heygiudi

About

Illustrator, designer, and anthropologist, she has built a prominent digital presence with over 214,000 followers by sharing her whimsical, soothing, and relaxing art style that aims to bring calm to those who look at it. Beyond her finished posters and sketches, she is incredibly well-known in the digital art community for designing and selling custom Procreate digital brush sets, such as her signature "Cool pencil".

Before fame

Her presence in the online digital brush market hit a major developmental stride when she began actively rolling out custom brush sets like her "Me time set" and "Velvet Oils & pencils". Her long-term dedication to posting step-by-step reels has allowed her platform to steadily grow into a massive, interactive international art hub.

Trivia

Her unique academic background in anthropology deeply influences the human elements, emotions, and storytelling captured in her illustrations. When creating her digital drawings, she admits that she often wishes she could be as completely calm and magical as the fictional girls she depicts in her sketches. She has a strong preference for adding organic, earthy visual elements to her drawings, such as imagining tiny olive leaves growing straight from a subject's hands or gentle rain clouds floating overhead. Additionally, she maintains a fun, lighthearted relationship with her followers, once leaving a playful comment on her own feed joking about being a "girl with a moustache currently" while wishing her community sweet dreams.

Family life

She is based in Italy.

Associated with

She is a big fan of Mitski.