Learn Professional 2D Game Graphic Design in Photoshop

I'll take you through a brief overview of everything you'll be learning in this course on creating game graphics in Photoshop. The course begins with the basics. I'll walk you through the tools you'll be using throughout the course. Next I'll show you how to brainstorm and design your background. Then we can jump right in and start building your assets. At the end of the course I'll talk to you a bit about finding jobs creating digital art.

The best way to get the most value from the course is to become a part of the community. Create a new discussion in the Q&A section of the course and tell us about yourself. If you have any questions pertaining to the course you can also ask them in the Q&A section. Thank you!

Here's what comes with the course for you to use. In the course you will receive 50 free assets that I've created for your use. I've spent countless hours creating these assets for you. The assets include shapes, doors, windows, and plants. I hope you enjoy these graphic game assets!

It's super simple to download the 50 free assets. I'll show you how. Remember you can use these assets over and over again in your game designs!

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.

You'll learn how thumbnails are used in the design process and you'll see how I create my thumbnails.

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.

Learn how to create stylized clouds for your backgrounds.

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.

Watch how quickly and easily we'll build 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.

I'll show you how to quickly create trees with great colors and shape.

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.

We'll now build your second tower by reusing pieces from your first tower.

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.

I'll teach you how you can quickly create light rays in 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.

In this video I'll show you how to use the 50 assets I've included in this course for you. I'll show you how to cut them out, re-size, reshape, and recolor your assets so they fit into your background.