Brushes and Pixels: Introduction to Digital Painting in Photoshop
The foundation blocks (I)
A course by Patricio Betteo , Illustrator
About the video: The foundation blocks (I)
Overview
“We will do a pixel art exercise. We will practice keyboard shortcuts and rehearse a miniature painting.”
In this video lesson Patricio Betteo addresses the topic: The foundation blocks (I), which is part of the Domestika online course: Brushes and Pixels: Introduction to Digital Painting in Photoshop. Learn to create illustrations with a pictorial look.
Partial transcription of the video
“FOUNDATION BLOCKS FIRST PART Prepare to work in miniature, at microscopic levels. In this lesson we will use a small laboratory, so I say, where we are going to paint on a very small scale using pixels, We are going to try our "shortcuts" and work in grayscale. We will enter the world of miniature painting, Let's call it nanoart of microexpression. It is an exercise that I found very interesting. Some of you will like it, others will roll their eyes But believe me it has a lot of value. We will start by making a new canvas, we will make it very small, 25 by 25 pixels. That is the actual siz...”
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Course summary for: Brushes and Pixels: Introduction to Digital Painting in Photoshop
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Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration
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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