Skillshare Courses

Building Character 1: Design and Sketch Your Character

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Design a character from three personal attributes: gather reference, pick tools, and sketch basic shapes, physical features, and finishing details.

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• 26 minutes
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Brand Yourself - A Quick Guide on Brand Positioning

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Create your own brand guide: define your target market, pinpoint what sets you apart from competitors, and find a message and voice you keep consistent.

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• 14 minutes
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Guitar Fundamentals: Learn Quick with Mike Boyd

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Learn guitar from scratch: tune with a free app, read chord diagrams, fret A, D, E, G and C, and strum two full songs.

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• 1 hour 12 minutes
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Fundamentals of Photo Editing

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Walk through a full photo edit in Adobe Lightroom: import and select shots, fix exposure, white balance and lens distortion, then refine with tone curves and masks.

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• 1 hour 33 minutes
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Portrait Photography Essentials: One-Light Setups

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Light portraits with a single source: shoot split, loop, Rembrandt, and butterfly setups using bounce cards, soft boxes, or just an iPhone and sunlight.

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• 44 minutes
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Doodle Art: Curvy and Organic Designs

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Draw curvy, organic doodle art step by step: practice circles, ovals, dots, scallops, leaves and ropes, then combine outlines and fills into one flowing piece.

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• 57 minutes
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Creative Ideas To Improve Your Drawing Skills

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Practice seven pen-and-paper exercises — shapes within shapes, bubbles, blossoms, petals, shells and spirals — to steady your line, sharpen hand-eye coordination and explore negative space.

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• 18 minutes
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Lettering in the Wild

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Blend your lettering into photographs with Photoshop masking techniques, working around detailed objects, adding atmosphere, and creating a sense of depth.

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• 14 minutes
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A Comprehensive Guide to Hand Lettering: Creating Graphic and Script Styles

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Draw hand-lettered envelopes step by step: practice lettering strokes, condensed sans serif and casual script, layout and composition, broad nib work, shading and outlining.

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• 1 hour 54 minutes
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Advanced Techniques in Surface Pattern Design

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Build complex repeating patterns in Adobe Illustrator: geometric, diagonal, layered, textured and lined repeats, plus sketching, scanning, vectorizing, coloring motifs and time-saving keyboard shortcuts.

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• 1 hour 28 minutes
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Responsive Web Design Essentials - HTML5 CSS3 Bootstrap

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Build four responsive sites — restaurant, bike repair, portfolio and Bootstrap 4 — with HTML5, CSS3, Flexbox, media queries and a mobile burger menu, then publish them live.

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• 16 hours 47 minutes
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Smart Responsive UX Design: Clever Tips, Tricks and Techniques

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Design responsive interface components — navigation, iconography, tables and calendars, web forms, micro-components and responsive upscaling — and see how the patterns work together across a site.

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• 1 hour 29 minutes
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• Free Trial Available

First Steps of SEO: Keyword Research and Website Optimization

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A step-by-step introduction to SEO using keyword research and website examples to improve visibility in Google search results.

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• 58 minutes
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• Free Trial Available

Drawing the Flourish Basics and Beyond

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Draw flourishes from simple spirals to ornamental styles: work with loops, corners, symmetry via tracing paper, and different pens to embellish letters and illustrations.

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• 22 minutes
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Mastering Duotones in Adobe Photoshop

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Create trendy duotones in Photoshop: source and pair colours, tone images with gradient maps and gradient fills, build presets and actions, and export for web and print.

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• 1 hour 45 minutes
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• Free Trial Available