The 2D Game Artist: Design Simple Pixel Art From ScratchWhat you’ll learnMaster GIMP’s powerful interfaceConvey meaning through shape and colourUse GIMPs fundamental drawing toolsWork with layers for complex imagesCreate gradients, drop shadows and reflectionsOrganise and professionally export your work.

Work to a specification like a proCreate pixel art assets for your gamesCreate your own characterBecoming a digital artistRequirementsYou 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 sectionsYou can organise, move and rename filesDescriptionThis 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 interfaceThen we constrain you to just 8×8 pixels, to get you startedMoving on we add colour, contrast and more to bring your images aliveIn section 2 we increase our canvas to 32×2 and beyondBy 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 serverUse of our custom built texture sharing serviceDaily responses to your Q&A.

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

Ben & MichaelWho this course is for:You want to learn GIMP specificallyYou want to create 2D art from scratchYou have little or no experience with GIMP or PhotoshopYou want to make 2D assets for computer games