Cristina is a Los Angeles-based live fashion illustrator and former architect.

Growing up, Cristina’s notebooks were always filled with fashion sketches, mostly pricesses in elaborate dresses wearing tiaras and high heel shoes! Believing a career in art was too risky, she chose architecture—a practical field that combined her love of both art and science.

During her career as an architect, Cristina began sketching fashion again and painting with watercolors in 2011 as a creative outlet, starting her part time illustration business in 2012. After practicing architecture for 15 years, she transitioned into a full-time career as a fashion illustrator in 2017, coming full circle to her love of art.

Since 2017, as a full-time fashion illustrator, she has created bespoke artwork at live events for luxury brands and celebrities, such as Chanel, Dior, Armani, Valentino, Ferragamo, Balenciaga, Jimmy Choo, Burberry, David Yurman, Bottega Veneta, Bulgari, Tiffany & Co, Lanvin, Louis Vuitton, Piaget, Michael Kors, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Selena Gomez and Derek Hough, among many others.

She has traveled for live sketching events from Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, to San Diego, Las Vegas, Palm Springs, San Francisco, Scottsdale, South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, Ojai and many other locations.

Her fashion illustration and portraits are available for luxury events in Los Angeles and worldwide for retail in-store activations, weddings, celebrity parties, fashion shows, beauty events, fashion & product launches, jewelry events, bridal showers, birthdays, baby showers, holiday parties, bat mitzvahs, special events, and corporate events.

Cristina's illustrations capture memories that reflect her clients' emotional connections to a moment in time in a distinctly personalized and tangible way. She creates bespoke artwork with watercolors, markers, pencils, gold leaf, and digitally on her iPad.

Her work has been featured on Hollywood Live, Yahoo! Entertainment, The Blast, Voyage LA, The Bare Minimum Magazine, and Feedspot Top 100 Fashion Illustration Blogs and Websites for Fashion Illustrators & Designers.

When she isn't sketching live at an event, Cristina is creating commissioned custom digital illustrations on her iPad in her Los Angeles studio in California.