Skillshare Courses

Improvised Illustration: Style and Technique

388 ratings at Skillshare

Improvise an illustration on the theme "Before and After": brainstorm multiple ideas, sketch variations with brushes and pens, then finish and refine the piece in Photoshop.

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• 1 hour 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Personal Brand Manifesto: Who Do You Think You Are?

388 ratings at Skillshare

Work through five quick exercises — list, scribble, tear, memento, envelope — to clarify your core values and set direction for your creative career and personal brand.

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• 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Vector Brushes: Building Textured Brushes for Illustrator

389 ratings at Skillshare

Craft hand-made textures and turn them into scatter, art, and pattern brushes in Adobe Illustrator, then save and apply them to vector artwork.

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• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Character Design with Story

389 ratings at Skillshare

Pretty pictures aren't enough: use backstory and pointed questions before drawing to design characters, and objects, that hold attention.

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• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Adobe Premiere Pro CC – Essentials Training Course

387 ratings at Skillshare

Edit interviews, wedding videos, documentaries and social media clips in Premiere Pro: color grading with LUTs, audio cleanup and syncing, text animation, and exporting.

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• 15 hours 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Pinterest Marketing 101 for Creative Entrepreneurs

387 ratings at Skillshare

Learn to drive blog and shop traffic with Pinterest: build boards, craft strong pins, use rich pins, hashtags, PinCodes, promoted pins, and Tailwind.

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• 1 hour 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Procreate Animation for Illustrators: Create Easy GIFs in Procreate 5

386 ratings at Skillshare

Add motion to finished illustrations in Procreate 5: animate position, use clipping masks, opacity and Liquify transformations, redraw blinking eyes, and export GIFs for Instagram.

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• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Drawing Daily Monsters: Finding Inspiration in a Drop of Ink

387 ratings at Skillshare

Turn a drop of ink into a creature: gather materials, blow ink blots, then sketch and finalize charming monsters using eyes to convey emotion.

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• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Illustrate Your Day: An Intro to Symbol Design

387 ratings at Skillshare

Design 20 symbols for the objects and activities of your daily routine: sketch referents, apply icon design techniques, and build vector icons in Adobe Illustrator.

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• 1 hour 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Pattern Play: Combining Illustrator and Photoshop

385 ratings at Skillshare

Build a seamless pattern repeat: draw shapes with Illustrator's pen and pencil tools, set a color palette, then add hand-drawn lines and painted texture in Photoshop.

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• 1 hour 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Fundamentals of Product Management

384 ratings at Skillshare

Learn product management by working through a project: come up with ideas, scope them, build a feature list and user flow, create wireframes, and test.

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• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Animating With Character - Rigging

382 ratings at Skillshare

Rig a character for animation in After Effects: place puppet tool pins, install DUIK, build IK arms and legs, parent limbs, and animate a looping wave.

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• 1 hour 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Ink Illustration Techniques in Procreate

381 ratings at Skillshare

Add shadow, highlight, and depth to line drawings with hatching, crosshatching, and stippling in Procreate, plus bold color and custom ink brushes.

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• 2 hours 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Color Grading for Filmmaking: The Vision, Art, and Science

381 ratings at Skillshare

Train your eye for color nuance, use color to serve story, and apply a five-step grade — correction, shot matching, skin tones, styling, polish — in Premiere Pro Lumetri.

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• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Mobile Stop Motion

380 ratings at Skillshare

Animate everyday objects on your phone: set up lighting and backdrops, configure a free stop motion app, animate forwards and backwards, color correct, and share.

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• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available