Illustrated Characters Factory
Influences and inspirations
A course by Patricio Betteo , Illustrator
About the video: Influences and inspirations
Overview
“We are what we eat and we are also what we hear, feel and above all, what we see. The quality of our influences probably dictates our quality as artists. Now I tell you about what I liked and what I like. One evolves and tastes also evolve. ”
In this video lesson Patricio Betteo addresses the topic: Influences and inspirations, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Characters Factory. Strengthen your creative ability and design and illustrate characters.
Partial transcription of the video
“INFLUENCES AND INSPIRATIONS We are what we eat, as the saying goes, but I think we are also what we hear, what we feel, what we see. The quality of our influences, I'm sure, will determine our quality as artists. So, the better the influences, the better the artists. The things that most amazed me as a kid were Asterix, Garfield and, especially, Quino. Bill Watterson's Calvin & Hobbes. I'll talk about Quino. Here I have one of the many books I collected as a child. Quino, as an artist, not only a cartoonist, really struck me. I loved the narrative of his stories, but also his ability to...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Characters Factory
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Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration, Narrative, 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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