Camila Nogueira is a Portuguese digital artist, born and based in Porto. Trained in the visual arts, with a bachelor’s degree in Communication Design (Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto) and a master’s degree in Animation and Illustration, she decided in 2015 to devote herself to freelance illustration, drawing on a Wacom tablet. Her artistic universe blends real architecture with surrealist elements inspired by nature to create colorful worlds she would love to inhabit: landscapes, cities, and scenes bathed in golden light, with pastel hues accented by vivid pinks. Influenced by Franco-Belgian comics (Tintin, Asterix, Giraud/Moebius’s Blueberry), Japanese prints, 1990s cartoons, and the world of Studio Ghibli, she also draws inspiration from nature, trees, and animals. Through her artworks, Camila casts a dreamlike gaze upon life: while existence is a beautiful mystery punctuated by difficult moments, her visual narratives reveal its brighter side.

Over the years, she has developed commercial projects and collaborated with major international brands, while still making time for her personal artistic practice. Notably, she was invited by Sandeman to reinterpret the world of the Porto winehouse to complement a new, more modern and urban brand identity, and has also designed album covers. Her work has been featured in Creative Bloom.


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Veeland

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Where strangers become acquaintances, acquaintances become friends and friends become family.

This piece revolves around the "Clouds & Dirt" concept that  GaryVee talks about often. Balancing between being in the CLOUDS, having  the right mindset, having the vision, ideating, strategizing; and in  the DIRT, putting in the hours, the hard work, going the extra mile and  executing.

The DIRT is the starting point of every journey, where you’ll find  characters with traits like patience, self awareness, practicality,  fearfulness and resilience.

Midway you’ll go through the underwater kingdom and the dense jungle,  where you’ll have to be determined, creative, grateful, compassionate  and focused to overcome the challenges you’ll encounter.

And finally, you’ll reach the CLOUDS and a new galaxy, where you’ll  be able to chill once in a while, but still keep an ambitious mindset,  and, most importantly, be the bigger person in every setback you find  along the way.
And remember… Once you’re up there, you better be ready to come down and  do it all over again :)

Shifting between these two head spaces is something we need to learn over time.  Without execution, ideas are worth zero, and without ideas, you can work as hard as you can and not make any progress.

My goal with this piece was also to show that, if you embrace the  DIRT as being part of the process, it can be as beautiful and as amazing  as being in the CLOUDS. 

This said… VEELAND is waiting to be explored!  There are over 150 friends there, can you find them all?



Project developed in collab with VeeFriends, alongside "Clouds & Dirt" VF Series 2 scene swap from Burn Island Eruption 17.




Technique: digital painting
Software: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects & Blender

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illustration

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portrait

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01:51

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2024

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