Guided Course: Recreate realistic digital landscapes in Photoshop
Podcast: The Art of Copying: Imitation or Revelation?
A guided course by Patricio Betteo , Illustrator
About the video: Podcast: The Art of Copying: Imitation or Revelation?
Overview
“This episode vindicates copying as one of the oldest learnings in art. Far from being a lack of originality, copying trains the eye, reveals invisible structures, and opens the door to one's own style. From classical academies to digital painting, repeating images is an act of humility and deep observation that transforms repetition into discovery. Copying is not cloning: it's learning to see.”
In this video lesson Patricio Betteo addresses the topic: Podcast: The Art of Copying: Imitation or Revelation?, 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
“For centuries. european academies instructed students to replicate. not innovate or create. They emphasized copying as a core learning method. They gave them plaster sculptures. old engravings. classical paintings. and made them repeat over and It wasn't punishment. It was an entry into visual language. Copying wasn't seen as a lack of originality. but a way of seeing. Of perceiving what the trained eye discerns and what the naive eye overlooks. Welcome to another episode of the Domestika Podcast. Where we explore how copying an image works. It can be much more than a technical exercise. It...”
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Course summary for: Guided Course: Recreate realistic digital landscapes in Photoshop
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Adobe 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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