- PSG's Art Tutorial
- GFXArtist's Tutorials
- Good Tutorials
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GAS13 Tutorials
A russian site filled with a bunch of good tutorials. Even though it's in Russian you should be able to figure what to do through the pictures. :P
- 3Dtotal's 100 Photoshop Tutorials
- From photo to seamless texture
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Hulio G's Tutorial on using Photoshop for Pixel Art
Although focused on Pixel Art, this tutorial explains a lot of useful tools in photoshop such as animation
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MSPaint Walkthrough
Bundled w/ Win OS. If you're new to MSPaint, this is a good place to start. I miss a lot of features like a full palette, frames and layers when using paint, but you've probably already got it and it'll work for pixeling.
- GIMP Help
- TMDI's Image Hosting Tutorial
- Color Theory Tutorial by Worqx
- Fiber Fool: Color Contrasts
- Color Matters - Color Theory
- Adobe's Kuler
- Color Scheme Designer
- Colour Lovers
- Color Palette Generator
- Color Schemer Online
- Color Blender
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Andrew Loomis books
List of links to Andrew Loomis's drawing books that are now sadly out of print. Includes a bunch of other links to other art books.
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Andrew Loomis Books Direct Links
For those lazy people that don't feel like looking around the link above this one.
- Figure Drawing Tips
- Figure Drawing Lab
- Pose Maniacs
- Atlus of Human Anatomy
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Alexds1 Tutorials
Bunch of good tutorials for drawing cartoony anatomy.
- Hair Tutorial
- Light - A Detailed Tutorial
- Understanding the Art of Shading
- Dueys Shading Tutorial
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Cell Shading Tutorial
For those that want to draw cartoons.
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Soft-cell Shading Tutorial
A different style of Cell shading
- Drawing Landscapes, Nature, and Wildlife
- Art Drawing Tutorial
- Drawing Landscapes tutorials
- Color and Landscape Painting
- Drawing Waves
- Make Custom Photoshop Brushes
- Make Custom GIMP Brushes
- Another custom GIMP brush tutorial
- Converting Photoshop Brushes to Gimp Brushes
- Emptyeasel Art Tutorials
- How to Draw Animals
- Image Composition Tutorial
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Tsugumo Glowlyness
A tutorial that combines photoshop (and GIMP) Bluring effects with a piece of pixel art to create a glowly particle effect. Perfect for stuff like magic attacks or particle effects for games.
- Arketos's Asteroid Tutorial
Digital Art
Colors and Color Theory
Figure Drawing and Anatomy
Shading and Lighting
Landscapes and Environments
Photoshop and GIMP Brushes
These are tutorials on making custom brushes in GIMP and Photoshop. Very useful.
Miscellaineous
- An Icon Primer by Tom
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Adding Artwork to Your Game Using the DM IDE
A bit outdated for use with 4.0, but still a worthwhile starting place for adding sprites and tiles to your game using the DreamMaker.exe. From the BYOND FAQ.
- Mark's Lineart Tutorial
- Derek Yu on Lines
- Derek Yu on Lineart
- St0ven on Lines
- Manning Krull on Black Outlines vs. No Outlines
- St0ven on Dithering
- Derek Yu on Dithering
- Pixelation on Dither Patterns
- SpriteArt.com on Using Dither Patterns for Semi-Transparency
- An Intro to Interlacing Patterns by Raven
- Creating Pixel Patterns in Photoshop on Cornoncob.com
- Character Coloring by PKMays
- Coloring a Character in the DM Icon Editor by Gughunter
- Recoloring Characters by Gughunter
- Derek Yu on Coloring Your Sprites
- Mark on Choosing Colors and Coloring
- Color and Palette Discussion on Pixelation
- Flash Video Tut on Refining and Recoloring a Work by Matriax
- TMDI on the Color Picker and Color Ramps
- Mark on Shading Sprites and Tiles
- Derek Yu on Shading
- Shading, Coloring, and Detailing a Fighter Sprite by Manning Krull
- SpriteArt.com on Ambient Lighting for Sphere
- Using Ambient Lighting in a Fighter Portrait by Kaine
- Creating a Pixel Portrait by Kazuya Mochu
- Picture Tutorial on How to Shade a Car by ~New2Max
- Flash Video of Matriax Painstakingly Coloring a Robotic Dragon Leg
- Creating Seamless Tiles in the DM Icon Editor by Gughunter
- st0ven on the grass tile
- BioMor on creating and shading a log
- BioMor on creating and shading rocks
- st0ven on making a brick texture
- Kable's tutorial on creating wood textures
- TMDI on Making Seamless Rock Textures
- TMDI on Creating a Full Tileset
- TMDI on Seiken Densetsu Turf Style Guide
- AmonR's Tree Trunk Tutorial
- KashikoiMeisai Waterfall Tutorial
- Bakasensei's Simple Grass Tutorial
- PS' Lava Tutorial
- Shuku on Using Outlines and Rulers for Creating Two Sizes of RPG Sprites
- Shuku on Using Sillouettes for Creating RPG Enemy Sprites
- Shuku on Using Wireframes to Create Large Sprites for RPG Summoned Monsters
- Creating RPG Sprites by Khin
- Creating RPG Sprites by Flicky
- Creating Female RPG Sprites by Khin
- TMDI on Creating a Zombie Sprite
- Male Fighter Sprite Faces by Grath
- Female Fighter Sprite Faces by Grath
- Creating, Coloring and Shading Fighter Sprites by Grath
- Chibi Sprites by Grath
- Idleworm with Some Basic Animation Tutorials
- Manning Krull on 2, 4, and 8 Frame Walk Cycles for Small Sprites
- Walking Animations and Walk Cycle for RPG Sprites by Khin
- Using Photoshop and ImageReady to Animate Waterflow in Tiles by DELer
- TMDI's Swooshy wind tutorial
- Sword Attack Animation discussion
- The Mother of All Iso Tutorials by Zoggles
- Fantastic Isometric Guide by RhysD
- Using Photoshop and ImageReady for Isometric Work by Gunstar Red
- Isometric Prison Complex Walkthrough by Zoggles
- Isometric Cartoon Style House Walkthrough by Zoggles
- Isometric Cottage Walkthrough by Zoggles
- Water Tiling and Texture Used for an Isometric Kids Swimming Pool by Matriax
- Creating an Isometric (2:1) Grass Tile by Karen
- Creating an Isometric (1:1) Grass Tile by Karen
- Isometric Smilies by Matriax
- Isometric House Step by Step at NascImpact
- Isometric Cylinders at NascImpact
- Isometric Pyramid at NascImpact
- Flash Video Tut on Coloring Isometric Creations by Matriax
- Flash Video Tut on Making Isometric Circles in Paint by Matriax
- Adding Sun Beams by Matriax
- Spiky Hair for a Small Sprite
- Detailing and Adding Effects to Your Pixel Art
- Making Your Own Pixel Fonts in MS Windows
- Flash Video Tut on Making Textured Fonts in Paint by Matriax
- W1ldr3x's Fur Tutorial
- Bakasensei's Small Drawn Text Tutorial
- PS' Fire/Flame tutorial
- AmonR's 3/4 "common BYOND" Perspective Tutorial
- Pixel Explosions Topic
- Explosion Tutorial
Start Here
The DM Icon Editor
Lines
Selective Outlining (selout)
Anti-Aliasing (AA)
Dithering and Patterns
Colors and Coloring
Shading
Tiles and Turfs
Landscapes and Backgrounds
RPG Sprites
Fighter Sprites
FighterAnimating Sprites
Isometrics
Miscellaineous
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Graphics Gale
Timedware and freeware (lite version). A very good pixel art program that allows frame to frame animation and layers. There is both a freeware and shareware version. The main difference being the shareware version allows you to load and save GIFs (handy for animations outside of DM) I use this one and it's my favorite.
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the GIMP
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Freeware.
A free, open-source photo editor, capable of damn good pixeling.
It's very flexible and customizable and comes with a lot of good features
Some find the interface difficult. I switched from this to GraphicsGale because
it lacks good animation features.
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Adobe Photoshop
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Sell a kidney (eval ver. available).
A premiere digital art program with many features and quite capable of creating great pixel art.
Familiar interface and LOTS of capability. Very expensive, but available as timedware.
Again, not so great at the animation.
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Cosmigo ProMotion
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Medium price (evaluation ver. available). Comes highly recommended by some who would know.
- ProDigital Painter
- GraFX 2
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Paint.NET
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(Free but requires the Microsoft NET framework)
- Tile Studio
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iDraw
For the Macintosh peoples. Free.
- PD Pro Digital Painter
- Paint Shop Pro
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Inkscape
An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
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Blender
An Open Source 3D rendering and animation program.
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Easy Graphic Converter
Graphic file converter.
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Bitmap Font Utility
A program that allows you to build your own bitmap fonts and save them as a pic. Some premade fonts here: http://www.speccy.org/remakesgraph/temp/fuentes/fuentes.htm
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BitfontMaker
Web-based bitmap font editor (with link to many premade bitmap fonts).
- DaFont.com
- 1001 Free Fonts
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Turn your handwriting into a True Type font
You can turn your handwriting, or anything really into a font you can use for free
Drawing Programs
File Conversion & Utilities
Gif Animation Builders
Screen Capture
Fonts
- Racertj5's 1100 Gimp Brushes
- GIMP Grunge Brush Pack
- 24 GIMP and Photoshop Brushes
- Foliage Swirls GIMP Brush Pack
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Undulation Unreal textures
Page is kind of dead, but you can still get the small versions of the textures if you left click and save
- Free Quake Textures
- Stock Photo's Textures
- Textures hosted on a ftp site
- Dawid Michalczyk Free Textures
- Board games
- Items
- Turfs
- Mobs
- Effects
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Misc
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AbyssDragon's BYOND resource site
A very good site for stuff that will work on BYOND
- DerDragon's Icon Library
- YMIHere's Icon Pack
- TMDI's Iso8
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- Flick's 1-bit icons
- Caramonmajere's Free Old Icons
- Letpoon's Icons
- AbyssDragon's RPGMaker Graphics
- Jerico2Day's Tile Library
- Nidaime Hokage's Various Sprites
- Riva's HP/Life/Whatever Bars
- Shmup Graphical Wonderland of Goodniousity (Shmup Sprites)
- Dungeon Crawling Grocery List (Dungeon Crawler Sprites)
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AbyssDragon's BYOND resource site
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Sprite Sites
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Game Maker's Resource Pages
Dohohohoh Mooching off of BYOND's Rival's Page.
- SpriteLib GPL
- Reiner's Tilesets
- VBE's Graphics and Multimedia downloads
- Gamemaking Resources
- Game Content Resources Wiki
- Inet Graphical Resources
- Gamedev Forums Massive list of Sprite sites
- Gamedev Forums Massive List of Free Resources
- Gamedev Forums Massive list of Free Resources for Space Games
- Charas-Project custom RPGmaker Resources
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Game Maker's Resource Pages