Guided Course: Recreate realistic digital landscapes in Photoshop
A little theory
A guided 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: Guided Course: Recreate realistic digital landscapes in Photoshop. Learn digital painting in Photoshop, working from grayscale to realistic landscapes with advanced techniques..
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson. i'll discuss the concept of the tonal map. and two other principles I frequently apply in painting: grayscale and tonal mapping. So. join me in We'll explore the theory of... Chiaroscuro before we start painting in chiaroscuro and As we start creating images in a somewhat more fluid and less pixelated style. remember that while I use pixels to explain concepts here. we won't revert to them. We'll initiate this process by discussing what I refer to as the tonal map. which details how grayscale values are represented within an image. Let's create a new file. I'll create a long...”
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Course summary for: Guided Course: Recreate realistic digital landscapes in Photoshop
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Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration

Patricio Betteo
A guided 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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