Illustrated Characters Factory
The magnificent list
A course by Patricio Betteo , Illustrator
About the video: The magnificent list
Overview
“I reveal an instruction sheet to inspire, test, fly the imagination. Let's enjoy combining concepts and adapting them to our best drawings!”
In this video lesson Patricio Betteo addresses the topic: The magnificent list, 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 MAGNIFICENT LIST For this lesson, I've prepared a very important document which will help you for your final project. It's... the Magnificent List. This document is very important because it has a series of concepts. It will be very useful if you have a block or if you want to play a game of senseless connections. I have fun making random combinations and finding characters that I'd never have come up with. For example, Asian lumberjacks. Or, what about drawing hippy mummies? If we follow the rules exactly, we've to choose a number, so, the 2, 3, 4, 5, they are the numbers suggested for...”
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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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