Illustration of Dreamlike Female Characters
The Sketch
A course by Valeria Hipocampo , Illustrator, muralist and tattoo artist
Joined March 2017
About the video: The Sketch
Overview
“To develop the illustration we will start with a sketch, which will be the basis on which we will work and integrate the different elements. Here I show you how I do it! ”
In this video lesson Valeria Hipocampo addresses the topic: The Sketch, 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
“the sketch Now we have to start making the sketch integrating all our reference images. The first three I want to start with are these, what are they the ones that are going to be the protagonists of our entire scene, What are the woman's posture? the scene of the dunes and the desert in the background and the look and the gesture of his expression. So, we are going to integrate them all into a single image, starting from the simplest, and we will gradually polish the sketch until it's time to digitize it. The first thing, which is the center of the whole scene, It is the body and the whole...”
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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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