Cris Bustamante is an Ecuador-based illustration artist whose work centres on the emotional and visual language of the feminine face. Working primarily in digital and mixed-media illustration, she creates portraits that feel intimate and self-aware, capturing women in moments of calm, tension, confidence, and reflection.
Her style blends softness with strength through fluid, expressive linework, layered textures, and carefully considered colour palettes. Subtle surreal elements, painterly shading, and bold makeup-like accents give her characters a quiet intensity, allowing each portrait to feel both personal and symbolic. The focus remains on expression, presence, and identity rather than narrative excess.
Cris approaches illustration as an intuitive process, using portraiture to explore individuality, emotion, and the evolving nature of feminine identity. Her work reflects an ongoing search for visual frequency, where feeling, form, and experimentation meet, resulting in illustrations that speak through gaze, gesture, and detail rather than words.
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Cris Bustamante is an Ecuador-based illustration artist whose work centres on the emotional and visual language of the feminine face. Working primarily in digital and mixed-media illustration, she creates portraits that feel intimate and self-aware, capturing women in moments of calm, tension, confidence, and reflection.
Her style blends softness with strength through fluid, expressive linework, layered textures, and carefully considered colour palettes. Subtle surreal elements, painterly shading, and bold makeup-like accents give her characters a quiet intensity, allowing each portrait to feel both personal and symbolic. The focus remains on expression, presence, and identity rather than narrative excess.
Cris approaches illustration as an intuitive process, using portraiture to explore individuality, emotion, and the evolving nature of feminine identity. Her work reflects an ongoing search for visual frequency, where feeling, form, and experimentation meet, resulting in illustrations that speak through gaze, gesture, and detail rather than words.
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