Skillshare Courses

Travel Sketching - Capturing the Feel of a Place

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Watch a working process for sketching places from life, covering composition, focal point, color, brushwork, and handling watercolor to capture the feel of a location.

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• 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

FRAME RATES for Video: How to Master Slow Motion, Speed Ramping and Cinematic Video

85 ratings at Skillshare

Choose the right frame rate for every shot: real slow motion, 24 vs 25fps, 30fps, the 180° shutter rule, and speed ramping.

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• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

How to Film Solo Without the FOMO: Filmmaking Tricks for the One-Person Crew

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Shoot high-production-value films as a one-person crew: repeat motions, swap the tripod, keep a wide running, capture sound and sfx, and build a strong story.

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• 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

How to Draw: A Beginner’s Guide - Part 1 of The Drawing Laboratory

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Drawing is a skill, not a talent: build drawings from basic shapes, start with light lines, measure proportions, and finish with contours, detail and value.

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• 5 hours 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Self-Publish a Best Selling Book

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Self-publish a book on KDP: choose a unique topic, format interior pages and cover files, build a marketing strategy, and pitch traditional publishers.

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• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Intro to Adobe After Effects: Motion Design for Beginners

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Design and animate a logo reveal in After Effects using shape layers, keyframes, the graph editor, precomposing, null objects, and compositing effects.

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

Music Fundamentals: Explore & Create Your Unique Sound

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Explore melody, harmony, rhythm, and lyric writing through hands-on exercises to shape a sound of your own, following along on your instrument of choice.

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

Green Watercolor Landscapes for Beginners - in 2 styles

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Paint two green watercolour landscapes — a summer scene and a Balinese rice field — mixing natural greens from few colours, with cloudy skies, bushes, grass and coconut trees.

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• 1 hour 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Jump Start a Daily Art Practice

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Design your own daily art challenge: structure a practice, work through 31 prompts, and create pages in watercolor, gouache, pen, and collage.

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

Master Masks in Adobe Illustrator - A Graphic Design for Lunch™ Class

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Use transparency masks, clipping masks, and layer clipping masks in Illustrator to crop and blend shapes, text, and images, with tips and free practice files.

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• 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Layers and Layer Masks 101 for photographers in Adobe Photoshop - A Graphic Design for Lunch™ Class

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Learn to use Photoshop layers, layer masks, and adjustment layers for blending, texture work, and basic photo fixes.

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• 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Master the Pathfinder Panel in Adobe Illustrator: Shape & Vector Editing Made Easy

84 ratings at Skillshare

Master Adobe Illustrator's Pathfinder panel: combine and subtract shapes, refine curves and corners, and vectorize sketches into clean, complex artwork with speed-boosting shortcuts.

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• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Character Illustration for Beginners

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Create an original character from scratch: gather inspiration, sketch, digitize the drawing, then texture and shade it using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

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• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Studio Lighting I: One Light Portrait

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Learn to create a one-light studio portrait using off-camera flash, light modifiers, camera settings, and essential post-processing.

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• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

The 1-Page Time Management Tool : How To Manage Your Time Effectively?

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Build a 1-page time management tool: sort tasks across four quadrants, prioritize your to-do list, and stop losing hours to the wrong things.

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• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available