Brushes and Pixels: Introduction to Digital Painting in Photoshop
Color layouts
A course by Patricio Betteo , Illustrator
About the video: Color layouts
Overview
“Here we will learn to give miniature color.”
In this video lesson Patricio Betteo addresses the topic: Color layouts, 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
“COLOR LAYOUTS We will continue to use photographic references but to make color palettes. We will use references taken from movies. I don't know what movies. We'll see what Pinterest offers. So come with me, this is fun. Before entering color, I quickly show you how they looked some that I have finished reinterpreting. Remember that I didn't like this one. Then I made a small accent of light. A little trick that I see myself doing all the time is Release glaze of one color over another to generate an intermediate value. For example, this little spot here, I made that spot painting with this...”
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Course summary for: Brushes and Pixels: Introduction to Digital Painting in Photoshop
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Category
Illustration -
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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