In Mexico we celebrate our Independence Day between the 15th and 16th of September. At 11:00 we start the festivities with the classic “Grito” where we say what Miguel Hidalgo said in that time. After that we lighten up the fireworks and  bringing the food, the drinks and the music. Then we party all night.

This is a healthy fantasy style ogre who knows aerobics. He likes energy bars and power shakes and exercise. Humans, on the other side, doesn’t like exercise, aerobics and ogres. It’s so good that he has to go to town only once in a month.

Here is a weird cartoon gnome who wants to control the wind and make huge disasters among the forest. He thinks he’ll be able to get some respect after that. We’ll see.

Here is a weird cartoon character that is a mix between a bird and a man. He wants to learn how to fly so he can go and see the world.

It may be difficult to be in a tribe and see that everyone else but you is a respected hunter. So you have to start somewhere, right? The first step is to ask for advice to the experienced ones so you can get into the path. This guy has to start training if he wants to do that.

A cartoon young aspiring actor who got into the school’s play of this year. He is going to work hard on his skills so one day he can play some Shakespeare. Right now he has to learn his character lines, as a war missile.

This weird cartoon guy has a little yellow umbrella for the rain… But there are no grey clouds on the sky yet.

Here we have a chocolate chips cookie running wild in the table. It is sure a fun cartoon character and it was nice to do all the small -chocolate chip- detail.

Here is the most stunning and brave man who ever lived on the entire world, ready to ride a miniature motorcycle over many absurd obstacles and get fine at the end. The amazing Mustacho, the stuntman acrobat.

Here is a kid with great attitude in the middle of a long and cold walk to get at the school in time. He looks happy, I think, because he has music to hear.

Here is a guy with a fancy suit, a cool hat and a fake groucho, all from the Gags Gift Shop near work. Now he feel all confident to make some friends. Still he’s such a nerd. Anyway, it was a fun character to draw. By the way, thanks to my friend Isaac for telling me that groucho is the name of the plastic glasses with a nose.

Here is a cartoon gamer character who got stuck on one level of this hard and long RPG game so he decided to get one of those books with maps and tips. The downside is that he just waited for weeks for the book to arrive while no luck moving those damn statues to get the little shield that he desperately needs for getting into the next level.

Here is a cartoon french fry who happens to be the general of an entire army of fast food products ready to battle against their enemies, such as the spaghetti or the meatballs. Some say that plenty of ketchup get spilled into the battlefield. They always win because of their fast deploy and loads of sodium.

Here is a cartoon boy wearing a funny watermelon styled hat made by his grandma. Shame on all those kids at school that punch him for that, he he. Is not his fault that grandma is not a fashion designer yet.

Here is a lonely cartoon office employee who needs to stay late to finish all those monthly reports. The cool thing is that he is ready with his pillow so he can have a five minutes sleep under his desk. Anyway, all this coffee drinking reminded me about that Futurama episode when Fry has to drink like 100 of coffee cups. One of the best episodes, I think.

Here is some big guy who lives in a ranch. In his duties is to clean all the horses and to feed the pigs. his old parents can’t do a thing now so he has to take care of everything. Is a shame that he hasn’t the extra time to go on a date with the girl next door. By the way, recorded the inking and coloring process on this one for a future post.

Nobody said that being in a school band would be easy.  This cartoon guy is on one, and he had to learn martial arts to defend himself against school bullies, using his nunchaku–batons.

Here is a cartoon character who likes to talk a lot and very very loud. He would go to any quiet place, like hospitals and such, just to start speaking very loud and annoy everyone.

Here we have a cartoon villain with a technological suit ready to get virtual. I always liked those lighted suits from Tron and all that stuff about virtual worlds. I guess some day we’ll can play a little with that immersible technology. I liked how the detail of the suit came along.