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Sombraluz Images Illustration
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Erika Ayala Art Teacher Illustrator of nostalgic critters 🐶🌈🎨 Spanish 🇵🇷/English Afro Boricua Open for work https://linktr.ee/ayalasi 🖤💚🩵🤍💛❤️🖤 Dynamically Disabled
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Sombraluz Images Illustration @sombrashibe.bsky.social · Jan 14
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 colorful illustrations: colorful 80s ponies, a dog with dragonfly wings and rainbow paint brush, brown skinned woman with afro hair smiling, a green sea dragon with seaweed and bubbles
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Sombraluz Images Illustration @sombrashibe.bsky.social · 5h
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
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Sombraluz Images Illustration @sombrashibe.bsky.social · 19h
Thank you so much 💓
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Sombraluz Images Illustration @sombrashibe.bsky.social · 1d
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
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Rai @raigero.bsky.social · 4d
My friends convinced me to make a GoFundMe. I've pretty much have gave up on everything besides keeping myself fed. So any donations is appreciated.

Commissions are being worked on using my hand, since my stylus gave out, so it will take time to finish.
gofund.me/1e8fd94be
Donate to Assist Raigero in Catching Up on Bills, organized by Dejanae Mackey
Hello I'm Raigero (Deja), On July 17th, I quitted my job due to inte… Dejanae Mackey needs your support for Assist Raigero in Catching Up on Bills
gofund.me
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Tati @shockofthequeen.bsky.social · 4d
🚨 URGENT!

Still stalled at $130/$400 and now smaller bills are pilling up. Only $270 needed to clear, something that definitely be met today with intentional care and funds.

P-pal @/shockofthequeen, pls send $ or share/boost if you cannot!

#mutualaid #mutualaidboost #rentmutualaid
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Sombraluz Images Illustration @sombrashibe.bsky.social · 4d
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
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Sombraluz Images Illustration @sombrashibe.bsky.social · 17d
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
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Sombraluz Images Illustration @sombrashibe.bsky.social · 21d
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
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Sombraluz Images Illustration @sombrashibe.bsky.social · 13d
Moon Jelly 🪼🌙
#illustration #jellyfish #seacreatures #ocean #scratchboard #rainbow
A scratchboard illustration of a moon jellyfish in rainbow lines
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Sombraluz Images Illustration @sombrashibe.bsky.social · 10d
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.
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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 4d
Gorgeous contemporary young adult books banned in some US schools and libraries…
Book cover: Legendborn Book cover: fat chance Charlie Vega Book cover: the henna wars Book cover: they called us enemy
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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 4d
Librarians, booksellers, & educators— when you talk about banned books, please focus on the thousands of CONTEMPORARY books that are being banned right now.

For example….
#BannedBooksWeek
Book cover: Sofia Valdez future prez Book cover: all boys aren’t blue Book cover: Pride puppy Book cover: last night at the telegraph club
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 5d
Really want to encourage libraries - especially school libraries - to put no-AI content into your collection development policy. At the very least, if you have a clause in there about requiring accurate information, you can use that to weed out or prevent genAI purchases.
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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5d
“When you get a suspicious book, “you look it up to see what else the [author] has written. And you see there's 30 things, and none of them have any reviews, and they were all written in the last two years,” DeMeester-Lane says.”
How Local Librarians Keep AI Slop Off the Shelves
AI is being used to create nonsensical, sometimes dangerously inaccurate books. Local librarians are tasked with keeping these volumes out of their collections.
www.governing.com
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Kayleigh | Developmental Editor ✍🏻📚 @editsinthemargins.com · 4d
I love this. I've seen another version where anytime you're told something that makes you feel good inside, or you have any kind of small win, you write that down to put in a jar so that on days when you don't believe in yourself you can pull out a little reminder. 💜
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Sheila Fowler @rockafowlers.bsky.social · 4d
Taking care of ourselves is essential. Try this enjoyable activity to get through difficult moments.
#selfcarematters #selfcaretips #selfcaretuesdays
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Child's Play USA @childsplayusa.bsky.social · 4d
"A beautiful book that speaks to young children about the experience of refugees and immigrants" alldonemonkey.com/2025/08/13/i...

KENDE! KENDE! KENDE! by Kirsten Cappy, Yaya Gentille, Rahana Dariah

Readalouds in 7 languages:
childsplaybooks.myshopify.com/products/978... @pubspotlight.bsky.social
Background shows colorful map of central Africa featured inside the book. Book cover shows girl and father laughing as he pushes her in a wheelbarrow in their home with blue sky, greenery and chickens on sandy ground.
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Lutea (commissions open) @nelumbo-lutea.bsky.social · 7d
Plush spider bag for sale.
Here: ebay.us/m/cQmUfihttp...

My general shop ; www.ebay.com/usr/mystic.j...

This is both a plushie and a functional bag. creepily Cute for fall / halloween / spooky season.
#luteacrochet #crochet #fiberarts #forsale #halloween #fall #spooky #spookyseason #spider
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♡⊹˚₊ cake ₊˚⊹♡ @lilcakelet.bsky.social · 11d
locked in

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🍠 #fursona #furryart
a meme drawover of cake floating underneath the text 'I lied. I was never locked in' and below the text 'My mind is constantly wandering. These thoughts are one hundred percent free-range.'
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Sombraluz Images Illustration @sombrashibe.bsky.social · 10d
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.
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Sombraluz Images Illustration @sombrashibe.bsky.social · 13d
Moon Jelly 🪼🌙
#illustration #jellyfish #seacreatures #ocean #scratchboard #rainbow
A scratchboard illustration of a moon jellyfish in rainbow lines
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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 15d
When I was growing up, my mom gave me a sewing box which I still use today, always reminds me of her. Included in the box was this small home-made pin cushion.

I took this photo during the pandemic while making masks because I liked the shadows. Added the shadow dragon today. #ShadowArt #Uplift
A group of sewing pins stuck into a fabric pincushion cast a shadow on paper that looks like flowers on a grassy hillside. Added digitally: a small shadow dragon, hovering nearby. Two bobbins with thread are also visible.
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PinkFeral @pinkferal.bsky.social · 14d
Doing some experimenting with lines to warm up back to WoW armour and races! I’m excited, will probably try some thicker lines. Featuring @danddandd.bsky.social ‘s belf
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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 14d
For writers looking for alternatives to NaNoWriMo, here's a list of alternatives (feel free to suggest others!):

vanillapapers.net/2025/04/01/n...

Includes @storyaday.bsky.social #ShutUpAndWrite #PathfindersWritingCollective #4TheWords #MyWriteClub #Autocrit
6 Best Alternatives To NaNoWriMo (An Ultimate List)
Beyond NaNoWriMo: Explore these incredible writing challenges to ignite your creativity, find community and achieve your literary goals.
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · Jul 26
Okay, guys, we need to spread out and look for our spoons.
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Void 💖 @vampnetta.bsky.social · 15d
theres a guinevere for everyone 💙✨️this one is inspired by my hair

#knightsofguinevere #kog #fanart
#blackartist
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Sombraluz Images Illustration @sombrashibe.bsky.social · 29d
Work sketches 🐦‍🔥🍂
#illustration #acrylic #fall #traditionalart
A colorful acrylic sketch of a peacock like bird An acrylic sketch of a ref leafy tree
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