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Essential Watercolor Tools & Techniques for Beginners

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Choose watercolor paints, paper and brushes, then practice wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, glazing, textures, brush strokes and pigment-to-water ratios through seven exercises.

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• 1 hour 30 minutes
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How To Draw The Female Body - Complete Figure Drawing

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Draw the female body in front, side, and back views, working with different body types, proportions, and pose templates to build your own characters.

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• 1 hour 14 minutes
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Understanding Alpha Lock, Clipping Mask & Layer Mask In Procreate

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Learn to use Alpha Lock, Clipping Masks, and Layer Masks in Procreate for non-destructive shading and lighting in digital illustrations.

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• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
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How to Draw the Head from Every Angle: Part Three

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Draw your character's head on the X, Y and Z axes, add facial expressions, and compile everything into a reusable character reference sheet.

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• 20 minutes
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Intro To PR: Storytelling Pays in Marketing

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Find and own your brand's story, then build content, events, and promotions around it, using case studies on earned versus stolen attention and user-based content.

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• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
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Overcome Artist's Block in Art Challenges: Creatively Respond to Prompts

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Move from a blank prompt to a finished piece: research, brainstorm, filter and pick winning ideas, and sketch your way past artist's block in art challenges.

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• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
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Watercolor Butterflies

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Paint three watercolor butterflies step by step — a yellow one, monochrome studies, and a blue one — with guidance on materials, details, and technique tricks.

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• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
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The Basics of Color Mixing in Watercolor

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Mix any color you can imagine in watercolor: paint a color wheel, learn color terminology, use analogous and complementary schemes, and render white objects.

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• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
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How to Digitize a Hand Drawn Design or Coloring Book Page to Publish and Sell Online

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Learn to scan, clean up, and vectorize hand-drawn coloring designs for publishing on books, apparel, stickers, mugs, and other products.

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• 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
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Digital Illustrative Typography: Playing With Adobe Fresco

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Create illustrative typography in Adobe Fresco on iPad: build custom 3D lettering guides, sketch legible letterforms from illustrations, recolor quickly, and mock designs onto products.

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• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
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Create a Macramé Wall Hanging Using 5 Easy Knots

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Learn five macramé knots — lark's head, square, double half hitch, alternating square and half knot — to make a fringed wall hanging on a dowel.

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• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
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Bounce Lettering: Learn to Break the Rules to Produce Effortless-Looking Calligraphy

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Learn the rules so you can break them: use brush pens, guidelines and ascenders and descenders to bounce letters and words into playful modern calligraphy.

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• 48 minutes
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The Golden Ratio in Logo Design

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Learn to construct a golden ratio spiral and apply it to symbol and letter logo projects.

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• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Animate for FREE on iPad: FlipaClip Beginner Course

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Animate frame by frame on iPad with the free FlipaClip app, using layers, keyframes, onion skin, the frames viewer and sound to make a ukulele animation.

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• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
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Color Grading: 10 Quick Tips from a Pro Colorist

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Pick up 10 professional color grading habits: work in a dark environment, recalibrate your eyes, build a catalogue of looks, and grade with film stock knowledge.

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• 21 minutes
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