Illustrated Characters Factory
A million possibilities
A course by Patricio Betteo, Illustrator
About the video: A million possibilities
Overview
“The paper clippings show us everything that is possible through the composition of figures. A million is no exaggeration! I make three straight cuts on an elongated piece of paper and rearrangement. The cuts should not necessarily be straight ... or just three. You will see how anatomies appear by magic. ”
In this video lesson Patricio Betteo addresses the topic: A million possibilities, 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
“We've already started experimenting with traditional methods like drawing. but now we're exploring approaches involving paper cuts. This activity was particularly enjoyable as it offered me fresh insights I'm going to do it with black paper. but you can use any color. We're going to work with a quarter of a sheet. And this quarter of the sheet. we're going to cut it in the middle And again in half. So. 16th. Essentially. it's fundamentally about elongated shapes similar to separators. like a bookmark. This is our original model Without making too many transformations. We're going to make a ...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Characters Factory
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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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