Skillshare Courses

Hand Lettering - Turning Words Into Art

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Create a hand lettered illustration with pencil and thick and thin markers: lay out letters, fill them with shape and detail, ink outlines, and add flourishes.

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• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Doodling Funny: Finding Cartoon Ideas Through Sketching

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Learn a cartoonist’s doodling process for brainstorming cartoon ideas, developing drawings, making them funnier, and exploring variations.

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• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Turn a Photo into a Cartoony Artwork with Procreate App!

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Turn a reference photo into a cartoony digital portrait in Procreate: sketch the figure, clean up lines, add flat colour, then light and shade.

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• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Garment Construction: Introduction to Draping

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Drape a dress on a dress form: gather tools, choose fabrics, pin and mark muslin for the top, bottom and back, then cut the pattern and sew.

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• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Host an Art Party: Prompts & Themes for Drawing with Friends

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Draw collaboratively with friends: pick five themes, pass sheets of paper around to blend styles and materials, then critique the finished drawings together.

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• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Digital Lettering: Designing 3D Type and Texture

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Design dimensional type: select and blend fonts, then sketch, digitize, and layer texture, dimension, and color in Illustrator and Photoshop to build an original postcard.

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• 1 hour 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

An Artist at Work: Inside the Studio with Seymour Chwast

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Explore Seymour Chwast's design career through interview footage: Push Pin Studios, war posters, book projects, and using style and wit to shape 20th-century visual culture.

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• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Polymer Clay and Sculpting Basics | Essentials for Beginners and Intermediate Artists

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Learn polymer clay from the ground up: choosing clay and sculpting tools, caning, wire armatures, mixed media, coloring, curing, and sealing with varnishes.

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• 1 hour 7 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Watercolor Seascapes : Everything you need to know about painting water & reflections

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Paint watercolor seascapes: get to know your colors, draw a boat with its reflections, and work through rippled-water and deep-sea exercises into two final projects.

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

Creating Paper Cut Out Art in Procreate

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Create paper cut out art in Procreate without scissors: sketch, fill shapes with a pastel paper brush, add drop shadows and realistic finishing details.

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• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Floral Illustration: Composition Meets Negative Space

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Compose a floral illustration: create a negative-space template, overlay flowers and nature items, add depth, handle gaps, and approach paper edges.

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• 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Typography Theory - Create Strong Designs

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Learn typography from the ground up: serif, sans-serif, decorative and script typefaces, the anatomy of type, kerning, spacing, alignment, and type hierarchy.

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• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Always Drawing: 7 Creative Exercises to Jumpstart Your Sketchbook

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Fill a week of sketchbook pages with seven guided prompts: blob monsters, personal tattoos, icon groups, flying things, imaginary treehouses, weird animals, and a bug party.

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• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Slow Cooker Secrets: Get More Flavor in Less Time | Learn with Yummly

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Learn slow cooker basics by making BBQ pulled pork: the braise formula, prepping meat, mixing your own spice rub, and timing for maximum tenderness.

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• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Starting a Creative Journal

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Start your own creative journal: try three journaling styles, make watercolour, stencil and collage backgrounds, add creative elements, and find topics to document.

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• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available