Designing and Illustrating Antagonistic Characters

Documentation and mood board 1

A course by Patricio Oliver , Designer, Illustrator and Teacher

Designer, Illustrator and Teacher. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Joined September 2019
100% positive reviews (19)
336 students
Audio: Spanish
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About the video: Documentation and mood board 1

Overview

“It is time to build the aesthetic base with our references and sources to create a mood board or inspiration table. For that, we will take a tour of the influences that we saw, from there we will extract possible themes and we will put them on the board. ”

In this video lesson Patricio Oliver addresses the topic: Documentation and mood board 1, 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

“Documentation and Moodboard It is always important, when creating a project, the search for images both theoretically and visually. This is a mood board or board of sources and references and it will be the main focus of the last lesson of this unit. Something that I think is important to clarify is the difference between sources and references. The source is the documentation that we will use to collect certain information regarding a certain topic. For example, a stock photo can help us to see what the clothing of another decade looks like. If there is no film or photographic documentatio...”

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Course summary for: Designing and Illustrating Antagonistic Characters

  • Level: Beginner
  • 100% positive reviews (19)
  • 336 students
  • 4 units
  • 20 lessons (3h 50m)
  • 8 downloads
  • Category

    Illustration
  • Software

    Adobe Illustrator
  • Areas

    Character Design, Comic, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration

Patricio Oliver

Patricio Oliver
A course by Patricio Oliver

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Designer, Illustrator and Teacher

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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Designing and Illustrating Antagonistic Characters. Illustration course by Patricio Oliver

Designing and Illustrating Antagonistic Characters

A course by Patricio Oliver
Designer, Illustrator and Teacher. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Joined September 2019
  • 100% positive reviews (19)
  • 336 students