Designing and Illustrating Antagonistic Characters
Context and story of the characters
A course by Patricio Oliver , Designer, Illustrator and Teacher
About the video: Context and story of the characters
Overview
“The monomyth will be our starting point to put together the story of our characters. We will contrast their experiences, we will see how their paths feed back and we will select some concepts from existing fictions. ”
In this video lesson Patricio Oliver addresses the topic: Context and story of the characters, 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
“Context and story of the characters The next step in bringing the characters to life is to think about its history. To do this, we will take a model which is historically known as a benchmark. We have already defined that the characters will be antagonistic and the reasons why that is significant. We are going to focus on the context where this antagonism takes place and we will develop the structure of your story. For this, we will take a well-known model popularized by Professor of Literature Joseph Campbell in his book "The hero of a thousand faces" published in 1949. We will not delve i...”
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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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