Complete Pixel Art Megacourse: Beginner to Expert (Udemy.com)
Learn how to create pixel art and illustrate like a pro with this step-by-step course!
Created by: Skillademia Academy
Last updated September 2022
What you will learn
- The principles of Pixel Art
- How to use Procreate, Aseprite and Piskel
- How to create line art by using lines and shapes in pixel art style
- How to do shading and use colour correctly
- How to draw figures at different sizes
- How to design characters
- How to create portraits
- How to make different backgrounds
- How to animate your pixel art
- How to create specific types of pixel art for different game genres
- The theory behind your creative choices
How it compares
Against the other 72 rated Udemy courses in Game Design on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.2 out of 5higher than 6% of them
- Reviews112#45 of 73 by number of reviews
- Length31.3 hourslonger than 87% of them
- Last updatedSeptember 2022earlier than 51% of them
Course Description
Learn Pixel Art!
Create like a pro!
Have you ever wanted to create your own pixel art? In the era of digital technology, we see hundreds of pixel drawings and animations everywhere around us. Maybe you want to make portrait sprites and show them off on social media, or perhaps you want to create animations for the games industry. Whether you’re a hobbyist artist or hoping to make a career out of it, making pixel art isn’t only for the pros. You can take any idea from sketch to a final image or animation - and we’re here to teach you how.
In this course, you’re going to learn everything about pixel art in Procreate and other pixel art softwares, from line art, to shading, adding colour, and finally to getting your pixel art creations fully animated. You’ll even learn how to create specific types of pixel art for all relevant game genres, such as Fighting Games, Platformers, RPG style, Topdown view and Isometric view.
Our instructor has years of experience not only in pixel art, but also in teaching, and the expertly-crafted syllabus is designed to be easy to follow and thorough. We’ve even included plenty of examples explained and created on-screen for you to study. That’s why this is the only Pixel art course you’ll ever need to create impeccable digital art and illustrate like a pro!
Start digitalizing your art today!
After taking this course you’ll be able to:
Use different digital art softwares
Create your own pixel art
Make animations
Make character designs in pixel art style
Create pixel art for fighting games, platform games, and in isometric view
Instructor Details
- 4.2 Rating
112 Reviews
Skillademia Academy
At Skillademia, we deliver hands-on, practical learning for passionate and driven learners. Our step-by-step courses cover essential creative disciplines and cutting-edge AI skills - taking you from solid foundations to advanced expertise.
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Reviews
By Joseph Clark on 3/14/2024
Was more a drawing lesson then anything else. Would of been better to show the progress from creating pixel art from tile sheet creation to finally seeing it in use in something like Unity, perhaps creating a small town (without scripting since C# would probably be outside the scope)
By Tom Seidel on 11/9/2023
The Course for itself seem‘s pretty good. But the ehhmmms and Oohs from the Tutor are somekind of annoying.
By Victoria on 6/5/2023
Бесконечные повороты изображения когда лектор рисует! Ужасно кружиться голова когда смотришь это видео! Невозможно сосредоточиться и уследить за темой из-за того что постоянно мелькает и крутиться изображение на екране. На данный момент очень мало информации о софте который используется для рисования. Хочеться больше вариантов програм в которых можно работать и туториалы как в них работать. Пока создаёться ощущение что смотрю спидпейнт автора. Повороты полотна во время рисования ужасны, от них становиться физически плохо. В остальном нормальная информация и приятнй голос у лектора.
By Feraro Rizal Dewangga on 5/22/2023
it's too amazing, now i can detailing more in pixel art^^ improve is the best way, choice guys.. keep fight!
By Hernan Martorano on 10/11/2022
Excellent. Clear, concise, explained with dedication.
By Joseph Lucas on 7/1/2022
The instructions are clear and the speaker captures my attention. They are very knowledgeable and I look forward to further lessons. If I was to make any kind of critique it would be spending longer on examples and not rush them out so quickly. I wish to have a teacher who I can aspire to be and takes their lessons seriously. Thus far most of this has just been a crash course of the basics.
By Chris Bobek on 6/13/2022
I would've rated 5 stars but I had to subtract a 1/2 star since the author didn't explain how he set up the pixel grid in Procreate.
By Mustafa Kurtuluş on 5/22/2022
I like the instruction so far, but I hope the instructors stops rotating the canvas. It might sound like small issue but he's rotating it every 5 seconds and I get nauseated, watching him draw on the canvas.
By Miguel Soares on 2/21/2022
So I changed my rating from 3 to 4 because they actually fixed the video on lecture 8 and so far I am loving it I learned a lot already did some cool pixel art didn't finish yet but so far it is 4.5
By Yudha pratama on 2/15/2022
Good materials. Clear explanation.
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