Illustrated Characters Factory
A pretty face
A course by Patricio Betteo , Illustrator
About the video: A pretty face
Overview
“Placing the features. Eyes, nose, mouth, ears ... as if we armed the Potato Face Gentlemen. Each his style, each his ways.”
In this video lesson Patricio Betteo addresses the topic: A pretty face, 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
“A NICE FACE In the last lessons we learned where to place our eyes, where to place our mouth, heights, extensions, but the big question is: how do I draw all of that? When I hear that question, my answer is: you've to draw it as you like. It requires exploring, searching and playing to discover how you like to draw. It comes back to the question of style. Style comes when we've practiced, tried out and tested all the options we like and gotten rid of what doesn't work. Try to draw in different ways. Explore other authors, look at the real world, let yourself make mistakes, compare yourself ...”
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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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