Illustrated Characters Factory
Digital Grays 1
A course by Patricio Betteo , Illustrator
About the video: Digital Grays 1
Overview
“We separate zones and delimit first areas with grays. After. using brushes and transparencies, we get lights.”
In this video lesson Patricio Betteo addresses the topic: Digital Grays 1, 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
“DIGITAL GRAYS In this lesson we're entering a very important phase. It's the most important when adding color. It doesn't include color, but all the tonal values that I'll do with different grays and we'll solve aspects of lights, shadows and volume before moving on to colorizing. So join me on Photoshop. I decided to put a list of shortcuts here. We've used some things like D and X, to do black and white, "default" and the exchange of colors, also to move white to the front. Copy, Paste, etcera. I'll leave it there. It will be included in the downloadable materials for the lesson. We'll do...”
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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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