Skillshare Courses

Hand Drawn Typography: Designing a Font from Your Handwriting

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Turn your handwriting into a working font: write a letter sample, vectorize it into a font file, then clean up shapes, adjust kerning, and add accents.

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• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
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Faster, Fresher, More Exciting: Editing Powerful Videos in Premiere Pro CC

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Edit videos with attitude in Premiere Pro CC: build a rough cut, time creative music edits, add effects, grade color, and animate a simple title.

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• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

DSLR and Mirrorless: The Fundamentals of Photography

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Learn to shoot your DSLR or mirrorless camera manually: balance aperture, shutter speed and ISO, set white balance, choose RAW or JPEG, and use Aperture and Shutter Priority modes.

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• 2 hours 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Relaxing Watercolour Projects for Beginners: Simple Skies & Silhouettes

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Paint fifteen simple sky-and-silhouette watercolour projects step by step, practising flat, graduated and variegated washes, soft clouds, values and brush control, then framing them as polaroids or bookmarks.

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• 4 hours 28 minutes
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How to Make a Living as a Surface Pattern Designer

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Learn to build a surface pattern design business: find your signature style, build a portfolio, set pricing and contracts, market yourself and land clients.

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• 1 hour 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Creating Realistic Color: A Primer for Beginners

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Learn to see and mix realistic color from a reference: identify value, saturation and temperature, build harmonious palettes with single-pigment and pre-mixed traditional media.

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• 1 hour 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Text Animation Using Shapes in After Effects

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Learn to morph geometric shapes into animated letters in After Effects using squash and stretch, bouncy rotation, sequencing, and motion trails.

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• 1 hour 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Design a minimal geometric scene in Blender

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Model, lay out, light, and render a minimal geometric scene in Blender, setting up the camera, a colour palette, shaders and materials, and HDRI lighting.

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• 1 hour 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Drawing People in Procreate: Stylized Character Illustration for Beginners

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Draw stylized characters from simple shapes: heads, hairstyles, torsos, arms, hands and full bodies, then place them in a neighborhood house scene in Procreate.

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• 2 hours 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

4 Exotic Patterns in Adobe Illustrator - A Graphic Design for Lunch™ Class

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Build four exotic vector patterns in Adobe Illustrator — Quatrefoil, Barbed Quatrefoil, Moroccan Trellis and a Layered Diamond — with techniques that work in any Illustrator version.

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• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Intro to Woodburning: Art from Natural Materials

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Create a woodburned piece such as coasters or wall art: choose tools, select a wood surface, transfer a design, burn it, and add finishing touches.

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• 9 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Introduction to QuickBooks: Bookkeeping Basics

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An introduction to QuickBooks that explains how its business reports help you begin recording finances and understanding your business financials.

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• 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

3D Modeling In Blender: Design Your First 3D Object

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Explore Blender's interface and model a 3D scene with a cabinet, shelves, window and pots, then add lighting and materials, denoise and render the final image.

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• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Digital Lettering: Designing Typography for Headlines in a Visual Layout

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Craft expressive images from letterforms: gather inspiration from editorial design, experiment with tape textures, digitize sketches, build a headline, and finalize composition and spacing.

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• 1 hour 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Watercolor Florals -Orchids

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Paint watercolor orchids step by step: blend colors, add shadows, highlights and dry-brush texture, then sketch, choose colors, paint leaves, stem, vase and backgrounds.

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• 1 hour 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available