Brushes and Pixels: Introduction to Digital Painting in Photoshop
A little theory
A course by Patricio Betteo , Illustrator
About the video: A little theory
Overview
“It is always useful to see some important notions of theory, here we will use black and white photographs as examples. ”
In this video lesson Patricio Betteo addresses the topic: A little theory, 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
“A LITTLE THEORY In this lesson I will talk about the tonal map and of two other principles that I use a lot in grayscale paint. So come with me. Let's see chiaroscuros theory, before going on to paint in chiaroscuro and start building images in a little more plastic and less pixelated ways. Ironically, I have pixels here, But don't be scared, we won't be back. Let's start with the tonal map, that's what I call it, which is how the gray values of an image are mapped. We are going to make a new file. I'm going to make a very long rectangle here and we go to the Gradient tool, which I want to ...”
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Course summary for: Brushes and Pixels: Introduction to Digital Painting in Photoshop
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Areas
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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