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Article Title - Inspiration workshop : The Genesis of Scary Girl
Featured magazine - Computer Arts
Artist - Nathan Jurevicius

Ink + Acrylic - created for a show at the Magic Pony, Toronto

Scary Girl is a cult graphic novel created by Nathan Jurevicius about the adventures and troubles of a small scary girl and her companion Toycat. Nathan first created this character for a magazine article and he then worked into this character to make her the led in his graphic novel. This initial concept of scary girl was then revamped when Jurevicius was offered to create a set of collectible vinyl figures based on the Scary Girl concept. This made him adapt the style of the character to both fit a graphical representation and a 3 dimensional representation. Jurevicius quotes ;

" for the 1st time, i introduced obvious flaws into my characters"

Scary Girl Vinyl Collectables

Jurevicius started to make his characters unique, having their own personal style and iconography to identify them by, which make the characters more memorable with his audience. he changed her arms to a tentacle and a bone stump and gave her a roughly sewn, pirate style coat which was linked with an eye patch. He also changed Scary Girls companion into a discarded tin robot / wind up toy. These changes to the characters all added to the story of his novel and linked with the themes and style of his work but also helped him create something fit for the purposes of his clients. As well as Scary Girl and Toycat, Jureviciushad also created four other main characters that are integrated into the Scary Girl universe, each having their own unique       character style and flaws to make them iconic and individual from the main character.

collection of Scary Girl imagry

The use of colours in the Scary Girl universe are used very specifically to emphasize that (quote) "things are rarely how they appear". Jurevicius does this by using exotic, bright and intense colours to create plants and animals of beautify as an aversion from the hidden danger within them (e.g. the most beautiful of plants being poisonous).