerals? When I die, I want my ashes mixed with confetti and carmalized sugar candy and during the wake the lights go out and it's like a sudden goth dance party, all hora loca style and there's like multicolored LASERS EVERYWHERE in the middle of the darkness and I want everyone to put on these skelly costumes as 'Suavemente' by Elvis Crespo just BLASTS over the speakers and THEN just before the lights come back on, small cannons operated by magic hummingbirds launch my ashes-confetti-candy into the air. I just think it'd be neat." The next speech square is from Lalo, "What the fuck" "YEAH! Celia, what'd you call it?" The following speech square points off screen. It is Celia, not pictured, but listening to the conversation. Celia's speech bubble, "Embracing chaotic joy in the liminal space between life and death." "EXACTLY! It'd be beautiful." The word beautiful is written in cursive letters. The next speech bubble is from Lalo, "OR TRAUMATIC" Nieves' final speech bubble says, "Things can be traumatic AND beautiful!" Lalo's final speech bubble reads, "Every day I pray I die before you and this is one of the many reasons why."

A black and white half body sketch. Celia sits somewhere and rests her elbows on a surface. She wears her white shirt and has her hair in an afro. She shrugs upon hearing her friends discuss something outlandish. The word "shrug" is written between asterisks, next to Celia's shoulders. She's used to their nonsense.

One of my absolute favorite character interaction commissions! Thank you so much @carterrdraws.bsky.social !!

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A black and white full body drawing. The picture shows Nieves, an afro-Colombian character from my fantasy novel, Uncertain Magia. Nieves has long curls. She wears two pairs of glasses, one pair on top of her forehead and another pair resting on her nose. The glasses on her head have a cloud shape for one lens and a half moon shape for another lens. She wears a light jacket over a shirt and shorts. She is listening to music on a cellphone and dancing with a big smile. There are music notes drawn around her.

A black and white half body drawing. It shows an early version of the character who would become Yandiel, an afro-Colombian character from my fantasy novel, Uncertain Magia. Yandiel is here depicted wearing a collared shirt and pants. His hair is shaved. He is listening to music through over-the-ear headphones. The headphones are connected to a record player. He is laying down, his head on a pillow, his hands holding up a book which is reading.

Aaaand alt text on these two sketches too, also by the awesome @carterrdraws.bsky.social ! Featuring Nieves and an early draft version of Yandiel

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