Illustrated Characters Factory
The three rings
A course by Patricio Betteo , Illustrator
About the video: The three rings
Overview
“A potato and three leagues help us exemplify issues of volume and axes in our first heads. We place important indications of eyes and mouths, in addition to recognizing all distance games that give personality to these primitive faces.”
In this video lesson Patricio Betteo addresses the topic: The three rings, 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
“THE THREE RINGS This lesson is called "The three rings". To introduce you to the world of dividing shapes we'll enter the third dimension. We'll use a potato, and as dividers, we'll use three elastic bands because they are rings. The first division we'll do in our shapes is the vertical division, the axis that divides our head in two, the axis that divides us symmetrically. Half the face, the axis that divides our anatomy in two, it's always half. Horizontally we have two more axes. I'll put them at random. It's part of the exercise and game. Two axes that define the area of the eyes and mo...”
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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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