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  • Domestika Challenge: Draw Keanu Reeves’ Many Facial Expressions in 5 Minutes
    Illustration

    Domestika Challenge: Draw Keanu Reeves’ Many Facial Expressions in 5 Minutes

    Can character designer Laura Ewing illustrate Keanu Reeves’ many emotions in 5 minutes? The face is one of the most expressive parts of the body, which is why understanding how to illustrate believable facial expressions is a key skill for any character designer. Laura Ewing (@le_lauraewing) is a storyboard artist and character designer whose job it is to capture the essence of a story quickly and convincingly for films, documentaries, and publishing houses. We challenged Laura to imagine and illustrate actor Keanu Reeves’ face expressing different emotions, using surprise prompts ranging from “just won an Oscar” to “just got fired” via “too much coffee”. See how she did below:

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  • Bullet Journal Tutorial: Ideas To Improve Your Hand-Lettered Fonts
    Typography, Calligraphy and Lettering

    Bullet Journal Tutorial: Ideas To Improve Your Hand-Lettered Fonts

    Improve your hand-lettered fonts, with bullet journal expert Annie Weir AKA A Journal by Annie A bullet journal offers a way of documenting our lives with craft, care, and calligraphy. They require us to take pride over not only what we write but how we write it. Annie Weir (@a_journal_by_annie), the bullet journalist behind the page A Journal By Annie, is an artist who uses her bullet journals to practice mindfulness every day. In this tutorial, she shares a few basic tips on how to improve your hand-lettered fonts.

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  • 3 Steps to Become a Happy Full-Time Artist by Claudia Sahuquillo
    Art

    3 Steps to Become a Happy Full-Time Artist by Claudia Sahuquillo

    Visual artist and business mentor Clauda Sahuquillo shares the four steps We all have dreams we’re working towards, but without commitment and consistency it’s all too easy for our big ideas to simply fade away. Not for Claudia Sahuquillo, however. Claudia first caught public attention with her #SkinIsTheNewCanvas campaign where she painted patterns and shapes on naked women’s bodies. Now, an owner of three businesses, a mentor for young creatives, and a thriving full time artist herself, she is living her constantly evolving dream and is determined to show others how they can do the same.

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  • Drawing Tutorial: Graphic Techniques for Designing Tattoos from Scratch
    Illustration Teacher

    Drawing Tutorial: Graphic Techniques for Designing Tattoos from Scratch

    Learn how to draw using line work, dot work, and solid shading, to create a unique design, with Sophie Mo There is no one way to design a tattoo. In fact, most benefit from a variety of techniques. Understanding which ones to use and how to apply them will ensure you achieve the effect you want. Sophie Mo (@sophiemoillustration) is a tattoo artist whose designs have also been used by Squarespace, the BBC, and size? In this tutorial, she shares when, why, and how to use line work, dot work, and solid shading in your tattoo designs.

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  • How to Create and Record Your First Instagram Reels
    Marketing Teacher

    How to Create and Record Your First Instagram Reels

    Get the most out of these fun vertical 30-second videos. Instagram Reels launched in August 2020 and, since then, many Instagrammers have started using these new short—think 15 or 30 seconds—vertical videos. It is the perfect format for creative minds and suitable for scenarios where fast, visual, and easy-to-assimilate content is preferred. If you haven't tried them yet, I'll teach you in these simple steps how to start making your own reels on Instagram.

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  • Instagram Tutorial: The Secret to Engagement
    Marketing

    Instagram Tutorial: The Secret to Engagement

    Learn the most effective ways to connect and engage with your audience and network on Instagram, with Dot Lung An active and engaged Instagram following is considerably more valuable than a large and inactive following so knowing how to maximize engagement is key to any successful Instagram account. With countless contradictory messages, It can be difficult to understand what strategy to adopt when interacting with people on social media. That is why social media expert and Mother of Social Media Dragons Dot Lung has created this tutorial to explain the best ways to up your engagement.

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  • Domestika Creatives: Birgit Palma
    Design

    Domestika Creatives: Birgit Palma

    We talked to lettering artist and illustrator Birgit Palma about how she captures the essence of an idea in her typography Birgit Palma has created lettering and graphic designs for clients such as Adobe, Samsung, and Coca Cola. But her path into design was rather unconventional, and it began with the video game Counter-Strike. She welcomed us into her home and studio in Barcelona to share how she creates the lettering designs that have made her one of the city’s brightest and most sought after young designers.

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  • Domestika Creatives: Marina Esmeraldo
    Illustration

    Domestika Creatives: Marina Esmeraldo

    We dive into the geometric and colorful world of Brazilian illustrator and artist Marina Esmeraldo Marina Esmeraldo was born in Brazil, but her desire to learn and evolve her career has transported her to London and Barcelona. Despite training in architecture in the north east of Brazil, her frustration with the industry and her passion for graphic arts rerouted her career and she became an illustrator. Her style, inspired by everything tropical and her training as an architect, is all about shapes, patterns, and experimental compositions. Her career as an illustrator has led her to work with brands and publications such as Google, Coca–Cola, Adidas, Häagen–Dazs, The Washington Post, Wired, Women's March, and many more. Marina Esmeraldo welcomes us into her Barcelona studio to tell us about her career, her creative process, and shares advice for diving into the world of illustration. Discover more below:

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  • Domestika Maestros: Ouka Leele
    Photography

    Domestika Maestros: Ouka Leele

    Photographer and painter Ouka Leele uses reality to build new worlds of color and fantasy Should the photograph be a faithful reflection of reality or of the photographer's inner world? Maybe both? These kinds of questions have been asked of the art of capturing still images since its beginnings, giving rise to an infinite number of different photographic styles, depending on the philosophy of the person pressing the shutter. In the case of the photographer, painter, and artist Ouka Leele (Madrid, 1957), icon of Spain's cultural revolution in the 1980s and winner of the country's National Photography Prize, the answer to these questions might seem simple: Leele is known above all for her combination of photography and painting, for her black and white snapshots that she later painstakingly colors to obtain a new reality. A world apart. But she herself assures us that, if she does so, it is because those are the true colors of reality. We visited Ouka Leele in her studio in Madrid to learn about her particular photographic philosophy, go over the milestones of a fascinating career, and hear her advice to new generations of photographers. Discover her story in the video below:

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  • Enjoy Over a Thousand Works by Georgia O’Keeffe
    Art

    Enjoy Over a Thousand Works by Georgia O’Keeffe

    Get to know the work of the modernist painter online Considered one of the most influential representatives of American modernism, Georgia O'Keeffe is also one of the most recognized painters in art history. One of her paintings sold for more than $ 44 million, the highest record for a female artist. Although critics claim that O'Keeffe's work is primarily about sexual themes, she claimed that she was only interested in the shape and beauty of nature. Throughout her life she fought against prejudice against her gender.

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  • Challenge: Create a Low Cost Still Life Set
    Design

    Challenge: Create a Low Cost Still Life Set

    Daniela and Mara, AKA the Flaminguettes, are a duo of creative directors who have worked with clients such as Sony, Adidas, and Nike Finding a good design proposal requires a lot of work, making it original and fun is even harder. But, Daniela and Mara, the creative director duo known as Flaminguettes (@flaminguettes), have the energy to take on any creative challenge, designing sets for brands like Air France, Cirque du Soleil, Nike, Adidas, and Sony. This is why we took advantage of the last Domestika Cup in Colombia to propose a Domestika Challenge: would you be able to conceive a low-cost still life, using only materials and objects within everyone's reach? See how they did in the video below:

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  • Domestika Diary: COVL
    Design Teacher

    Domestika Diary: COVL

    The multidisciplinary self-taught artist talks about her process and why creative exploration is so important to her. Just like there are no limits to a person’s creativity, there are seemingly no limits on the number of mediums available to experiment with. In fact, dabbling in new techniques and trying new tools can be a way of expanding your own skill set and discovering different forms of creative output. For multidisciplinary artist COVL, whose clients include Nike, Netflix, Instagram, and Cadillac, experimenting with mediums outside her comfort zone is the key to improving her craft. In this Domestika Diary, she talks about her process, her experience working from home, and how the diversity in her work helps her see and find creative opportunities everywhere she looks.

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  • Domestika Creatives: Petra Eriksson
    Illustration

    Domestika Creatives: Petra Eriksson

    We spoke with digital artist Petra Eriksson and explored the colored universe of her illustrations Petra Eriksson was born in Stockholm, Sweden, but her career has taken her to Malta, Dublin, and, finally, Barcelona. Despite originally studying fine art, her wish to use art as a practical vehicle to "solve problems" led her to the world of graphic design and editorial illustration, where she has experienced a meteoric rise thanks to her personal style. This distinctive aesthetic has seen her work appear in publications like Vice, Buzzfeed, and The New Yorker, and on the cover of Mackenzie Lee's book Bygone Badass Broads, a collection of celebrated women's stories and biographies. Petra Eriksson welcomed us into her Barcelona studio to talk about her career, her rise, and her approach to art. Watch our interview in the video below:

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  • Susan Kare: an Iconic Career
    Design

    Susan Kare: an Iconic Career

    Susan Kare is the artist and graphic designer famous for creating icons and typefaces for, arguably, the best-known computer in the world There was a time, not too long ago, when computers were the domain of programmers alone. When the machines eventually made the transition to our own homes, they needed to become accessible and easy to use. They needed a new visual language to be understood by the masses. Every day we come across hundreds of icons and designs on our computers and cell phones, and we’ve built quite an expectation for high definition graphics on our devices. Let’s learn how this came about.

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  • Domestika Maestros: Viki Ospina
    Photography

    Domestika Maestros: Viki Ospina

    A pioneer of Colombian photojournalism, her camera has captured the last 50 years of the country's history When Viki Ospina started taking photographs, being a photojournalist and a woman were almost incompatible. Still, working alongside other photographers who struggled for decades to claim their role in the world, she managed to find a place for women in this profession. Along the way, Ospina also captured all the contradictions of the recent history of Colombia through the lens of her camera. The photographer meets us in her studio to enlighten us with all her wisdom, accumulated over decades of constant work. Passionate about capturing the true essence of things, and about transmitting everything she learned throughout her extraordinary career, Ospina reviews the most important moments of her life in the following video.

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  • Domestika Creatives: Lauren Tamaki
    Illustration

    Domestika Creatives: Lauren Tamaki

    Illustrator, designer, and art director Lauren Tamaki has mastered how to adapt her unique style to a range of mediums: from editorial illustration to animation and portraits You’ve probably spotted her work when you’ve opened The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal, or come across her commissions for Apple, Google, Nickelodeon or the agency Pentagram. Lauren Tamaki’s unique and vibrant style and passion for acrylics have made her one of the most interesting US illustrators of recent years. Tamaki recently welcomed us into her New York studio to talk about her passion for fashion design, her celebrity portraits, drawing from a feminist perspective, and her greatest feat: drawing Bill Cosby’s trial. Discover more in the following video:

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  • Domestika Creatives: Marly Gallardo
    Illustration

    Domestika Creatives: Marly Gallardo

    We chat with the vector artist about growing up, what inspires her, and her creative process Full of energy, charismatic, and open. Meet Marly Gallardo. Born in Ecuador and raised in New York, the artist says she’s addicted to metropolises and finds herself strangely drawn to them. She creates vector illustrations–a format which has become her trademark. Her work has appeared in campaigns and editorial publications for The New York Times, United Nations, Microsoft, Apple, Netflix, Adobe and more.

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  • Domestika Maestros: Colita
    Photography

    Domestika Maestros: Colita

    We speak to the photographer who has captured many of the 20th century’s most famous faces, stories, and personalities, and discover what defines great photography and makes a great photographer Isabel Steva Hernández (Barcelona, 1940) has always been known to those around her as Colita. While photography has had a big impact on her life, now, at almost 80 years old, it’s no longer at the center of it. She no longer needs what for decades was her way of life, her way of survival, her way to have fun. Here, she shares what defines great photography what makes a great photographer.

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  • Domestika Creatives: Paula Bonet
    Art

    Domestika Creatives: Paula Bonet

    The noted author, painter, and writer–who has had nine books published–invites us into her studio to talk about her career, her journey as an artist, and her upcoming projects Paula Bonet (born 1980 in Villarreal, Spain) is a multidisciplinary artist who defies labels. Over the course of her career, she has worked with so many different techniques and styles that it is impossible to define her art in just a few words. She first received recognition for a style of drawing which she has now distanced herself from and says she no longer “trusts”. Moving away from that has enabled her to focus on what’s really important to her: finding her own identity.

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