Illustrated Characters Factory
Understanding the exaggerations
A course by Patricio Betteo , Illustrator
About the video: Understanding the exaggerations
Overview
“In the same way that distance games cause radical changes in our faces, changing relationships of size and length can also cause interesting bodies.”
In this video lesson Patricio Betteo addresses the topic: Understanding the exaggerations, 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
“UNDERSTANDING EXAGGERATIONS In this lesson we'll look at the world of exaggerations and distortions. We'll use pencil, marker, whatever you want to draw. My method does not always start with a floating head, but I think it's best to start with what we know won't change, which here is the head. Our bodies will be victims of exaggerations. We saw exaggerations in heads in the lesson of regular and irregular shapes. In some way, these are explorations of exaggerations of a circle. The ideal model body is rectangular, like the cut-outs. We can change height, the waistline can be at this height ...”
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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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