Illustrated Character Design and World Creation

Overview

“In this lesson, I’ll show you my process in forming "idea seeds" that can grow from the mundane to the amazing. You'll be shown my method of travelling down rabbit holes and how to connect the dots without getting lost. I’ll be asking a lot of direct questions to you, delving deep into your likes/dislikes, the things you love and are passionate about. We'll look at personal backgrounds and how they can be applied to creating the seeds for original characters and worlds.”

In this video lesson Nathan Jurevicius addresses the topic: Connecting the Dots, 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

“Connecting the Dots In this lesson we'll be connecting the dots, you'll be able to go into my brain and see how it actually thinks. How I connect all the weird pieces, that I breathe in as inspiration and put them down into a cohesive form that makes an interesting world and an interesting set of characters. Let me show you how I connect the dots. I love the artist Brett Whiteley, he's an Australian artist and he's such an inspiration to me. I love his work so much that I even named my daughter after his daughter Arkie. One of the pieces of Brett Whiteley's work that I admire is his sculptu...”

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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