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Sombraluz Images Illustration
@sombrashibe.bsky.social
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Erika Ayala
She/They
💛🤍💜🖤
🖤🩶🤍💜
Art Teacher
Illustrator of nostalgic critters 🐶🌈🎨
Disabled Artist
Spanish 🇵🇷/English
Afro Boricua
Open for work
https://linktr.ee/ayalasi
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A pastel illustration of a red fox curled up asleep under a tree in the fall.
December 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Post your blue art! 💙🩵
Wish Bear sitting on a cloud waving to the audience. Wish Bear is a teal blue care bear with a yellow shooting star symbol on her tummy A watercolor illustration of a black cat sitting in front of an abstract blue background
December 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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If you see this, post something monochromatic
#illustration #furryart #cartoons
A black and white digital illustration of a leafless tree Flaafy sharing a flower with Butterfree in a field. (Pokemon) Nicole the Hololynx from Sonic the Hedgehog in a digital plane. She has a surprised expression A unicorn with afro textured hair with a sad tearful expression
December 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Transformers sketches of varying quality. Alternatively, trying to figure out blocky bots as an animal artist.
#Transformers #tfoc #80scartoons #blaster #megatron
A pencil sketch of Megatron's face from the 80s transformers cartoon Studies of Transformers blocky anatomy and Blaster and Moonshadow size comparison Sketch of Moonshadow in Pretender mode resting her paws on top of Blaster in alt mode. He's a boombox and she's a white German Shepherd dog
November 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Collage self portrait demos inspired by Christian Robinson's art
#kidlitart #collage #illustration #edusky #artteacher #artstudy
Collage of a little girl with her hair in braids with colorful bows on the ends. She is jumping rope smiling. Collage of a person holding a heart on a background that is an orange star. They're wearing a tie dye shirt and their hair is in a short afro
November 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Quote with your art with horns!
A sepia colored coffee and ink illustration of a wolf like dragon with a black mane and one horn on its forehead.
November 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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See bunny?
Sea Bunny! 🐌🪸
Colored pencil doodle
#kidlitart #illustration #art #coloredpencil #seacreatures
Color pencil sketch of a yellow sea hare on a pink coral or rock Yellow sea hare photo by Mona Sienhart
November 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Opalized ammonite study
Brown construction paper and chalk pastels. It was fun starting from a different paper color. Fun demo! 🐚🦑

#illustration #pastel #paleoart #ammonite #fossils #rainbow #art 🎨
A cutout illustration of a rainbow iridescencent ammonite fossil next to chalk pastels on a white table A photograph of an iridescencent ammonite fossil on a white furry background. Photo credit: Hiroaki Imai
November 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Now a speed paint with my favorite song from Rainbow Brite 🌈 ⭐️
#rainbow #rainbowbrite #commissions #illustration #80scartoons
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Study made at work
#artteacher #illustration
An istock photo of a blue balloon animal (dog) An drawing of a blue balloon animal dog made with acrylic markers. Acrylic markers sit to the left of the image
November 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Brain fog
Brain frogs
#migraine #disabledartist #watercolor #illustration
An abstract watercolor with clouds and drips in red, yellow, and blue. On the left are cartoon dog heads with silly expressions. On the right words written say: Brain fog, Brain frogs, Bork Bark
October 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Acrylic work sketch 🌈🐈‍⬛️
#sketch #acrylic #illustration #animalart #rainbow
A rainbow acrylic sketch of a dark blue cat with green and yellow spots.
October 22, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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A ko-fi commission for @sdfstudios.bsky.social

I had so much fun drawing them as Rainbow Brite! RB is one of my favorite 80s toons!
💖💜💙🌈 💛🤍💜🖤
#80scartoons #rainbowbrite #commissions #illustration
A colorful rainbow illustration of a brown skinned person dressed as Rainbow Brite. Their sleeves have the non binary flag colors and boots have the bisexual flag colors. A lavender color sprite floats on a cloud above them
October 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Self Portrait after Basquiat
(Demo for work)
#illustration #artteacher #artclass #abstractart #artstudy
An abstract colorful self portrait in the style of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Brown skinned person with a stitch mouth and orange crown and dog ears. Red letters read Fun + ¿Games?
October 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Vejigante dragons 🐉🌈🇵🇷
#Vejigante #illustration #puertorico #art
A rainbow scratchboard illustration of 2 dragons that have features of Puerto Rican vejigantes
October 16, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Today's work sketch 🐸☀️🇵🇷
#Taino #illustration #puertorico #art #kidlitart
Taino petroglyphs of a bird, coqui, and sun on a pastel background of warm colors
October 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Happy #PortfolioDay

I'm Erika, an Illustrator specializing in fantasy creatures and cartoons!
I'm available for work in #illustration and #kidlitart
Portfolio:
cara.app/ayalasi

Links and contact:
linktr.ee/ayalasi

[email protected]
A collage of different illustrations, including dragons, foxes, owls, and prehistoric creatures.
October 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Taíno inspired art ☀️🐸
#IndigenousPeoplesDay
#illustration
An illustration with Taino petroglyphs of a bird, the sun, and water. An illustration with Taino petroglyphs of the sun, water, coqui frog, and carey (sea turtle) A relief print of Taino petroglyphs of the sun, coqui, and water A relief print of a Taino petroglyph of the sun
October 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Behold the carousel pizza pony 🎠 🍕
Fun at the New Haven Chalk Art Festival
#chalkart #kidlitart #newhavenchalkartfestival #connecticut
A chalk drawing of a colorful carousel horse eating a slice of pizza. A lighthouse and fireworks are in the background A selfie: I am a brown skinned person with dark red glasses wearing a black shirt with skeletons on it. Behind me is a wip of chalk art of a carousel horse eating pizza
October 12, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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A colorful demo for class
👻🍂🐈‍⬛
#illustration #artclass #artteacher #pastels #silhouette #shadow #rainbow
A pastel illustration of a colorful sunset with black silhouettes of a leafless tree, a cat, ghosts, grass, and birds
October 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Class demo prints inspired by Jorge Soto Sánchez ☀️🐸🇵🇷
#edusky #kidlitart #artteacher #illustration #puertorico #taino
A print with Taino petroglyphs of sun, coqui, and water. It has green and blue streaks A print of a Taino petroglyph of the sun in red, orange, and teal
October 8, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Wishing you a foxy fall 🦊🍂🍄
#kofitheme #illustration #kidlitart #animalart #fox #autumn #fall
Alt text: a chalk pastel drawing of a sleeping red fox. A red mushroom to its right and red and yellow leaves to its left.
October 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Moon Jelly 🪼🌙
#illustration #jellyfish #seacreatures #ocean #scratchboard #rainbow
A scratchboard illustration of a moon jellyfish in rainbow lines
September 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Class demo for Op Art (inspired by Bridget Riley)
One of the things I love about teaching is being able to make art with my students 🎨💜
#illustration #artteacher #edusky #artclass #bridgetriley
An optical illusion art piece with wavy lines and complementary colors and a black star in its center A black and white optical illusion art piece with a hand and 2 orbs. The hand has wavy lines and the rest of the piece has straight horizontal lines
September 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Work sketches 🇵🇷🐸
#puertorico #taino #illustration #carey #coqui #nature
Pastel and ink illustration using Taino petroglyphs of the sun, a bird, water, and coqui Acrylic illustration of Taino petroglyphs of the sun, coqui, sea turtle, and water
September 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM