5 Free Tutorials to Spark Your Creativity

Learn techniques from different disciplines that will connect with your creative potential

Creativity is the result of many variables that not only have to do with specific tools or techniques, but with sensitivity, physical preparation and a sharp eye capable of turning your inspiration into real projects.

It does not matter your age, training, or if you are a professional or an amateur creative. If you are looking to get closer to your most sensitive side, overcome a creative block or develop skills that you know live inside you, these tutorials are for you.

Illustration Tutorial: How to Tackle the Blank Page

Illustrator Adolfo Serra (@adolfoserra) insists that you should never obsess over what the final image will look like and, instead, keep trying until you achieve something that feels fresh.

Here he shares three ways to unleash your creativity when you’re experiencing a creative block, let your pencil and mind soar free, and create something special.

Illustration Tutorial: How to Draw from Your Imagination

The best way to learn to draw is to familiarize yourself with the technique through exercises that help us to experiment with different materials and visual references. Once you master the first phase, Violeta Hernández proposes that you go even further to find your own stamp: draw from your imagination.
What does that mean? To create from what you remember and the sensations an animal or a bunch of flowers have made you feel, for example. In this process, memory, creativity and a desire to let yourself go, will be key.

Below, designer and illustrator Violeta Hernández (@soyvioleta), will show you some key tips on how to draw from your memories and the results of her own adventures.

Creativity Tutorial: How to Make a Brief Step by Step

A brief is a key tool for facilitating communication between a company and its customers, across all sectors. It is a document that communicates what some people are looking for and what offers can offer, the objectives of the person who has contracted your services, as well as all the creative solutions that one can adopt to reach them.

To help you get to grips with all the essential elements that this document should include, Daniel Yepes Giraldo, founder of the Colombian branding agency MUMU, El Branding Love (@mumuelbrandinglove), will guide you through creating your own.

Design Tutorial: How to Overcome a Creative Block

Drawing for pleasure is usually fun, however, drawing every day for a living can be wearing. If you have to constantly churn out new characters, you will of course have days where you feel less inspired or you just can’t find a way to create something fresh and original.

To help you overcome these creative blocks and tap into your creativity, designer and 2D and 3D illustrator Cecy Meade (@cecymeade) shares her top tips below. Although they focus on character design, these tips can be applied to any illustration task or, in fact, any creative task.

Photography Tutorial: Why You Should Have an Artist’s Sketchbook

Of all the tools that artists use, there’s one that is invaluable across all formats and mediums: an artist’s sketchbook.

“For people who want to dedicate themselves to something creative, it is very important that they have something called visual culture,” explains photographer Dara Scully (@darascully). Visual culture is essentially having a library of images, ideas, and inspiration that you can draw on when the time comes to create. The more things you see, the more sources of inspiration that you have. An artist’s sketchbook is where you store this collection of information and inspiration, and that’s why it’s such an important part of any creative process.

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