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sombrashibe.bsky.social
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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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

ayalasi.illustration@gmail.com
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
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Work sketches 🐦‍🔥🍂
#illustration #acrylic #fall #traditionalart
A colorful acrylic sketch of a peacock like bird An acrylic sketch of a ref leafy tree
September 13, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Brain fog
🌫🧠🌫

#illustration #acrylicpainting #shibainu #disabledartist #furry #cartoon
A drawing of a floating head of a cartoon shiba inu with a worried expression. The background is an abstract paint smear
September 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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On a longer maintenance day, Moonshadow contemplates borrowing from her mom's wardrobe.
An updated version of root mode armorless Moon. Moon is covered in synth fur but still feels vulnerable without armor. Mom Venus suggests clothes.
#transformers #tfoc #tfg1 #beastformers #transformersg1
An anthropomorphic robot dog wrapping their metal arms around their waist. They look bashful and bothered without armor. They also have blue afro textured hair A sketch of an anthropomorphic robot dog wearing a fishnet shirt and tank too and black shorts. They look happy
September 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Paint demo of a vejigante inspired creature.
#vejigante #illustration #painting #kidlitart #puertorico
A painting of a creature with big yellow eyes and a triangular nose and large teeth, resembling the Puerto Rican vejigante. On the right side of the image, a paper plate with various splotches of acrylic paint and a brush sit.
September 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM