Pixel Art : Draw a ground with grass

Hi and welcome to this new tutorial that will show you how to make a very quick ground with grass for a 2d platform game.

You can use any drawing tool like GIMP or GraphicsGale or anything, at this tutorial i have used GraphicsGale.

• First, make an image with 64*64 pixels.

• Draw a rectangle :

• Draw the grass :

• Put your color palette, we need the green and brown :

• Fill with the colors :

• Add shadow to the grass :

• Then, shadow for the ground :

• Put some lines on the ground :

• The same as the grass :

• Draw the grass's color light :

• Also the ground :

• Remove the palette :

• Remove the black outline : 

• Finally replace the black outline grass with a more shaded green :

• And here is the final render :