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  • Free Guide for Designing 3D Characters
    Teacher 3D & Animation

    Free Guide for Designing 3D Characters

    Do you want to learn to create reference images for developing your 3D characters? Check out this guide When it comes to illustrating hand-drawn sketches to convert into playful 3D characters, animator, illustrator, and director Laurie Rowan (@laulrowan) knows the importance of searching for and learning how to use inspirational resources to guide your creative process. In 3D characters illustration, you need to learn how to turn hand-drawn sketches into 3D rendered images. Laurie shares a guide with his personal approach to character design to help you discover new sources of inspiration and explore your imagination when building your characters and sets.

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  • Free Short Guide for Drawing a Hummingbird
    Teacher Illustration

    Free Short Guide for Drawing a Hummingbird

    Learn how to draw and color a hummingbird with this annotated sketch, packed with tips, from Marco Mazzoni Artist and illustrator Marco Mazzoni (@marcomazzoniart) uses colored pencils to illustrate animals and natural elements with mood and symbolism. The animal kingdom has always been a strong source of inspiration for artists, with surprisingly accurate metaphors of human emotions found in each animal’s characteristics. Marco is fascinated by flora and fauna. His illustration work is filled with depictions of human emotions inspired by nature. Have a go at creating your own colorful hummingbird using his annotated step-by-step drawings to guide you.

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  • Free Hand-building Handbook for Ceramics
    Teacher Craft

    Free Hand-building Handbook for Ceramics

    Do you want to know how to hand-build pots at home? Check out this guide shared by Lilly Maetzig Ceramist Lilly Maetzig (@mae_ceramics) talks about her craft as a sacred and ancient activity that we seem to understand innately. We’ve been molding clay by hand for thousands of years. The slow pace of hand-building ceramic objects brings her a meditative peace and calm, as she creates simple yet refined pieces with a limited color palette and playful touches. Set up your home as a workspace by using everyday objects and understand how pots are made by making a basic pinch pot, a coil pot, and a slab pot.

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  • Free Watercolor Palette Guide: Botanical Sketchbooking
    Teacher Domestika

    Free Watercolor Palette Guide: Botanical Sketchbooking

    Do you want to achieve the best colors for your botanical sketching? Check out this guide shared by Lapin Urban sketcher and illustrator Lapin (@lapinbarcelona) knows the importance of drawing from direct observation and playing with cold and warm tones to add strength to one’s artwork. In botanical sketching, what seems to be green is much more subtle. Looking closer, you'll see yellow, blue, ochre, even orange or purple. To help you get to the closest color of the plant you are observing, Lupin shares his watercolor palette and a few tips to create your own greens chart without using any green pigments.

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  • Free Quick Analog Photography Guide
    Teacher Photography

    Free Quick Analog Photography Guide

    Discover the best settings and tips for analog photography in this guide created by photographer Maria Louceiro Analog photography offers a myriad of creative opportunities for those who want to experiment with new forms of expression. Using the unique features of an analog camera, it is possible to capture colors and magical effects to bring unique and fantastic atmospheres to life. The Portuguese photographer and art director, Maria Louceiro (@marialouceiro), is an expert on the subject and in her portfolio are projects for major brands such as Mercedes-Benz, MTV, VICE, Coachella Festival, among others.

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  • Free Guide to Learn How To Draw Flowers and Leaves
    Teacher Illustration

    Free Guide to Learn How To Draw Flowers and Leaves

    Want to learn how to draw leaves and flowers? Check out this guide shared by Luli Reis, an illustrator specializing in botanical watercolor Observation is the most important skill for those who create botanical art, after all, nature, together with its nuances and particularities, serves as a starting point and inspiration for everything that will be created. Over time, you will be able to perceive and learn patterns that are repeated in several botanical varieties. Brazilian visual artist and illustrator Luli Reis (@lulireis) seeks to convey her love and admiration for botanical life through expressive watercolor compositions. In her creative process, the details of leaves and flowers play a crucial role in expressing and reproducing the beauty and enchantment present in nature.

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  • Free Guide: Light and Shadows in Street Photography
    Teacher Photography

    Free Guide: Light and Shadows in Street Photography

    Find out how to use light consciously in this guide created by brazilian urban photographer Gustavo Minas To find the source of light in an environment or scenario to be photographed, just look at the direction of the shadows. They are the ones that show the distance and intensity of the light source. This tip, taken from the book 50 years: Light, Camera, Action, by film photographer Edgar Moura, was a watershed for the career of photographer Gustavo Minas, specialized in street photography. One of his trademarks is the reflexes of everyday life, which allow the materialization of different points of view in the same image.

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  • Free Brief Color Theory Guide
    Teacher Illustration

    Free Brief Color Theory Guide

    Do you want to understand color theory? Check out this guide shared by an illustrator specialized in botanical watercolor For any artist, mastering colors is as fundamental as mastering the technique. This mastery of basic concepts is what allows the creation of unique and surprising combinations, as well as the transmission of ideas, sensations, emotions and impressions. Through expressive watercolor compositions, visual artist and illustrator Luli Reis (@lulireis) seeks to convey her love and admiration for botanical life. In her creative process, colors play a crucial role in expressing and reproducing the beauty and enchantment present in nature.

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  • 55 Basic Shortcuts to Work With Lumion
    Architecture & Space

    55 Basic Shortcuts to Work With Lumion

    Speed up the creation of animated renders with Lumion thanks to this guide and download a free PDF with the most useful shortcuts A render allows you to anticipate what something will look like and even what a project will feel like in real life. With Lumion, you can bring digital creations to life by inserting them into the real world and with superior visual quality. With these shortcuts, you will make your work process much more efficient and get the most out of this app in the shortest time possible. At the end of this list, you can download all these shortcuts in PDF format.

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  • Free Adobe Photoshop brushes for Illustration
    Teacher Illustration

    Free Adobe Photoshop brushes for Illustration

    Create incredible illustrations with this three wax, pencil and stain brushes shared by Alex de Marcos When it comes to expressing your creativity in Adobe Photoshop, having a variety of brushes is essential for creating pixel art illustrations as brush strokes. To create a personal pictorial finish, you should experiment with tools that allow you to make different uses of color and give different textures to your composition. In order to achieve this, the illustrator Alex de Marcos García (@alex_de_marcos) offers you three digital brushes with very different effects.

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  • 20 Free Elements to Add to Your Portraits in Procreate
    PLUS Teacher Illustration

    20 Free Elements to Add to Your Portraits in Procreate

    Combine letters and abstract elements in your digital illustrations with Samuel Rodríguez Procreate has become an essential tool for today’s digital artists. Its ease of use and infinite possibilities mean that you can create something to be proud of no matter what your illustration level. Samuel Rodriguez (@samrodriguezart) is a renowned California-based artist who swapped analog techniques for an iPad Pro and Procreate, using the tools to develop stunning portraits filled with bold colors, abstract designs, and an original style.

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  • Free Pattern to Make a Nordic Crochet Vest
    Teacher Craft

    Free Pattern to Make a Nordic Crochet Vest

    Learn how to make a vest, step by step, with this pattern in three different sizes created by Ali Maravillas Do you want to crochet with your own hands? Choosing an inspiring pattern is essential for you to find (and keep) your motivation levels high. To help you on your way, Nordic-style crochet designer and yarnbomber Alicia Recio Rodríguez (@AliMaravillas) shares her pattern for knitting a Hygge vest. One of those pieces that never go out of style, the vest's cozy, light, and cool design will keep you crocheting for hours and hours.

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  • Free Patterns to Make a Leather Bag With Your Hands
    Craft

    Free Patterns to Make a Leather Bag With Your Hands

    Do you want to create your own leather bag? Start with these patterns from the expert craftsman Gustavo Annoni If you are seduced by artisan making, these sketches and patterns for making bags will serve as a guide to start creating something new with your own hands. These are three sketches and patterns offered by Gustavo Annoni (@gus_annoni), an expert craftsman founder of Annoni Bags. Gustavo has made his handcrafted designs for bags and purses known around the world.

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  • Free Step-By-Step Guide to Perspective Drawing
    Illustration

    Free Step-By-Step Guide to Perspective Drawing

    Architect and illustrator Héctor López shares a useful guide to understand the technique for drawing architectural objects and perspective In drawing, perspective is used to represent spatial depth. It is a way of looking at three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional plane or surface. This representation helps us understand the proportions and depths of the elements we are drawing and is extremely useful to understand the shape of an object. Both architects and illustrators know perfectly the power of perspective: it creates depth through drawing and therefore realism.

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  • Download Two Lighting Schemes for Portrait Photography
    Film & Video

    Download Two Lighting Schemes for Portrait Photography

    Photographer Esteban Calderón shows you two ways to design lighting for portraits When preparing a portrait it is important to enhance the aspects that most flatter a person and, in this way, make them the true protagonist of the photo. To achieve this, lighting is a fundamental aspect of the creative process. When we work with artificial lighting we can have absolute control of this aspect.

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  • Free Graphic Visualization Presentation Template
    Design

    Free Graphic Visualization Presentation Template

    Use, modify and enjoy a template with 60 stunning slides prepared by Data Designer Katya Kovalenko If you truly want to impress your clients, your colleagues or potential collaborators, you need to develop your concepts in a visually compelling fashion. Presentations and data visualization will help you to organize your ideas and articulate what you want to communicate. That’s the area of expertise of Presentation and Data Designer Katya Kovalenko (@katyakovalenko), whom specializes in creating graphic visualizations that help companies articulate what their product is about. Her secret is to deeply understand how our brains perceive information and align that with design principles.

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  • Free Creative Brief Template for Social Media
    Teacher Marketing

    Free Creative Brief Template for Social Media

    Senior Copywriter Paul Anglin shares his comprehensive and easy-to-edit template for writing a great brief When engaging with a new client, a brand, or planning your own social media plan, there's one crucial step of the process: the brief. For Senior Copywriter Paul Anglin (@paulanglin), this might be the single most important document for any project. Drawing on twenty years of experience working with brands like Apple, Nike, and Microsoft, in his Domestika course, Paul shares his process for developing a brief that ticks all the boxes, and how to use that brief to write captivating copy for your social media audience.

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  • Free Worksheet: 3 Formulas for Instagram Story Sales Posts
    Marketing

    Free Worksheet: 3 Formulas for Instagram Story Sales Posts

    Use these formulas and exercises by Dot Lung to create effective Instagram story sales posts Being able to create sales posts for your Instagram stories is an important way to engage with your audience and generate revenue and traffic. Mother of Social Media Dragons Dot Lung has run campaigns and built social media channels for clients like Facebook, Wix, and OFF Festival, and she’s developed a proven method for generating brand awareness and building meaningful audience relationship. In her English-language Domestika Live on February 3, she will explain the crucial role that sales posts play in driving revenue and traffic, and why they are an essential part of any marketing campaign. If you miss the Live, you will be able to find an archived version of it to enjoy later.

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  • Free Template to Sculpt a Ceramic Vase
    Craft

    Free Template to Sculpt a Ceramic Vase

    Ceramic Artist Sandra Apperloo shares a basic template for a personalized vase project In the last decade or so, ceramics and pottery have seen a true renascence. One of the reasons is that working with clay is filled with pleasant surprises, with almost endless possibilities to explore. This vision is shared by Sandra Apperloo (@thepotteryparade), a ceramist who has not only found great joy in the craft, but also made it her full-time profession. Her brand, known as The Pottery Parade, is filled with quirky faces and pastel hues, has over 100K followers on Instagram, and has been featured in magazines like This is Colossal, ArtPeople, and more.

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  • Free Embroidery Pattern Guide to Create Hairstyles With Volume
    Craft

    Free Embroidery Pattern Guide to Create Hairstyles With Volume

    Señorita Lylo shares patterns and photos with models to embroider braids, bows and hairstyles with flowers If you want to learn different techniques to achieve embroideries that stand out from the frame and give your creations another dimension, textile designer Señorita Lylo is here for you. This embroiderer and graphic designer brings yarn to life by creating designs with volume. Also, she knows how to teach and share her techniques: her pedagogical, practical and inspiring style has earned her thousands of followers on social media.

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  • Free Social Media Metrics Guide for Beginners
    Marketing

    Free Social Media Metrics Guide for Beginners

    Expert Hana Klokner explains the most used KPIs for social media management You have great content and a shiny strategy for your social media accounts. Then, you implement it and post according to your calendar. But after a while, you see no growth. What went wrong? After ten years of experience as a social media marketing specialist, Hana Klokner (@hanajayklokner) started her own consultancy business, working with clients like Amazon, glh Hotels, and the United Nations. She is a published author of Wired & Socially Awkward: New York, a short story collection for adults themed around social media.

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  • Free Exercises for Defining Your Brand Identity
    Marketing

    Free Exercises for Defining Your Brand Identity

    Use this worksheet by Alice Benham to conceive and help build a powerful brand identity Regardless of your creative industry, having an effective brand identity is key to finding an audience who can appreciate and support your work. Digital marketing and podcast coach Alice Benham (@alice_benham) works with business owners and entrepreneurs to create strategic content that helps them reach their goals - whether they are based on profit, purpose, or both. In her English-language Domestika Live on January 25, she explains what a brand identity is, why it’s important, and how to create one and ensure that it’s reflected across your content. She will use this worksheet to explain simple, concrete exercises that you can do to conceive and build your unique brand. If you miss the Live, you will be able to find an archived version of it to enjoy later. Using this worksheet, Alice will show you how to define your brand’s core, identity, and values, and you will learn how to create an actionable mission statement that you can then use to drive your content and marketing strategy. This will help you more effectively reach and engage with new audiences, as well as build brand loyalty. Tune in for Alice Benham’s English-language Domestika Live where she answers audience questions about branding and explains how to use these exercises to build your own brand identity, on January 25, 2021 at 5pm UK / 6 pm MAD / 11 am CDMX. To watch an archived version of her Live, and all Domestika Live specials, go here.

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  • Free Download: Sketch of Audrey Hepburn
    Illustration

    Free Download: Sketch of Audrey Hepburn

    Use this beautiful sketch by Connie Lim to create your own fashion illustration of Audrey Hepburn during Connie’s Domestika Live Audrey Hepburn’s beautiful features have been the inspiration for countless drawings by professionals and amateurs the world over. To pay homage to the style icon on the anniversary of her death, multimedia fashion illustrator Connie Lim will be using her unique technique to illustrate a famous image of Audrey Hepburn on her Domestika Live. Connie has prepared this sketch from a photo for you to download and print out and follow along as she takes us through her process.

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  • Free Download: Glossary of Casting Terminology
    Film & Video

    Free Download: Glossary of Casting Terminology

    Casting Director Luci Lenox shares commonly used terms in the TV and film casting industry If you are getting ready to produce your first film o television project, you’ll need to feel acquainted with the common lingo to feel like a pro. By learning the correct terminology, you’ll be able to speak with producers, agents, actos and any other person involved in the process in a professional manner. As an international casting director with over twenty years of experience, Luci Lenox (@lucilenox) has worked with some of the world’s top established and up-and-coming filmmakers. She has collaborated on the casting of over one hundred productions across Spain and throughout Europe.

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  • Free Download: Community Management Strategy Template
    Marketing

    Free Download: Community Management Strategy Template

    Use this helpful template to achieve your strategic goals and assess your work Mastering social media as a community manager or social media strategist requieres to build, grow and maintain thriving communities online. This discipline consists in creating a brand online presence that truly resonates with the audiences while generating meaningful conversations and interactions with the product. Social Media Marketing Specialist Hana Klokner (@hanajayklokner) has been working with brands to perfect their community management strategy for over ten years, with a client list of major brands that include Amazon, glh Hotels, and the United Nations. She knows that a strong community management depends on a solid strategy.

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