Illustrated Character Design and World Creation

Ideas

A course by Nathan Jurevicius , Character Designer

98% positive reviews (176)

3,447 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Ideas

Overview

“Generating ideas can be difficult, let alone good ones! In this lesson, I’ll discuss where ideas come from in creating characters and worlds. ”

In this video lesson Nathan Jurevicius addresses the topic: Ideas, 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

“Ideas In this lesson we'll be talking about ideas, but before we do so, let's get our heads into a great space for creating characters and environments by doing an automatic drawing exercise. Paper, please. Before we begin, I want to explain what automatic drawing is. For me, automatic drawing is about letting the subconscious come out. It's about not having any judgement or any necessarily extreme skill at drawing, it's about just expressing yourself through random images. Often we will do this when we're on the phone, we'll have some paper next to us and we'll be talking to someone and su...”

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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

Nathan Jurevicius

A course by Nathan Jurevicius

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Character Designer

Nathan Jurevicius is an illustrator, director, toy designer, author, and concept artist. His work has appeared in numerous publications, advertising campaigns, and galleries around the world. Born in Australia and currently living in Toronto, Nathan was gently coerced into a life of painting, drawing, and crafts from an early age.

Nathan specializes in creating immersive worlds inhabited by unique characters. His most acclaimed concept to date is Scarygirl, an ever-evolving world of characters manifested through graphic novels, limited edition figures, video games, and a feature film currently in production.

Nathan’s recent projects include his animated short film and book JUNCTION, the Australian Academy Award-winning PELEDA series based on Lithuanian mythology, and a glass sculpture collaboration with IKEA.