No, it will be a start-from-scratch type deal. You might be in a class with people who already have cool art skills, or already know a lot about using GIMP, but want to follow the course for some parts of it (e.g. world building / balancing stats etc.) rather than the drawing per se, but I'm hoping that people who already know stuff about each lesson will be willing to share their knowledge and provide advice of their own as well.
The first two lessons will be on free drawing and using layers to create a scene, and then arles will do a lesson on drawing up freestyle games like Memories / Escape!
After that, we'll focus on sprite-based games (though they can be equally applied to any other type of game), and use those to explore some more tools and ways of manipulating and drawing images. I will provide a good chunk of artwork for those assignments initially, but since there's a week per lesson, we'll move through getting you guys to create your own scenes fairly early on.
After that, LSN and ECR will discuss how they made their games, and then we'll have a larger 'half-way through' assignment.
From then I give up the reins to the others who will have lessons on world building, NPCs, mapmaking, animation etc. so we should end up with a pretty good toolbox by the end
And my own dragons are here. The hatched ones like the clicks! 
