Skillshare Courses

Creative Writing: 7 Exercises To Generate Ideas For Your Next Story

126 ratings at Skillshare

Generate story ideas with seven exercises — free writing, photo and column prompts, stolen conversations — plus an Idea Bible, the Five Ws, and a Character's Circle of Life.

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• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Get Started with Stippling

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Learn to create light, shadow, depth, and dimension with stippled dots while producing a pen-and-ink crab illustration.

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• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Composing Comics: Design Rules For Creating Clearer Pictures

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Comics are their own language: learn its grammar — page guides, panel layout, drawing patterns, and placing text in word bubbles for clearer, more readable pages.

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• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Intro to Web Design: Friendly Design for Startups and Small Business

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Design an elegant one-page website home page in Photoshop: layout, typography and color basics, plus button styles, avatars, containers, rollovers and carousels.

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• 1 hour 8 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Design for Print: Stand Out with Specialty Printing Techniques

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Design a business card ready for a specialty printer: compare letterpress, offset, and digital methods, choose paper and inks, and prep press-ready Illustrator files.

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• 1 hour 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Levitation Photography: Exploring Magic and Portraiture

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Shoot and composite a levitation portrait: set camera settings, pose your model, then use Photoshop layer masks and Lightroom presets to erase the stool and float origami cranes.

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• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Javascript Fun: Build a Tip Calculator!

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Build a tip calculator with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript: variables, functions, event handlers, DOM manipulation, conditionals, and currency formatting with set decimal places.

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• 1 hour 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Mini-Class: Beautiful Ink: Designing Meaningful Tattoos

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Design meaningful tattoos: research references to set style and placement, sketch the concept, and prep the final artwork for body application or temporary printing.

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• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Make a Splash: Get Wild with Watercolor

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Stop taming your paint: lay base washes, control backruns, glaze and dry brush, then push into wild effects with unusual tools.

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• 1 hour 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Python 3: Programming in Python for Beginners

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Learn Python from scratch: operators, loops, lists and dictionary comprehensions, functions, file handling, JSON and public APIs, classes and inheritance, plus configuring Visual Studio Code.

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• 19 hours 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

How to Draw & Paint Animal Eyes in Watercolor

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Draw and paint animal eyes in watercolor: compare human and vertebrate eye structure, then follow real-time cat, peacock, lizard, and toad demonstrations.

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• 1 hour 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Watercolor Roses - Pro Techniques Explained

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Paint a realistic watercolor rose: mix a harmonious botanical palette, layer wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry washes, add petal texture strokes, shadows and water drops.

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• 1 hour 5 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Designing Hand Lettering Systems: From Single Motif to Cohesive Project

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Build a cohesive hand-lettering system for a book: sketch and illustrate an ex libris, title page, and back cover blurb unified by one motif.

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• 2 hours 5 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Branding Your Creative Business: Social Media For Your Business

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Promote a creative business on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram, plus blogging, press and publicity, and scheduling your week between making, marketing and rest.

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• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Start an Online T-Shirt Business at Zero Cost

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Launch a T-shirt label with no inventory: build a brand, create designs in GIMP, Photoshop or Illustrator, and sell through Redbubble, Zazzle, Teespring and Printful.

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• 2 hours 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available