![]() I wear many hats and have many interests. We’d love to hear more about your work and what you are currently focused on. I still work side jobs to pay rent and go to school and LA is expensive, now I am out here alone with no family but school, friends and my passion for making stories keep me going. It was like that for three years until I finally listened to my ex and applied for grad school. What I kept getting was people with great ideas for comics but no money to pay me for my time and work, so I ended up working on multiple projects that never went anywhere while working part-time jobs. After graduating from my undergrad I moved to LA to live with my girlfriend at the time and pursue a career in freelance illustration and comic book art. So in a way, I was inspired by tv animation and now I aim to work for TV animation. After three long years of working part-time jobs from retail to fast food, I applied to the USC animation graduate program where I found my love for storyboarding and tv animation. In RISD, I pursued a BFA in illustration in order to continue my passion for comics, but I found out the hard way that comics does not pay rent. My teachers at the time would comment on the sequential art I would always draw on the back of tests, essays, and homework until my English teacher recommended I attend the Rhode Island School of Design after school program which later on helped me get into RISD itself. After getting hooked on a manga called Bakuman about two friends getting together to create their own manga, I started writing and drawing my own comics in high school. I would always try to draw DBZ characters and Knights of the Zodiac until eventually when my family moved to RI and I began reading manga and western comics. My interest in the arts began in Puerto Rico growing up on English dub anime (which also helped my brother and I learn English). ![]() We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far. ![]() Today we’d like to introduce you to Dariel Filomeno.ĭariel, let’s start with your story. ![]()
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