Looking for adventure game focused art tutorials.

Does anyone know where I can find some art tutorials geared specifically toward making graphics for adventure games?

adventure games don't particularly have any set style when it comes to artwork as they come in a variety of styles whether 2D, 2.5D or 3D or whether artwork is pixelart, vector, traditionally/digitally hand painted, made out of paper or clay or even playdough

http://vector.tutsplus.com/ is a good start for various digital drawing tutorials which even include a few game character design & animation tutorials.

I'd recommend instead that you research various adventure games old & new from the Lucas/Sierra/Delphine days to present day adventure games.

current popular choice over past couple of years seems to be vector art & some kind of oil painting look... other than that pixelart seems to have sneaked back into the mix somehow & can't forget about 3D; although personally I think of it as a sin when used in third person point & click games rather than in an FPS shooter where it belongs - but hey that's just my opinion & each to their own.

Pixelart is amazing, and fits point and click games so well for some reason.
Then again, that could just be my general love for the retro-pixel look melding with my absolute love of adventure games, hehe.

Recently I've beaten all 4 released episodes of the Blackwell Series, along with Primordia, all from Wadjet Eye Games, and loved them all. I've also played The Longest Journey (Though I haven't beaten it yet), as well as Dreamfall: The longest Journey, and the 3D adventure games are awesome as well. Though I think 3D graphics are a bit out of my league, unless I maybe found some royalty free bases or something. Even then, I probably wouldn't be able to do much with them, lol.

You know what's odd? I like playing darker, more serious games. But if I try to come up with an idea for a game, I mostly get ideas for things that are either cute, or quirky.

Take a look at DAZ studios stuff. Honestly, they have some awesome sets and props that you could put together a really nice game with, and the program is super easy to use.

DAZ, renders, with some Photoshop work over them can look very cool, and would be perfect for an Adventure Game.

I agree with Pyke grab Daz studio

This guy:
http://jimmythesquatter.alotspace.com/html/downloads.htm

Used Sketchup for his background art, which is actually 3D

Tales of the Odd: Brain Hotel used Poser for their character, Poser is like Daz Studio but on steroids (I prefer DAZ)
http://www.otterarchives.com/brainhotel/
They used toon shaders which you can do in Daz, and Daz's walk cycle is probably a lot better than the poser

I couldn't draw to save my life! But there's plenty of 3D options, neither Sketchup or Daz are difficult to learn
Without 3D I couldn't do much
They reckon pixel art is a lot harder to do than vector

I grabbed DAZ already, since someone posted on here that it being given away for free by the company. But it doesn't have very much in it. Just the female model and 2 outfits worth of weird looking clothing.
I know it's got a market for more content, but I don't currently have the money to go through it and buy things.
Though using SketchUp for backgrounds sounds like a neat idea. o3o

Do you have a link to the site for Poser? (I'm just assuming it's no where near free, but I'd like to check the price and look at the site anyway.)

Oh, man. Nevermind.
I found the site for it, and it's so expensive. 0n0

Yeah most of the Daz clothes are a bit erm lacking in material! very skimpy
There is free stuff online some is ok, its hair I used to struggle with most
Some people spend 1000's on content crazy thing is you'll probably only use it once, I bought the old age content and used it twice lol
the female characters I've done are here
http://arfur9.deviantart.com/gallery/

Most of the first page is modeled in Sketchup

Do you know where I can look for free content for Daz?

http://www.sharecg.com/b/21/DAZStudio?PSID=18dadc87f8221e71a...
loads of free stuff
http://www.renderosity.com/
but you have create an account