Designing and Illustrating Antagonistic Characters
What We Will Do in the Course
A course by Patricio Oliver , Designer, Illustrator and Teacher
About the video: What We Will Do in the Course
Overview
“Now we are going to see the complete map of this graphic visual adventure that will culminate with an image of our two antagonistic characters in pure action. Why is it important to handle these concepts? How can this knowledge help you for your future projects? ”
In this video lesson Patricio Oliver addresses the topic: What We Will Do in the Course, which is part of the Domestika online course: Designing and Illustrating Antagonistic Characters. Learn the creative process to create amazing characters with opposite qualities in a story.
Partial transcription of the video
“What will we do in the course? In this lesson, and already to announce to the unit, we will talk a little about what the course is and why we do this course and what tools it will offer. We will create two antagonistic characters, we will see their history, we will understand why they are antagonistic and we will study a little some historical cases about that. Based on that, we will create a table of sources and references or mood board. That table will be our strongest source of information from which we will nourish ourselves. We will move on to the visual representation of our character...”
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Course summary for: Designing and Illustrating Antagonistic Characters
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator -
Areas
Character Design, Comic, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration

Patricio Oliver
A course by Patricio Oliver
Patricio Oliver graduated in Graphic Design from the University of Buenos Aires, where he later taught Typography and Illustration. His style focuses on the synthetic and the dynamic to create organic geometry filled with color. He specializes in character design, comics, editorial illustration, and product design for character licensing.
He has worked for brands like Pony, Kid Robot, Cartoon Network, History Channel, and National Geographic Kids, among others. He also illustrates books and has published comics that focus on themes like gender and diversity, including superhero comics with a very personal approach.
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