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  • 5 Instagram Photography Courses
    Photography

    5 Instagram Photography Courses

    Make the most of this social network and adopt effective strategies for your brand There’s no denying that Instagram is one of the biggest virtual display windows for showing off whatever products or services you're selling. Companies and brands each have to find their own way to use it to stand out and draw people in. Not only does Instagram enable users to get a good look at your projects and products, but it can also be used to construct a non-verbal narrative that tells the world outside what you’re about. While the app’s most popular tools are its filters, the most successful profiles are those sharing powerful photos that have a deep understanding of creativity, composition, and photographic technique. Learn to unlock your potential and embrace your artistic sensitivity with these five Instagram photography specialists and discover how to get the most out of the tools on offer. Professional Mobile Photography and Videos, a course by Nay Jiménez Learn to take great photographs using just your phone. This photographer and art director will help you understand concepts such as color and composition so that you can create an Instagram feed with a consistent visual style. Also, they will share all of their techniques for dispelling fear and transforming your phone into an ideas machine.

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  • Cyanotype: Simple Materials to Print Images with Light
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    Cyanotype: Simple Materials to Print Images with Light

    Learn about cyanotype, a low-cost, creative, and beautiful printing process that lets you print any type of image from scratch and the surprisingly simple materials and method to apply it Cyanotype. Sounds cool. But what is it? Cyan, as in the shade of blue, and type, as in printing: cyanotype is a printing process which has been used by artists, botanists, and architects for almost two centuries. A photosensitive solution that dyes objects blue when it comes into contact with light is used to develop images onto a whole range of surfaces, from paper to fabric, wood, and ceramics. For this article, Xavier and Gabriela from the design workshop Fábrica de Texturas (@fabricadetexturas), who teach the course Cyanotype: Printing with Light, have shared the materials and tools you need to embark on your own blueprint journey.

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  • Free Download: Report Template for Social Media Campaigns
    Marketing

    Free Download: Report Template for Social Media Campaigns

    This digital campaign tracking template allows you to study metrics over time When creating marketing campaigns for social networks, it is essential to monitor results throughout the entire duration of the campaign in order to correct any potential issues and to obtain learnings related to what has and hasn't worked. Arantxa Beltrán and Guillermo Medina have been working in digital marketing for years, primarily with Google and Facebook Ads campaigns, and beyond mastering various types of ads and the ways they influence user behavior, the pair are also specialists in analyzing and tracking campaign metrics. This template which they've shared with Domestika will help you better manage and understand the metrics generated by your social media campaigns.

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  • 7 Tips to Make Your Next Live Broadcast a Success
    Marketing

    7 Tips to Make Your Next Live Broadcast a Success

    Get more engagement from your followers when doing live transmissions A live broadcast allows content creators to connect with their audience more deeply and interactively. Recently, the format has gained traction thanks to international quarantine measures and the fast paced and meaningful interaction it enables. This inspired us to collect some useful tips that will guarantee better engagement. Notify your followers Illustrator Carlos Rodríguez Casado (@carlosrodriguezcasado) did Lives almost every day during the COVID-19 confinement in Spain and, in addition to becoming one of his favorite ways to connect with his audience, he learned a lot about how to make them work. Carlos' first piece of advice is to announce a Live session in advance with a Story slide that specifies the date and time: "The more attractive the design, the better. I'd also recommend using the countdown sticker, since it's very visual." This tip may sound obvious, but many people forget the importance of notifying their followers in advance about when and on which platform the live transmission will be on. Don't make just one announcement. Make several posts on your social networks, reminding everyone of the day and time it will take place.

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  • What is Doodle Illustration?
    Illustration

    What is Doodle Illustration?

    Learn how the scribbles we make when daydreaming can become art from a master in the craft: Mauro Martins Illustrator Mauro Martins (@mauromartins) stood out as an art director in advertising and later established himself as a creator, applying a refined and personal version of doodle style artwork. His characterful work has secured him commissions from companies like Absolut, Domino’s Pizza, Amarula, and many more. He believes in the ability to tell small narratives through a style of drawing we typically call doodling, drawings that can grow in complexity as we improve. Below, he explains the characteristics of this playful and attractive style of illustration.

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  • Great Architectural Photographers
    Photography

    Great Architectural Photographers

    Be inspired by classic photographers who have led the way for Tuca Reinés and his professional career Tuca Reinés (@tucareines) trained as an architect, but his passion has always been photography. His work has been featured in the pages of major magazines such as Casa Vogue, A&D, Elle, Wallpaper and others, for almost three decades. He has presented solo exhibitions and created advertising campaigns for major clients: Maxhaus, Audi, Ermenegildo Zegna, Banco Santander, and Mobil, among others. Among his major awards are two golden lions at the Cannes Lions Festival.

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  • These 10 Illustrators Use Ceramics as a Canvas
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    These 10 Illustrators Use Ceramics as a Canvas

    Ceramic artist Pepa Espinoza shares some of her references when modeling new pieces with clay Although Pepa Espinoza (@espinoza_mariajose) will be the first to tell you that her main inspiration is her grandmother, her work is influenced by an immense range of potters that work with ceramics in very different ways, imbuing their pieces with their personality. The list is long, but we have selected some of her favorites so that you can also enjoy their pure creativity: Sara Theron (@dodo_toucan) The distinctive feature of Sara Theron's work is, without doubt, color. This French ceramic artist creates everyday objects with simple shapes that give the enameling process and color palette the spotlight.

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  • The 5 Names You Need to Know in Fine Art Photography
    Photography

    The 5 Names You Need to Know in Fine Art Photography

    Gerardo Montiel Klint shares 5 influential artists that helped him discover his passion for photography Gerardo Montiel Klint (@gerklint) is an industrial designer and photographer, teacher, workshop leader, and member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores in Mexico. He has received numerous accolades in his career, including the Acquisition Award of the XIII and XI Photography Biennial, the Silver Medal for Fine Arts Mexico 2008, the Omnilife 2000 Grand Prize, and Fonca/Banff Center artistic residencies in 2001 and 2002-2003. His work has been featured in collections and galleries throughout the United States, Brazil, Mexico, Hungary, Denmark, Spain, and China. He is also co-founder of the Hydra platform, belongs to the advisory team of EXIT magazine, and co-directs Klint & Photo, a production house and photographic studio specialized in advertising, interior design, fashion, and portraiture.

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  • Practical Exercise: Freehand Negative Drawing
    Illustration

    Practical Exercise: Freehand Negative Drawing

    Learn to invert color by hand with this technique from Amadeo Gonzales Amadeo Gonzales (@amadeog77) is an illustrator, drawer, lecturer, and self-taught musician. He is the creator of Carboncito, a magazine filled with graphic arts and comic strips that, since 2001, has published the work of a wide range of contemporary Latin American artists. Amadeo has also published a variety of fanzines, including Tránsito intestinal, Actitú records, Bandas inexistentes records, Frustrazine and Nervenzusammenbruch.

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  • Challenge: Draw Captain Spock in Tones of Pink
    Teacher Illustration

    Challenge: Draw Captain Spock in Tones of Pink

    Pablo Velasco Bertolotto takes on the challenge set by Domestika to reproduce in detail the iconic character from the Star Trek saga Hair, eyes, clothes, hands, reflections, and textures... all in pink: the challenge proposed to the illustrator and graphic designer Pablo Velasco Bertolotto (@bertolotto) in this edition of the Domestika Challenge. He will have to play with different shades of pink to obtain the necessary contrasts and variations to give life to the character. The figure that this creative artist has chosen for this purpose is the mythical Captain Spock, from the Star Trek saga. Will he be able to perfectly reproduce, with hardly any variation in color, the creator of the 'live long and prosper' greeting? Find out in the video:

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  • Free Download: Guide for Drawing Head and Body Proportions
    Illustration

    Free Download: Guide for Drawing Head and Body Proportions

    Learn how to draw a human head and body using the correct proportions Although the human body is probably the figure we know best, many of us would find it difficult to correctly draw its proportions from memory. The length of the arms, the width of the shoulders and hips, where the wrists hit the body... and the same goes for the head and face. The relationship between all these body parts, which we have seen so many times, becomes a little less obvious when we sit in front of a blank piece of paper with a pencil in hand. This guide to anatomical proportions, shared with Domestika by Brazilian comic artist and illustrator Marcio Takara (@marciotakara), will help make the task of drawing people much easier.

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  • Pixelmator Photo: Edit Like a Professional Using Your iPad
    Photography

    Pixelmator Photo: Edit Like a Professional Using Your iPad

    This photo editing app will convert your iPad into a mini studio that competes with any desktop software Pixelmator is a family of programs and apps, which serves as a basic and intuitive alternative to Photoshop, available for Mac users and all other iOS devices. Now, the company has launched Pixelmator Photo, an iPad app that makes the most of all the benefits this tablet has to offer for editing photos. Pixelmator Photo has a number of features that demonstrate that we can retouch photos from our iPad to professional standards. These are some of the stand-out tools that the app offers:

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  • SEO Tutorial: What and How to Measure in Google Analytics and Search Console
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    SEO Tutorial: What and How to Measure in Google Analytics and Search Console

    Learn the key steps to measuring your SEO strategy and the free tools that you can use with technical and strategic SEO consultant Natzir Turrado No matter the size of the business, by using SEO tools you can create a greater chance of your website organically being ranked highly by search engines like Google, helping you to reach the exact clients that interest you the most and increasing the number of promotional possibilities. But what metrics and tools are essential to use when working on the positioning of a website? In the following video tutorial, SEO consultant Natzir Turrado (@n_turrado_ruiz) details how to use Google Analytics and Search Console to understand if your website is successfully reaching its goals. Find out more below.

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  • Giacomo Prestinari: “It’s possible to tell a powerful story in under 30 seconds”
    Film & Video

    Giacomo Prestinari: “It’s possible to tell a powerful story in under 30 seconds”

    We talk to Giacomo Prestinari, editor of some of the most famous TV commercials today Many of the commercials he has worked on rank high on the list of those that have made us laugh and cry in front of the TV (or computer) screen. Many were edited in remote and unexpected places around the world–something which seems to awaken even more creativity in Giacomo Prestinari (@giacomo_prestinari). We spoke to him to learn about the work of a video editor for advertising in more depth and discovered some of the secrets behind his best commercials.

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  • What’s a Storyboard and What's a Shooting Board
    Illustration

    What’s a Storyboard and What's a Shooting Board

    Storyboard artist Pablo Buratti talks us through the difference between these key pre-production tools If you are both an illustrator and a cinema aficionado, storyboarding might be your calling. A vital tool in the pre-production stage of any audiovisual project, a storyboard depicts a film sequence, breaking down situations and actions into individual panels to show how they will unfold. Pablo Buratti (@pabloburatti) is an illustrator working in the film industry. He is a storyboard artist working across character design, set design, concept design, and more. Pablo landed his first storyboarding job over fifteen years ago for Luis Sepúlveda’s film, Nowhere. It was after this that he became determined to make a career out of this way of fusing illustration and film. Since then, Pablo has worked on numerous projects, including Pedro Almodóvar’s four most recent feature films, from Broken Hugs (2009) up to Julieta (2016). He has also worked with directors Álex de la Iglesia on the film Witching & Bitching and JA Bayona on The Impossible. Pablo has collaborated with Daniel Calparsoro for more than 10 years–beginning with a film called Ausentes (2005) and most recently working on To Steal from a Thief (2016). Here he explains the differences between a storyboard and a shooting board.

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  • Essential Shortcuts for Mastering Adobe Camera Raw
    Photography

    Essential Shortcuts for Mastering Adobe Camera Raw

    Speed ​​up your photography workflow with these Adobe Camera Raw shortcuts Raw photos are non-processed images, files that contain all the information that your camera is capable of capturing. One of the best tools for importing and editing these raw images is Adobe Camera Raw, a native Adobe plug-in for working with Raw files in both Photoshop and Lightroom, and a tool that has become indispensable for professional photographers. It is advisable to use Camera Raw whenever you are working with these types of files since its purpose is to recover all the information that the camera saved for processing the image. Then, you will be able to use any Photoshop or Lightroom editing tool on it. To increase your productivity when using the Adobe Camera Raw plug-in, use these basic keyboard shortcuts, and download a PDF file below.

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  • Photoshop Tutorial: Basic Clone Stamp Tips
    Teacher Photography

    Photoshop Tutorial: Basic Clone Stamp Tips

    Learn the basic Clone Stamp options and how to use them when retouching photos with Alain Perdomo The Clone Stamp is a very useful tool for photo retouching in Photoshop, but it is important to use it correctly and know all the customization options that the software allows us. Digital artist Alain Perdomo (@alainperdomo) shares these tips to get the most out of it. You can see the tutorial here:

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  • 5 Essential Courses on Growth Marketing for Creatives
    Marketing

    5 Essential Courses on Growth Marketing for Creatives

    Learn to optimize your digital content and discover how to attract users who are interested in your products and services To increase your number of followers on social media and optimize your content on the internet, we need to get to grips with the latest marketing trends and keep up to date with the best ways to grow your business online. This is where growth marketing comes in–an essential discipline for creatives that encompasses different techniques that you can learn by enrolling onto the following courses: Google Ads and Facebook Ads from Scratch, a course by Arantxa & Guille When it comes to optimizing content and achieving a good ranking, Google has forever been the king of the jungle, while Facebook has ruled social media. In this course, Arantxa Beltrán and Guillermo Medina will show you how to squeeze as much potential out of each platform as possible for your ideas to stand out. This will help your target market find your business as a result of their searches.

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  • José Rosero: The Infinite Possibilities of Illustration
    Illustration

    José Rosero: The Infinite Possibilities of Illustration

    Editorial is just one of the many fields in which José Rosero feels comfortable working as an illustrator José Rosero (@rosero) is a Colombian visual artist whose graphic talents are so varied, it’s impossible to list them all. While he has worked as a painter, in theater, teaching, management, and research, it is as an illustrator that he has achieved his highest levels of success and built up an impressive career. This choice of career path has never narrowed his work opportunities, in fact, it has done the opposite. He considers being an illustrator a bit like being a platypus–in that it's made up of different parts of other animals–since you have to be able to speak different languages, all at the same time. Here’s how Rosero has used illustration across different mediums:

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  • 7 Dos and Don'ts for High Impact Presentations
    Design

    7 Dos and Don'ts for High Impact Presentations

    Katya Kovalenko helps boost our presentations and projects with visual examples Katya Kovalenko (@katyakovalenko) is a presentation and data designer based in Barcelona. After working for advertising and communications agencies for ten years, she founded her own business, dedicated to helping small and medium-sized businesses convert their ideas into real brands around the world. Her work combines data analysis with aesthetics, as well as good practices in the use of data to build stories from visual resources. For her, this is the basis for building effective presentations.Today, she shares these design-related lessons that will help you create your own powerful materials to show the world your projects.

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  • 7 of Our Favorite Children's Illustrators
    Illustration

    7 of Our Favorite Children's Illustrators

    Discover seven of the most talented artists to illustrate our childhoods Kids are a demanding bunch and illustrating for them isn’t as simple as you might think. There are masters of the craft whose hands have created visual worlds that have captivated and calmed young minds for decades. Here is a look at seven of the most celebrated children’s illustrators and their wonderful artwork. Quentin Blake The scrawling illustrations of Quentin Blake are inseparable from Roald Dahl and the stories he wrote, ostensibly, for children. In 2008, David Walliams, of Little Britain fame, managed to persuade Blake to use his inimitable style to illustrate his book The Boy in the Dress, the story about a young boy who likes to crossdress and the reactions this provokes in his friends and family.

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  • What Is Punch Needle and How Is It Different to Other Embroidery Styles?
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    What Is Punch Needle and How Is It Different to Other Embroidery Styles?

    Embroiderer Laura Ameba tells the origins and characteristics of punch needle Laura Ameba (@lauraameba) is an embroiderer who started out in traditional embroidery and haute couture in Barcelona, Paris, and Kyoto. Her love for punch needle and embroidery has taken her and her art to exhibitions around the world. Here, she shares what punch needle is: a technique that allows you to create beautiful three-dimensional effects and rich textures.

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  • Illustration Tutorial: How to Refine Drawings of Urban Objects and People
    Teacher Illustration

    Illustration Tutorial: How to Refine Drawings of Urban Objects and People

    Learn the basics of how to enrich an architectural illustration by including different elements like urban objects and people, with Carlo Stanga Creating an architectural illustration is more than just mastering straight lines and buildings. Being able to fill these compositions with local details, through distinctive objects and people from that place, is key to being able to capture a location’s atmosphere. In this video, architectural illustrator Carlo Stanga (@carlo_stanga) explains how to prepare and sketch urban people and objects, which you can later include in your final composition. From how to use them to create depth, to why they’re so key in giving life to your illustrations, here he shares his own process for how to create these studies of objects and people to create engaging and unique architectural illustrations.

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  • Free Download: Restaurant Menu Template
    Teacher Design

    Free Download: Restaurant Menu Template

    Customize this menu template with your designs and see how they look in real life When it comes to showing your designs to your client (or the world!) there is nothing like presenting them as a mockup to give an idea of how they would be applied in real life. Designers often have a very clear idea about how their final products will look, but when it comes time to show it to others, it's not so easy for their imagination to flow in the same way. To make sure others see your designs the way you do, Lane Cope and Sofía Vargas, creative directors and founders of the Heavy (@heavy) design studio, have shared this restaurant menu template with Domestika.

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  • Instagram Competitions and Giveaways: How to Use Hashtags Correctly?
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    Instagram Competitions and Giveaways: How to Use Hashtags Correctly?

    Learn how to use Instagram hashtags to tag your content and monitor the results The first thing you should consider before learning how to hashtag correctly is what hashtags are. A hashtag is a label that allows us to find and monitor content. Practically everyone uses hashtags in their Instagram publications, but it is a particularly useful tool when talking about actions, contests, and lotteries run by brands, for example. Communication and social media strategist consultant Núria Mañé (@nuriacomunica) explains everything we need to know about using hashtags properly: Types of hashtags - Generic. They can be used by any user and usually have many associated publications. It is extremely difficult to monitor any content through them. Still, they are very useful to associate a profile, a brand, or a product with the most popular trends or hashtags. - Corporate or branded. They usually carry the name of the brand or project for which they have been created and are used to position a product or promotion. They can be specific, your own, or a campaign’s and are created to monitor the participation in an activity or a competition.

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