Naomi Romero is a non-binary Mexican and Puerto Rican character designer and illustrator. They were born in Los Angeles, CA and began drawing at a young age. Since they loved watching cartoons and animated tv shows, they mostly drew characters from series like Pokemon and South Gate. Naomi always loved art, but due to her parent's wishes, they went to college and studied criminology. However, at age 22 they dropped out of college to pursue a career in art. Since they didn't have enough money to got to art school, they had to learn to do art on their own. To improve their art, they studied art from successful artists and often doodled their animals. In fact, they focus their work primarily on animals.
One of Naomi's most notable works is their Anxiety Fox. Since Naomi deals with anxiety, they created a cute character called Anxiety Fox to help cope with their feelings. Anxiety Fox can now be purchased as a cuddly plush or enamel pin. The pins have phrases like "I'm going to be okay" and "I'm not broken" inscribed in them. Other works done by Naomi include the character design for the tv show Blue's Clues & You! and character illustration for the upcoming movie Blazing Samurai. Most commonly, Naomi draws dogs, especially corgis or dog related species, like wolves. On their site, they share a lot of digital drawings of dogs and fun pieces of dogs as characters from different tv shows or movies. For example, they've drawn dogs as the different versions of Spiderman from Spider-man: Into the Spider Verse, dogs as Marvel superheroes, like Captain American and Iron Man and dogs as anime characters, such as Deku and All Might from My Hero Academia. Naomi has had many clients ranging from Nickelodeon to Facebook to Spark House to Mass Animation. Currently, they continue working as a freelance illustrator working on character designs for upcoming projects. Naomi is even doing character designs for an upcoming mobile game.
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