Skillshare Courses

Pet Portraits: Capture Studio-Quality Photos of Your Pet

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Photograph your cat or dog at home: use window light, a black backdrop, camera settings, and Lightroom edits for dramatic high-contrast portraits.

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• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Inkscape for beginners Class01

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Learn to draw with the free vector software Inkscape, using its shape and drawing tools to build geometric patterns from scratch.

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• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Getting Started with a Botanical Sketchbook

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Start a botanical sketchbook: choose a book, test media and tools, find inspiration, and sketch maple seeds and a viola flower step by step.

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• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Creating Depth and Dimension in Your Designs

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Give flat line art the illusion of space: apply overlap, value, perspective, and contrast with pencil and thick and thin pens so shapes float off the page.

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• 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Creative Video Storytelling & Editing: Making the Most of Stock Footage

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Build video stories from stock footage: use clips to add emotion, fill story gaps, and show what you say, then smooth, order, and score them.

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• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Redesign Your Resume: Designing Professional Documents

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Redesign your résumé into a polished document: apply hierarchy, layout, type selection and finishing details in InDesign, then export files for their intended destination.

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• 2 hours 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

[Intro To] Watercolor Florals for Graphic Design

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Paint watercolor florals and foliage, then scan, enhance, recolor, and remove backgrounds in Photoshop to create reusable assets for graphic design.

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• 1 hour 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Watercolor Painting : Misty Mountains Landscape

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Paint cascading misty mountains in watercolor with just two colors: blend confident brushstrokes, layer values, and add pine forest marks and distant flying birds.

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• 1 hour 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Low-Tech Printing: Get Started in Print Design!

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Print with everyday household materials: try found objects, carved stamps, and quick stencils with a little paint, then mix the three methods together.

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• 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Textured Dot Pattern in Adobe Illustrator - A Graphic Design for Lunch™ Class

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Create a textured dot pattern in Illustrator, using a layer as a mask so the texture shows only where you want it.

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• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Affinity Designer Basics: Vector Assets for Surface Pattern Design

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Draw botanical vector assets in Affinity Designer: Pencil Tool stabilization, Pixel persona sketching, Assets Studio, clipping masks, blend modes, and the Knife Tool.

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• 3 hours 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Illustration Masterclass: Exploring Technique and Style

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Explore eight illustration styles from bold to whimsical using watercolour, coloured pencil, lead pencil, ink pen and brush, then craft your artwork into a personalised gift card.

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• 1 hour 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Digital 80s Design: Combining Illustrator and Photoshop

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Craft the 80s aesthetic digitally: build desert scenes and gradients in Illustrator, then add sand textures, lighting and chrome lettering effects in Photoshop.

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• 1 hour 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Dark and Moody Chocolate Photography: DIY Natural Light Studio

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Shoot dark, moody chocolate images with diffused window light: build a light tunnel, style props, set metering and white balance, then edit iPhone shots in VSCO.

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• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

All you need to know about Brushes in Illustrator - A Graphic Design for Lunch™ Class

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Learn the brush types in Illustrator — Art, Scatter, Pattern, Bristle and Calligraphic — plus two extra tools that produce similar brush-like results.

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• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available