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50 Basic Shortcuts for 3D Studio Max
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ArtThe History of India Ink: From Drunk Poets to Sumi-e
Ink has been essential for thousands of years of Chinese history All the drawing materials we use have a history, and some of them go back much earlier than we can imagine. This is the case for India ink, known in some countries as "China ink," as it has been used in the countries in disciplines ranging from tattooing to comics, and whose existence is deeply linked to the history of the country. Discover everything you always wanted to know about India ink in the video below: its origins, the reasons for its importance both in your country and in the rest of the world, and its unexpected connection to everything from the political to the economic, and, finally, the artistic.
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CraftWhat Is Flat Weaving?
Learn the basics of this type of weaving, its various techniques, and versatile uses
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Film & VideoWhat Is Matte Painting for Cinema?
Learn the basic concepts for creating incredible movie scenes
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IllustrationBasic Materials for Sumi-e Painting
Learn what materials are needed to work in this ancient style of painting
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Photography TeacherPhotoshop Tutorial: How to Replace The Sky in Architectural Photography
Learn the techniques of photographic postproduction to use the exposure of the sky to complement your photography with Daniel Garay Arango The sky is one of the key elements of architectural photography. Unlike the human eye, the camera's sensor is usually incapable of capturing all the nuances of the sky, and on many occasions we will have to resort to programs like Adobe Photoshop to get everything we want out of it. In the following tutorial, Daniel Garay Arango (@danielgarayarango), a photographer specialized in black and white architectural images, explains step by step how to edit the sky in your photographs to obtain professional and spectacular results. Find out more in the video below:
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IllustrationMaterials: Watercolor Painting
For watercolor beginners who want to know what supplies to start with, storyboard and watercolor artist Alex Hillkurtz shares the materials that he uses every day The everyday toolkit of an artist is a very personal thing. Built through experimentation and trial and error, knowing what materials they use each day can help us learn more about their technique and give us ideas about how to experiment with or advance our own. For over 20 years Alex Hillkurtz (@alexhillkurtzart) has worked as a storyboard artist and illustrator for feature films, television, and commercials. His urban sketches and watercolor paintings have been exhibited internationally. In the video and guide below, he shares the materials he reaches for everyday, and explains how he uses each in his work. Whether you’re putting together a watercolor supply kit for the first time, or simply curious about what materials you can add to your practice, here are a few ideas.
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PhotographyDo’s and Don’ts For Working With Nude Models
Rebeca Saray shares key advice that will help you in your nude photography projects As well as thinking about your technical set-up, when it comes to working with nude models, you will need to take special care with the art direction of your shoot and how you interact with your subject. Photographer, director, and digital artist Rebeca Saray (@rebecasaray) shares below what she has learned from her own professional experience.
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MarketingHow to Tell If Your Business Idea Is Good
Discover three infallible formulas for knowing if an idea is worth pursuing or not, with Foncho Ramírez-Corzo
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Web & App Design40 Basic Keyboard Shortcuts for Pro Tools
Discover the basic keyboard shortcuts for one of the most popular audio editing programs Pro Tools is one of the most popular DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) among the creative community involved in audiovisual projects. Due to its friendly interface and the wide variety of plugins it offers for recording, editing, and mixing audio, it has been one of the most recommended software packages of the last three decades for sound professionals. One of the most valued features is that it works both in MacOS and Windows, so it offers flexibility for all kinds of users. Get to know the basic shortcuts —compatible with both platforms— that will optimize your workflow. Download a PDF filw with these shortcuts at the end of this post.
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IllustrationJunk Journal July: A Creativity Challenge
Journaler Meg Journals invites you to participate in this creativity activity Without a doubt, sketchbooks are one of the most useful and rewarding tools any creative can have. Being alone with your pages lets you pour your ideas, experiences, plans for future projects, and many things more. Meg Journals is an illustrator based in the UK whose love for journals goes way beyond the paper. We talked to her about her passion and Junk Journal July, a creative challenge you can participate throughout July.
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Web & App DesignMore than 270,000 Free Nature Illustrations from the Biodiversity Heritage Library
Discover this free catalog of nature illustrations dating back hundreds of years and boost your creativity The Biodiversity Heritage Library has been dubbed the world’s largest open-access digital library for resources on natural history and biodiversity. Right now, the world is experiencing a major extinction crisis and widespread climate change. Aware that many heads are better than one, the Biodiversity Heritage Library was launched to pull together resources from libraries all around the world, pushing to advance global research by digitizing their collections and provide free worldwide access to its catalog.
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Music & AudioHow To Perfect Your At-home Sound Recording Booth
Follow these tips to turn your space into a home studio You’ve got your computer, microphone, monitors, a DAW–digital audio workstation–set up and your at-home studio is ready to go. However, when you finally get around to recording, you don’t get the results you were expecting. Even though you have all the right equipment, to get quality results, you will nearly always need to spend time adjusting the acoustics in the space where you’ll be recording. If you’re a producer, audio designer, audio, or music content developer, and you need to improve the quality of your voice recordings, follow these simple tips that will help you to perfect your at-home sound studio.
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3D & AnimationCinema 4D Tutorial: Modeling From Simple Pieces
Learn step by step to model a spaceship in a simple way with Aarón Martínez Cinema 4D is one of the most popular 3D modeling softwares on the market, thanks to the variety of options it offers and the freedom of creation that its tools allow. It is a program, however, that can intimidate beginners, due to its interface and professional appearance. But, once we learn how to handle it, it becomes an extraordinary ally in any type of 3D design. Aarón Martínez (@aaronmartinez), designer and illustrator, shows us in this tutorial how to start modeling with the tools of [url=https: //www.domestika.org/es/courses/software/9-cinema-4d] Cinema 4D, creating a simple spacecraft shape that will help us understand the software much better. Find out more on the video below.
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CraftFill Your Ceramics With Color With This Simple Marbling Technique
Paula Casella Biase, potter and founder of Bambucito, shows us how to marble our pieces quickly and easily The creation and personalization of ceramic pieces goes beyond modeling, although this is an essential part. The shape of the piece is completed with the decoration that we want to apply, and the use of glazing techniques usually contributes to a much more attractive and unique finish. One of the simplest glazing techniques is marbling, with which we can use a few colours and some heat to create more interesting work. To help you learn to apply marbling, ceramicist Paula Casella Biase (@paulacasellabiase) explains her technique in the video below:
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PLUS Typography, Calligraphy and LetteringTips for illustrating your own lettering
Sindy Ethel shows you techniques to illustrate letters by hand Combining lettering and illustration will help you create unique and eye-catching designs. Bringing these disciplines together will also allow you to experiment with different analog and digital techniques to obtain results that will surprise you. Below, designer Sindy Ethel shows you some simple tricks to familiarize yourself with letter shapes and get you started drawing your own:
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MarketingWhat Elements Make Up A Brand?
Learn to build a brand identity by knowing the elements that define it To create a brand with value that meets the expectations of any creator, it is essential to base each part of its construction process on concrete information related not only to the audiences you want to reach, but to your own objectives and the image you want to establish in the market. An important part of that information has to do with the elements that make up a brand. Here we explain what each one of them consists of based on an identity-building model proposed by Alejandro Pascalis (@alejandro_pascalis), a graphic designer with 10 years of experience as a brand strategist. He has worked with clients such as American Eagle, Uber, Claro and American Express, among many others.
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MarketingDifferent Types of Community Managers
Maximize your professional results by working out what CM category you fit into Different types of community managers have different roles. Understanding this is essential, according to Ana Marín (@anamarinen)–a creative strategist with over a decade of experience in advertising and working with digital and creative agencies. She has also won more than 50 awards in Latin America and is a leader in her field at McCann Worldgroup.
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DesignCharles and Ray Eames: 5 Iconic Works
Charles and Ray Eames were visionaries who changed the course of design history Charles and Ray Eamess are known for their groundbreaking contributions to architecture, furniture design, industrial design, manufacturing, and photography. Having met while attending the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Charles Eames and Ray Kaiser Eames married and moved to California in 1941, where they continued to experiment with molded plywood. These experiments would lay the foundations for the future of modern design: their pioneering use of new materials and technologies would transform the American home, introducing furnishings and objects that were functional, affordable, and highly sculptural.
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CraftTextile Dyeing Tutorial: Plant-based Pigments
Learn this basic dyeing technique that uses leaves, flowers, barks, stems, roots, peels and seeds step by step with Anabel Torres As the name suggests, plant-based pigments are those extracted from plants. Within this category, we can find flowers, peels, leaves, stems, fruits, seeds, barks, and roots. Dyeing with plant-based pigments means extracting the color from these materials, putting them to boil, and getting it to stick to the fabric we want to dye. In the following video tutorial, fashion designer and textile artist Anabel Torres (@anabeltorres) shows a very simple and effective method to dye your fabrics with different natural pigments. Find out below:
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IllustrationMeet Illustrator Ulises Mendicutty
The Mexican illustrator with a passion for pink, street culture, skulls and perreo Ulises Mendicutty is an illustrator, art director, and visual artist from Mexico who has been living in Barcelona for over a decade. Passionate about pink, street culture, unique anecdotes, traditions, cinema, the future, skulls and perreo (among many other things), Ulises loves to participate in diverse projects that push him out of his creative comfort zone and experiment with different formats: “I love to draw and see my strokes in magazines or blogs, but I am also a fan of seeing them on a wall or transformed into a ceramic object”. While he studied communication and philosophy at undergrad, art had always been his passion. A postgrad in illustration confirmed that he was destined to draw. He has been commissioned by the Spanish national newspaper El Pais, Slanted Magazine, Vips, and Penguin Random House and his work has been exhibited in Italy, Scotland, Spain, Mexico, and Costa Rica. Here we share a selection of Ulises’ work, from portraits to murals. 365 Fuegos Ulises teamed up with author Bebi Fernandez to create this weekly 2020 calendar. Throughout its pink pages, you’ll find flaming illustrations by Ulises and sassy quotes written by Fernandez. The 2020 calendar was published by Motena under Penguin Random House.
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CraftDomestika Diary: Ale Rambar
Costa Rican architect and visual artist Ale Rambar opens the doors of his studio and reflects on what motivate his work Ale Rambar's work has traveled the world: he has passed through prestigious national art galleries, accompanied the Costa Rican Olympic team in 2016 during the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, and was even selected to represent Costa Rica in the Beijing International Art Biennale. His technique, based on the topographical analysis of the human form, uses three-dimensional compositions, made with layers of paper and assembled by hand, to talk about themes such as tolerance and equality. In this Domestika Diaries, Rambar shows us his personal studio and talks about the messages behind some of his most relevant works. Discover what he had to say in the video below:
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3D & Animation5 Free Tutorials to Master After Effects
Learn how to use basic tools to create animations in different formats with Adobe After Effects Due to its range of tools and format possibilities, After Effects has become a basic software for professionals and creatives involved with visual projects. Below, we share 5 tutorials that will help you master basic functions of formats, tools and actions available in this software. After Effects Tutorial: Types of Layers In this tutorial, Carlos “Zenzuke” Albarrán (@zenzuke), a founding partner of Maaambo design studio who has more than a decade of experience in motion graphics and 2D and 3D animation, reviews the various types of layers in After Effects and their different functions. This is a great opportunity to learn the basics of After Effects before you dive into a project. Find out more in the video below:
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DesignWhat are the origins of the different LGBTQ+ symbols?
We explain the lesser known origins of some of the LGBTQ+ community’s most recognizable symbols Although there is no doubt that the best known LGBTQ+ symbol is the rainbow flag, which represents the diversity of the community, there are many who feel like they aren’t fully represented in this single symbol, or who for other historic reasons have used other symbols to represent their specific community. Throughout history, the labels and symbols used to represent the LGBTQ+ community have held a lot of meaning, and they continue to do so. Behind each of them there are millions of people fighting for the right to authentically represent themselves, using these symbols not just as a declaration of identity but also as a way to foster community. You’ll likely recognize all, or at least most, of these symbols, but you might know know their origins. Here we tell you a bit more about each them, and why these images hold so much power:
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Craft TeacherScreen Printing Tutorial: How to Make Handmade Packaging
Discover basic tips to create packaging at home with Tatabi Studio’s screen printing technique Using DIY techniques for your brand identity allows you to create an original and unique style. Among the techniques that help us achieve this aesthetic is silk-screen printing, a popular methods for brands to boost their designs. That's why designer Elena Sancho, founder of Tatabi Studio (@tatabi), teaches us how to use this printing technique to create unique packaging with a lot of personality. You can watch the tutorial here:
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Art7 World-renowned Artists Exploring LGBTQ+ Identity
Art has always been a powerful form of activism. Today we’re celebrating 7 artists who have stood up and spoken out for LGBTQ+ rights. Zanele Muholi, David Hockney, Keith Haring, Catherine Opie, Gilbert & George, Annie Leibovitz, and Robert Mapplethorpe have each used their medium of choice to speak out against social injustice, break down barriers, subvert gender norms, or draw attention to, normalize and celebrate queer identities and relationships. To celebrate Pride month, here we take a look at some of their most iconic works of art.
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CraftThe Best Unconventional Embroidery
Get inspired by the work of textile artists who take embroidery out of the fabric Many people mistakenly think that embroidery is a boring and old-fashioned activity. Contemporary embroidery artists challenge this idea with each of their pieces. They elevate embroidery as a valuable artistic expression and expand the limits of what can be accomplished with the technique. We have curated a selection of embroidery artists who explore novel themes but also do it outside the canvas. Be amazed and inspired by this work! Danielle Clough Better known on Instagram as Fiance Knowles, this South African needle artist likes to embroider on unexpected objects, like snowshoes and even railings on the streets.
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PhotographyWhat is Noise in Photography?
Discover what noise is, how it happens, and how to make sure it doesn’t Understanding the concept of visual noise is a basic way to improve the quality of a photograph. While many may use it as an artistic resource, it is an undesirable element for most photographers: a product of failures when capturing or digitizing, of errors when calibrating a camera, or technical deficiencies of the equipment. That said, noise in digital photography can be understood as a visual distortion identifiable as graininess or discoloration that often reduces the impact of an image, obscures details and, when there is a lot, can completely ruin a photograph.
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IllustrationFree Download: Brush Bundle for Procreate
Designer Nubikini is temporarily sharing a free download that you can use to create unique letters for social media Layering letters on top of a unique photograph can transport us to unexpected places. The work of Nubikini (@nubikini) does exactly this. She channels emotion through letters and creates visuals that are both mesmerizing and fun. Nubia Navarro–a graphic designer living in Bogotá (Colombia)–has a passion for typography, letters, and photography. Since discovering her fascination with letters after attending a lecture on experimental typography, she’s been experimenting with them non-stop. Nubikini has worked with such international brands as Adidas, Coca Cola, and UNICEF. Always enthusiastic to share her knowledge and love of letters, today Nubikini is offering up her favorite Procreate brushes to the Domestika community. Try them out and be transported to wherever your imagination takes you.
