Temple Girls

My "Temple Girls" painting will finally be available soon for purchase!!! If you would be interested or you know someone who might be interested, please let me know or share this post and tell them to contact me!!! For an idea of how I price my artwork, you can refer to my Etsy store - https://www.etsy.com/shop/CheryldelosreyesCruz?ref=hdr_shop_menu

Workshop Sketch

From Friday's drawing workshop.

Libros del Pasaje

This was a fun little gouache sketch I did while hanging out with a friend in one of my favorite cafe/librerias, Libros del Pasaje.  

Jeffie

Inspired by a cat who used to live at my expense. Best cat ever. Sniff...

Playing with Digital Textures

What I miss most about painting digitally is the rich, textured look of oils. So I've tried for years to achieve that look in Photoshop and Painter with all the various brushes, filters and settings they have. Finally, I stumbled upon the brushes with the little drip icon on top of it (oil, pastel, airbrush, etc). It's not quite just like painting in oils yet. But with practice, hopefully, I may never miss oils again. 

Dolphin test sketches

My first color sketches for my current children's book project which is all about saving dolphins.  These were done, by the way, over a year ago (yes, it took that long to get the project rolling). Well worth the wait though. The story, when I read it, actually made me cry. Am very happy to be putting my skills to use for a good cause and a really good book!!

Sketch 25

Sketch 25 #Inktober #Tintubre, panel 6 Mouse Story. Mouse looks around but instead of abundance of nuts, fruit, worms, etc. he sees giant wheel of cheese surrounded by gourmet crackers across the street. (I left the store signs and labels unlinked because I want to fill them in, later, in Photoshop in both English and Spanish. Also, not quite sure yet what those signs will say.)  

Sketch 24

#Inktober #Tintubre Sketch 24, an older sketch newly inked because am short on time these days. 

Sketch 23

#Inktober #Tintubre

Sketch 22

Falling a little bit behind. Sketch no. 22 ‪#‎Inktober‬ ‪#‎Tintubre‬ Mouse asking bird neighbors if any of them has a nice bit of blue veined cheese or a well aged cheddar along with some seasoned crackers--maybe with a bit of rosemary or sea salt, for breakfast that they would like to trade. Cheddar? Sea salt? If he's hungry there's a colony of fat grubs nearby. And some worms just down there....(Text still in process.)

Sketch 21

#Inktober #Tintubre day 21. Love the brown tint but will never use clumpy, lumpy cheapo brown ball point pens again. #HarryPotter  #Hermione  #RonWeasley

Sketch 20

#Inktober #Tintubre

Sketch no. 19

Sketch no. 19. Another super simple one. She kinda looks like Velma from the Scooby cartoons but she's actually a girl I saw in $bux. ‪#‎Inktober‬ ‪#‎Tintubre‬

Sketch 18

#Inktober #Tintubre

Sketch 17

#Inktober #Tintubre

Mouse Is Still Hungry

Sketch no. 16. Mouse is still hungry #INKtober #TINTubre

More Inktober Sketches

Sketches 10 - 15 for #INKtober #TINTubre

Recently finished sketch

A squiggly sketchbook drawing I started ages ago of the cafe/libreria Libros del Pasaje and would work on from time to time. It's one of those drawings where I kept debating til the very end whether to cutify the characters or to keep them pretty much as I saw them.

Some of My Emoji Designs

More inktober sketches (no.'s 8 and 9)

 Mouse is hungry -

Inked sketchbook sketch -