Illustrated Characters Factory
Height, waist and figure
A course by Patricio Betteo , Illustrator
About the video: Height, waist and figure
Overview
“The body can be divided into 16 pieces ... or more! Through this system, after defining the number of heads, we can separate the body into only 3 pieces. Long live simplicity!”
In this video lesson Patricio Betteo addresses the topic: Height, waist and figure, 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
“HEIGHT, WAISTLINE AND FIGURE In this lesson we'll look at the body. It's exciting. We'll use the work of a friend. We saw Scott McCloud in the lesson on expressions, now we'll start with Leonardo and his Vitruvian Man, which will give us lots of tips about how to organize body parts. In Leonardo's classical representation of the universal man there is lots to retrieve, but one of them is the number of heads a body has and where its main divisions are. We're doing imaginary characters, caricatures. Even still, I was happy to see that some of my own style and common sense was based on the uni...”
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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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