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  • Access 5 Free Writing Lessons for a Limited Time
    Writing

    Access 5 Free Writing Lessons for a Limited Time

    Elevate your writing skills with free access to 5 lessons for a limited time. Prepare to embark on an exciting literary journey. Here's the scoop: Starting today, you can access five free writing lessons that promise to transform your storytelling game. We are opening our doors wide for all aspiring writers, offering a unique opportunity to sharpen your skills without spending a dime. So, clear your schedule, grab your favorite pen, and let's dive in! These lessons will only be available for a limited time, so seize the opportunity while you can. Starting from 00:00 CET on March 13th, 2024, they'll be open for enrollment for just 15 days! If you want to access them after this date, you can sign up for each teacher’s full course and dive into their topics in detail.

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  • Tutorial Tailoring: 5 mistakes in the moulage technique and how to avoid them
    Fashion Teacher

    Tutorial Tailoring: 5 mistakes in the moulage technique and how to avoid them

    Learn which are the five most common beginner mistakes in this technique, with Isabel Sanchez. The moulage technique allows you to create the design of your garment in a three-dimensional way, working the fabric directly on the mannequin, in a simple way and with excellent results. However, getting started in this type of tailoring can seem complicated if we do not know some important aspects, which would lead us to fall into certain mistakes. The designer Isabel Sánchez (@isabelsanchezh), who has collaborated with big names in Spanish fashion such as Devota & Lomba, Jesús del Pozo or Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, is an expert in this art and will teach you in this tutorial the most common mistakes and how to solve them. Don't miss it!

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  • Illustration Tutorial: 5 Steps to Draw Poses
    Illustration Teacher

    Illustration Tutorial: 5 Steps to Draw Poses

    Follow Jose Luis Ágreda's advice to draw people in natural poses Life drawing is one of the essential skills of any illustrator, whatever their style. Knowing how to capture the real world will always be useful for building characters or settings. The main problem novice illustrators face is that it's easy to get lost in the details of a figure instead of looking at its overall structure.

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  • Character Design Tutorial: How to Draw Facial Expressions
    Illustration Teacher

    Character Design Tutorial: How to Draw Facial Expressions

    Learn the basics of drawing a characters’ facial expressions, from the skin and the wrinkles to how different facial features affect each other, with Laura Ewing The face is one of the most expressive parts of the body, which is why understanding how to illustrate believable facial expressions can be the difference between creating a good character and a great one.. Laura Ewing (@le_lauraewing) is a storyboard artist and character designer whose job it is to capture the essence of a story quickly and efficiently for films, documentaries, and publishing houses. In this tutorial, she shares a few basic tips for drawing facial expressions that your viewer will instantly be able to understand.

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  • Watercolor tutorial: how to make homemade binder
    Craft Teacher

    Watercolor tutorial: how to make homemade binder

    Learn the recipe and steps to make the classic binder you need to make watercolors at home with Scriptorium Yayyan. Is there anything more crafty than painting your own watercolor paintings? Yes: doing it with watercolors made at home by ourselves! Discover how to make the binder that will give body to our watercolors with Scriptorium Yayyan: we will use only six eggs, honey, water, gum arabic and clove essential oil. Gather the ingredients and let's go!

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  • Freelance Tutorial: Tips to Sell Your Work
    Marketing Teacher

    Freelance Tutorial: Tips to Sell Your Work

    Graphic designer and illustrator Mauro Martins gives us advice on how to sell and make our work better known in order to live from illustration You know that the work of an illustrator goes far beyond drafts, sketchbooks, ideas, software and commissions. What you may not know yet is how to sell your work better, from how to advertise everything you do to how to gain more clients or a loyal audience. Graphic designer and illustrator Mauro Martins (@mauromartins) summarizes the most valuable tips he has used in his career to help beginners and experienced illustrators who want to learn how to better sell their work. You can watch the video below:

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  • Celebrating Akira Toriyama's Legacy: Inspiring Projects from Our Dragon Ball CommunityGoogle Translator
    3D & Animation

    Celebrating Akira Toriyama's Legacy: Inspiring Projects from Our Dragon Ball CommunityGoogle Translator

    In the universe of manga and anime, few names shine as brightly as that of Akira Toriyama. His boundless creativity, iconic characters and epic story of Dragon Ball have left an indelible mark on pop culture. We are pleased to share some of the most inspiring projects from our Dragon Ball community, a manifestation of the passion and creativity Toriyama has cultivated over the years. From stunning illustrations to innovative recreations, we'll explore how fans have channeled their love of Dragon Ball into meaningful works. Join us on this journey filled with nostalgia and respect, as we celebrate the life and work of a creative genius who will continue to shine in the hearts of Dragon Ball fans.

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  • Copywriting Tutorial: 5 key concepts for beginners
    Marketing Teacher

    Copywriting Tutorial: 5 key concepts for beginners

    Learn the key concepts of the copywriting universe with Erica Igue What would you do if you were invited to a brainstorm? Or to do a briefing? Or even better... to do a PR stunt? Creating an advertising copy goes far beyond writing or coming up with ideas: you also need to know the jargon and concepts of this particular universe. In this tutorial, Erica Igue (@kikaigue), creative director and copywriter, teaches us the 5 key concepts of the copywriting universe. Don't miss them:

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  • Free PDF: Do’s and Dont"s of Food Styling
    Photography

    Free PDF: Do’s and Dont"s of Food Styling

    Want to improve your food styling skills? Learn the essential do's and don'ts of food styling in this comprehensive guide. Wait, don't eat it yet! No, I don't want your ugly fingers in the frame or your open mouth ready to take a bite... Not quite the aesthetic I'm looking for! Yes, the food will get cold but my instagram will be on fire. It's a good trade! Meet Kimberly Espinel

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  • Creativity Tutorial: How to Find Inspiration to Create Stories
    Marketing

    Creativity Tutorial: How to Find Inspiration to Create Stories

    Learn how to build your own writing process, with Alberto Chimal Forget about the old clichés, inspiration is nothing more than a good idea turned into something concrete after lots of work and constant effort. This is one of the lessons from writer and teacher Alberto Chimal (@albertochimal), who offers a solution to anyone who suffers from creative block: practice, practice, and practice some more. In the tutorial below, this creator of stories for adults and children, film scripts, and other formats and finalist for the Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize, presents tips that will help you get into a creative flow, using simple everyday elements to inspire you. Find out more in the video:

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  • Craft tutorial: how to make an accordion notebook
    Craft Teacher

    Craft tutorial: how to make an accordion notebook

    Learn how to create your first accordion illustration booklet step by step Fábrica de Texturas (@fabricadetexturas) are Gabriela Rodriguez and Xavier Robledo, two "Do it yourself" artists delighted to share everything they know how to do with their hands with those who dare to try. They like to experiment with craft techniques and plastic arts, and recover and transform traditional techniques to make them more accessible and current. Below they teach you how to make an accordion notebook, a binding that finds its origin in oriental culture, in a few simple steps:

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  • 8 Projects to Commemorate the 8M
    Domestika

    8 Projects to Commemorate the 8M

    We compile 8 projects of Domestika's teachers and students to commemorate International Women's Day Women's Day has become a great source of inspiration for many artists and women in general. Every March 8, the streets around the world are filled with women demonstrating for their rights and every year we come across new and creative posters that motivate us in the struggle and convey a great sorority. To commemorate this important day, we wanted to gather here 8 projects made by teachers and students of Domestika that express, each in their own way, the feminist struggle. 1. Sofía Castellanos

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  • 10 Legendary covers of Life magazine
    Design

    10 Legendary covers of Life magazine

    Explore 10 legendary Life magazine covers. I'll explain what Life magazine was for the youngsters: Life is an American magazine published weekly from 1883 to 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, a monthly from 1978 until 2000, and an online supplement since 2008. The latter was way less successful... But keep in mind, that they now have to compete with the quasi-infinite pictures uploaded to Instagram every day... Although, no youngster is going to read this, anyways. This article is purely dedicated to nostalgia fetishists... I hope you haven't become one of those, yet! 1. The Beatles (1964)

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  • The lighting is your best friend
    Photography Teacher

    The lighting is your best friend

    Photography is that art that plays with light as if it were your best friend, and natural light, especially, has a special place in the hearts of those of us who capture fashion through a lens. I, Angela Garcia, have found that immersing myself in fashion shoots under the sun is not just about taking advantage of the light that is available; it's a conscious choice that elevates my projects to another level, giving them an aesthetic, emotional depth and realism that is hard to match with artificial light sources. In my natural light fashion photography course, we explore why daylight is so fabulous and how to make the most of it, so for now I'll share some important points to keep in mind and decide to use natural light on your shoots.

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  • 24,000 Vintage Cartoons to Explore Ages of Art and Irony
    Illustration

    24,000 Vintage Cartoons to Explore Ages of Art and Irony

    Uncover the rich history of cartoons: from early artist mock-ups to iconic political satires. I'm sure you'll have some time to keep aside for these 24,000 vintage cartoon images from the Library of Congress that illustrate the history of this modern art form taking place from 1780 to 1977. If you truly have that much time you can find all of their collections here. But we will cover only one of them in depth: The Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon, which only covers the 20th century, contains 2,085 of those drawings, prints, and paintings related to the art of caricature, cartoon, and illustration. It includes works by 521 American and foreign artists and illustrators. And no, we won't cover them all, either... How about we take only 5 of them...? I know we went from 24.000 to 5 but you wouldn't read an article on 24.000 things anyways! Russel Patterson

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  • What Does GPT Stands For?
    Web & App Design

    What Does GPT Stands For?

    Unveil the secrets of GPT: from its origins to its vast applications in AI In recent years we have heard and read continuously about the GPT development in different fields and this revolutionary invention of artificial intelligence has burst with force in our days marking a milestone from which there is no turning back. If we talk about text generation, these models have reached levels of fluency and coherence that are surprisingly similar to human speech. Have you ever stopped to think about what GPT means? Do you know exactly how it works? In this text, we are going to give you answers to these and other questions. The Acronym: What Does GPT Stand For?

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  • Types of Literary Genres: What are They?
    Writing

    Types of Literary Genres: What are They?

    Are you curious about the different types of literary genres that exist? Don't miss this article. Literature is a vast universe of artistic expression that has developed over the centuries. To better understand it, scholars have classified literary texts into different genres. These genres are divided mainly into three categories which we will discuss below.

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  • 6 Famous Tattoo Artists You Need to Know
    Illustration

    6 Famous Tattoo Artists You Need to Know

    Looking for inspiration for your next tattoo? Check out the work of these famous tattoo artists and see why they are so highly regarded in the industry. In the tattoo industry, you can find everything from beginners in whose hands it is preferable not to fall, to talented artists who are highly sought after because they have already become famous tattoo artists and everyone wants to show off their art forever on their body. Today we focus on the latter to make a list that can inspire you when choosing your next tattoo. Meet some of the most famous tattoo artists of the moment and, who knows, maybe you can get an appointment with them. 1. Romeo Lacoste

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  • Iris Apfel: A Legacy of Style and Creativity that Transcends Decades
    Fashion

    Iris Apfel: A Legacy of Style and Creativity that Transcends Decades

    The fashion world mourns the recent loss of a true iconoclast, Iris Apfel, who passed away at the breathtaking age of 102. Her life was marked by an unbridled passion for fashion and design, creating a legacy that goes beyond simply choosing clothes. Iris was not only a woman of singular style, but a lasting influence in the industry and an advocate for individuality.

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  • Craft Tutorial: do & don'ts in floral design
    Fashion Teacher

    Craft Tutorial: do & don'ts in floral design

    Learn the keys and mistakes to avoid when creating floral complements and arrangements, with Violeta Gladstone Violeta Gladstone is a floral stylist, expert in creating stories with flowers as a medium, either in the format of botanical and floral installations, creating complements such as wreaths or styling flowers for advertisements. Her clients include Puig, Rembostyling, L'Illa Diagonal, Valmont Barcelona Bridal Week, Ifema. Increasingly used in the fashion industry, floral headbands have become a must-have accessory for the most daring. And, in this tutorial, Violeta tells us what to do and what to avoid when creating them. Find out in the video

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