Tokebi

You found the About page… congrats, skull traveler!
What are you even doing here? Creeping? Don’t worry, I love creeps — welcome to TOKEBI’s cyber-apothecary.

My name’s Bernal Aguilar, but most people in the art underworld know me as TOKEBI — illustrator, skull summoner, and occasional caffeine-fueled night goblin. I’m originally from Guatemala, though my skull adventures have taken me around the world, including a long stay in Seoul, Korea, where I first started selling neon skull art on the streets and designing posters for local bands.

In 2019, life got really weird (in the best way) when the Grammy-winning metal band Mastodon handpicked me to create art for their European tour. Since then, I’ve kept exploring the blend of retro psychedelia, sci-fi, and cyberpunk, weaving folklore and spirituality into stories of alien skulls traveling through time and space.

Today, I run TOKEBI, LLC with my wife Silvia and dog Nuna. Together, we create wearable skull art with everything produced in the U.S. and shipped across the galaxy.

Our theme? Think of us as a cosmic marketplace for skull travelers: potions brewed from extinct civilizations, cyberpunk talismans, mystical charms, and vintage psychedelia — all wrapped up in designs that feel like 60s sci-fi colliding with ancient myth.

Every skull tells a story. Every piece you grab is a little artifact from this universe.
So thanks for being here, for supporting independent artists, and for helping keep the skull fires burning.

If you’re here for the “serious” bio: TOKEBI is considered a leading figure in the Guatemalan lowbrow art movement,  and part of the contemporary Memento Mori movement, reminding us all that life is fleeting — so live it with intensity, love, and weirdness.