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  • Free Download: How to Create a Botanical Pattern in Photoshop
    Teacher Illustration

    Free Download: How to Create a Botanical Pattern in Photoshop

    Do you want to learn how to create a botanical pattern with your illustrations in Photoshop? Check out this guide shared by Lapin Nowadays, it is super easy to print your drawings on fabric and other surfaces through various online platforms. Botanical illustrations are a perfect subject for this type of activity. Urban sketcher and illustrator Lapin (@lapinbarcelona) believes you can find peace in the rush of everyday life by drawing the plants and flowers around you. He believes drawing from observation is a great way to develop creativity and mindfulness. You can turn your watercolor sketches of your favorite plants and flowers into beautiful botanical compositions to replicate as a surface pattern in Photoshop.

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  • Free Butterfly Embroidery Pattern
    Teacher Craft

    Free Butterfly Embroidery Pattern

    Do you want to embroider a beautiful monarch butterfly? Check out this pattern shared by Emillie Ferris In the art of needle painting, a needle acts like a brush and the thread as the paint, helping you achieve hyper-realistic designs. You can create realistic embroidered pieces using the long and short stitch technique, just like Emillie Ferris (@emillieferris), who makes contemporary embroidery patterns, kits, pins, and original hoop art using traditional methods. Insects are a wonderful place to start if you’re a beginner, as they can be very forgiving of mistakes. Their symmetrical nature also makes the entire embroidery process very meditative and relaxing.

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  • Free Fashion Pose Templates For Drawing Croquis Sketches
    Teacher Fashion

    Free Fashion Pose Templates For Drawing Croquis Sketches

    Do you want to draw expressive poses for your fashion illustrations? Check out this guide shared by Connie Lim There is an explosion of creativity in the fashion illustration industry and many illustrators take inspiration from fashion runways and editorials to create striking visual expressions through drawing and painting. Fashion illustrator Connie Lim (@_connielim_) combines traditional drawing techniques with a more experimental approach using mixed media to create exciting fashion illustrations. Using an editorial reference as a starting point, Connie follows unique processes to achieve the perfect pose and style of her illustrated fashion figures.

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  • Free Drawing Exercises to Become an Artist
    Teacher Illustration

    Free Drawing Exercises to Become an Artist

    Do you want to learn some drawing exercises so you can warm up before you start illustrating? Check out this guide Illustrator Sarah van Dongen (@sarahvandongenillustration) uses fun methods to develop her ideas and knows that the best ideas come when we least expect them. She encourages you to draw from observation, and without restraints. Before you set off to create a finished illustration, you should start with some warm up exercises. Draw using a variety of materials and fill up your sketchbook pages as you practice. This type of routine free from expectations helps you overcome the fear of the blank page, and to further develop your style.

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  • Free Color Theory Guide for Embroidery
    Teacher Craft

    Free Color Theory Guide for Embroidery

    Do you want to know how to use color in your punch needle embroidered portraits? Check out this guide Freelance fabricator and designer Camille Labarre (@camillelabarre) can help you turn your next big idea into something tangible. Embroidery with a punch needle is a relaxing, fun, and therapeutic activity. It allows you to create textured works of art that showcase your personal style. Knowing how to choose your colors is key in any art. If you didn’t go to art school, chances are you’ve never even heard of color theory. It is important to know and identify the differences between hue, saturation, and value. These key concepts are incredibly helpful when it comes to your final piece.

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  • Free Guide: Styling your Products for a Home Photoshoot
    Teacher Photography

    Free Guide: Styling your Products for a Home Photoshoot

    Do you want to learn a few tips about styling and photographing your products? Check out this guide Artist, illustrator, and entrepreneur Tatiana Nedialkova (@softerandwild) knows how important it is for your products to look amazing when you promote them. A home photoshoot can be the best place to achieve this if you use the right tools and direction. In product photography, you need to study and plan your setup, especially if shooting at home: props, camera, and various backdrops. Tatiana shares a guide with tips on food photography to inspire setting up your own home photoshoots.

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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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