Illustrated Characters Factory
Forms factory
A course by Patricio Betteo , Illustrator
About the video: Forms factory
Overview
“We make a comparison of the basic forms with some of my drawings. And, after reviewing the possibilities of accidental ways to start a drawing, we focus on making a good collection to work later.”
In this video lesson Patricio Betteo addresses the topic: Forms factory, 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
“SHAPE FACTORY We've seen the materials we'll use to do your experiments and structures. But first I want to show you a sketchbook of mine. It's a way of showing you how I construct the image. This course won't only teach you to draw characters, it will teach you to think about shapes differently. To think about shape, we start with the first regular shapes, we won't use them, but it's to get started. Square, circle, triangle. They are especially regular forms, not very useful for our construction systems. They are foundational blocks of what we will do. Let's look at this notebook, from las...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Characters Factory
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Category
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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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