Brushes and Pixels: Introduction to Digital Painting in Photoshop
A course by Patricio Betteo , Illustrator
Learn to create illustrations with a pictorial look
Looking to give your digital illustrations a more hand-painted look? Over more than two decades, illustrator Patricio Betteo has developed his own techniques and tricks that can help you do just that. His extensive career includes work in a wide variety of formats and mediums, including children's books, magazines, graphic novels, comics, and even art for video games.
In this online course, swap out the brushes for pixels and learn to use digital tools to mimic the look of conventional paintings.
What will you learn in this online course?
29 lessons & 15 downloads
- 99% positive reviews (1.2K)
- 15,565 students
- 29 lessons (5h 21m)
- 15 additional resources (12 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish
- Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch · Turkish
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
Recommended software for this course
Adobe PhotoshopWhat is this course's project?
Rather than completing a single project, learn to adapt the techniques from the course to your own images and graphic interests as you prepare multiple digital paintings.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
Drawing artists, painters, cartoonists, illustrators, and any type of graphic artist interested in exploring new pictorial techniques that they can incorporate into their work.
Requirements and materials
Basic notions of Photoshop are necessary. Some previous experience with painting, drawing, and illustration is also recommended and can help you get the most out of the artistic aspects of the course.
The only materials you need are a computer with Photoshop and a graphics tablet.
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Patricio Betteo
A course by Patricio Betteo
Patricio Betteo studied graphic design at the Faculty of Arts and Design at UNAM in Mexico. His illustrations have been featured in diverse magazines such as Expansión, Rolling Stone, and Nexos, and he has exhibited his art in Mexico City, Bucharest, Madrid, and Paris. He also publishes cartoons and comic strips in QUO, Switch, and Chilango.
He illustrated the graphic novel by Tony Sandoval titled Gris: A través de los otoños, which was published in Switzerland and Mexico. Some of his most notable projects include Never Ever After, Mirador, and the graphic novel Mundo Invisible (winner of the 2011 National Graphic Novel Competition by Editorial JUS). He has also illustrated nearly thirty children’s books for publishing companies like Fondo de Cultura Ecónómica, SM, Sexto Piso, Alfaguara, and Almadía.
His devotion to drawing has opened the doors to work in concept art for video games (Grimm, Dance Central) as well as audiovisual animation, where he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation for his background art in the show Love, Death + Robots on Netflix.
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U1
Hello!
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Who I am?
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Visual fuel
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How do I do it?
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U2
The basics
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Hello Photoshop
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The foundation blocks (I)
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The foundation blocks (II)
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A little inspiration
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U3
The brushes
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Round brushes
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Flat brushes
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Select and paint
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My brushes
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U4
The gray scale
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Coloring Vs. Paint
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A little theory
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The theme and the line
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General values
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Particular values
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Remembering the theory
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U5
The circle of colors
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The color circle
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Dialogues and rivalries
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Adjusting the range
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This is not the end
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Brushes and shapes to color
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U6
Advanced
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Composition layouts
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Color layouts
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Imaginary Landscape Illustration 1
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A landscape II
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Realism
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Copying a photo I
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Copying a Photo II
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FP
Final project
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Brushes & Pixels: Introduction to digital painting in Photoshop
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Adobe Photoshop
Excelente y creativo curso
El profe explica muy bien, super recomendado
Es lo que estaba buscando, poder crear imagenes impresionistas de forma digital sin usar filtros de una forma mas analogica y organica. Encantado con la pasion y la forma de enseñar del maestro, si quieres pulir tus habilidades con las brochas y lo conceptual, ESTE ES SIN DUDA UN BUEN INICIO!!!!
Absolutamente magistral, gran profesor pero sobre todo gran persona.
Espero hacer otro curso con el mismo.
Gracias
Amazing course full packed with info!