Illustrated Character Design and World Creation

Learn how to create original characters and envision the environment they inhabit

• Introduction
• Setting the Foundation
• Building a World
• It's Alive!
• Final project

There's creativity within you and within everybody. But even though a creative mind may have all the tools it needs to conceive something great, creative blocks are real, and escaping them requires work. In this course, illustrator and character designer Nathan Jurevicius will shake up your creative juices by sharing his personal approach to creating unique and meaningful illustrated characters and how to envision the worlds they inhabit.

Discover the basics on getting inspired and learn a special way of developing characters that have a rich backstory. Through the exercises he proposes, not only will you become a better draftsman and illustrator, but also a more resourceful creative.

• About Me
• Influences
• What This Course Is About
• Materials and Tools
• Ideas
• Connecting the Dots
• About Your Character
• World Building
• Refining the Concepts
• Refining the Concepts - Annex
• Time for Illustrator: Preparation
• Time for Illustrator: Shapes and More Shapes
• Time for Illustrator: Shapes and More Shapes - Annex
• Time for Illustrator: Deconstruct
• Time for Illustrator: Deconstruct - Annex
• Time for Photoshop: Reconstruct
• Time for Photoshop: Reconstruct - Annex
• Time for Photoshop: Light and Shadow
• Time for Photoshop: Light and Shadow - Annex
• Time for Photoshop: Colour and Finesse
• Time for Photoshop: Colour and Finesse - Annex
• Time for Photoshop: Character and Worlds Unite
• Post-Mortem Analysis
• Applications
• Final Tips
• Illustrated Character Design and World Creation