Illustrated Character Design and World Creation

Overview

“To improve your creativity and skills, it’s vital to regularly check in on your progress. Often this is done with peers in group environments but in this lesson I’ll offer some suggestions in self-analyzing your own project and how this can become a valuable tool in being a better creator. I’ll discuss my final illustrated piece and overall thoughts behind it, demonstrating what it means to be an inner critic.”

In this video lesson Nathan Jurevicius addresses the topic: Post-Mortem Analysis , 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

“Post Mortem Analysis Okay, we've finished the work, but now we get to analyse it. And it's very important every time you finish a project to do bit of a post mortem. And, in doing so, you get to look at how you created the good bits of it and the bits that you would like to improve. Now, a lot of times you've been working by yourself, you've been doing this project and you're in the project and it's hard to get a perspective, so, in this lesson, we get to learn how to be a good self-critic. Here there are a few steps in analysing your own work. Step one is stepping back. When you finished a...”

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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