Hello guys, I’ve been working with photoshop for a number of years but what i never got into was 2d drawing aka Platform art, we have all seen WONDERFUL iOS games with 2d art that seems professional, rich, and alive…
I searched and searched, but to no avail, so my question is, is there a book or something that teaches that kind of art?
or some online classes?
or ATLEAST if there is a name for such style of art so i can look around more accurately.
and do I need a graphic tablet? i am pretty sure that I do but i wanna make sure
Sure, whisphered world is a beautifully handdrawn (german - yay ) adventure game.
There’s even a development diary somewhere around the web about how they painted a couple of their backgrounds and characters
That last one is created in layers, as the game has some parallax in a few screens. Pretty much entirely hand drawn and painted, cleaned up, and then animated elements added on top. It’s a beautiful game, alas it’s not much fun to play. I was so disappointed with it having waited forever to play it.
For your earlier questions, you don’t -need- a tablet for any of them, you can always draw, paint, scan your artwork, which can give a really nice effect all of it’s own. But if you want to do it all digitally and nicely, pixel art is by far the only one that can be done with just a mouse successfully, Actually using a drawing tablet for pixel art can often be more trouble than its worth.
Though also be aware that pixel art is also very difficult to get right, unless you’ve a lot of practice in the style. It only looks deceptively simple, in practice it’s far from it.
Whatever works for the artist doing it. A lot of people prefer the look of hand drawn (on paper) vs hand drawn (digitally). It’s really all just the same thing though when using a tablet, depends on the ability of the artist doing it and the final look you’re wanting. Digital stuff tends to be cleaner looking even when emulating traditional methods. Plus digital is far less hassle than dealing with actual paint, thinners, cleaning brushes, preparing canvases, trying to get the large results into the computer without losing detail bangs head on wall, I don’t miss it
Unless you have the kit to photograph large traditional artwork correctly (since most will want to work larger than the end result), stick with doing it digitally, less of a headache.
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