Illustrated Characters Factory
Preparation
A course by Patricio Betteo , Illustrator
About the video: Preparation
Overview
“We clean and prepare our original scan. And we are ready to start applying color.”
In this video lesson Patricio Betteo addresses the topic: Preparation, 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
“PREPARATION This lesson is called "Preparation". We'll take our scanned original and open it in Photoshop. We'll clean it quickly and set the characters up on different layers. Join me. Here we have our original. It's a scan. I scanned it at 600 DPI. Look at the head. I'm a true professional. We'll work on this file. We won't create a new file. Let's start. I'll try to use Photoshop in a user-friendly way without overusing shortcuts or complicated tools for any beginners. But either way, you'll have to pull your socks up, as they say. We'll rotate the image so that it's straight. I'll use a...”
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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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