Illustrated Characters Factory
The crowd
A course by Patricio Betteo , Illustrator
About the video: The crowd
Overview
“Creating a good amount of options allows us to find those characters with potential to move on to the next stage. We will invite our favorite characters from the previous exercises to draw them on paper and get varied results.”
In this video lesson Patricio Betteo addresses the topic: The crowd, 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
“THE CROWD We've gathered a lot of information during the past lessons and I hope you've made a lot of discoveries. Now, you'll combine all of that in one image or in a group of images, which I'll call "the crowd", which is where we'll do a selection of the best ones for our line-up. Whatever will work for the concept you want to portray in your final line-up as we've to choose what type of characters and personalities. We'll see that in the next lesson. Now join me in the notebook to see what I've done. Here I have a collection of characters which I found interesting during the previous dra...”
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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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