Artstation – Creating Stylized Textures for Games by Ishmael Hoover

In this tutorial, the multi-talented concept and texture artist Ishmael Hoover collaborates with Levelup.Digital to share his workflow in creating stylized hand-painted textures for games.

With the increasing popularity of stylized art, it’s important to understand the concepts behind it – what makes it good and what mistakes to avoid. In this fully narrated, step-by-step tutorial, Ishmael explains how to approach stylization, what to think about, how to break down reference, and shares his texture painting process in Photoshop. Watch him create and draw three different example textures using the techniques covered in his lesson.