I'm wanting to work on assets/tilesets for my game. I'm not really good with drawing pixel art on my PC or tablet, but I'm pretty good with pen and paper. I was thinking of doing some hand-drawn art and editing it to create tilesets. Does anyone have any experience doing this or give me some advice that might help? If I go this route, should I use black and white images and color them on my PC or color them before scanning? To make them cohesive, I would mirror the image so both sides would come out even and match.

Any advice or opinions are greatly appreciated!

a light breeze said:

The big challenge in creating tilesets with pen and paper is getting them to tile correctly.

It's even harder to do a good job adjusting for tiling high resolution scanned artwork than textures or pixel art.

Can you transition to "painting" with a graphics tablet and adopting the traditional, dependable technique of shifting and copying the canvas in order to join opposite sides of the image and paint where the seams would end up? Using multiple levels (middle, borders, mere references…) to assemble your image would also be a great help.

I do have digital editing skills. What if I scanned a drawn tile, added a layer in Photoshop, and then traced over it? Might be double working but I could use the drawing as a guide. Or would it just be simpler to Google a base and use that instead?

I meant a base like the one found at OpenGameArt here and not using someone else's work. I don't want to do that for several reasons, plagiarism being a big one. I think my biggest problem is needing an outline to go off of. I started looking at pixel programs, but I still feel Photoshop would be my best bet because of the ability to add layers and draw over them.