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  • Photoshop Tutorial: How to Remove Backgrounds
    Teacher Photography

    Photoshop Tutorial: How to Remove Backgrounds

    Learn how to use the Pen tool to remove the background of a photo and create silhouettes on Photoshop, with Klarens Malluta The Pen tool is mightier than the sword but you have to know how to use it. One of its most common and useful functions is to divide elements of an image into separate pieces, such as the foreground and background of a photo. Klarens Malluta (klarens.malluta) is a self-taught digital artist who has worked with clients from across the world. In this tutorial, he demonstrates how to cut a background from an image and create a silhouette from a photo using the Pen tool in Photoshop.

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  • Domestika Diary: Caro Bello
    Teacher Craft

    Domestika Diary: Caro Bello

    Caro Bello is a graphic designer and punch-needle embroidery expert. She tells us about her working process and creative routine in this Domestika Diary

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  • 6 Crochet Online Courses to Explore the Technique Possibilities
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    6 Crochet Online Courses to Explore the Technique Possibilities

    Create amazing garments, decorations, toys, and functional objects with your own hands Some people think crocheting is an activity just for older people, but the reality is that contemporary artists from all over the world are reinventing and rediscovering it every day. Crochet is very easy to learn, and it’s also a relaxing artisanal technique for those who love anything fabric and textiles related. These 6 experts share with you the secrets behind their modern creations, so you too can become an experienced crocheter and create your own toys, objects, garments, or decorations.

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  • What Is Editorial Illustration and How Can I Launch My Career as an Editorial Illustrator?
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    What Is Editorial Illustration and How Can I Launch My Career as an Editorial Illustrator?

    Learn the key design principles to get started in this branch of illustration Editorial illustration consists of analyzing and interpreting texts to create images that enrich and complement said texts. We have all seen illustrations in printed publications, and even now, there’s still a high demand for illustrators and designers in the digital era. Learn more about the history of editorial illustration, its basic principles, and what it takes to start working in this creative discipline.

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  • How to Create a Homemade Stencil for Stamping By Hand
    Teacher Craft

    How to Create a Homemade Stencil for Stamping By Hand

    Learn to create a stencil out of homemade materials with Texture Factory If you're looking for an easy activity you can do using materials you already have at home, or perhaps to carry out with the little artists you have running around, you've come to the right place! Hi! I'm Gabriela Rodríguez, founder of the creative studio, Fábrica de Texturas (@fabricadetexturas), which specializes in DIY projects and recovers traditional and artisanal techniques to give them a unique, contemporary twist. In this blog post, I share a step-by-step process for making a template you can use to create hand-stamped pieces like this one:

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  • 10 Free Tutorials for Illustrators Who Want to Promote Their Work (And Don't Know How)
    Teacher Illustration

    10 Free Tutorials for Illustrators Who Want to Promote Their Work (And Don't Know How)

    Discover practical tips so that your designs and illustrations capture the attention of your audience Once you start a career as an illustrator, designer, or other creative disciplines, it's a matter of time before you discover that the promotion stage is almost as important as the production stage. Reaching out to potential clients and establishing yourself within the creative community is crucial, but we don't always know how to position our work. In the following tutorials, experts give you the best tips to make your professional profile and your work attractive and generate more work for you. If, in addition to watching the videos, you want to read the complete instructions, click on the red title of each tutorial.

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  • Free Patterns to Make a Leather Bag With Your Hands
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    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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  • The Pomodoro Technique: The Key to Successful Time Management
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    The Pomodoro Technique: The Key to Successful Time Management

    Get to know this way of working–your brain will thank you! You'll have already figured it out by now: human beings are not machines. Although many of us would love to be able to perform at a steady pace for hours at a time, inevitably, our attention wanes, our brainpower deteriorates, and we can become prone to procrastination. To perform well, to make the most challenging days productive, we must understand how our brains work and organize our planning around that information–that's what the Pomodoro Technique is all about.

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  • 6 Interesting Facts about Color Theory
    Art

    6 Interesting Facts about Color Theory

    Six surprising facts about colors that you might not have known We are surrounded by colors. They are one of the first things we learn to identify and name. We all have a favorite one, and use them as tools to represent both cultural and artistic identities. But what do we really know about them? Do you know why the Pantone color classification system exists, how the color pink affects us, or why orange didn't exist before the 15th century? Find out in this video.

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  • DIY Tutorial: How to Make a Yarn Pom-Pom
    Teacher Craft

    DIY Tutorial: How to Make a Yarn Pom-Pom

    Learn this simple technique for making a wool pom-pom with spot pattern in the centre, with Christie Leech You might think pom-poms are only good for the ends of wooly hats. However, with a little bit of ingenuity, they can be used as an exciting and vibrant medium in textile art. Christie Leech (@sewyeah) is an author, maker, and stylist who specialises in the creation of art with pom-poms. In this tutorial, she shares a simple method for creating a pom-pom with a spot pattern in the centre from scratch.

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  • Lettering, Calligraphy, and Typography: Do You Know the Differences?
    Typography, Calligraphy and Lettering

    Lettering, Calligraphy, and Typography: Do You Know the Differences?

    These three concepts all refer to disciplines involving letters, which is perhaps the only thing they really have in common Creating letters is a whole world, and it is not surprising that people who are not fully familiar with this field have some doubts. In this blog post, we take a look at what exactly is lettering, calligraphy, and typography, and the differences between them. We describe the characteristics of each discipline and show examples to help you recognize which is which. Hopefully, after reading this post, you will be able to avoid any of the confusion that novice designers, or those specializing in other areas, often feel. Calligraphy

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  • Meet Digital Artist and Photoshop Expert Harrison Kuykendall
    Design

    Meet Digital Artist and Photoshop Expert Harrison Kuykendall

    Digital artist and founder of HE–Studios Harrison Kuykendall on the magic of Photoshop Harrison Kuykendall is a digital artist living in Brooklyn, New York. He is the owner and founder of HE–Studios, a creative studio specializing in still and animated retouching for large-scale global advertising campaigns. He’s worked with clients such as Target, Stella Artois, Lady Gaga’s Haus Labs, Aveeno, Champion, and Diane von Furstenberg. Originally from Chicago, Harrison moved to New York after graduating from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) with a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design to start a full-time role at 3.1 Phillip Lim. Harrison was in charge of the fashion house’s emerging e-commerce department. “In my senior year of college, I co-founded a magazine with a friend of mine who's a fashion photographer, and so that really led to an interest in art direction and creative direction for fashion and beauty.” After he left Philip Lim, Harrison went on to work full-time at different advertising agencies over three or four years before founding his own company. “I was either working as a video editor or a graphic designer or retouching a project. I was able to touch on all these different points of creativity and get comfortable with the 360-degree creative process.”

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  • How to Crop a Photo
    Photography

    How to Crop a Photo

    Learn how to best crop a photo in Photoshop, with self-portrait photographer Laura Zalenga One of the simplest yet most underrated and effective ways to enhance your photos is by cropping them correctly. It may sound simple but knowing what to take out of your images is just as important as what you leave in. Laura Zalenga is a photographer specializing in artistic self-portraits, with commercial clients that include Adobe, Disney, Sony, and Mercedes Benz. In this tip, she shares how to best crop a photo using Photoshop and basic photographic principles.

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  • 11 Polymer Clay Artists To Be Inspired By
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    11 Polymer Clay Artists To Be Inspired By

    Portuguese artist Marisa Clemente shares a list of artists who inspire her every day Polymer clay, also known as FIMO, is a highly versatile modeling material. One of its key characteristics is how malleable it is, making it easy to reshape or make alterations to your creation as you sculpt. After your polymer clay piece has been baked and cooled, it can be sanded, polished, drilled, and glazed. Your end creation will be light and highly resistant. Marisa Clemente (@thefolkyfox) is a specialist when it comes to working with polymer clay. This Portuguese artist has clay modeling in her blood–her family on her mother’s side are passionate about ceramics. Under her brand, The Folky Fox, Marisa creates jewelry and accessories out of polymer clay that celebrate nature and the animal world and combine simple lines and realistic details. Now Marisa shares 11 polymer clay artists that inspire her every day.

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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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  • Did You Know Vincent van Gogh Loved Japanese Art?
    Art

    Did You Know Vincent van Gogh Loved Japanese Art?

    Learn about the influence of traditional Japanese prints on the painter's art The fascination of the western world for eastern tradition is not new. At the end of the XIX century, the western art community showed a growing interest in anything oriental. Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) was a great lover of Japan's aesthetic and traditional art, which had a big influence on his work.

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  • Bruce Nelson Blackburn and the NASA “Worm” Logo
    Design

    Bruce Nelson Blackburn and the NASA “Worm” Logo

    The NASA “Worm” logotype will not be forgotten, and neither will its creators If you’re a millennial, when you hear the word NASA, it’s likely that the first image to pop into your head is the logo known as the “Meatball” (you might even be wearing a sweatshirt with it on as you read this). It’s the logo that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration used during its greatest accomplishments, including the Apollo moon landings, and still uses today. Designed by James Modarelli in 1959, a year after NASA was established, it's made up of a blue circle filled with stars, a red swoosh that represents an airplane wing, a spacecraft orbiting the wing, and those four white capital letters.

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  • What Is an SEO Copywriter and What Is SEO Copywriting?
    Marketing

    What Is an SEO Copywriter and What Is SEO Copywriting?

    Discover how words have the power to improve a website’s ranking The written word is a key tool for developing any brand. Every business needs to use text to present itself to the world, to connect with potential customers, and strengthen its relationships with users. Copywriters are content creators who write words and messages for media platforms and brands and speak directly to clients and customers.

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  • How to Use the Pathfinder Tool in Illustrator
    Web & App Design

    How to Use the Pathfinder Tool in Illustrator

    Discover how to use the basic Pathfinder options to speed up your workflow If you are familiar with vector illustration, or even if you are just starting out in Adobe Illustrator, one of the tools that you'll find more useful is the Pathfinder tool. By learning how to use it, you will be able to quickly do many designs and streamline your workflow. Discover its essential functions below. What is the Pathfinder tool for in Illustrator? This useful tool allows you to quickly manipulate different shapes and strokes to create other, more complex shapes and combine them without having to redraw. It is handy when you want to combine several shapes. Find the tool To start using Pathfinder, go to the Main Menu, then to Window, and then Pathfinder to make it visible. You can also use the Shift + Ctrl + F9 commands on PC, or Shift + Cmd + F9 on Mac.

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  • How to Succed on YouTube Like a Pro? Top 10 Tips
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    How to Succed on YouTube Like a Pro? Top 10 Tips

    Experts reveal their secrets and tutorials to exploit the potential of your videos on YouTube Remember when we believed that to succeed on YouTube you only needed a good video? That is not the only key factor. If you want to create a solid profile you need technical knowledge. There are some secrets that will allow you to make sure that you are doing the right thing so that that video that cost you so much, reaches as many people as possible. Some Domestika experts give you access to these techniques through their tips. If you are interested in learning more, just click on the red title to read the full details.

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  • Domestika Diary: Hannah Rubinstein
    Teacher Design

    Domestika Diary: Hannah Rubinstein

    This Rio de Janeiro stylist found her inspiration to create fancy dress, accessories and colorful fashion collections in her city’s famous Carnival

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  • 5 Vector Illustration Online Courses for Beginners
    Illustration

    5 Vector Illustration Online Courses for Beginners

    Learn this essential tool to create amazing digital illustrations with vectors from the experts Vector illustration is a type of graph that represents images or shapes through mathematical formulas. Unlike what happens with illustrations made in bitmaps or from pixels, vectors do not lose sharpness or resolution no matter how much the size varies. At present, vector illustration is used in creative fields such as web design and this is due to its ability to be resized without losing quality. Graphic designers and digital illustrators are the ones who use it the most. If you need to learn how to create vector graphics, these courses could help you:

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  • 6 Sources of Video Content to Awaken Your Creativity
    Design

    6 Sources of Video Content to Awaken Your Creativity

    Cherry Bomb Creative Co. share their favorite platforms for inspirational video content Nora Muñoz and Gabriel Tinoco are the co-founders of independent studio Cherry Bomb Creative Co. (@cherrybomb_creative), which specializes in branding, design, and illustration. They’ve worked with major brands such as Nestle, Cinépolis, Didi Food, Editorial Santillana, and Pearson, as well as NGOs including UNICEF, UNHCR, and the Red Cross.

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  • 7 Postage Stamps From Major Illustrators To Celebrate the Chinese New Year 2021
    Illustration

    7 Postage Stamps From Major Illustrators To Celebrate the Chinese New Year 2021

    The year of the Ox begins and several countries welcome it with postage stamps from amazing illustrators The Lunar New Year, also called the Spring Festival in China, is the most important of the traditional festivals celebrated by Asian cultures around the world. In addition, it represents another beginning in the oldest calendar in the world. On February 12th, the year of the Buffalo or Ox begins and, to welcome it, many postal services around the world call on artists and personalities to be inspired by the figure of this animal. These are limited pieces that, over time, acquire special value among collectors. We show you seven of the most important and who is behind them.

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  • What Is a Design System and How Can I Use One in My Digital Projects?
    Web & App Design

    What Is a Design System and How Can I Use One in My Digital Projects?

    Find out how you can use design systems to develop online products If you work in web development or the creation of digital products–such as apps, websites, portals, or digital services–design systems are a set of principles that will help you develop your project in a comprehensive and efficient way. Find out what a design system is and how you can start using one right away. What is a design system? A design system refers to the processes used to decide which elements will be included in a system during the planning and construction stages of a digital project. These elements include the structure, modules, components, interface type, design, and usability of the website or app you are building. A design system looks at a digital product as a whole and understands how all of the different elements interact. You can think of it as architecture for a digital product.

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  • 5 Free Animation Online Classes to Learn After Effects From Scratch
    Teacher 3D & Animation

    5 Free Animation Online Classes to Learn After Effects From Scratch

    Discover this popular software’s advantages and animate your best ideas As a professional designer and illustrator, or if you wish to pursue a new career in animation, you’ll find a key ally in Adobe After Effects. This software is intuitive and perfect to create all kinds of animated projects, however big or small they might be. Now animation and motion graphics experts share some tips to start using this program from scratch. To watch each class, just click on its red title.

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