Throughout the course of this project it’s become very clear to me how advantageous it would be if I was capable of creating my own art. As a result I’ve started dedicating some of my time to practicing some digital art. At first I tried some pixel art but it soon became clear that this was not my thing. Then I tried a few things in Inkscape and the results were a bit better. Eventually I hope to be capable of producing the majority of the art for my games by myself. Below is a list of some of the early things I have worked on.
Electric Box:
This was actually for my game and is used in some of the cave levels. I couldn’t find anything suitable for what I wanted in the open source world so I went ahead and took a stab at it myself.
Boulders:
These I also drew up with the intention of using in my game. For the cave levels I’m using a tile-set found here but I really needed a boulder so I followed the color scheme and the style (somewhat) and made my own boulder. The second one is the one I ended up using so I scaled it up a bit.
Boulder Animation:
I did this just for fun/experimentation. If I had decided to make a rock spell of some kind it would have been cool to have an animation of the boulder being created so I decided to try and make one. It turned out decent.
Skeleton Vector Version:
For one of the enemies in my game I am using this and as a way to experiment more with vector drawing I decided to make a vector version of the skeleton. I figured it might be useful in the future for a different game or if I decide to modify this game to a vector art style.
Crusader Knight:
This is another vector character I made. This one was completely from scratch. It was good for practice and possibly could be used in a future game.
I have released all of these assets to the open source community and they can be downloaded from my opengameart.org profile
The Wandering Wizard 