Rochelle Sanchez

@rochellesanch.bsky.social

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Illustration & character design for nerdy, wordy, progressive storytellers. Probably either angry or excited about something. Commissions open!

Rochelle is an Asian woman with a round face and smiling eyes and thick rimmed glasses, hiding half her face behind a kindle that shows the cover of Flightless by Marie Parks on its screen
Text chain. Me: yes girl, you watch that show. I see you on my favorite Rollercoaster. Her: lol! Me: you look great. Her: capitalized LOL. Me: slay. Her: and now I'm cackling. I'm sure my roommate heard me.
A collage of several 2d digitally illusrated artwork pieces of human, male characters in a variety of poses.
Sketchbook pencil drawing of a crew of 5 pirate characters huddled together and grinning joyfully
The back and final page of the zine says anyway, that’s my update. Expect more nerding out, artwork sharing, and behind the scenes peeks into how the heck I’m gonna make a business out of this. Remember (and this is written in ironic, lovely calligraphy) zuck and his expensive algorithm dont’ promote deep content about honest self awareness. Sign up for my emails so I can remind you that you matter and it’s possible to do what you enjoy doing, despite all the bull shit in the world. Link’s in the usual place.
I can draw things like thiiiiiissss! A digitally illustrated portrait of a human ranger wearing a cloak, a bow and arrow, with a scar on his head, long black hair with a white streak, brown skin, and a five o clock shadow. The text continues: I’ve got that, holy shit did I just make that! Sparkle. Also, isn’t he pretty? He’s my character in my newest d n d campaign. Again, I promise I’l tell you about the real life d n d adventures in my next post. But like, I already had someone ask to get on my non existent waitlist for commissions, so I’m trying to trust my marketing brain that I might be onto something, you know?
My intention slash plan slash wish is to get back into content creation, writing, and art. I wanna take down my podcast and turn the good episodes into zines, instead. And I wanna make money off my artwork. I re-awakened my inner high school artist persona and now…
Continued text on zine: all while seeing a therapist or two or more. Did you know it’s really hard to find a therapist when you’re already depressed and then your insurance changes? It’s fo fun. I also worked with a psychiatrist on meds to help my brain get back to some version of what it was before my brother died, sprinkle in a lot of tears, journaling, forcing myself to exercise, and making new relationships to replace the ones that turned out to be, well, flaky. It’s rough out here, y’all. Zero out of ten.
This page of the zine has doodles of the various items listed: singing lessons, volunteering at the food bank, board games with strangers, actually, lots of meetups in general with strangers. Learning the pottery wheel (it’s not for me), roller skating classes, playing d n d. An asterisk by d n d with a footnote: omg! Of the many fun and helpful things I did this year, d n d has officially “this best selling novel changed my life moment” helped me. More on that another time!
The next page in the zine says hello! I’m “back” and trying to figure out how to jump back into writing and content creation without defaulting to old habits. Over the last 9 months in between the awful moments I intentionally gave myself space and opportunities to do things I’ve always wanted to do. Things like…
Page one is Rochelle’s fingers holding up a mini zine that says “hang in there, keep going, you’ve got this, okay, rochelle sanchez.”