Skillshare Courses

Graphic Design for Good: Design a Personal Manifesto

64 ratings at Skillshare

Design a personal manifesto: collect visual inspiration, build a mood board, apply layout and composition rules, choose colours, and pair typography in Adobe Illustrator.

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• 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Watercolor Galaxies for Beginners - Learn to Paint a Stellar Spiral Galaxy

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Paint two watercolor spiral galaxies: a smooth blue cosmos and a dramatic violet supernova, using round brushes, artist-grade cotton paper, and white gouache for stars.

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

Minimalist vs. Maximalist Interior Design: Find the Perfect Blend for You

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Redesign a room along the simplicity–complexity spectrum: curate objects using density, variety, shape, colour and arrangement to achieve a minimal, maximal or blended look.

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• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Intro to Visible Mending by Hand: Fix Your Jeans - Simply and Beautifully!

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Repair a hole in the knee of your jeans by hand: cut and pin a patch, thread a needle, and work whip and running stitches.

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• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Street Photography Composition: 5 Techniques for Standout Photos

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Compose street photos with intention: apply juxtaposition, subframing, perspective, lighting and color, and shapes and abstraction to everyday scenes.

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• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

How to Create a Bedroom Retreat in 8 Easy Steps

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Give your bedroom a calming makeover in eight steps: measure the room, draw a floor plan, arrange furniture, pick neutral and accent colors, hang curtains, and add lighting, art and plants.

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• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Creative Writing: Begin with the Body

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Begin with the body: use physical experience as a starting point for creative nonfiction, studying poems, essays and stories, then editing your own writing live.

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• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Live Encore: Building a Thriving Creative Business

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Grow a creative business: define your dream, build an annual plan, grow an email list, add multiple income streams, and market without feeling gross.

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• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

The Busy Creative: 3 Quick & Easy Drawing Exercises to Spark Creativity

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Build a daily drawing habit with three bite-size exercises — the Quick Bite, the Coffee Break and the Lunch Box — plus tips for maintaining your routine.

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• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Creating Seamless Marble Textures In Adobe Photoshop

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Create modern marble textures in Adobe Photoshop, recolor them with gradient maps, and turn them into seamless patterns ready to save and export.

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• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Let’s Doodle Faces: Beginner’s Guide to Using Simple Lines to Draw Cartoon Faces

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Create whimsical cartoon faces from the simple lines and shapes found in letters and numbers.

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• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Soft Pastels - Beginner Tips & Techniques Workshop

64 ratings at Skillshare

Learn soft pastel strokes, blending and techniques step by step, choose beginner supplies, and find out how to create and store your finished pastel artwork.

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• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Composition Theory For Illustration: Draw Your Own Floral Scene

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Learn basic composition theory for illustration — focal point, depth, and shapes — and apply it by sketching your own floral scene.

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• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Gimp Class 01: Draw repeat patterns using Gimp

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Learn to create repeatable surface patterns in GIMP using layers, tablets, or scanned drawings, then vary them with colors and textures.

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• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Git & GitHub Crash Course

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A concise command-line introduction to Git and GitHub, covering repositories, staging, commits, diffs, and pushing changes.

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• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available