Brushes and Pixels: Introduction to Digital Painting in Photoshop
The foundation blocks (II)
A course by Patricio Betteo , Illustrator
About the video: The foundation blocks (II)
Overview
“We continue with the pixel art, now applying color as transparencies.”
In this video lesson Patricio Betteo addresses the topic: The foundation blocks (II), 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
“THE FOUNDATIONAL BLOCKS SECOND PART Ready to put color? Join me in this lesson that we are going to color a little and continue rehearsing with the subject of transparency and the numeric keypad, is it going? Before continuing with the exercise of the centaur that goes from gray to black, with white as an accent as a way to capture depth, let's see what happens when we work The world of exceptions. I made a new canvas of 25 by 25 pixels but now we are going to start from black and if we start from black and think that the total contrast will be the target, all intermediate values, we will w...”
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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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