Illustrated Character Design and World Creation

You will begin this course discovering Nathan Jurevicius’ background, how his career evolved, and the influences and philosophies that shape his work.

Nathan discusses his ideas on creativity, looking at best practices in gathering diverse information and cohesively displaying it to form thought maps. Examine what makes a good idea and how to generate them. He will show you his personal approach to help sharpen your skills in character and world-building using theoretical and practical methods that will ultimately make you a better creator.

Nathan demonstrates his personal way of formulating characters and their worlds from idea seeds and provides practical exercises to help you generate your own engaging universe.

As the course progresses you will learn the steps to what makes a good character and how to envision the environment it lives in. Take your concepts to the next level following Nathan’s technical process from thumbnail sketches to finished artwork using various mediums.

Completing an image is not the final stage of a project. In the final unit, Nathan discusses how to look objectively at your work, determine what you could improve or have done differently, and how to go about applying the project to real-life applications. To finish the course, he will give you tips and advice on keeping your passion burning in your personal and professional life.