5 Community Favorite Online Courses for Black Friday

Get creative with watercolors, craft chocolate art, and more with these top courses from the Domestika community

One of the best ways to round off the old year and enter the new one is by learning a new skill. If you're looking for alternative ways to express yourself, stimulate your creativity, or unleash your imagination, exploring creative courses is a great place to start.

Whether you want to create watercolor paintings that show off your personality or craft edible art with chocolate, take advantage of Black Friday with some of the Domestika community's favorite courses from the past year that'll help you kick start the new year with a new skill.

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Artistic Watercolor Sketching: Dare to Express Your Ideas, a course by Felix Scheinberger

In order to truly explore our creative sides and express our ideas, artist and illustrator Felix Scheinberger (@scheinberger) believes we need to let the idea of "perfection" go. We need to be open to all kinds of inspiration and unexpected results. As he sees it, each person has a unique experience when visualizing a place, and in his course, he shows you how to develop your own style in your sketchbook.

Through the course, Felix will help you build up your confidence and develop your techniques as you discover fun and original exercises to freely express your ideas without holding back.

Data Visualization and Information Design: Create a Visual Model, a course by Federica Fragapane

Crafting graphs and tables that are easy on the eye can be a challenge, but when elegant design meets data visualization, reading and understanding complex information becomes a genuinely pleasant experience.

Taking infographics to the next level, information designer Federica Fragapane (@federica_fragapane) is renowned for her ability to transform tables and numbers into an opportunity to tell a captivating story.

In her course, Federica uncovers the possibilities of data visualization and teaches ways to efficiently relay information with style. She shares her tips for finding reliable sources and creating a data visualization piece that is both informative and visually striking.

Mixed Media Animation in Procreate, a course by Caroline Kjellberg

Animation is an impactful and eye-catching way of telling powerful visual stories. Having worked with big-name brands like Beats by Dre and Adobe, motion designer and animator Caroline Kjellberg (@caroline_kjellberg) uses animation to help brands stand out on different platforms and make the internet a more playful place.

Through her course, Caroline teaches the fundamentals of frame-by-frame animation with Procreate for iPad Pro. You'll learn the tools you need to design engaging animations—from creating a storyboard to shooting your sequence—and design a mixed media looping animation of your own that’s ready to share online.

Texture Design with Chocolate, a course by BRIK Chocolate

If edible art is more up your street, learn how to temper, color, and flavor chocolate to create delicious terrazzo, marble, and concrete textures with chocolate design studio BRIK chocolate's (@brik_chocolate) course.

Under the guidance of BRIK founder Kia Utzon-Frank, you’ll discover how to create your own silicone molds, use baking paper to create different textures, and try your creations with food and drink pairings that will enhance their flavors.

Professional Leather Handbag Design, a course by Lili Storella

Learn to make your own leather bag using professional crafting techniques with leather maker Lili Storella (@wenglili). Starting out by making small items for her friends and family, Lili soon turned her love of leather craftwork into her own brand, Mila.jito, through which she sells accessories like bags, passport holders, belts, and watch straps.

In her course, she'll teach you the foundations of working with leather to sculpt a durable and functional bag that suits your own style. You'll crease, punch, stitch, and edge paint your bag, as well as make your own unique padding details and closure design, before putting all the parts together.

Are you ready to get stuck in and learn something new this Black Friday? Remember, you can also check out all of Domestika's course areas here.

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