Naomi Romero
Illustrator Columbus, OH
Character Designer and Illustrator who loves animals and shapes!
Hi! I am a Mexican/ Puerto Rican nonbinary freelance illustrator who loves to use shapes, color, and texture in my work. I have worked for fantastic companies such Nickelodeon, Nick Jr, Sesame Workshop, Illumination, Hasbro, Spin Master, Facebook, Playdots, and more! I was fortunate to co-curate an exhibition at Gallery Nucleus called "Doggy Pile". I am represented by Ash Literary for children's books.
I have created the popular Anxiety Fox character, which sold over 1000 of the "It Will Be Okay" pins. This character helps brings awareness to anxiety order, an illness that I have to face every day. The character raised over $260,000 on Kickstarter and even gained the coveted "Projects We Love" badge. Anxiety Fox is currently being sold at the famous Gallery Nucleus and apparel at WeLoveFine.
When not drawing, I work with Japanese Dog (Nihon Ken) preservation and actively show my Japanese Akita into the crazy (but fun!) world of UKC dog shows.
I happily live a small town of less than 10,000 people in Central Ohio with my twin sister, Rio, and our two Japanese Akita, one Kai Ken, one Pembroke Welsh Corgi, and one old man cat!
Let's Work Together!
If you would like to hire me for character design, please get in touch by emailing me at naomiromero4@gmail.com or using the "Contact" page.
If you would like to hire me for children's book illustration, please get in touch with my agent at Ash Literary.
Experience
Sesame Workshop
Visual Development
December 2020 – Present
Visual Development for an upcoming project
Hasbro
Character Designer
July 2020 – Present
Designing characters for an upcoming project.
PlayDots
Character Designer
January 2020 – February 2020
Develop characters for an upcoming mobile game, which included placing the characters in a scene with a background. Scenes showed a sense of mood through colors.
Sesame WorkShop
Character Designer
April 2019 – June 2019
Character design for a new series.
Spin Master
Character Designer
2018 – Present
Freelance character designer for an unannounced project.
Nickelodeon
Character Designer
2019 – 2019
Freelance character designer for “Blue’s Clues and You”.
Nick Jr
Character Designer
2016 – 2016
Created two characters for a series pilot. Worked closely with an art director to deliver several sketches, revisions, and color samples for each character.
Mass Animation
Character Designer
2015 – 2015
Freelance character design exploration for the featured film, “Blazing Samurai”.
Illumination Studios
Illustrator
2017 – 2017
Illustrated Picture book for “Despicable Me 3”
Character Designer
2017 – 2017
Created various illustrated assets for the Facebook website
Exhibitions
2018
Dragon Con, Guest + Artist Alley, Atlanta, Georgia (Created the new “Baby Dragon” plush.)
2018
New York Comic Con, Artist Alley, New York City, New York
2018
Gallery Nucleus, Doggy Pile, Alhambra, California (Co-curated an exhibition and worked closely with Gallery Nucleus to select artists and theme.)
Clients
Nickelodeon Illumination Hasbro Spin Master Nick Jr BOOM! Studios Mass Animation FaceBook WeLoveFine Floating Pear Bright Agency ABC Mouse Spark House Bark & Co Tor Teen PlayDots Centum Books