Illustration of Dreamlike Female Characters
The Materials I Work With
A course by Valeria Hipocampo , Illustrator, muralist and tattoo artist
Joined March 2017
About the video: The Materials I Work With
Overview
“Now that we have already covered the most theoretical part, I will talk about the importance of choosing a technique that helps to transmit our message and the possibilities of some of the techniques that I work with.”
In this video lesson Valeria Hipocampo addresses the topic: The Materials I Work With, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration of Dreamlike Female Characters. Learn to use poetic imagery as a means of expression to depict the relationship between women and nature.
Partial transcription of the video
“Presentation of the materials I work with In this lesson I will tell you a little about the materials that I like to use. Although most of my illustrations I end up editing and detailing them by digital means, I like to integrate a couple of analog techniques such as graphite and colored pencils. The first technique and that seems to me the basis of all my work It's definitely the graphite. I like to use it mainly with mechanical pencils and pencils because it seems to me that they have a quality of detail and a level of detail is reached with them, that with graphite pencils it is sometime...”
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Course summary for: Illustration of Dreamlike Female Characters
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Procreate -
Areas
Artistic Drawing, Design, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration

Valeria Hipocampo
A course by Valeria Hipocampo
Valeria Hipocampo is an illustrator, muralist, tattoo artist, and art historian. She uses her work to express deep emotions through images of femininity and nature, examining the relationship between the untamed wild and human spirituality.
Her career as a female-focused illustrator took off following the publication of her book Sagradas, an illustrated anthology of female deities from around the world. During the creation process, she explored different archetypes of women and has continued to elaborate on them in other artistic projects, including her collaborations with major publishers like Kalem Kültür and Palíndroma.
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