Brushes and Pixels: Introduction to Digital Painting in Photoshop
Copying a photo I
A course by Patricio Betteo , Illustrator
About the video: Copying a photo I
Overview
“Using a photographic reference, we will make a copy based on my pictorial system.”
In this video lesson Patricio Betteo addresses the topic: Copying a photo 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
“This is not just a lesson. It will be a demonstration and. well. also a summary of many things we have seen. A demonstration because I'm going to... create an exact duplicate of an image of a photo using Photoshop. which is somewhat an act of faith. So. wish me luck and let's see what happens. I believe many of you have been eagerly anticipating this moment. I didn't want it to arrive because it's the last lesson. Let's see. Copy a photo. It's basic. yet Here's why I chose this photo. I took it from my Little Fluffy Clouds folder. which I showed during the realism session. the one I present...”
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Course summary for: Brushes and Pixels: Introduction to Digital Painting in Photoshop
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Adobe 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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