Skillshare Courses

Create Your Simple Watercolor Calendar

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Paint a monthly watercolor calendar: elegant watercolor linework, brush-marker handlettering, and page layout in Photoshop or InDesign.

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• 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

WordPress Academy: Learn WordPress step by step

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Build WordPress sites step by step: a Gutenberg landing page, a customized blog, a WooCommerce T-shirt store, and a custom theme coded from HTML in PHP.

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• 8 hours 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Sketchbook Practice: Back to Basics Watercolor Fundamentals

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Time is the deciding factor in watercolor: run five timed wet-on-wet experiments testing paint quality, paper brand, water-pigment ratio, brush load, blooms and cauliflowers.

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• 1 hour 11 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Flowers - Beautiful Botanicals Basic Shapes

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Draw geometric flowers from a few basic shapes: petal shapes and sizes, petal and center fills, layered blooms, and a rosette design filling a square frame.

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• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Fundamentals of Manga: Digital Illustration

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Sketch, ink, scan, and color your own manga character in Photoshop, covering composition, brushstroke technique, and finishing to print-quality standards.

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• 1 hour 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Mastering Microcopy: Writing Tiny Words for Huge UX Impact

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Learn to write microcopy that guides users: the six main types, a framework for judging effectiveness, and hands-on rewrites of signup forms and labels.

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• 1 hour 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

How to Draw Wildflowers - Ink Floral Illustration (Bonus: Printable Guide)

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Draw eight wildflowers in ink — dandelion, daisy, lavender, Queen Anne's lace and more — building light, shadow and texture, then combine them with lettering into a floral quote.

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• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

DSLR Camera Essentials: Film & Edit Stunning Timelapse Videos

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Film and edit timelapse videos, from intervalometer gear and location scouting to shooting stationary and motion-controlled sequences and assembling them in Lightroom and After Effects.

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• 1 hour 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Watercolor Birds

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Paint birds in watercolor: study bird anatomy and proportions, sketch loosely, build base, mid and detail layers with wet-on-wet washes, underpainting and brush textures.

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• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Create Your Own Font on the iPad

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Build a complete font on an iPad with a $5 app: typeface anatomy, letterforms, numbers and symbols, accented characters, kerning, weights, and exporting to desktop.

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• 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Creating A Realistic Still Life in Cinema 4D

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Build a realistic 3D still life in Cinema 4D: use dynamics for object placement, craft glass materials, light with HDRI, and finish renders in Photoshop.

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• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Ceramics at Home: Building Dishes by Hand

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Build three ceramic dishes by hand without a wheel using slump mold, slab, and pinch-and-coil methods, then prep for firing, glaze, and paint details.

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• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Outdoor Model Photography: Capturing Subjects with Landscapes

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Learn to photograph models in harmony with natural landscapes, from scouting outdoor locations and directing shoots to editing color and black-and-white images.

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• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Remove Backgrounds from Watercolor Illustrations

Isolate watercolor illustrations in Photoshop: remove backgrounds with the lasso and pen tools, eraser, and brush with layer masks, including tricky tiny details.

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• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Writing for Brands: Freelancing in the Age of Content Marketing

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Learn to pitch and write branded content as a freelancer: content marketing basics, working with brands, marketing yourself, pitch structure, and journalism ethics.

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• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available