I'm looking to make a simple 2d game as one of my first projects. I don't have any concepts yet but I'm stuck on how to create the artwork for my game. How do I make Sprites and characters and backgrounds? IF anyone has any experience in this, what kind of software do you use? I cant afford photoshop so I currently use gimp. Are there any other programs out there that make it easy to create 2D characters and animations? my biggest problem is the character creation and setting it up for a sprite sheet. I'm not sure how that really works.
Can anyone help me by listing some programs or tutorials on how to do this? Please help. Thanks!