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Materials: Illustration Using Markers
Discover the materials you need to create Manga style drawings using marker pens, with illustrator Taniidraw
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January 2021
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Teacher CraftJewelry Tutorial: Create a Flower With Polymer Clay
Learn the basic techniques and two ways to make tiny leaves and flowers using polymer clay
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Domestika Diary: Fernanda Guimarães
Fernanda Guimarães, Creative Director of Can Can, shares her routine and the creative process she uses to design hair accessories
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5 Courses on How to Become a Floral Designer
Learn artisanal techniques to make floral designs with your hands If you love anything flower related, search no more! These courses are just for you. Learn from 5 experts how to use real and handmade flowers to create amazing designs, modify objects, and create craft projects to improve your home or make a special gift. Are you ready to start creating? Just click on the course title to learn more about it.
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Teacher PhotographyPhotography Tutorial: Tips for Portrait Photography
Learn how to build a connection with your sitter and understand what people feel during a photo shoot Nowadays, photography is more accessible than ever, but a good photographer must know how to connect with their subject. If you are shooting people, a good connection can bring out the best in yourself, your sitter, and, ultimately, your pictures. Emilia Brandão (@emiliabrandao) is a LEICA ambassador who has worked for Vogue, GQ, Elle and Glamour. In this tutorial, she shares a few simple ways to make your sitter comfortable and create the best environment for a successful shoot.
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Essential Shortcuts for Mastering AutoCAD
Improve your workflow in AutoCAD with these incredibly useful shortcuts AutoCAD is a program that was originally built for the creation of technical drawings of industrial parts in two dimensions (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) models. This software has become so useful and practical that professionals working in the fields of architecture, urban planning, engineering, and construction use it on a daily basis to create inspiring and transformative projects. To help those of you using AutoCAD every day to improve your workflow, we have compiled a list of useful shortcuts. Check it out below: Note: For Windows use Ctrl, for Mac use Command.
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Teacher Marketing5 Free Classes For Creatives Who Want to Start a Business From Scratch
Learn from the experts how to launch your new business, whatever your field of creativity is
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What is Branded Content?
"Branded content is not a format, but a new way of thinking", explains Carla González Over the last couple of days, you have almost certainly come across, and interacted with, branded content, probably even without realizing it. You have also heard this term before and maybe wondered what it is. So we asked Carla González (@carlagoon), a digital copywriter specializing in this type of content, to explain the origin, some examples, and the future of branded content.
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Free Download: Sketching Guide for Interior Design Projects
Architecture Studio Ciszak Dalmas Ferrari shares a complete guide for your sketching process
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Choosing Colors and Materials for an Interior Design Project
STUDIOLAV talk choosing colors and materials when designing a space For Loukas Angelou and Vasso Asfi, interior design has the power to boost a person's mood, get their creative juices flowing, and improve their wellbeing. This design duo focuses on creating meaningful emotional connections between people, objects, and their surroundings. Founders of the interior design studio STUDIOLAV (@studiolav), Loukas and Vasso have had their work exhibited in museums such as the Royal Academy of Arts in London and MUDEC in Milan. Their projects have been recognized by Elle Decoration Design Awards and the European Product Design Awards. In this blog post, Vasso talks us through the duo’s process for choosing colors and materials for an interior design project and shares some of her top tips.
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5 Female Watercolor Artists Who Will Inspire Your Next Creation
Be inspired by the work of these female watercolor artists who have just launched courses on Domestika Watercolor painting is an ancient art form that can be traced back to the prehistoric days of cave painting. Mastering this skill requires great patience and embracing its unpredictable nature–some of the best results are the most unexpected! The following five female artists have developed their own unique skills and techniques for incorporating this highly versatile medium into their work. Their different approaches and styles are testament to the wide range of possibilities that watercolor offers and why these women are ones to watch in 2021.
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How to Make a Droplet with Needle Felting
Maria Filipe Castro, aka droolwool, shares her tips on how to create a droplet with needle felting
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Teacher CraftFree Download: A Color Theory Guide for Floral Compositions
Find out what a flower color wheel is: a tool used to match colors with harmony and safety with the help of an expert If you are interested in creating floral designs, you probably know that the success of a composition lies in understanding what each flower communicates with respect to the others, as well as its global meaning. To achieve this understanding there are some concepts that you must know: the use of textures, the sense of heights and depths and, of course, the harmonization of color. If you want to improve on this last point, you will find very useful a presentation on Color Theory prepared by Juliana Bustillo, creative director and founder of ORA The Floral Agency (@orafloralagency), creator of floral designs for big brands like Carolina Herrera, Cartier, Mont Blanc, H&M and many others.
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Creating Fonts in Glyphs
What makes Glyphs the go-to program for designing and creating fonts? Juanra Pastor, better known as @Wete, is a Barcelona-based graphic designer specializing in typography. He is the founder of Wete studio and has worked on lettering, typography, and advertising projects for clients such as Adobe, Carolina Herrera, Reebok, Desigual, and LVMH. In this blog post, Juanra, who first developed a passion for letters as a 14-year-old graffiti artist, will explain the advantages of working in Glyphs when designing and creating typefaces.
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Teacher Web & App Design12 Amazing Websites to Find High-Quality Stock Images for Free
Find great stock photos websites on the internet for free and use them to make a collage Joseba Elorza (@miraruido) is an illustrator and animator who has also trained as a sound technician; Joseba loves collage. His work has been published in such titles as The Wall Street Journal, Esquire, and the Hollywood Reporter, and he’s created animations for National Geographic, Amazon Studios, Green Day, and more. In this blog post, Joseba shares a list of his go-to websites for making a collage, all of which offer royalty-free images that can be used for different types of content.
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Teacher 3D & AnimationAnimation Tutorial: How to Capture and Render Your Project
Professional Voxel artist and animator Zach Soares explains how to capture an animation for online distribution A digital portfolio, on social media or a personal website, is one of the best tools an animator has for finding work. Knowing how to share your animations online quickly and professionally can be the difference between your work being taken seriously or not. Zach Soares is the creative director of animation studio Bunnyhug s and a professional voxel artist and animator with almost a decade of experience. In this tutorial, he shares a simple way of capturing and rendering an animation project so that it can be published and shared online successfully.
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What is Macramé?
Learn about the origins of this knotting technique Macramé is a craft that has only gotten more popular thanks to its Instagram-friendly aesthetic and how easy it is to use to decorate and add personality to our homes. Discover more about the origins of this technique and how you can start knotting beautiful pieces yourself.
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Teacher PhotographyBasic Settings for Editing Photographs
Photographer Nicanor García shares some fundamental editing settings to apply to all your photographs Adobe Photoshop was one of the first programs created for editing digital images; it became popular because it enabled the user to change and manipulate images for creative purposes and to fix mistakes. Editing, or post-production, allows photographers to go a little further than merely taking a photo. Besides lighting and framing, you can take advantage of other basic editing settings to achieve optimal results. You can refine a picture by correcting the perspective, geometry, exposure, contrast, or highlights. Expert photographer Nicanor García runs us through the basic editing settings that can help us achieve amazing photographs.
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Teacher CraftMaterials: Paper Flowers
Discover the materials you need to create a wide range of flowers and incredible botanical art with artist and maker Eileen Ng
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Teacher DesignInDesign Tutorial: How to Create a PDF for Printing
Learn the basics of preparing a file and getting it ready for printing, with crop marks and bleed, from graphic designer and art director Leandro Rodrigues
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Teacher ArtExplore Escher's Engravings in High Resolution
The Boston Public Library has digitized several dozens of Escher prints Enigmatic and brilliant, the work of M. C. Escher is worthy of admiration. That's why institutions that keep some of his engravings safe often exhibit them publicly so that we all can enjoy them. One of these institutions is the Boston Public Library — the largest municipal library in the United States — who has digitized almost a hundred of his engravings. Anyone who accesses its archives can explore them in great detail and get to know all the nooks and crannies of the impossible constructions that Escher devised and drew throughout his career.
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Domestika Diary: Pepita Sandwich
Take a tour with Pepita Sandwich of her life in her new home, New York Pepita Sandwich is an illustrator known for her vibrant style full of color, movement, and personality. She has collaborated with international brands such as Adidas, Spotify, and Cartoon Network and even published two books. In this Domestika Diary, she takes us around her new home, New York, showing us where she finds inspiration and art supplies.
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20 Craft Artists to Follow in 2025
Get inspired by the most successful craft artists of the Domestika community in 2025 Craft has acquired many followers, but the image it evokes can be old-fashioned and doesn’t reflect the many possibilities it offers. For this reason, crafts are often considered an unsung category of the creative world. The best way to learn about this art form is by exploring what contemporary craft artists are doing to innovate and rejuvenate old techniques like embroidery, ceramics, collage, and crocheting. The possibilities are endless, and we are here to prove it. Reset and change your Instagram feed, with images from creatives from around the world that will surprise and inspire you to take on a craft. Kathrin Marchenko (@kathrin_marchenko) Inspired by fashion and haute couture, Moscow textile artist, Kathrin Marchenko, uses tulle and colorful threads as a canvas and creates art pieces with 3D effects.
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Teacher 3D & Animation12 Basic Principles of Animation
Whether done by hand, using software, in 2D or 3D, these rules apply to all types of animation There are several ways to bring a drawing to life, but one in particular has become a reference over the years. In 1981, Disney animators Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas published a book compiling 12 basic principles of animation for making characters seem more realistic, with a focus on physics and emotions. Although these rules were applied to classic animations such as Snow White (1937), Pinocchio (1940), Fantasy (1940), Dumbo (1941), and Bambi (1942), they are still relevant today, despite technological advances and the advent of 3D. They are constantly being expanded and updated to include new styles and techniques.
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Teacher Illustration15 Reasons to Use a Sketchbook by Sergio Bleda, Miguel Gallardo and Puño
We ask three illustrators why they use a sketchbook and why you should too Sergio Bleda (@sergibleda) is a professional cartoonist and illustrator from Valencia (Spain). In his Domestika course Inking Techniques for Comics and Illustration, he explores the technical and creative possibilities of inking. He is also passionate about sketchbooks and always carries one around. He sees his job as quickly translating ideas into images so that they go from being an abstract concept to something readable. Sketchbooks, therefore, are handy tools. Here are his five reasons why you should use one as well: #1 Every drawing that starts in a sketchbook can be defined as a clumsy "graphic babbling": a small step that makes you lose your fear of the unknown. The first word of a new language. #2 It allows you to work without pressure. Sometimes you draw without knowing precisely what you are looking for, and a sketchbook is perfect for that.
December 2020
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Teacher MarketingNaming a Brand in 5 Easy Steps
The right name transmits what a company does and has communicative value for the user The process of choosing a name for your brand can be summarised in five key points. Xavier Grau (@xgrau) has over 20 years of experience in this field. Today, he presents the questions you need to be asking yourself when you undertake this task.
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Teacher 3D & AnimationWhat is a Concept Artist?
Nacho Yagüe, art director for Gameloft, explains what a concept artist is Creating settings, scenes, and environments is an essential part of developing any game. Nacho Yagüe is an art director and concept artist who has worked on Ubisoft games such as Assassins Creed: Unity, Watch Dogs 2, and Splinter Cell: Blacklist. He is an expert in designing levels, textures, and animations for video game concept art. To help us to better understand what this profession entails, Nacho explains a concept artist’s role in the video game industry. He also shares some examples that will give you a better idea of the type of work they produce and where they fit in the production process for developing a new video game.
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Teacher Web & App Design5 Free Apps for Recording and Editing Video
Discover five video editing apps that will improve your way of working Recording or editing video on cell phones allows you to film and share whatever you want, at any time of day, transforming short clips into cinematic masterpieces. You no longer need sophisticated equipment to start generating great content, just a phone camera with a decent app. In this post, we share five free apps that will help you capture and edit beautiful videos. ProMovie Recorder This iOS application allows you to record high-quality videos in 4K resolution (or 3K and upwards on older phones). It has various functions for controlling exposure, focus, frame rate, color temperature, white balance, and other recording settings. It also has an automatic mode if you’d prefer to start recording straight away.
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Teacher MarketingInstagram Tutorial: How to Create Attention-Grabbing Photo Captions
Learn how to work on your photo captions and structure your Instagram posts with Pati Gagarin
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Teacher DomestikaTop 10 Creative Projects of 2020 on Domestika
We have compiled a list of the most-liked projects to be shared by the Domestika community in 2020 There are only a few days left of the year, so we want to present the projects that have received the best feedback from the community out of all of those published in 2020 on Domestika. As was the case in 2019, the projects of the year are dominated by the medium of illustration. Final projects for different courses have also made the list, while fantasy and poetry have been celebrated as much as hyperrealism. Illustrator Adolfo Serra also gets a special mention for having authored two of the ten final projects to make the list. These are the top ten creative projects of 2020 to be published on Domestika: My project for the course: Watercolor Illustration with Japanese Influence, by Jessica Alvarez (@vanila_ryder) This final project, which was created for Flor Kaneshiro’s course, is titled Mandado. In this artwork, Jessica–the author–draws on Japanese influences, yet takes it a step further: she combines oriental techniques with a Latin American aesthetic inspired by Mexican markets.
