Skillshare Courses

Intro to Graphic Design: Illustrating Badges and Icons with Geometric Shapes

191 ratings at Skillshare

Design a cohesive set of at least six icons and badges in Illustrator, building them from basic geometric vector shapes, gestalt principles, and custom color palettes.

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• 2 hours 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Short Films 101: Plan, Capture, and Edit Cinematic Shorts

192 ratings at Skillshare

Life without the boring parts: shoot and edit a one-minute cinematic short with a DSLR, organizing footage, choosing selects, adding audio, and cutting to music.

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

Illustrating with Layered Texture and Color in Procreate

190 ratings at Skillshare

Add depth to flat illustrations in Procreate: layer texture brushes for highlights and shadows, and use single and multicolored textures for warm and cool tones.

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• 1 hour 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Sewing For Selling: Small Batch Production for Home-based Business

190 ratings at Skillshare

Optimize pattern layouts and streamline sewing workflows to produce small batches of up to 15 items for a home-based business.

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• 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Exploring Photographic Style: The Power of “Wonderlust” Imagery

189 ratings at Skillshare

Yesterday's mistakes are today's trends: evaluate, curate, and shoot "wonderlust" imagery using color, texture, scale, composition, and point of view for Instagram or marketing.

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• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Watercolor Basics: Paint Your Own Patterned Note Cards

190 ratings at Skillshare

Start watercolor by painting patterned note cards: gather basic supplies, mix and blend colors, and paint simple patterns you can give away.

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• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Watercolors & Masking Fluid Techniques

189 ratings at Skillshare

Use masking fluid with watercolors: work with two masking tools and four techniques to create backgrounds, protect details, build textures and layering in a finished illustration.

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• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Graphic Design: Create a Bold, Colorful Album Cover

190 ratings at Skillshare

Design a bold, colorful album cover: gather inspiration, sketch compositions, play with shapes in Adobe Illustrator, and color them using the Live Paint Bucket tool.

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• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Cold Brew Coffee Swirl: Tips for Capturing the Perfect Pour

189 ratings at Skillshare

Photograph a cold brew coffee cream swirl: pick the right coffee and cream, control glare, shoot with an IR remote, nail focus, and edit in Lightroom.

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• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

A Guide to Watercolor Paints and Brands

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Compare watercolor brands and formats — pan sets, tubes, liquid, metallic and neon paints — judging vibrance, lightfastness, transparency and pigmentation, then build your own paint guide.

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• 3 hours 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Productivity & Time Management Strategies for Goal Setting & Eliminating Distractions

190 ratings at Skillshare

Learn a step-by-step productivity method: set SMART goals, batch work, craft healthy routines, manage energy, and eliminate distractions and multitasking.

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• 2 hours 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Video Editing: Transforming Footage into Evocative Travel Stories

189 ratings at Skillshare

Edit travel footage into an evocative story: organize clips, choose music, assemble in DaVinci Resolve, add transitions, color grade, and optimize for social media.

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• 1 hour 4 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

From Everyday to Extraordinary: Paint a Lighthouse 3 Ways with Watercolor

188 ratings at Skillshare

Paint a lighthouse three ways in watercolour, enhancing each sketch with pen line, candle wax resist, or torn paper collage, plus a warm-up exercise.

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• 1 hour 8 minutes
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• Free Trial Available

Sending Work to the Printer

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Prepare digital artwork for commercial printing: color gamuts and profiles, spot versus process color, resolution, bleeds and trim, and file setup in Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat.

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• 1 hour 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Code your own portfolio – HTML & CSS basics

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Code a designer's portfolio page step by step: HTML tags, CSS properties, Google Fonts and web typography, navigation, box shadows, and browser dev tools.

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