The 2D Game Artist: Design Simple Pixel Art From Scratch

What you'll learn

Master GIMP's powerful interface

Convey meaning through shape and colour

Use GIMPs fundamental drawing tools

Work with layers for complex images

Create gradients, drop shadows and reflections

Organise and professionally export your work.

Work to a specification like a pro

Create pixel art assets for your games

Create your own character

Becoming a digital artist

Requirements

You need a Mac or PC capable of running GIMP (most are!)

You only need a mouse or trackpad to get started!

Optional: Wacom stylus or similar for later sections

You can organise, move and rename files

Description

This course is continually being updated, with additional new content being added every week.

GIMP is a super powerful, free, 2D art package. It's also 'open source' which means it's owned by the community, and constantly updated. Most of the features of the much more expensive Photoshop are available, giving you the power to create industry strength 2D art.

The challenge with this package is it can be intimidating for beginners, especially those who don't have much confidence in art or drawing. We make learning from scratch easy with our simple step-by-step process.

Even if you have no prior experience in drawing, or computer art, we'll take you from the very basics. By investing in a structured course like this you'll learn faster and more effectively than on your own, just check-out our latest reviews.

We provide challenges in every video to cement your knowledge, an active community of students and instructors to help you if you get stuck, and continuous updates to the course to improve the learning journey.

How is the course structured?

We start by helping you master GIMP's interface

Then we constrain you to just 8x8 pixels, to get you started

Moving on we add colour, contrast and more to bring your images alive

In section 2 we increase our canvas to 32x2 and beyond

By the end of the course you'll be able to create great looking 2D icons.

Looking for 3D art, Blender, Unity or more? Check out our other courses, let the green leaf logo be your guide 🙂

Also included with the course...

Access to our thriving community forum, and live chat server

Use of our custom built texture sharing service

Daily responses to your Q&A.

2D artwork is in demand, and now's a great time to get into GIMP.

Ben & Michael

Who this course is for:

You want to learn GIMP specifically

You want to create 2D art from scratch

You have little or no experience with GIMP or Photoshop

You want to make 2D assets for computer games