Jan. 31, 2024
TRAINER'S EYE #75 - "Coloring El Paso in Pokemon" ft. B.E. Art
In this Pokemon interview, we are joined by B.E. Art, a small business owner who uses her art to provide an escape for people. She has won the Best of El Paso Visual Artist 2023 and was featured on the front cover of El Paso Times.
B.E. Art shares her experience watching the Pokemon anime and collecting the Pokemon TCG with her little brother. Thanks to Pokemon GO, she returned to the franchise playing in her hometown of El Paso, Texas.
B.E. Art shares her journey being a self-taught artist. Starting initially as a hobby where she would teach the El Paso community with painting classes, she shares the road to her becoming a full time artist and having her art featured in murals arounds her community.
Finally, B.E. Art shares her inspiration behind creating a Pokemon Coloring book called "Gotta Color'Em All!" featuring images of different Pokemon around notable landmarks in El Paso, Texas. Listen as we hear the journey of the artist who collides our world with the world of Pokemon!
Trainer's Eye is a series where the stories are real and people still play this game. From PVP to Shiny Hunting, each person's Pokemon GO journey is unique and we dive into each journey here on As The Pokeball Turns!
Sources
Opening Song: "Forget You" by Alex_MakeMusic from Pixabay
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Transcript
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My name is David Hernandez, and you're listening to As the Pokeball Turns.
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Welcome to As the Pokeball Turns.
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Our journey takes us to El Paso, Texas, where we are introduced to a self made artist and business owner who created art inspired by her hometown of El Paso and fused it with the world of Pokemon.
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In her opinion, art is a connection with the community and a personal escape from life.
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From drawing on walls when she was a young child, to creating her own Pokemon coloring book showcasing Pokemon around popular landmarks in El Paso, to even creating giant wall murals in local stores that would become Pokestops in Pokemon Go.
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In this episode, where art and the world of Pokemon collide, here is her origin story into the world of Pokemon.
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This is BE Art.
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Today.
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I'm joined by an artist who fuses Pokemon with her hometown of El Paso through her art.
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Blanca, welcome to the show.
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Hi.
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Thank you for having me.
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Definitely.
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And I'm happy to have you on the show.
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And before we dive into this interview, I do want to give you a big congratulations because I believe 2023 has been a big year for you because you've won the Best of El Paso Visual Artist, you were won on the front cover of El Paso Times, and you even got to meet Selena Quintanilla's sister.
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Yes.
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Oh my gosh.
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Yes You did your homework.
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I love it
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Well, and one of my questions I want to ask is like, I shared just those experiences and obviously it's not the entire book, right?
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It's just the highlights and probably not even all the highlights, but what does it mean to you to just experience all that and to win those awards and to be featured like that?
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i'm i'm really living a dream right now.
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I cannot believe how my life has changed.
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It just really brings me hope and happiness that it can continue for a long time.
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I love speaking to other artists that have been doing this for many years.
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I've only been doing it full time for a year and a half, but I did prepare before then I had been doing it before that, but it was part time I can't believe the growth I've had in, just over a year and a half.
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I am completely in love with what I'm doing right now and I hope it doesn't stop.
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You originally were a teacher for a couple years, right?
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And you were doing the art style on the side.
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so I was a math teacher.
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That's what throws people off, right?
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I wasn't actually teaching art.
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I was teaching math at a high school that is near the border.
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so it really was like teaching English too, because it's everybody's bilingual.
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I taught for six years.
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and I was doing that at the same time as, the art business.
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When you were a teacher, did you just feel like it wasn't the right fit?
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Like I know you probably enjoyed teaching, but did you feel like maybe you were called for something more like you're doing now?
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No.
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So I actually, I started drawing when I was four years old and it's always just been my go to.
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It's a normal thing I do every day, just like washing dishes.
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I compare it to a lot of kitchen stuff, but I hate cooking.
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So I, instead of cooking, I will go and make a painting and feel accomplished.
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So it's always been like a natural thing for me to paint and draw.
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And I tried several things.
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I tried being a tattoo artist, when I was younger, I tried, fashion designing, I tried airbrushing cars.
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I tried a lot of things.
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and I was always used to having a part time job on the side, and when I became a teacher, I actually was really good at it, but my business started growing more and more.
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I had to choose one or the other at one point.
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Were there doubts when you decided to make the jump from teaching to becoming a full time artist?
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Yes.
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So I was a really good math teacher.
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I became really good at connecting with my students.
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And I think that that became a problem for me.
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After 2020 is when I really started having issues.
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Like I used to love teaching, but after 2020 things changed a little bit.
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I just felt like it was a marathon.
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I felt like I wasn't getting anywhere.
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I feel like the system changed, the kids changed, and I felt a lot of pain after that of just not being able to help them as much anymore.
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So I felt like I wasn't making a difference.
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However, in the art community, I felt like I was making a big difference there where my art became more and more therapeutic for people and they needed that more.
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I do painting classes, so the painting classes became a way to relax and just, get away from it all.
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So I became a little bit of a comedian too and I would just entertain people through my painting classes.
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just a lot of activities that I started doing to get people to relax, and, get out of their routine.
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But yes, you know, it's terrifying to not have a fixed income.
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I had to learn a lot and learn a lot.
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I joke about this, but you have to learn a lot in the streets about taxes and all that stuff that they don't teach you in school.
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Also, my husband's very supportive.
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he's a framer at Michael's and he's always connect with people who were like getting frames done and they would talk about art and he always told them, well, you should follow my wife.
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So I think a lot of the opportunities, actually one of the opportunities I created three Walmart murals.
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That was a huge deal.
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That's the reason why I came out in the El Paso times too.
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the first one I was asked to design the Walmart mural and, that connection happened because of my husband, so I think it's just been us being very vocal about my art.
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And I really don't, I don't feel like I am the most skillful artists.
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I see a lot of artists out there that studied art.
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I studied math and I only took a few art classes.
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It is definitely, definitely something that was very scary but learning, you know, that it's part of the process, so definitely I was scared.
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Let's pivot to your experience with Pokemon real quick, we'll come back to the art.
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what was your first experience with Pokemon?
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My mom was really good about buying us whatever we wanted when we were little.
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I couldn't go out.
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I couldn't talk on the phone.
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She was very strict.
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But she would buy us what we wanted.
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And it was just me and my brother.
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And so he always wanted Pokemon cards.
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And so I would get Pokemon cards too.
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And we each had our binder with Pokemon cards.
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I was always interested in Pokemon and then when I grew older, you know, and we had our smartphones and Pokemon Go came out, I did play.
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and it's been one of those things where I feel like I'm getting addicted, so I remove it and then I put it back later.
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I'm being addicted again, so it's been on and off.
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But I loved watching the anime too.
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I recently I've been getting more and more into anime again.
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but yeah, Pokemon's always been a great part.
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And then later, right.
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I find out later when I'm in my twenties that these Pokemon carts we used to have were worth something.
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And I'm like, are you kidding?
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Those were collectibles! But yeah, I don't know what happened to my Pokémon cards, unfortunately.
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but, it's always been a huge part of my life.
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And then I have a little brother now, he's 14.
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And he's all into Pokemon, too, so I'm, it's fun to tell him like, Yeah, I used to play that, too, It's funny how kids, especially in schools, think that you don't know, you know, like, Look at this new game, it's, called Zelda, and you're like, yeah, I used to play it when I was young.
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Right, they didn't exist when you were young?
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Yes,
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When you were younger you said you collected the cards with your brother.
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Did y'all try to play the games that well, or is it just mostly card collecting that y'all did?
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it was mostly card collecting, to be honest.
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I was born in, Mexico, so we used to play other things like tassels and weird stuff, el trompo, stuff that very Mexican.
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so no, I don't remember playing the card game, I just remember it was fun to collect the cards, to look at them and trade them.
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Do you have a favorite Pokemon at all?
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I do change my answer all the time, but right now Psyduck really tickles me and so does Jigglypuff.
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That's because I've been watching the show again.
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I watched the show as I painted these Pokemon and those were my favorite to look at, but I always change my answer, I used to be a huge fan of Mew, and so I don't know, I don't know what to say.
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Psyduck right now,
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I don't know, I'll ask you at the end of the interview and see if it changes between now and then.
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Right?
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It probably will.
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So you play Pokemon Go.
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When did you first start playing that game?
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When it first came out because it's been a while.
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We go to UTEP a few times.
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UTEP is our university here and it's, like the center of it all.
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So it's really cool to watch everybody playing like zombies, and then you look up and you realize you're all there.
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so that, that was my favorite place to go, but I used to play it all over.
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I would drive all over town.
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it's funny how I used to be scared of driving and then I would drive there to the gym or whatever and then I realized like, oh, I guess I don't mind driving for this game, you know, but I know it's so bad though to say that so, so I stopped playing too because I was like, no, this is not right.
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So like would you try and drive and play Pokemon go a lot?
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Yes.
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It's okay.
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I used to do as well.
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You're not the only one here
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And then, you know how I used to, like, say, like, you're driving, you're going too fast, or whatever, and you get annoyed because you can't slow down at that point.
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And, I don't know, I think I finally realized, like, I need to stop doing this, so
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You've been listening to as the Pokeball turns.
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We're going to take a quick break.
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We'll be right back.
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So what is it like to play Pokemon go in El Paso and What's the culture like out there?
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I actually have found a group of Pokemon guys that they are really fun guys that I do the markets with.
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And so I see a lot of positivity, I see it as just like the anime community here, they're very positive and fun, very lighthearted.
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So I feel like I'm a kid again with them.
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I just love the vibe of, feeling like, like I'm not old or weird or anything like that.
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we're just enjoying ourselves and being kids again, really, that's the vibe of it.
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and when we go to UTEP, it's so nice because the university is huge and beautiful, and so you get to enjoy it.
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you're walking, the grass and you're just realizing, like, hey, we're all here, just really enjoying ourselves.
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So, I love the feeling of it, and the vibes.
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I'm very pleased with the way they run it here in El Paso.
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And also, the group's also pretty supportive of your art too, right?
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Oh my God.
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Yes.
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how I got connected with them.
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the art has been an amazing, amazing way to connect with.
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So many cool people.
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Speaking in regards to just your art, because some of your art has actually even become pokestops in Pokemon Go.
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Particularly the Three Pints mural, the Sun and Moon Nature mural, which is one of the Walmarts, became for people to play Pokemon Go.
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Yes.
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So I have to blame it on those guys.
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So Malachi and Steven are the guys that run the Pokemon El Paso and they have been following me.
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we're just really good friends now at this point, they're the ones that I got a lot of also ideas to complete.
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my goal is to make a loteria set out of this eventually.
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and so, basically, I've been running all the ideas through them, and so whenever I'll post a mural Next thing I know, they're sending me links to see it as a Pokéstop, and I'm just so happy to have them backing me up the whole way.
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and it's great to see like how because it's not I mean in a way It's also exposure for you through Pokemon go right because I think your name's mentioned in the mural with the description of the pokestop So more people get to get familiar like who is this artist who made this amazing mural when they read through it
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yeah, that makes me really happy, really, that, that they're such a cool place to look at my, my art.
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When it came to trying to design the mural Did it give you like freedom to like draw whatever you wanted or the, where the certain criteria you had to meet?
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they actually looked through my portfolio on social media and they found a style they really liked and I call it my desert queen style.
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So I actually don't post a lot of original art on my social media because I'm scared of it being used by someone else or claimed by someone else, as theirs.
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but anyway, they saw that style and they were like, Hey, we want you to make a mural with this style and they specifically mentioned what location had to be on the one, what landscape, what landmark and all of that stuff that the manager specifically of that Walmart wanted.
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they gave me freedom, but it had to be based on a piece I had already made, sort of, that style.
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okay.
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And then they just give you instructions like, Hey, we want this style.
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And then if you can draw it this way, and I guess you would go through a lot of approval and rough drafts and stuff like that.
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Actually, all three times I have had to work with Walmart, all three have been approved immediately.
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I'm really happy.
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no more second tries or third tries or whatever?
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Nope.
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And I'm really happy, too, because Everything I do, I'm self taught.
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Like I said, I started drawing when I was four.
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so it makes me really happy that I was able to create something so cool.
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Right.
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I just had to learn how to make the file larger.
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So I had to ask a lot of friends that are artists.
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Hey, how do you make this larger?
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And, you know, how do I send them a high resolution file and stuff like that, but I was so happy that I was able to create something beautiful on the iPad that became so big.
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I really am grateful for that.
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You know, it's interesting that you say that you're self taught because, you know, to not go through any classes, you're all self driven.
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Like, you have to continue to improve as an artist, especially, if you ever have dreams of making money with it, right?
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Oh my Yes.
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what was it about, just the fact of drawing that really made you want to stick with it?
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during 2020, right?
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Everybody's hiding.
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everybody is depressed.
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We're going through a lot.
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I realized that the art was so meaningful and so deep.
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I had already done a lot of portraits for people, but these were the most meaningful portraits I've ever done.
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it was a lot of people who passed away like grandparents that didn't get to meet their grandchildren, and I was having to put them together in an image to make their families happy.
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I realized the deepness of the art, how much it means to someone to be able to capture that moment to see it.
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so that kind of became my thing now.
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I try to do a lot of positivity in my images so that people can just, I want to be a light, basically, and, allow people to have fun and enjoy themselves.
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I actually did a lot of comic cons this year And if you look through my art, it was a lot of stupid stuff But just to make people laugh and make them You know, relax and just enjoy the moment.
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Yeah, because, you know, life can bring you down a lot, right?
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people look for like escapes, look for hope, For some people it's music, some people it's art.
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And I think it's really noble for you to see your art as a tool to be able to put a smile on somebody's face potentially or make their day brighter,
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Yes.
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Yes.
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I think I made that determination later in life that I wanted my art to be something to make other people happy.
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and I don't know, I'm excited that I'm being given all these opportunities to do so.
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Now one thing that you started doing is you started doing, you started creating your own Pokemon color books called Gotta Color Them All.
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Yes.
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And what's unique about this, and part of the reason what I love about your art style, it's not just Pokemon.
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Like, co people may think, like, hey, there's these coloring books, just draw the Pokemon like it is.
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You actually infuse a lot of inspiration, I guess, from El Paso included in the coloring books, right?
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Yes.
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let me tell you how it all started.
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so I was teaching at Bowie and there's this big, red, huge statue.
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It's an X, across the border in Juarez.
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And I remember asking a lot of my students like, Hey, what does it mean?
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And they would all tell me these horribly negative stories about it, like, Oh, I think it represents all the women that have gotten kidnapped over there or killed or, and I was like, what?
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and it just threw me off.
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So I started seeing it as a very negative symbol.
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By the way, I totally found out later that it has nothing to do with that.
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It's actually, like a letter, a symbol that's in the Aztec calendar and apparently there's quite a few of those statues throughout Mexico.
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But anyway, I didn't know that.
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So I went home and I had talked to my little brother about this at the time.
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He was like, 11 or 12.
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And he even said like, Hey, that X looks like there's a chunk missing on the corner, like if somebody bit it and I was like, you're right.
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So I went home and to try to change my mind about this X.
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I painted Snorlax chewing on it.
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And then they always have the fair, La Feria over there in Juarez.
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So I put The Ferris wheel.
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And I started throwing in some characters.
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whenever I'm painting.
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my computer is playing something.
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So I played all the Pokemon episodes of the very first season.
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And oh, my God, I couldn't stop after that.
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I got addicted.
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I was like, Okay, next, let's do the star.
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But let's do Pikachu lighting up the star.
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But we have a lot of lights in El Paso.
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It's called the Sun City so we have a lot of lights throughout the freeway.
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And so I started placing all the lights around him and just pretending like he lit it up and then I was like, okay, what's next?
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