How to Draw - Potions

Making a few different shapes and colors, but in general they look the same and have the same steps. A few common things I use in this tutorial:

• Expand/Inset - This is a shortcut to make an outline.  Like in the 4th step, I copy the 3rd step, expand that a few pixels, paste in place what I copied and inset that a few pixels.
• Gradients - I like to use this in subtle ways because you can get overboard and make things look tacky.

Quick Draw - Diamond

Needed to make a gem for a game so I decided to make a very quick 'how to draw' tutorial.

How to Draw - Garbage

I was drawing some assets for a game and I thought "why not make a quick tutorial out of it."  So I did.  Started with a trashcan and a recycling bin, and the rest of the assets for them I broke down into a few steps. 

Flash Tips & Tricks 1

I wanted to make one giant post about things you can do in Flash, but thought it would be too overwhelming for me to write and people to read through, so here is part 1.  I'll try to focus on certain parts like all animation or all drawing.  Might recognize a few of these from other tutorials.

*Some tools can be bound to your own hotkey if one doesn't exist or you don't like the default.  To do this, go to Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts and find the tool you need to bind.  Hotkeys written below with an (*) means it's my own custom made one.

Shapes

Rectangle w/ Rounded Edges

Quick and nice feature built in flash.  Select the Rectangle Tool (R) > Properties > Rectangle Options.  Use the slider for how curvy you want your square, or if you want the opposite, you can do that too.

Polygon Tool

Should be where your rectangle and oval tool is located.  You can change the amount of points it has so you can make pentagons/hexagons/etc, as well as stars.  For some reason mine disappeared and haven't been able to figure out what happened.  If anyone knows a solution, I'd appreciate a tutorial on getting it back.

UI Placeholders & Download

This post serves mostly as a guide to how I organize my game assets in Flash.  I'll have some links to download the CS6/5 file and descriptions of what's in it.  For me, it's useful seeing how other artists create their game assets, so I'll contribute as well starting with some UI.  You can use it for your games, but I intentionally made these grey and bland so it forces people to make something better.