Skillshare Courses

Bookkeeping for Freelancers: How to Handle Your Finances

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Set up bookkeeping for a freelance business: separate personal and business expenses, choose between cash and accrual accounting, categorize transactions, and organize documents.

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• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Master Your Money— Personal Finance, Investing, and Productivity for Beginners

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Take control of your money: track expenses, cut costs, pay yourself first, and use compound interest and five wealth rules to start investing.

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• 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Watercolor Giraffe

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Paint a watercolor giraffe step by step: choose and mix paint colours, layer washes, work wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry, create deliberate blooms, and combine paintings in Photoshop.

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

Intro to Watercolor Florals in Procreate

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Paint watercolor florals in Procreate: adapt the wet-on-dry technique with custom brushes to create flower and foliage doodles and a balanced loose wildflower bouquet.

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

Creative Writing Project: Structure Your Story

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Structure a novel, short story or screenplay: distinguish plot from story, work through the dramatic elements, and combine passion, theme and character flaw into a premise.

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• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

How To Stay Motivated as a Small YouTuber

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Motivation strategies for small YouTubers facing slow growth, including visualizing goals, setting rewards, and sustaining passion.

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• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Oil Pastels Boot Camp: A Missing Manual for Success

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A practical oil pastel manual covering blending, optical mixing, special effects, surfaces, painting, and preservation.

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• 1 hour 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Digital Illustration Techniques: Creating a Paper Pop-Up Style

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Create a digital paper pop-up style: sketch and render in Adobe Illustrator, set up ring light effects, then add paper textures, lighting and depth in Photoshop.

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• 1 hour 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Be A Pen Tool Wizard in Photoshop

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Master Photoshop's pen tool: draw and refine vector shapes, work the Paths panel, apply vector masks to layers and groups, and combine paths with path operations.

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

Cinema 4D - Looping 3D Animation for Instagram and GIF

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Build a looping photo-real 3D animation in Cinema 4D: model a jellybean factory, animate with effectors and dynamics, light, texture, render, composite and export Instagram GIFs.

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• 1 hour 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Social Media for Creatives: Five Exercises to Power Your Freelance Career

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Work through five exercises to identify potential fans, build brand awareness, increase engagement, earn subscribers, and convert casual followers into a paying fanbase.

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• 1 hour 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Descriptive Writing: Crafting Vivid, Immersive Scenes

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Craft vivid, immersive scenes: use sensory and unexpected detail, spot automatic or overused description, and revise a richly described scene or very short story.

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• 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Growing Your Creativity

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Build creative confidence by cultivating curiosity, finding inspiration, identifying your artistic voice, and creating authentic new ideas.

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• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Funky Letters: Turn Your Hand Lettering Into Epic GIFS!

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Turn hand lettering into animated GIFs in Photoshop: build stacking, flickering and word-switch effects, pick formats, and export for Instagram, blogs and portfolios.

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• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Design For Instagram: Branding and Consistency

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Build a consistent Instagram gallery by clarifying your brand’s purpose, strengths, and unique selling point, then planning content that attracts the right followers.

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• 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available