Introduction :

Hi! Welcome to this ‘Making Of', where I will try my best to explain the choices I made during the creation of ‘The Antagonist'.

Step 1 :

The goal for this picture was to create a piece called ‘The Antagonist', with a horror and science-fiction setting.  I already knew I wanted to create a female character with a huge and weird mask.

I started by doing fast sketches to explore new ideas (Fig01 - Fig04). At this stage, I usually listen to some good, inspiring music and just draw until my pages are filled.  Appropriate music really helps me to get in the mood of a drawing (it's hard to draw a twisted antagonist while listening to some pop rubbish!)  I also search for inspiration related to the subject in some of my many art books.  I can spend from 20 minutes to 3 or 4 hours sketching.  It really depends on my mood and the level of details I want for each sketch.