Nice to meet you!

In a nutshell:
I’m a Brazilian illustrator and storyteller with a deep interest in emotion, creativity, and the power of making things by hand. My work blends expressive characters, introspective themes, and a touch of magic, often exploring how we relate to ourselves and the world around us. I believe that art can reconnect us to our feelings, to nature, to the present, and to what came before, and that through imagination, we can revolutionize and reshape the world we live in.

My purpose:
To reimagine and revolutionize inner and outer worlds, and nurture a more honest existence through art, presence, and reconnection with what came before and what can still flourish.
Creating becomes a form of care, of returning to ourselves and remembering what truly matters. Like a quiet, personal act of resistance against ever-accelerating production.

About Me

My name is Danielle. I’m a Brazilian artist, illustrator, character designer, and certified hypnotherapist from São Paulo, currently based in Spain.

My path has been anything but linear. I trained in virtual design, digital painting, character design, and animation, dreaming of working in the world of cartoons (Disney fangirl since 1989). Over the last 10+ years, I’ve illustrated award-winning children's books, comics, editorial pieces, and personal projects that blend emotion, playfulness, curiosity, and a hint of mischief. My clients have included publishers, brands, and creatives who love seeing their ideas come alive through my unique and heartfelt style: expressive, honest, and rooted in feeling.

2009

2016

2023

In parallel, my passion for healing and self-discovery led me to become a certified hypnotherapist (Grace Method). That journey deeply transformed how I see art. Today, I don’t separate creativity from healing.

Art is process, just like life itself. We are a bunch of “work in progress” moving through the world.

My work is born from a longing to touch the invisible, in myself and in others, with beauty, lightness, and honesty. I seek to create visual and symbolic spaces where emotions can breathe, stories can bloom, and new meanings can emerge.

When we're deeply present and involved in our creativity, we remember who we are beneath the noise.

A few years ago, after a long period of burnout and navigating mental health challenges, I was diagnosed as autistic. That moment cracked something open in me. It helped me understand my sensitivity, my intensity, and why I’ve always felt the world so vividly. It gave me language for what I had already been exploring through art.

Now, everything I create - whether it’s a children’s book, a comic strip, or a HypnoTarot session - is woven with that intention: to reimagine and revolutionize the way we relate to our inner and outer worlds.

I believe art can be both resistance and refuge. A way to interrupt the capitalist logic of mindless speed, of perfection, of production without meaning. Like what I call “fast art” and “fast content”. Don't even get me started on AI.

Instead, I make art as a return. To presence, to care, to ancestral ways of creating where making was sacred, slow, and connected to the land, to spirit, to community.

I draw inspiration from artists like Claire Keane, Loish, and Kei Acedera, but also from older visionaries like Frida Kahlo, Anita Malfatti, Helene Schjerfbeck, and Gerda Wegener. From animation and comics, of course, but also from nature, dreams, old crafts, sensations, neurodivergence, feminism, ancestrality, the idea of a better future, and the stories that live in the in-between.

Creating is also a form of listening: to ourselves, to each other, and to what wants to be born through us.

This is the world I’m slowly building. And you’re kindly invited.