Brushes and Pixels: Introduction to Digital Painting in Photoshop
Brushes and shapes to color
A course by Patricio Betteo , Illustrator
About the video: Brushes and shapes to color
Overview
“Now let's see other systems to color a gray image.”
In this video lesson Patricio Betteo addresses the topic: Brushes and shapes to color, 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
“FORMS AND COLORIZING BRUSHES Pay close attention to this lesson, which is one of my favorite subjects, That is how to color a gray scale. We will do it through "layers" and by brushes, So do not miss it. My still life, when it was time to take out lights, I made extra lights, already postproduction. You will remember that I cloned it and the "layer" above, by putting Screen clarified it, or gave me a clear version of the same image, and then with Layer Mask I selected an area below and I painted it white, or the one over black, and that way I already had the two versions of the image living...”
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Course summary for: Brushes and Pixels: Introduction to Digital Painting in Photoshop
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Category
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Software
Adobe Photoshop -
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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