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Meet Eliamaria!!!

Get your copy of PRINCESA TACO, some sweet taco-y merch, and a sign and sketch your books!

PRINCESA TACO was a character I created for fun around 2016. I wanted to draw a Latina Magical Girl who has Mexican Food-inspired characteristics. I’m a huge foodie so I use a lot of influence from that in my work. After doodling her a few times, I knew I wanted to give her a story, but was in the middle of so many projects, plus work.

In 2020, the pandemic put a lot of my work on hold. I didn’t have any active in-production projects, just plans for conventions that were now canceled. I had started streaming art and liked to find fun things to do on stream. That’s when I remembered the 24-Hour comic challenge was out there and prior to the pandemic, I had just not had the time to dedicate participating. Being stuck at home and with the absolute availability to do so, I decided to take the challenge and have it be part of my stream.

October 2020, I took on the challenge of giving Princesa Taco her comic along with completing this 24-page comic in 24 hours with my Twitch community there for the ride. I streamed for a solid 24 hours and wrote, sketched, and inked the entire comic with suggestions and input given by the community. It turned into a cute, campy comic story that I fell in love with. After that, I knew I wanted her story to continue.

The pandemic didn’t really get better, and being immunocompromised, I wasn’t taking any exposure risks still, so I was still staying inside and continuing growing my portfolio. I decided to take on the challenge again in 2021 to make Princesa Taco a chapter story and make Chapter two. I live-streamed the process once again, but this time in two 12-hour bursts learning from the exhaust from the year prior, but also wanted to raise funds for charity while doing so. At the end of the 24 hours, we had completed chapter two of the series from writing to inking and raised $220 for Raices Texas.

I’m a fan of trilogies, so I wanted to take on the challenge one more time in 2022 to round out this series with one more Chapter. I was about to get back into the convention scene so I knew this would probably be my last time doing it for a while. So again we set out to livestream the process, this time illustrating digitally as I had just gotten an ipad. Chapter three was completed, as was the story and this year we did so while raising $700 for the American Heart Association.

After all the chapters were there in front of me, I realized I wanted to have it in print, however I wanted it in color. I love coloring my work, and though I know that would be outside of the 24-hour time, I kept true to all the work done then and did so not altering anything completed within the challenge timeframe. So now I have completed coloring the entire book, am working on all the filler, and am ready for the world to see the completion of three years of this comic challenge all together in a story about love, friendship, and community, all things that helped bring this comic to life.