I'm relatively new to drawing. It's taken a couple of years of drawing badly to get to the point where I am comfortable enough for a tileset. This post is to show you some betas of the tileset I'm working on, and also the art that has inspired this work.

Doodle Rogue work-in-progress sketches

Here are the tileset beta sketches.

Doodle Rogue scenery sketches

Doodle Rogue item sketches

Doodle Rogue character sketches

Doodle Rogue mockup sketch

There is a ton of work still to do on these. I need to redraw them as vectors and clean them up, and finsh drawing the remainder of the tiles.

Research & references

I used Pinterest to explore different reference styles for the tileset. Here are some of the artists I am using for inspiration and referencing. There are actually a lot more references than this but these are some anchor points that have stood out.

You can find my game-draw reference pinterest feed here if you care to follow along.

Dom 2d

Dom2d has been a big inspiration for my drawing in general. I love the balance he strikes between quick-draw simplicity whilst still looking good.

Slowquest (Bodie H)

I love the gritty detail in Bodie's drawings of items and dungeons. Studying his work has taught me a lot about texturing with lines.

Timecowboy

Timecowboy is a web comic artist.

Varguy

Varguy has the rare skill of the ligne claire artists, combining seemingly simple shapes and lines into images that really come to life.

Mike Yamada

I found Mike Yamada's work when reading The Noisy Garage to my kids. I love his animal characters.

Moebius

That's everything for today. I hope you've enjoyed these images.

Droneship. Study in the style of thisnorthernboy.

Recent-ish sketches. Been learning from The Etherington Brothers, Dr. Seuss, and How to Build Treehouses, Huts, and Forts.

I just finished another sketchbook.

Recently a friend linked me to The Etherington Brothers and I've been doing their tutorials.

Lately I've been concentrating on plants.

In the style of this guy in the style of Scott Robertson space ship sketches.

Some mountains I copied from some website.

Drawing practice in the style of Ben Hatke.

Scout and I finished Zita the Spacegirl recently which was a wonderful adventure.

Greetings from Porto! Last night's algorave was quite something. Amazing sets from Julio d'Escriván, Andrew Brown, Renick Bell, and the inimitable Mico Rex!

Scout came up with this character and I drew them.

Almost certainly exhibits tripedal gait during locomotion.