Illustrated Characters Factory
The references
A course by Patricio Betteo , Illustrator
About the video: The references
Overview
“The best way to make a compelling drawing is to keep track of the details that make it recognizable. We see a fast and efficient way to register references. I will show you the references on which I will rely to generate my chosen characters. ”
In this video lesson Patricio Betteo addresses the topic: The references, 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
“REFERENCES It's time to show you how I look for references and how I record them. Join me on the iPad and notebook. I use Google and I did a search for elves. An illustrator's best friend is Google Images. I prefer it to Pinterest because Pinterest gives beautiful results, they distract me too much, with very marked styles. Google Images gives me a jumble. For example, here, what I can see is enough to start to explore a concept I'm not very familiar with. I like to do a supermarket list. I'm not interested in copying drawings or photos, I want to jot down the most symbolic and representati...”
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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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