Illustrated Character Design and World Creation

Overview

“In this lesson, you’ll get some insights into my background and how my work has evolved over the past 25 years as a professional multidisciplinary artist. I’ll be showing you some of the highlights of my career and the way I’ve been able to jump between different mediums including toy design, animation, graphic novels, fine art, and games. I’ll also briefly talk about my most famous project, Scarygirl, and how this has expanded into a rich universe of original characters.”

In this video lesson Nathan Jurevicius addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Character Design and World Creation. Learn how to create original characters and envision the environment they inhabit.

Partial transcription of the video

“About Me Hi, my name is Nathan Jurevicius and I'm a multidisciplinary artist. You may ask what is that, well, I work in many, many fields, including illustration, filmmaking, kids books and graphic novels. I also work in games. I do many, many things. I especially work in characters and the worlds they live in. I come from a very artistic family, my father is a potter and a painter, my mother is a dressmaker and dabbles in watercolours, my brother is an illustrator and director. My sister is also very, very artistic. I essentially come from a family that dabbles in music, in all sorts of cr...”

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Course summary for: Illustrated Character Design and World Creation

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (176)
• 3447 students
• 4 units
• 25 lessons (5h 18m)
• 1 download

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Character Design, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration, Vector Illustration