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  • 11 Websites for Downloading Free Illustrations
    Illustration

    11 Websites for Downloading Free Illustrations

    Discover all kinds of resources on these platforms and take your designs to another level Finding quality illustrations that can support your creative work is not always easy. However, it is an essential step to give a touch of personality and color to your projects. To help you with this process, we share 11 websites where you can download free illustrations, both digital and traditional to add to your graphic design works. You will find all kinds of resources there, from icons to characters, that will help your designs capture the public's attention while being original, effective, and professional.

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  • Writing Tutorial: 5 Tips to Write Regularly
    Writing

    Writing Tutorial: 5 Tips to Write Regularly

    Children’s author Lisa Thompson shares her five top tips to build your writing routine Building a consistent writing habit can be challenging, especially in today's fast-paced and distracting world. However, with the right strategies, anyone can develop the discipline to write regularly. In this exclusive tutorial for the Domestika's PRO community, children’s author Lisa Thompson (@lisathompsonauthor) shares practical tips to help you establish and maintain a writing habit, from setting achievable goals to getting rid of distractions. Whether you're a professional writer or simply someone looking to improve their writing skills, grab a notebook and pen and check out this video!

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  • Illustration Tutorial: How to Create a Sticker Easily on Procreate
    Illustration

    Illustration Tutorial: How to Create a Sticker Easily on Procreate

    Learn to create unique, high-quality stickers that reflect your style with Procreate Whether they're up on a wall or stuck on your computer or a window, stickers can greatly increase the visibility of your creations. These dynamic designs add a special touch and are an inexpensive and effective communication tool. To create them, artist Brad Woodard (@bravethewoods) follows a very simple process in Procreate that he has refined throughout his career working with several studios, a creative start-up, and an advertising agency. Follow along as Brad shares his secrets for achieving stunning printed results. In this exclusive tutorial for the Domestika's PRO community, learn to make amazing stickers you can use to promote your creations in just a few simple steps!

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  • 4 Pixel Art Animation Recommendations for Video Game Design
    3D & Animation

    4 Pixel Art Animation Recommendations for Video Game Design

    Looking for inspiration in the world of animation? Add this list of pixel artists to your reference library Pixel art is a form of digital art that involves editing images at a pixel level (the minimum digital dimension of color) and using them to design video games with an old-school aesthetic. It is achieved by creating characters and 2D graphics using state-of-the-art software such as Pyxel Edit. If you are a designer, illustrator, or animator, or you want to learn the pixel art technique to animate video games, check out the following four animators as recommended by Daniel Benítez (@dabntz). Daniel is a 2D and 3D art director specializing in pixel art and the co-founder of Fourattic, an independent video game studio founded in 2014 in Seville.

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  • ChatGPT: what is it and how to use this AI tool
    Writing

    ChatGPT: what is it and how to use this AI tool

    If you are a content or copywriter, this post about a free revolutionary AI tool will interest you 2022 has consecrated Artificial Intelligence and its nearly infinite possibilities for many human and creative tasks and activities. Until now, this technology seemed to be beyond the reach. However, the arrival of ChatGPT, a free artificial intelligence chat system capable of responding to anything you ask of it, could break that barrier. What do you know about this impressive, free AI tool that seems to answer almost anything you can think of? A simplified summary of what you can do with it is that it looks like it's here to replace Google, although it's much more than a search engine. It is a chat that has been specially designed so that you can ask it questions, and it can explain anything to you. All you need to do to is to register. ChatGPT can generate texts, summaries, code for a web page, and a script for a YouTube or TikTok text, and do it in a serious or casual tone, depending on your requests. Read on to find out what ChatGPT is, how to use it, and an example of what you can do with a tool that is set to revolutionize the Internet and the world of AI.

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  • Free PDF Crochet Pattern: Create an Amigurumi Doll
    Craft

    Free PDF Crochet Pattern: Create an Amigurumi Doll

    Download this pattern and bring your own charming character to life alongside a professional designer Amigurumis are crocheted characters full of emotion and personality who have the power to convey the feelings of whoever knits them–that’s what really makes them come alive. This free crochet pattern, made by amigurumi designer Elisa Ems-Domenig (@lulu_loves_the_moon), is designed to help you create a characterful doll of your own. Elisa sells crochet patterns and figures via her brand Lulu loves the moon. Inspired by her home near the Alps, she creates designs with neutral tones from nature and has had her work featured in crochet books and magazines internationally. In this article, Elisa shares a free PDF Crochet Pattern to create an Amigurumi Doll. Learn step by step how to knit these adorable characters with this practical resource.

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  • 5 Design Trends for 2023
    Design

    5 Design Trends for 2023

    Experimental typography, minimalist style, dark mode, and 3D design set the aesthetic for the New Year 2023 is just around the corner, and the most forward-thinking among us are already starting to prepare lists of resolutions and upcoming creative challenges. This is why it is important to gather information and make a forecast of what the year will bring in terms of trends. According to Natalia Escaño (@nataliaescano), the designer and illustrator behind the Nia brand, "being aware of what's up and coming to be able to implement it in our projects and not be left behind is a must". She spoke to us about the design trends for the year 2023.

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  • 11 Free Procreate Brushes for Line Art
    Illustration

    11 Free Procreate Brushes for Line Art

    Download a free set of brushes created by Microbians to draw line art in Procreate Procreate has become a favorite tool for many artists interested in creating digital illustrations. Creative director Gabriel Suchowolski, also known as Microbians (@microbians), is an illustrator who works primarily using the leading iPad drawing app. In this free download, he shares 15 of the line drawing brushes he has created for working with Procreate.

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  • Farewell Carlos Pacheco, illustrator and superhero
    Illustration

    Farewell Carlos Pacheco, illustrator and superhero

    Remembering the life and work of Spanish comic artist, teacher, and legend of the Marvel and DC comics. Domestika is deeply saddened by the passing of Carlos Pacheco, Spanish illustrator, teacher, true superhero of the comic genre, and member of this creative community. In September he announced his ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) diagnosis on social media and has died from the degenerative disease aged 60 at the Línea de la Concepción hospital in Cádiz.

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