I've been tinkering around with a project at home. It's a little overwhelming to sit down in front the computer and just create a game that isn't there in any form. Where do you start? What can you do yourself and what do you need help with? These are the questions you don't have answers for until you dive in.
I have an art degree so I thought I might be able to handle the art myself but as a game designer it's been a long time since I created much art. So I thought I should see what I can do in Photoshop. My goal for the project's look is to have a style that was fun and sort of cartoonish, something like Warcraft. To start I decided to do something simple and just create a board or a texture for a beam of wood. No particular scale or metrics, just see if I could get the look I was going for.
This was sort of whimsical and fun like I wanted and was going the right direction but it needed more details like dings and chips.
So from start to finish I'd say it took about 3 hours and looked pretty close to what I had in mind. At least I accomplished my goal of measuring my current art ability. At the start I felt a little rusty but after turning on some music and digging in it started flowing pretty naturally. I think it turned out alright.
