Skillshare Courses

Type as Image: Draw and Hand-Letter Your Favourite Animal

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Draw and hand-letter your favourite animal: trace animal silhouettes with home-made carbon paper, sketch and define letterforms, then digitise with Adobe Capture, Photoshop and Illustrator Image Trace.

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• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Collect, Make and Digitize: A Guide to Custom Textures

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Make physical textures by hand, scan them, and turn them into digital brushes, seamless patterns and masks in Photoshop and Illustrator, then package texture packs.

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• 1 hour 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Perspective for Comics: Drawing Crowds, Buildings and Streets

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Draw a busy street scene using one-, two-, and three-point perspective: block in buildings, scale and populate crowds, then add foliage, vehicles, signage and wear.

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• 1 hour 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Photography Basics: Becoming a Professional Instagrammer

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Shoot and share photos that attract brands: master ISO, aperture and shutter speed, edit in Lightroom, and build a consistent Instagram profile and pitch.

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• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

The Webcomics Challenge: How to Create Stylized Characters

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Draw two original stylized comic characters: explore male and female style, build heads, bodies, clothes and hands, then ink, mask and gradient-color in Photoshop.

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• 1 hour 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Art School Boot Camp: Redefining Success as an Artist

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Success as an artist is yours to define: examine your current definition, reshape it, and face what happens if you never get there.

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• 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

10 in 10 - Ten Top Adobe Illustrator Tips in 10 Minutes - A Graphic Design for Lunch™ Class

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Pick up ten quick Illustrator techniques: create and apply Global Colors, use Smooth and Simplify, cut shapes with a path, and build organic strokes around objects.

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• 11 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Papercraft: Origami Boxes for Gifts & Trinkets

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Fold a single sheet into a neat box: master the folding technique, calculate sizes and proportions, add lids and inserts, and choose paper weights.

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• 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

3 Minute Spanish - Course 1 | Language lessons for beginners

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Build Spanish sentences in three-minute lessons: negatives, masculine and feminine adjectives, plural nouns, greetings, polite requests, and restaurant and number vocabulary.

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• 5 hours 6 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

How to Improve Your Figure Drawing - Step by Step

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Break the human body into simple forms: draw arms, legs, torso and hands step by step, using foreshortening, negative space and gesture studies to construct poses from memory.

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• 3 hours 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Illustrating Flowers & Arranging Bouquets in Photoshop

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Draw blooms by hand, then digitize them in Photoshop with the Quick Mask method and separate, color, and texture them into a composed bouquet illustration.

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

The Inspiration: Where Fashion Design Begins

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Source inspiration for a fashion collection: compile imagery, build a mood board with palette and backstory, profile your customer, and translate ideas into original designs.

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• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Sketchbook Practice : Using Pens to Explore Negative Space

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Build a textured painted ground, then use white Posca and gel pens with collage details to block out fruit and floral shapes around negative space.

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• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

How Dead Verbs are Killing your Writing

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Spot the weak and dead verbs hiding in your prose: learn why concrete verbs matter and revise your own fiction, non-fiction, work, and school writing.

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• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Video Production - The Complete Filmmaking Course

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Learn the full video production process: plan video ideas, shoot in manual mode on DSLR or smartphone, light with three-point setups, record audio, edit, and publish.

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• 3 hours 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available