Skillshare Courses

Brushpen Logo Design: Develop Your Signature Style

441 ratings at Skillshare

Craft your own signature-style brushpen logo: run practice drills, explore ligatures and motifs, sketch with a 2H pencil, then vectorize smooth curves in Illustrator.

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• 2 hours 9 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Sweet Spots: Expressing Big Ideas in Small Editorial Illustrations

441 ratings at Skillshare

Work through concept and style from research to final art: create two sets of editorial spot illustrations with consistent color, stylization, and design principles.

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• 4 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Art School Boot Camp: Designing Quirky Characters

439 ratings at Skillshare

A character is more than a drawing of a person: use shape language and silhouette tests to design quirky characters that communicate personality, story, and emotion.

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• 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

The Art of the Story: Creating Visual Narratives

439 ratings at Skillshare

Explore how to find, edit, and craft a visual story through writing, objects, materials, and sketching.

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• 58 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Digital Illustration: Communicate with Color, Pattern and Texture

440 ratings at Skillshare

Create a digital illustration interpreting "quiet" or "loud": sketch concepts, apply color theory, and build vector shapes, patterns, and custom texture brushes in Illustrator.

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• 2 hours 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Packaging Your Fashion Brand: Developing Hangtags, Labels, and More

438 ratings at Skillshare

Design brand collateral for a clothing line: main and secondary labels, trims, hangtags, stickers, and creative packaging that connect customers to your brand.

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• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Fearless Art Challenge: a 14-Day Drawing Challenge to Unlock Your Creative Self

437 ratings at Skillshare

A 14-day drawing challenge uses varied prompts, demonstrations, and a mistake-friendly mindset to push artists beyond their comfort zones and develop a personal style.

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• 1 hour 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Fun With Spaces: Create a Stylised Scene in Procreate + Animation

Create a stylised scene in Procreate: use the Quickshape tool, add depth and avoid tangents, work sketch to final, then animate a cat with Animation Assist.

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• 1 hour 9 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Start with a Shape - An Illustration Challenge

436 ratings at Skillshare

Start with a shape: build a regular watercolor practice using four tactical ways to approach a shape, preferred supplies, and tips for maintaining momentum.

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• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Watercolor Fundamentals: Water Control and Shape

434 ratings at Skillshare

Practice two core watercolor skills: control how much water is on paper and in your brush, and paint shapes with smooth edges, sharp corners, and precision.

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• 1 hour 8 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Calligraphy for Beginners 1 – The Foundational Styles of Calligraphy

433 ratings at Skillshare

Make a handmade calligraphy pen and scribe a 15th-century humanist alphabet and Johnston's Foundational Hand, from basic strokes to swashes, words, and pencil calligraphy.

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• 1 hour 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Vintage Hand-Lettering: Styling Phrases for Timeless Appeal

432 ratings at Skillshare

Hand-letter a vintage-style package label: gather reference and build a mood board, interpret sources without copying, brainstorm copy, and sketch thumbnails with flourishes and layout.

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• 1 hour 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Layouts for Lettering: Hierarchy, Composition, and Type Systems

432 ratings at Skillshare

Build layouts that carry your lettering: use thumbnail sketches, hierarchy and shapes, typeface pairings, and type-image balance across posters, packaging, and product designs.

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• 1 hour 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Adobe InDesign CC – Advanced Training

429 ratings at Skillshare

Master advanced InDesign: nested and GREP styles, OpenType and Typekit fonts, long-document tools like indexes and cross-references, interactive PDFs, EPUBs, charts, scripts and printing tricks.

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• 8 hours 11 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Italian Chef Secrets: How to Make Perfect Thin Crust Pizza

427 ratings at Skillshare

Make authentic Roman-style thin crust pizza at home: mix and roll the dough, dress the pie with toppings, and bake it on a pizza steel.

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• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available