Illustrated Characters Factory
The expressions
A course by Patricio Betteo , Illustrator
About the video: The expressions
Overview
“Inspired by the teachings of Scott McCloud, we intersect simple expressions with eyebrows and mouths to make a small (but inspiring) collection of faces.”
In this video lesson Patricio Betteo addresses the topic: The expressions, 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
“EXPRESSIONS In this unit, we'll look at expressions. As a reference and inspiration, I decided to use Scott McCloud with this book called "Making Comics". Scott McCloud is an excellent theorist and cartoonist. He classifies human faces or expressions in six basic expressions. Based on these six, he breaks each one down into different levels. Not only that, he also does combinations of them all, and makes a fascinating table, it's brilliant, but absolutely crazy. He even does combinations of three expressions to obtain a fourth. I won't go into detail about McCloud. I really recommend his bo...”
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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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