Skillshare Courses

Leathercraft Basics: Create Your Own Leather Wallet

105 ratings at Skillshare

Hand-sew your own leather wallet: compare chrome and veg tan hides, gather tools, transfer and cut patterns, set hardware, and stitch by hand.

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• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Learn Camera Basics for Videos - A Beginners Guide

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Learn to film in manual mode: compare action, point-and-shoot and mirrorless cameras, then set shutter speed, frame rate, ISO, aperture, filters and lenses.

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• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
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Music Composition Techniques 1: Getting Started

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Generate and shape musical ideas: use character sketches, canon, binary, ternary and rondo forms, triads, diatonic chord progressions, inversions and melody writing to start composing.

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• 4 hours 10 minutes
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• Free Trial Available

Learning Adobe Photoshop for Beginners

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Edit non-destructively in Photoshop CC: use smart objects and filters, layer styles, adjustment layers, and masking to build a text-and-image composite.

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• 1 hour 4 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Beginner Guitar Lessons: Guitar Lesson 1

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Learn to hold and strum a guitar, tune it, read notes on the staff, play your first open chord, and 16 classic rock riffs.

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• 2 hours 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Draw Better: Basic Tips That Instantly Improve Your Artwork

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Ten simple tips using lines, dots, planes, depth, repetition, and scale to improve hand drawings and computer graphics.

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• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Practical Fine Art Inkjet Printing: Create Beautiful Prints Of Your Work

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Learn to produce archival fine art prints at home by choosing an inkjet printer and paper, managing print settings, and trimming finished work.

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• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Collage Universe: Bringing Life to Printed Artifacts

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Create three types of analog collage — foreground and background, characters in new environments, portals and windows — sourcing vintage magazine material and making clean blade cuts.

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• 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Matchbox Label Techniques: Illustration, Vintage Design & Print Textures

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Design a vintage matchbox label: study matchbox art history, distill complex ideas into simple imagery, and recreate classic print colors and textures in Procreate and Photoshop.

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• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Drawing in Procreate! Learning the Basics. Tutorial 2/7: Layers & Colors. Tips&Tricks for Beginners

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Learn to use Procreate layers, gestures, color fills, and custom palettes while creating a colorful printable April calendar.

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• 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Getting Started with Sketch: Design a Beautiful Profile Card

Design a Twitter profile card in Sketch: set up artboards and shapes, use masks, style text, build icons, add shadows and gradients, and export.

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• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Fun and easy watercolor backgrounds: Part 1

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Learn easy watercolor techniques for creating geometric, night-sky, splash, and stencil-detail backgrounds for lettering, borders, and cards.

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• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Give A Great Chair Massage: Head, Neck, Shoulders & Back

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Learn effleurage, petrissage and tapotement techniques to give friends and family a head, neck, shoulder and back chair massage, including setting the mood.

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• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Drawing the Fashion Croquis: a Step-by-Step Tutorial for Beginners

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Draw a symmetrical 9-heads fashion croquis step by step: croquis types, proportions, guidelines, the skeleton, adding shape, and seamlines.

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• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
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Spruce up Your Portfolio - Even if you've never had clients before

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Build an art portfolio with no clients: research the market, write your own briefs, create collections, and make mockup and printed presentation sheets for trade shows.

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• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available