Drawing by Hand
This is a very important skill for game design. Everyone can do it and there is no room for statements like “I can’t draw.” You learned to talk, walk, and feed yourself. Each of those is complex functions, you can learn to draw.
For the first 30 minutes, you will watch and draw along with the videos below. No quitting or saying it’s no good. You can’t be great without getting better first.
During the second 30 minutes, you can free draw an idea or work with the instructor learning a drawing skill.
Drawing Character Heads
Drawing Mario
Drawing Peach
Drawing Sonic
Character Shape Skills
Building a Body
Character Scale
Drawing Full Characters

This is an entire list of game characters to draw with instructions.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLktSUNu3rLlpzlPLJD46irSobCKrVQf4h
Drawing Backgrounds
These tutorials may require help. If you get stuck, please ask for help.
Additional Background Tutorials
Advanced Tutorial Images
Use these as references to draw more difficult subjects
Free Draw Challenge
Use the skills you learn to use the character idea generator!
