hi! i love ur aridante art so much!
do u have any fancasts/faceclaims for ari and dante?? i’ve been struggling to find the perfect ones for them
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Sorry for the late reply I’ve been thinking about this here and there and tbh I haven’t had any face or fancasts for them, especially when it comes to younger sources I 2021 because I don’t watch a lot of tv with casts of their age demographic
EARLIER FACECASTS/FANCASTS (2015-ISH)
Older version of the same qn
Ari: younger Gael Garica Bernal (ACTUALLY MEXICAN!!!!!), Brennan Mejia (Honduran)(older adult now), Luca Pasqualino (Italian [Sicilian] but he’s got the face), Rosario Dawson (who has since been cancelled for transphobia so I don’t want to associated with her).
Dante: Brandon Arreaga (Mexican, Caucasian) was a suggestion sent in before, and Noah Centineo (FORGIVE ME PLEASE) when he was in The Fosters (playing a Latino character, not much info on him back then) before he got annoying and I found out he was white. In some drawings I referenced Gina Rodriguez (before she started talking mad shit). I also looked to Filipino actors since the PH is sorta cousins with Mexico in some weird shared colonizer way.
Admittedly I haven’t given it much thought in recent years nor have I seen any faces that have stood out to me for these characters, plus I’m in southeast Asia so I don’t see many Latinos anywhere except mainstream TV
So I don’t think any of these people should actually be cast, but for the sake of visualization, bear with me (because they’re mostly if not all in their 20s so like just going for the look)(please imagine them YOUNGER because when I draw they are base refs I don’t actually think they look this way)
Ari: I don’t have any current face/fancasts though I do interpret Ari as possibly Indigenous or Afro-Latino, with skin darker than my own complexion (like Rosario or darker). I know Xolo Mariduena (Mexican, Cuban, Ecuadorian) is a contender but I personally feel he’s quite fair skinned and is more suitable for Dante’s complexion. Conor Husting (half mexican), and Herizen Guardiola (Cuban and Jamaican) (Actress but has the features), maybe for Ari’s sisters lol. Well they’re all kinda fair skinned except Herizen which is closer to what I imagine.
Dante: Brandon Perea (Filipino, Puerto Rican), young Benjamin Bratt (Quechuan, Peruvian), Johnathan Nieves (vaguely Latin, no actual info). Let the make up artists go heavy on freckles because that’s how I imagined it. Also glasses.
So given the limited availablity to resources where I can verify 1. Age, 2. Actually mexican / greater latino lineage 3. Exposure to media these are the face ~vibes~ I would go with when I would draw them in the future.
Above: Complexions that I imagine.
Shoutout to @latinxfancast for some of these face reccs!
I`m also open to suggestions so send them my way (preferably replies to this so its all in one place)