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  • Tutorial Illustration: Japanese brushstrokes with Sumi-e technique
    Illustration Teacher

    Tutorial Illustration: Japanese brushstrokes with Sumi-e technique

    Learn with Flor Kaneshiro the basic aspects to take into account in this Japanese illustration technique: pressure, speed, direction and rhythm The Sumi-e drawing technique, although originally always practiced with Chinese ink, has a series of strokes that can also be applied with other materials such as watercolor. Its delicate and soft strokes, which must be very controlled if we are starting in this technique, make it ideal for those who want to expand their range of skills with watercolor. In the following video, illustrator Flor Kaneshiro (@florkaneshiro) explains the most important considerations: pressure, speed, direction and rhythm of the brushstroke, so that you can get started in the best possible way with the Sumi-e technique.

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  • Weaving Tutorial: Macramé Carpet Knot
    Craft Teacher

    Weaving Tutorial: Macramé Carpet Knot

    Learn how to make a carpet knot step by step following the loom tapestry technique with Belén Senra Loom tapestry techniques are useful for creating pieces of decoration. The carpet knot is one of them: its simplicity and versatility make it an ideal option for your macramé practice. The textile artist Belén Senra (@belensenra) teaches us how to make a carpet knot step by step, so that you can use it to decorate your macramé pieces. You can see the tutorial here:

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  • Illustration Tutorial: How to Create Color Palettes from Images
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    Illustration Tutorial: How to Create Color Palettes from Images

    Learn to make color palettes for your designs from the colors and images that inspire you with Catalina Estrada The colors we choose for our illustrations say a lot about our style and give a unique touch to anything we want to represent. The one-color palette will transmit a series of sensations completely different from those that other tones would achieve. Therefore, knowing which colors we want to use in our illustrations, and being able to choose them well, as the Adobe Capture app allows us to do with images, will help us make our mark on our work. In the following video tutorial, illustrator and print designer Catalina Estrada (@catalinaestrada) explains how to use Adobe Capture and Illustrator to import color palettes from our favorite photographs, to be used in an illustration. Watch the video below:

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  • Textile Toy Tutorial: How to Make A Basic Pattern Step By Step
    Craft Teacher

    Textile Toy Tutorial: How to Make A Basic Pattern Step By Step

    Learn to draw a freehand pattern for textile toys with Piti Piti Textile toys, by definition, call for a freer design and shapes that give a handmade feel. For this reason, the best technique for creating their patterns is freehand. In this tutorial, Omar Gad (@pitipiti), founder of the Piti Piti workshop in Mexico City, teaches us the simple steps to make patterns with few materials and a little creativity. Discover more in the video:

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  • Etsy Tutorial: 5 tips for positioning your store
    Marketing Teacher

    Etsy Tutorial: 5 tips for positioning your store

    Discover these 5 practical tips that will help your Etsy store to be better positioned, with Verónica de Arriba Etsy is the world's largest platform for selling handmade products and is the site par excellence for craft artists and handmade objects. However, due to its popularity, you have to keep in mind that you will be competing with more than a million users to get a spot in your customers' shopping carts. Verónica de Arriba (@_depeapa) is the creator of the brand Depeapa, an online store where she sells her own accessories and decorative items. Her designs have appeared in magazines like Harper's Bazaar, Elle Decor, Frankie magazine or Kireei and in this tutorial she teaches us 5 essential tips to better position your store on Etsy. Don't miss it!

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  • Calligraphy Tutorial: How to Draw an Ampersand in Just 4 min
    Typography, Calligraphy and Lettering

    Calligraphy Tutorial: How to Draw an Ampersand in Just 4 min

    Learn to draw the symbol & with these tricks and tips from Joluvian and apply them to your lettering projects When we start lettering, it’s interesting to begin with the letters and symbols that are most common. That way, we can take what we learn from them and use it on more complicated commissions, adding the tools to our repertoire one by one . In order for you to be able to enter the world of lettering with the best, Joluvian (@joluvian), graphic designer, calligrapher, typographer and illustrator, will share a few tips in the following video on how to draw an ampersand, the well known “&” sign, by hand.

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  • Tips to Illustrate a Children's Story
    Illustration Teacher

    Tips to Illustrate a Children's Story

    Learn the method used by Teresa Martínez to transform text into images in the most efficient way Illustrating children's books can be a beautiful project but also one that requires a great deal of expertise when choosing the style and elements to use. After all, the goal is to synthesize a whole story into a series of images that capture the imagination of readers, both young and not so young. To help you start translating words into images, illustrator Teresa Martínez shares with us her typical workflow. She explains the importance of sketches and considers three ways in which an illustration can be related to the text.

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  • Watercolor Tutorial: Wet-on-Wet Technique
    Illustration Teacher

    Watercolor Tutorial: Wet-on-Wet Technique

    Learn to blend wet watercolors with Ana Santos Watercolor is a much more complex medium than one might suppose: one has to understand the drying times, when to use more opaque or watery colours, and how to mix the different shades well, avoiding undesired results–or taking advantage of them. Artist and illustrator Ana Santos (@anasantos) teaches us in this tutorial how to use the wet-on-wet technique, in which the same layer of paint is used, before drying, to perfectly blend the colors. Learn more in this video:

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  • Pyxel Edit Tutorial: How to Create an Idle Animation
    3D & Animation Teacher

    Pyxel Edit Tutorial: How to Create an Idle Animation

    Find out how to create this basic animation and why it is so important to video game design with Daniel Benítez Where does the success of a video game rest? In its narrative? In its design? In a combination of everything? What is unquestionable is that, in a discipline where the player is surrounded by a whole world created for them, the details are very important. The details can be what leaves a player satisfied or not. And one of the most important details is the waiting animation. In the following video tutorial, art director Daniel Benítez (@dabntz) shows us how to create this basic animation and why it is so important in game design. Discover it below:

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  • Google Ads Tutorial: How to Create Search Campaigns
    Marketing Teacher

    Google Ads Tutorial: How to Create Search Campaigns

    Learn step by step how to create text ads for search engines without any previous knowledge with Arantxa Beltrán When we search for anything on Google, the first results that appear are usually ads that belong to a type of campaign called "search campaigns". Their use is vital in any marketing campaign, and they are very useful to make our brand known and to achieve our conversion goals. That’s why marketing consultant Arantxa Beltrán (@arantxaguille) has shared these keys to understanding, creating, and maximizing the success of this kind of campaign. You can see the tutorial here:

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  • Upcycling Tutorial: Clothes Printing
    Craft Teacher

    Upcycling Tutorial: Clothes Printing

    Learn how to revamp your clothes with your own designs and stencils, with Krizia Robustella Transforming used clothes into something new and original ranks high on online do it yourself wish lists. There are many techniques that allow us to give new life to a t-shirt, a pair of trousers or any other worn out piece of clothing. Few, however, are as fun as using a stencil and spray paint. Create drawings that will decorate your clothes, transform them into templates, and add different colors and textures through simple exercises that will lead to extremely varied results. Krizia Robustella (@kriziarobustella), a fashion designer with her own brand based in Barcelona, shows us how in the video below:

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  • Fashion Illustration Tutorial: 2 Exercises To Play With Watercolor
    Illustration

    Fashion Illustration Tutorial: 2 Exercises To Play With Watercolor

    Unleash your creativity with Jessica Durrant's tutorial, perfect for fashion illustration enthusiasts. Learn the wet-on-wet technique with two fun exercises and bring your fashion designs to life in vibrant watercolors! Ready to dip your brushes into a world of color and couture? Today, we're diving into the mesmerizing world of watercolor fashion illustration with none other than our Domestika teacher, Jessica Durrant (@jessillustrator). What awaits is a canvas of possibilities, a palette of dreams, and a tutorial that's about to splash some serious inspiration onto your artistic journey.

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  • Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create a Brush for Vector Portraits
    Illustration Teacher

    Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create a Brush for Vector Portraits

    Learn how to create a brush for digital illustration with Rogério Puhl A great set of brushes is very valuable to illustrators working with Adobe Illustrator. Each brush will have its own characteristics–thicker or finer, rounded or straight line, textured or plain effect–and these characteristics will impact your end results. Brushes are so important that many digital artist create them and then make them available for other professionals to download, either for free or for a fee. In this tutorial, illustrator, art director and graphic designer Rogério Puhl (@rogeriopuhl) will teach you how to create your own brush set in an easy and intuitive way. Discover more in the video below:

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  • Adobe XD Tutorial: Basic Prototype Interactions
    Design Teacher

    Adobe XD Tutorial: Basic Prototype Interactions

    Learn how to create interactive prototypes in Adobe XD using wires and the tap and time trigger, with Ethan Parry One of the great benefits of using Adobe XD is that it does more than simply let you design artboards. With the capability to create prototypes that you can share with developers, the program allows you to test out and further explore your ideas, which results in a richer end-product. For service designer and UX research consultant Ethan Parry (@ethanparry), prototyping is a crucial part of his process. By allowing designers to solicit feedback from others and test their hypotheses about user behavior, prototypes can help UX designers and businesses reduce investing time and resources into concepts that don’t end up serving their end goal. By giving you a new way to interact with a design, prototyping can also be an excellent method of ideating and finding new inspiration and solutions. In this tutorial, Parry explains how to use Adobe XD to create prototypes using basic actions, simulating how users will navigate and experience the design.

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  • Illustration Tutorial: Shading Techniques with Pencil
    Illustration Teacher

    Illustration Tutorial: Shading Techniques with Pencil

    Learn step by step how to shade gradually and the possibilities of this technique in illustration with Ricardo Núñez Pencil shading is one of the most common techniques used by any illustrator or artist, but also one of the most practical and difficult to master. When blurring, many times we tend to generate forms that are too hard or aggressive, when the objective of this technique is to create delicate lights and shadows with a natural look. In the following video tutorial, illustrator Ricardo Núñez (@rhinunez) shows us how to correctly apply the shading technique, using pencils of different hardness. Discover it below:

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  • Watercolor Tutorial: How to unblock your creativity
    Illustration Teacher

    Watercolor Tutorial: How to unblock your creativity

    Learn the technique to turn watermarks into characters, to lose the fear of watercolors and break the creative logjam with Alinailustra Creative blocks are something all artists have to deal with, no matter their discipline or experience. The blank page can intimidate us, but it’s important to get rid of the fear and not stop practicing. Alinailustra (@alinailustra), an illustrator and graphic designer, shares the keys to an exercise that will unblock your creativity and transform watercolor marks into scenes and characters. Find out more in the video below:

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  • Illustration Tutorial: Tips to Succeed on Instagram
    Illustration Teacher

    Illustration Tutorial: Tips to Succeed on Instagram

    Learn the tricks to create an attractive profile and position your professional presence on Instagram, with Alex de Marcos Social networks like Instagram have become a global showcase for artists from all over the planet: through our feed, we can access the talent of literally thousands of illustrators, designers, craft experts, and more. So, for a creative who wants to get noticed, mastering Instagram's tools to reach as many people as possible offers extraordinary opportunities. In the following video tutorial, illustrator Alex de Marcos (@alex_de_marcos) gives us some essential tips on how to position our illustrations on Instagram, taking advantage of the different functionalities the app offers. Discover them below:

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  • Design Tutorial: Prop Design for Filmmaking with Annie Atkins
    Design

    Design Tutorial: Prop Design for Filmmaking with Annie Atkins

    Dive into an immersive tutorial and discover the art behind crafting authentic vintage telegrams and aged documents. Ideal for aspiring designers and film aficionados alike Lights, camera, action! Filmmaking is a captivating blend of artistry and meticulous craftsmanship, where every detail contributes to the magic of storytelling. Among these essential elements are the graphic props that adorn film sets, transporting audiences to different eras and enriching the narrative tapestry. Ever wondered about the wizardry behind creating these mesmerizing props? Look no further, as Annie Atkins, the acclaimed graphic designer renowned for her work in film, unveils her secrets her course Designing and Making Graphic Props for Filmmaking. Let's embark on an enchanting journey into the world of prop design and discover the wonders that await.

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