This illustration was my Second final pencil illustration. The drink from starbucks i choose was “iced cascara coconut milk latte” She is a coconut sitting on an island and an iceberg is in the background for a cold feel. she sits there holding a cascara. The term “cascara” comes from the dried fruit, or husks, of coffee cherries that are used to make the beverage. The word means “peel,” “husk” or “skin,” and this is the part of the cherry that’s used for the beverage. The husks themselves are like dried fruit that would be used in herbal teas, but they’re a little bigger and more leathery than most dried fruit that’s put in tea.

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