Illustrated Characters Factory
Five great tips that you already knew and didn't know
A course by Patricio Betteo, Illustrator
About the video: Five great tips that you already knew and didn't know
Overview
“A review of concepts that we have already seen, but we had not named them. Types of contrasts, the very important reinterpretation, the power of the silhouettes ... and more!”
In this video lesson Patricio Betteo addresses the topic: Five great tips that you already knew and didn't know, 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
“In this lesson. we'll delve into five tips. beginning with the first: Repeat is Interpret. To demonstrate this foundational idea. we will explore examples. For this initial tip on repetition. i started with a spontaneous head design. essentially a triangle with three rings. axes. height. and waist. This concept evolved into a full character. I no longer needed to to create the guide because I copied it. placing one next to the other and duplicating it. It's an approximate idea; you'll notice I simulated the feet. and the face is just an approximation. From here. When I revisit. whether to t...”
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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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