Illustrated Character Design and World Creation

Overview

“Characters aren't merely outer shells but have personalities and their own backstories. In this lesson, you’ll start to focus on one character and look at why they should exist, who they are and where they come from. After exploring your character theoretically, I'll show you various steps and techniques in developing an aesthetically pleasing original character. No matter what style or level of quality your character is in, this lesson will be highly valuable in shaping its form and function. You may be surprised how evolved your creation becomes!”

In this video lesson Nathan Jurevicius addresses the topic: About Your Character, 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 Your Character In this lesson we'll be focusing on characters. In the previous lesson you saw that I was writing down a whole bunch of ideas. now, what I've done is narrow down these ideas to six things. Let's go through them. Firstly, we have Australia. Australia came up many times when I was writing down notes, so it's very important to me to keep Australia in this mix of six things. Also koalas. Now, I love koalas and they happen to be related to Australia. So it makes sense to put both of these together. The third thing here is "strength". "Strength" was something that I wrote dow...”

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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