Draw Yourself: Puño
We get up close and personal with Spanish illustrator Puño and invite him to do what he knows best: drawing
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Formats and Limitations for Video on Social Media
Yimbo Escárrega gives practical advice on video content creation for social media It’s a proven fact that social media users prefer to consume content in video formats. Whether you’re a designer, a motion graphics artist, or a digital marketing professional, you may already know that the importance and popularity of videos and GIFs are on the rise. For that reason, it’s important that you know more about the ideal formats for this type of content, and that way you’ll be able to meet your client’s expectations or publish the ideal content for your brand. Graphic designer and motion graphics specialist Yimbo Escárrega (@yimbo8) shares the basic aspects you need to consider when creating a video for social media, such as dimensions, weight, and ideal formats for social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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5 Instagram Accounts Sharing Food Styling Inspiration
Espacio Crudo shares some of their favorite food photographers’ Instagram accounts Over recent years, new artists working in food styling and food photography have been emerging and proving that a love of food really does develop through the eyes. If you have some experience in photography, this is a discipline that will interest you: there is a growing demand for photographers who can capture products so that they look as delicious as they taste.
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10 Tips For Being More Productive Working From Home
While some are still reluctant, it’s becoming more common every day for businesses to allow their employees to work from home As a worker, it sounds great: you don’t have to get up hours in advance to get ready, you don’t lose hours in traffic jams, you don’t even have to shower! All that means you get to spend more time in bed. But all that glitters is not gold.. Adapting to the routine of working at home comes with its own inconveniences and it’s necessary to look for solutions that don’t leave you feeling caged in after hours indoors. This is why we wanted to share our top ten tips on how to be more productive when working from home.
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5 Consequences of Choosing a Bad Name
Choosing the wrong name for your brand can result in serious consequences, from negative reactions to financial losses Ignasi Fontvila (@ignasifontvila) is an expert in verbal brand identity and a member of the Global Branding Network. He says that, before coming up with a name for your brand, you should reflect on the consequences a wrong decision could have. “Choosing a bad name means you are helping your competitors,” says Nassim Javed, president of the ABC Nambank (Canada). Today, the expert goes through different scenarios you could find yourself in as a result of a bad name. His following five points might make you reconsider some of the ideas you’ve had in the past. Being drawn to what’s obvious “The purpose of a name isn’t to describe, but to make stand out”: this is Fontvila’s first point when it comes to avoiding problems concerning brand identity and positioning. Describing is easy, but that is not your primary objective when it comes to choosing a name. That’s why so many coffee brands struggle to stand out: they don’t have unique names.
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Teacher DesignVector Icons on Hand Washing and Hygiene #Stayathome
Iconfinder gives away over 300 vector icons on hand washing and hygiene measures Iconfinder is a website specialized in vector icons, formed by an international team of designers based in Copenhagen, Denmark. It brought together a group of designers to generate a pack of over 300 Covid-19 related free icons. You will find packages with topics such as hand washing, hygiene recommendations and social distancing.
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7 Animators That You Should Get To Know
The Domestika community has selected their favorite female animation artists We asked the Domestika community to share the female animators they most admire. Among them, are creatives from all around the world, many of whom also have backgrounds in illustration and design. Get to know them all! Rebecca Sugar (@rebeccasugar) Animator, director, producer, scriptwriter, composer, singer, and LGBTQ+ rights activist, Rebecca is the creator of the cult animation series, Steven Universe. She is the first woman to independently create a series for Cartoon Network.
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10 Tips for Creating a Collage
Hanoch Piven shares his top tips for reinventing the meaning of everyday objects through collage Mixed media artist Hanoch Piven (@piven) creates playful portraits that have appeared in Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic Monthly, The Times, Entertainment Weekly, and more. Known for his 3-dimensional collages, he reinvents the meaning and use of everyday objects–from clothes pegs and playing cards to fruit and bathroom products–to visually communicate personality and playfulness.
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What is a Flat Lay Photo and How to Shoot It
Learn to create these popular images and bring your Instagram profile and other social networks to life Flat lay photography is one of the most popular styles on social networks, especially on Instagram. It provides an ideal way to present products, projects under development or travel arrangements. Mina Barrio (@minabarrio), product photographer at Melon Blanc studio, tells you everything you need to know about this approach and how to easily create the most striking flat lays using only your phone.
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10 Apps for Remote Working
If you're considering working from home, these apps could be just what you're looking for Working remotely isn't just a craze, it's becoming more common every day. Buffer's State of Remote Work annual report analyses the challenges, perceptions, and advantages for professional communities that work remotely. Of all the insights the study shares, perhaps the most interesting question is: "Would you like to work remotely, at least some of the time, in your career?" The result:
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5 Tips for Working From Home
Discover practical ways to adapt to a home office routine Right now, we are facing the collective task of learning to find new ways to collaborate and form communities online. Maybe you’ve never done it before and even thinking of working from home seems like a big challenge. Here are five habits that will ensure the transition goes smoothly for you and your colleagues. If you’ve got any other ideas, please share them in the comments.
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Calligraphy Tutorial: how to make a calamus pen
Learn, step by step, how to make this old calligraphy tool, with Joaquín Seguí You may never have heard of calamos, but the truth is that they are one of the oldest handwriting tools in existence. In essence, a calamus is a hollow reed, cut obliquely at one end, which is used for writing thanks to its ability to accumulate ink and allow us to draw on the sheet. Its usefulness in calligraphic writing forms such as the uncial is key, as it allows us to generate compact but organic shapes on the sheet, and also using a callus will allow us to let our hand free if we want to get started in calligraphy. So, if you want to know how to build your own homemade calligraphy callus using just a handful of cheap materials, don't miss the following video tutorial by graphic designer specialized in calligraphy Joaquín Seguí (@joaquinsegui):
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5 Reference Websites for Ad Research
Discover new sources of inspiration for your high-impact advertising campaigns Whether you specialize in design, creativity, production or another area of advertising, this list of sites we have put together for World Advertising Day could prove useful to you. All of them will help you research your campaigns and find documentation of numerous other campaigns throughout history, with detailed archives organised by categories, countries and media. In addition to being excellent reference options, they offer instant inspiration, so bookmark them all!
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Challenge: Hanoch Piven is Faced With an Improvised Collage
Hanoch Piven, mixed media visual artist and expert in collage, takes on the Domestika Challenge Hanoch Piven’s (@piven) work has featured in iconic magazines like Time, Rolling Stone and Der Speigel and won him the Society of Illustrators of New York's Gold Medal. He also publishes children’s books in which various textures and materials are woven together to build unexpected characters and universes. The mixed media artist is an expert in making faces through the collage of objects. But how will he fare when confronted with our mysterious box? Find out in the video below:
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The Dos & Don’ts of a Creative’s Resume
5 creative professionals tell us what to do and what to avoid when applying for a job
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Domestika Talks: Catalina Estrada
During last year’s Domestika Cup the Colombian illustrator encouraged us to lose the fear of color
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Free Icons that Redefine Professional Women
Download these free icons from Noun Project that promote equality and the fair representation of women “Visual language has the power to give form, reinforce and change our perceptions of the world,” says Sofya Polyakov, CEO and co-founder of Noun Project (@nounproject). That is why her company launched a collection of more than 60 free-to-use icons that represent women in design, arts, technology and other professional fields.
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What Is Foundational Calligraphy?
Calligraphy artist Leo Calderón introduces us to Edward Johnston’s type, a writing style that combines aesthetics and functionality
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10 Wildlife Photographers to Follow On Instagram
Amaze yourself with the photos of artists fighting to protect our planet We have brought together 10 wildlife photographers whose work is aimed at inspiring others to care for our natural resources. Many are scientists committed to environmental activism. From big cats and sea mammals to tiny insects and majestic plants, you will find daily inspiration on all their Instagram accounts. Christina Mittermeier (@mitty) Photographer, engineer in marine biology, conservationist, and author born in Mexico City, she founded the prestigious League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP). Her work has been published by National Geographic and TIME, and has won numerous prizes, such as the Smithsonian Conservation Photographer of the Year Award.
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Teacher ArtThe art from the Everything but the Kitschen Sync Exhibition
Meet the participating artists from this annual exhibition in Los Angeles Established in 1986 La Luz de Jesus Gallery is the brainchild of entrepreneur and art collector Billy Shire, considered primarily responsible for fostering a new school of California art and prompting JUXTAPOZ Magazine to dub him “the Peggy Guggenheim of Lowbrow.” La Luz De Jesus Gallery presents its annual juried group exhibition, Everything but the Kitschen Sync. This gigantic, no-theme show features works from some of the freshest and most relevant artists working today.
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Teacher DomestikaMeet the Creatives Launching Domestika Courses Over March
Discover all the new material dropping this month so that you don’t miss out Meet the creatives who are launching courses this month on Domestika. This month, newcomers to the community, as well as members who you probably already know, present courses across a range of creative disciplines. Get to know them all as you prepare for a month packed with creativity. Design Create your identity as a designer with Sagi Haviv Sagi Haviv is a designer and partner at Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv–the legendary studio that handles design for brands such as Mobil, PBS, NBC, Showtime, and National Geographic. In this course, Sagi will show you how to add personality to graphic design and make the most of your creativity in every one of your projects.
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5 Ideas to Dedicate a Day to Your Creativity
Get to work and dedicate a whole day to your creativity, and focus on your personal and your professional projects There are many small actions we can take to invigorate our professional and creative lives. The Domestika community shared their ideas for what to do to give new life to your career. Try them out and see what you can achieve in just one day.
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Tips for Starting out in Character Design
Joel Santana talks us through his career as a character designer and shares advice for starting out Character designer, visual artist and illustrator Joel Santana creates magical worlds inhabited by curious beings. Based in Florida, Santana grew up in New York where he was fully immersed in the city’s energetic art scene and “grittiness”. By his early teen years, he had already begun to paint landscapes and still life with oil paints, inspired by the likes of Bob Ross, Disney animation and, one of his all-time favorites: Norman Rockwell. It was during these early years that he got to grips with traditional techniques and developed an understanding of color that he would later apply to his character designs.
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Teacher IllustrationIllustration Tutorial: Applying Sumi-e Techniques to Watercolor Painting
Learn the basic elements for using the Japanese illustration technique with illustrator Flor Kaneshiro Although traditionally done with Indian ink, the Sumi-e drawing technique includes a series of strokes that can be applied using other materials, such as watercolor. Its delicate and soft strokes (which should be carefully controlled if you're just starting out in the technique) make it suitable for anyone who wants to widen their watercolor skill set. In the video below, illustrator Flor Kaneshiro (@florkaneshiro) goes over the most important considerations for anyone starting out their journey in Sumi-e, taking into account pressure, speed, direction, and rhythm of the brushstrokes.
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Photoshop Tutorial: 6 Great Brushes for Digital Painting
Discover illustrator Joel Santana's favorite Photoshop brushes for character design Using Adobe Photoshop for digital illustration is one of the most common applications of this software, which allows artists, creatives and designers of all levels to build characters, scenarios and objects out of their imagination. The use of custom brushes can also give extra character to our drawings and illustrations. In the following video tutorial, character designer Joel Santana (@themaddhattr) shares his favorite Adobe Photoshop brushes for digital painting. Santana uses them for creative tasks ranging from sketching to color application, and they give a good example of the wide variety of textures offered by Photoshop custom brushes. Find out below:
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Automatic Equidistant Color Palette Generator
Choosing the perfect color gamut palette is now as simple as choosing a single color and letting Data Color Picker do the rest of the work for you There are countless options and tools that can help us create our own color palettes. Data Color Picker is one such tool but it comes with a twist: it is a color palette generator that creates equidistant color ranges. You are probably wondering what that means." Simple, the system will ask you to select the initial color with which you want to start building your color palette and the color with which you want to finish it; Next, it will automatically create a palette with the number of colors you desire, choosing the range that best suits the two initial colors.
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Tips For Transforming Your Illustrations into Pins, by Charlotte
The talented Mexican illustrator shares, step by step, how she transforms her beautiful drawings into pins Karla Hernández, better known as Charlötte (@charlotte.khm), is a graphic designer and illustrator who has a passion for color, fauna, flora, climate, and all other aspects of nature. Influenced by Asian folklore and the artists Koralie and Conrad Roset, she has found a visual style that draws on figures from nature and women. Charlötte has focused on bringing together these different areas of interest into her designs, with certain elements becoming key features in her work. She uses a palette of soft and shiny colors, finding inspiration in shapes and details from her day-to-day life. Her pins stand out among her creations. Here Charlötte walks us through her process for transforming her beautiful drawings into pins.
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Over 10,000 Movie Posters Available to Download for Free
Film lovers of the world, rejoice! The Harry Ransom Center is digitizing more than 10,000 posters of classic movies
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Challenge: Draw a Character in 5 Minutes Using Photoshop
Joel Santana, the character designer and illustrator, faces the Domestika Challenge Joel Santana's career (@themaddhattr) extends from illustrations for advertising campaigns, to packaging and toy design. He has developed projects for well-known brands such as Walt Disney World Orlando and Champs Sports. But now he faces a challenge he has never faced before... In this Domestika Challenge, the illustrator only has five minutes to draw a character from scratch using a graphic tablet and Photoshop. Will he succeed? Find out in the next video:
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5 Arm Knitting Artists That You Should Get To Know
Be inspired by these textile artists who knit using their hands instead of needles Arm knitting is a technique that takes the basic rules of knitting with needles and replaces the needles with your hands and arms. The results are soft, oversized pieces that accessorize your living space. The majority of artists use a special type of wool, known as Merino wool, that comes from Merino sheep. Get to know these artists and feel inspired to create your own designs! Javiera Ortiz (@inspiratemirando) Chilean textile artist Javiera Ortiz, who created the studio Inspírate Mirando (@inspiratemirando), specializes in knitting and fabric dyeing with a contemporary edge. She is also a photographer and costume designer. She works with XXL knitting, giving it a modern twist, and divides her time between Chile and Australia. She recently launched her Domestika course, Introduction to Arm Knitting and Wool Dyeing.
