tutorials

Digital Art

General tutorials about digital art and game sprites. Learn more about colors and tricks you can use on the computer.

1. 5 tricks to spot painting mistakes on your own
2. Live 003 - 2 More Button Drawing Techniques
3. 3 Techniques to Draw Professional Mobile Game Buttons
4. Creating Appealing Color Palettes 2
5. Creating Appealing Color Palettes 1
6. Picking Strong Colors with Hue Shifting
7. A First Look at Colors
8. 6 Principles of Visual Design
9. Designing a cute character
10. Drawing Game Assets with Selections
11. How to Sketch Game Assets
12. Mastering Silhouettes in Photoshop
13. How to design professional looking mobile game buttons
14. How to 30 min Speedpainting = The Salamander
15. How to analyze and paint clouds
16. Understanding Clouds for Digital Painters

Game design

In these videos, we explore how games are made. No code here: the focus is enterily on the design and how games work.

1. Overview of Simple Collisions Types in 2d games
2. Movement Analysis - Ori and the Blind Forest
3. Movement in platform Games
4. Game Engines= what are they and how to choose the right one?
5. Collision checks on a grid
6. Exploring grid-based movement
7. The preproduction of a small game
8. 6 Tips for a successful Game Jam
9. Game Design Quest - Intro

Digital Art with Krita

Learn to paint and create game art with this award-winning, open source digital painting program!

1. How to use Krita for Pixel Art
2. Painting with Krita - The Game Asset Workflow
3. How to paint rocks for games - part 1
4. How to Paint Rocks for Games - part 2
5. How to Paint Rocks for Games - part 3
6. Krita Animation tutorial - the animation tools in Krita 2.9 Beta
7. Overview of the Instant Preview beta in Krita 2.9
8. Krita's New Features since v2.9.5
9. Krita Quick Tips - Convert any Brush to Pixel Art
10. 7 tips to master HD index painting with Krita
11. HD Index Painting With Krita
12. Painting with Krita - Getting Started
13. Painting with Krita - Getting Started part 2
14. Krita 2.9 review and overview of the key features
15. How to make your own brushes in Krita 3
16. Krita 3 release livestream
17. How to Draw a Life Bar in Krita part 1
18. How to Draw a Life Bar in Krita - part 2
19. Krita 2.9 - Using the Tangent Normal Brush
20. Krita 2.9 - Flowmap Painting Example
21. Krita 2.9 - Overview of the Tangent Normal Brush Engine

Pixel Art

Learn tips to make pixel art.

1. How to draw characters as in Super Time Force – part 2
2. How to design pixel art characters as in Super Time Force - part 1
3. How to Draw Clouds in Pixel Art
4. 6 Pixel Art Drawing Techniques

Tools

Tools and resources to make games.

1. 13 free Open Source software to make your games!
2. My 8 best game design resources
3. 7 Books to Explore Game Creation in Greater Depth
4. 12 handy free productivity tools for game designers
5. Cut Out Animation Tools: Blender add-on overview
6. PureRef: a free reference board for artists!
7. Picasa: a tool to build your reference library