2D Game Art for Non-Artists

Learn to create stunning cartoon art with modern techniques. No experience needed! Harness Photoshop for beautiful 2D artwork with depth and charm.

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Brief Summary

This course shows you how to make awesome cartoon art using Photoshop, even if you’ve never drawn before! You’ll learn to use light and shading for depth, creating modern-looking graphics with a nostalgic twist—all just with a mouse. Easy peasy!

Key Points

  • Create beautiful cartoon art with a modern edge
  • Learn light and shading techniques
  • Use Photoshop for 2D game artwork
  • No prior art skills needed
  • Mouse only—no tablet required

Learning Outcomes

  • Gain skills in creating 2D art with depth and style
  • Understand how to use Photoshop’s tools effectively
  • Learn to create art that feels both modern and classic
  • Feel confident in making game art, even as a beginner
  • Master techniques to produce high-resolution graphics

About This Course

Create beautiful cartoon art with a modern edge, and harness light and shading techniques to give your work depth

In this series, your instructor, Steve Curtis is going to demonstrate how to harness the power of Photoshop to get beautiful 2D art work for games, even if you've never created art before. This is High-Rez art designed to look like modern graphics but with that old school feel. Although it isn't pixel art, the graphics created could certainly be sized down to create art that has that pixel art feel. This course uses Photoshop, however GIMP and similar programs should suffice. No tablet is required, all of the art in this series was created using only a mouse.

We will create beautiful cartoon art with a modern edge, and harness light and shading techniques to give our work depth.

  • Create High-Rez art with that Old school feel

  • Use photoshop's native tools to create without any experience with drawing.

  • Harness the power of Photoshop to create beautiful 2D art work for games

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3D BUZZ Programming and Digital Art training

3D Buzz is a company dedicated to providing the world with quality technical education over 3D animation, programming, game design, and much more. We have been producing training videos since 2001, always pushing the envelope in the development of informative lessons with an engaging and personable format. We try to make the viewer feel more like they're involved in a...

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4.9 course rating
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Imran
5.0
1 year ago

Supper,,

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Nguyen T. T.
5.0
1 year ago

thanks professor!. the videos are very details and clear. but it is like how to use ps to make sense.

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Malisony L. G.
5.0
2 years ago

La prima lezione è fatta bene. Anche in inglese si riesce a capire bene. La cosa che mi è piaciuta maggiormente è che oltre a scandire bene le parole, non corre mentre spiega e non si perde in chiacchiere permettendo a chi ascolta di apprendere le nozioni.

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Perlita C.
3.5
3 years ago

Hicimos toda la escenografía del juego y el personaje pero nunca llegamos a ponerlo todo junto, solo guardamos cada parte por separado

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Omar G. R.
5.0
4 years ago

Very helpful and easy to understand. I cant draw a stick figure on paper but could do these examples.

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Remco V.
3.0
4 years ago

What I learn is good but the tempo is slow. A bigger problem is the 720p resolution and background noise in the audio.

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Alexandr
2.5
4 years ago

The course falls short of a commercial product. More like a tutorial from YouTube. In poor quality.
Minus one star for the presence of extraneous noises and poorly audible. On two videos, the noises were so loud that it was hard to make out anything. He could at least re-record the audio track there (((But he thought that it would do.

До коммерческого продукта курс не дотягивает. Больше похож на туториал с ютуба. В плохом качестве.
Минус одну звезду за то что присутствуют посторонние шумы и плохо слышлыно. На двух видео шумы были на столько громкие что тяжело было что либо разобрать. Мог бы хотябы перезаписать там звуковую дорожку((( Но он посчитал что и так сойдет.

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Curtis G. J.
3.5
5 years ago

I took this course because I do not have experience in character design. Creating 2D art using Photoshop seems like an easy task compared to modeling the character from the ground up which would take me couple of days.

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Tony L.
4.5
5 years ago

It demonstrated the basics of creating your own backgrounds and textures as well as how to use various tools.

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Carlos A. G.
2.0
5 years ago

The instructor was unengaging. The mostly monotone voice made it hard to stay interested. During some of the videos, there was also background noise that was distracting. I also expected a little more than simply how to make a character for the instructor's project. If the character section was left out, it might've been better, but the basic character made was more or less Pac-Man.

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