A Udemy ad mail got me into digital art lessons

I got this mail from Udemy and tought – cool – now I can get many courses for just $11 each and have some digital art lessons.

So far, so good – I bought 8 courses and started with a ‘beginner’ to expert course in drawing characters. Before I started I bought a nice Wacom paint pad from Amazon as well. My setup is good and I am full motivated!

After a few lessons I realized that I’m far behind the status ‘beginner’. This course was more for people that already know how to draw characters and get them into digital. That is a painting I did in this lesson as an exercise.

Okay – it was interesting and I think when I’ll hire a freelancer for graphics, I can tell him much easier what I expect from his work than before this course – good!

So what is maybe a little bit easier? Pixelart? Well – at least the proportions of characters are easier in pixel art. Hence I know Benjamin Anderson from his awesome vids already, I tried to get in touch with someone else first: Marco Vale and his course Pixel Art for Video Games. This course has very good digital art lessons and Marco explains what he is doing with Photoshop CC (features, hotkeys, possibilities) and how you start doing pixel art from the very basics – perfect!

I got fast into it and these are my first results after a few lessons in two days:

I’m looking forward to see what is coming next. Right now I feel that I got a few more skills to do some better art work for at least prototype status 😉

PS: I recommend to work with two monitors – one for video playback and one for Photoshop – otherwise you’ll have to do a lot Alt+Tab.