is a Chicago-based freelance illustrator who loves creating all things cute, colorful, and fun! Her work often celebrates animals and nature, comforting aesthetics, yummy foods, and queer joy.

Cardinal graduated in 2020 from Columbia College Chicago with an illustration BA and a fiction writing minor.

Some of Cardinal's interests include:

• dungeons & dragons
• video & board games
• animated tv & films
• sunny walks
• making coffee
• traveling with her mama
• propogating pothos
• trying new foods
• thinking about pokemon

Cardinal lives and works out of her apartment slash art studio in Roger's Park with her kitty companion, Paris.