Designer Commentary 

“I wanted to design one of the female characters of our comic and I was eventually assigned the mother of the protagonist Lastrina Fring, who was previously nameless and addressed as just Mrs. Fring. From the start I envisioned her personality to be strong willed and independent, in contrast to how mothers are traditionally portrayed in the media, but she still loves her family and would do anything, even fight for them.

Her initial sketch came to be incredibly different from her final design. Originally, she had brown curly hair and tanned skin adorned with freckles, but in the end I changed her features so that she would be recognizable as Mía’s mother. I still kept her smirk, dimples, and messy bun as I thought those made Lastrina distinctly her.

As for her clothes I took inspiration from the outfits worn by seamstresses and normal Filipino Women during the comic’s era. Originally her color scheme was to be white, light blue, and orange with a headscarf however I was drawn to the other outfits where instead of the usual light colors had black designs instead. I decided to add black as an accent color with yellow being the predominant so that Lastrina had a specific color that would instantly make you think of her.

I also decided to add her yellow butterfly pin as the last memorable detail of her design. That is where her name came from, Lastrina Fring.”

-- Trisha Guno, Marketing Head