In other words, what is your inspiration/theme that gives you a style that you regularly use?
My design style is pixel art (specifically 16-bit, I think). I mainly get my inspiration from Terraria, but for gameplay, I have recently become obsessed with the Hollow Knight duology, and the Soul-like genre as a whole.
Here’s an art piece I am most proud of:
The creation of the sprite took around an hour, and the animation took two to get it to look smooth.
Kind of somewhere between cartoony and pixel art, I guess. Also sort of serious partly but not too realistic. I’m mostly using 128x128 as base. My pieces tend to make use of black outlines throughout, so I kinda feel that my process would probably be considered “wrong” if pixel art had strict rules. heh.
Here’s one I made for my project. I’m not a pro or anything and this must have taken me like, a couple of weeks or so.
I also like the art of Hollow Knight. I haven’t played it myself, but I’ve watched my nephew play now and then. The art is amazing, along with the sounds, the atmosphere. It’s a masterpiece. I’d like to try make art like that someday, if life ever gives me a good, long, worry-free break.
thats…a complicated question, because im a designer. everything i design is supposed to look different. every game ive ever made looks different from eachother
This probably isn’t the answer you are looking for but…I just drew my first asset today.
Personally, I am “terrible” at art, so I’ve just been using whatever I can find online 
Yayyyyyy, very happy for you. Keep going!
I’ve struggled with this for a long time and have felt like giving up. I used to do vector art because I didn’t have to draw anything - just put shapes together. But it was still difficult to make them look nice with colour and shading.
Now I hand draw things in a painting app (Krita) and like the wobbly lines and imperfection and all the different paint brushes. I think the main thing real artists have going for them is confidence. And we non artists don’t have it so our art can look flat and boring. I’ve experimented a lot trying to find a style that I can do that I like. But it’s a slow process.
Ty! As soon as I drew it, my artist brother tried to redraw it for me, but better 
Oh well, at least I’m getting somewhere!
Im a sculptor by trade …and so i do quite a lot of art by day. So doing this game design stuff, it’s actually the logic manipulation that i find more interesting. As a sculptor I do lots of different styles and I honestly just get bored if i don’t - though it would perhaps be better if I did just stick to one style. Coming to this i’ve tried lots of 2d styles (I’m not really that interested in doing 3d) As a kid i did pixel art, as that was really the only option…8 by 8 grids, drawing pictures on graph paper and then typing ‘00001000’ for the first line etc. And each pixel placement was a key design decision…the 1 might be the players left hand …you can’t have it in the middle …has to be left or right a bit!.
I’ve been enjoying using asprite to do things like this …
but i use photoshop loads and particularly the polygon selection tool to do things like this…
