Illustrated Characters Factory
The winning sketch
A course by Patricio Betteo , Illustrator
About the video: The winning sketch
Overview
“We have a face, a body, a handful of references, etc. It's time to combine them in a sketch (not beautiful ... but definitive).”
In this video lesson Patricio Betteo addresses the topic: The winning sketch, 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 WINNING SKETCH This lesson is called "The winning sketch". There's no winner yet, but we'll sketch first. Let's take a look at my crowd and I'll tell you which characters I chose. To start, I'll choose four. Since the start I've liked this long-faced character. He could be an old man, a kind of humped posture. This one has potential, it could be anything. The monk, we've mentioned him, I'll include him as a monk elf. We'll see. And a female character, I think I'll choose this one, this girl with a frill on her dress. We'll see what we do. On a new sheet, I'll copy them, reinterpret them...”
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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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