Learn Professional 2D Game Graphic Design in Photoshop

Get connected with other students through the course Facebook Page. I encourage everyone to post there progress as they create there game artwork. 

We'll have a look at every thing you'll be needing for this course including Photoshop, tablet, and basic drawing skills.

Links to resources.

I'll take the Photoshop beginners through a quick crash course on the main tools we'll be using in the first part of this course.

You'll learn the hot keys you'll be using throughout the first part of the course.

I'll show you what layers are and how they work.

You'll be shown how to label your layers and why they need to be labeled.

I'll show you where you can find inspiration and how to brain storm.

We'll further design our chosen thumbnail.

Now you'll sketch out each individual piece of your background.

I'll show you how to stitch your individual sketches together to create the layout for your background.

You'll block in your values to help guide you in creating your background.

You'll jump right in building your sky background.

Build your mountains in a matter of seconds.

We'll quickly organize our layers to keep track of them.

You'll beguine on your firtst detailed piece, the island.

We'll use the same techniques to create the floating islands.

Learn how to create texture for your islands to give the feeling of rock.

You're islands will now need some shadows to add depth to them.

Change your shadows to a cool color then learn how to create a grass effect.

Cut your trees out then re-size and place them into your background.

I'll show you how to create a 3 dimensional cavern in your islands.

Learn how to quickly create a reflective surface.

We're going to build your bubble windows into to your island as well as give them shadows.

We'll build the base for the main tower for our castle.

Create a 3 dimensional look to your tower using highlights.

Quickly build your railing and lip that will rap around the tower.

Learn how to create quick doorways and windows and apply them to structures.

We'll create the finial ball for the top of your tower.

I'll show you how to reuse assets to build your backgrounds quicker.

Let's quickly organize and label your layers so you can keep track.

Quickly put up your third tower and create a tapestry for it.

We'll quickly knock out the fourth and fifth structure of the castle.

Learn to create solid colored sky lines to add to your castle size.

We'll finish up the castle and move ahead.

Create depth with shadows and place your castle into your background.

Create depth between your island and castle by adding shadows.

I'll talk to you about how reusing assets speeds up the process of background creation.

We'll draw our water line then fill it with a base color.

Using different layer types well start to create the illusion of water.

Well continue to add layers to achieve our hazy water effect.

We'll add a distant under water island to give depth to the back ground.

I'll show you how to add particles to your sea and light reflections from your water.

Lastly we'll add some finishing touches and lighten our floating islands to add atmosphere.

I'll walk you through what freelancer is and how it works.

Here are links to the most popular freelancing sights!

Lean how free lancer allows you to work from anywhere in the world and I'll show you how to find jobs.

I'll tell you how to differentiate yourself from all the other freelancers through your proposal.

Pricing your bid is very important on freelancer. In this article I will teach you the techniques I'v used to score big jobs freelancing. 

Part of getting jobs on freelancer is writing a good proposal to your potential employer. In this article I will share with you an example of what my proposals look like. 

This course should have left you with some great skills for creating digital art. If you're happy with the course please feel free to leave a positive review.

When painting your backgrounds it's always a good rule of thumb to start off with your furthest back layer. This way you can build each layer on top of it. In this lecture we will start our background by painting the sky and the mountains! 

In this lecture you are going to learn how to create hand painted textures for your background. Hand painting game art is a process of layering transparent and opaque colors. You will be hand painting an Aztec temple for your game background in this lecture.

In this lecture you are going be painting green foliage for your jungle floor. You will specifically be painting jungle ferns in this lecture. By the end of this lecture you will have to plant assets for your game art background.

Now that you've created your jungle fern it's time to create the three other plants for you jungle foliage. Jungles are made up of all types of plants so It's important to create multiple plants to add variety. Once you have created all of your plants it's time top place them in your scrolling game background.

It's important that your background layers seamlessly connect to each other on both ends of your PSD. In this lecture I'm going to show you how to line up the ends of your image and how to bled them into each other. By the end of this lecture you will know exactly how to blend seems in your scrolling game backgrounds. 

In this lecture you are going to be painting the two floating platforms in your game background. These platforms would be for you player to jump on at some point in the game. The platforms will be broken up into two different parts, the rock bottom and the grassy top.

Its always important to make sure that you have a floor for your character to play on. In this lecture you will be adding in the jungle floor platform. You will also make the platform seamless that way it can scroll in you background endlessly. 

The last thing you will be adding to your jungle are light rays that will be shinning down trough your jungle canopy. The light rays will make your background look more realistic and add atmosphere to your background.

Now that your background is complete it's time to export. In this lecture I will teach you the correct and fastest way to export your background. You will need to export each layer as it's own file with transparent backgrounds that way you can use them in your game. Thanks for joining me in this course and I look forward to seeing the wonderful games you make!