Illustration of Dreamlike Female Characters
Working with References, Making a Mood Board
A course by Valeria Hipocampo , Illustrator, muralist and tattoo artist
Joined March 2017
About the video: Working with References, Making a Mood Board
Overview
“To start, I would like to talk about the importance of having good visual references and how to use them in the construction of the illustration.”
In this video lesson Valeria Hipocampo addresses the topic: Working with References, Making a Mood Board, 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
“Work with references, make a mood board When we start with an illustration, usually, although the story and the scene they occur to us in our head and we can see them clearly, almost always we will have to resort to visual references if we want anatomical precision, of space in the illustration that we want to project. I like to investigate visual references, beyond the precision of what I want to project and sink a lot into the gesture, what does it help to make a scene in detail, although not necessarily have the elements that I am looking to project. For example, in this case I want to w...”
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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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