Drawing for Games: Photoshop Session 1 (29/11/2012)

Having not had much luck with the Unity sessions I was slightly hesitant to take part in another Tuesday night event. However, I enjoy using Photoshop and want to improve my skills with it, therefore I decided to give the first session a try. Having done so I am glad that I went as the lecturer was not only clear, but also knew what he was talking about and went at a pace which everyone could follow without difficulty.
Going over mainly the basics for this session ended up being a good thing for me as even though I know what a lot of the things do on Photoshop I have not experimented with everything and therefore didn't even know what some things did.
The lecturer went through each tool with us and explained to us their properties which I am glad he did as doing so introduced to me a lot of useful tools that I am sure I will use the next time I use Photoshop. To further help us he even gave out printed sheets with the shortcuts you could use on Photoshop in order to save time e.g. '[' reduces brush size and ']' increases it.
The session felt as if we covered a lot as we edited a video game character, coloured an eye in a different colour and even experimented with brushes in order to create part of a human face.
Overall, it was a very good session and one that I wish I could have stayed for longer. Therefore I look forward to the next session.

You can see evidence of my work in the session below: