Skillshare Courses

Logotype Design: Create Brand Marks with Typography

885 ratings at Skillshare

Design a logotype for a real brand: research your market, sketch balanced letterforms, develop advanced ligatures, work with symmetry, and refine everything digitally.

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• 1 hour 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Web Design Essentials: Creating Marketing Homepages That Drive Results

884 ratings at Skillshare

Design a marketing homepage that converts: define page goals, sketch for hierarchy and user patterns, build in Photoshop or Sketch, and gather feedback via InVision.

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• 1 hour 5 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Mastering Logo Design: Gridding with the Golden Ratio

869 ratings at Skillshare

Grid a complex animal logo with the Golden Spiral: pick reference images, sketch geometric forms, build golden sections in Adobe Illustrator, and fine-tune anchor points.

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• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Start Drawing: Techniques for Pencil Portraits

859 ratings at Skillshare

Draw lifelike pencil portraits: sketch accurate facial proportions, map the planes of the face, and shade eyes, nose, mouth, and hair with graphite.

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• 1 hour 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Adobe Lightroom: Finding Your Unique Editing Style

853 ratings at Skillshare

Develop a personal photo editing style in Adobe Lightroom: use its key panels, create and apply presets, and edit orange-and-teal, dark-and-moody, and vintage portrait looks.

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• 1 hour 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Botanical Illustration: Paint a Colorful Garden with Watercolor and Gouache

851 ratings at Skillshare

Combine watercolor and gouache to paint whimsical garden scenes: sketch loosely from life, mix colors from your surroundings, layer for depth, and finish with pen details.

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• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Illustrator Secrets: 5 Techniques to Add Realism to Your Work

846 ratings at Skillshare

Add realism to Illustrator artwork using 3-dimensional mesh, custom foliage brushes, complex clipping-mask layering, dimensional type with blends, and envelope distort.

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• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Vector Illustration: Playing with Texture

834 ratings at Skillshare

Add texture to vector artwork entirely inside Adobe Illustrator, practicing the technique on shapes and applying it to full illustrations at any scale.

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• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Fundamentals of Illustrator I: The First Steps to Becoming a Pro Illustrator

834 ratings at Skillshare

Get started in Adobe Illustrator: build a custom workspace, set up documents, navigate the canvas, use the basic tools, and save your files.

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• 1 hour 6 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Art of the Start: Turning Ideas into High-Growth Businesses

834 ratings at Skillshare

Make meaning, not money: position a startup with a mantra, launch early, navigate the VC world, and build a 10-slide pitch deck.

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• 1 hour 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Watercolor for Surface Pattern Design: Working with Adobe Illustrator

832 ratings at Skillshare

Turn watercolor paintings into vector surface patterns: paint with Illustrator in mind, scan and vectorize artwork, build seamless repeats, and recolor palettes.

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• 1 hour 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

DIY Viral Video: A Mini Class on Making iPhone How-To Videos | Learn with Darby Smart

829 ratings at Skillshare

Create concise, high-quality iPhone how-to videos using available tools and an Ingredients–Process–Outcome formula for sharing projects.

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• 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Make Creativity Your Career: Six Exercises to Create a Successful Side Project

822 ratings at Skillshare

Use six exercises to define creative career goals, launch and promote a side project, and decide whether to persist or pivot.

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• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Content Marketing: Create a One-Minute Video

823 ratings at Skillshare

Create a one-minute marketing video: build a shotlist, shoot with an iPhone or DSLR using good lighting, then stylize, edit, and share it.

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• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Leveling Up Your Art Game: The Elements & Principles of Design

821 ratings at Skillshare

Apply the elements and principles of design to develop a personal style, use inspiration and references without copying, and critique your own and others' work.

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• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available