Build the essential drawing skills needed for game art while exploring how genre influences visual style. By discovering techniques like line control, gesture drawing, and perspective, you’ll learn to create forms that feel dynamic and grounded in space. You’ll also begin developing your personal visual direction by researching and assembling a genre mood board, a key step in shaping your project’s aesthetic and tone.

Dive into designing the visual elements that bring a game world to life: its characters, creatures, and props. You’ll learn how to use proportion, stylization, and shape language to create memorable and readable designs that reflect personality, genre, and function. By exploring archetypes, costume choices, and item design, you’ll begin to build assets that feel consistent, purposeful, and ready for gameplay or concept art presentation.

Learn how light and shadow bring objects to life by giving them form, weight, and depth. You’ll explore how different lighting setups affect mood and readability, then practice rendering basic shapes using highlights, core shadows, and reflected light. Building on that foundation, you’ll shift into visual exploration through thumbnail iteration. This process will help you quickly test design ideas and refine them to match the tone and style of your game world.