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  • Illustration Tutorial: Tips to Succeed on Instagram
    Illustration Teacher

    Illustration Tutorial: Tips to Succeed on Instagram

    Learn the tricks to create an attractive profile and position your professional presence on Instagram, with Alex de Marcos Social networks like Instagram have become a global showcase for artists from all over the planet: through our feed, we can access the talent of literally thousands of illustrators, designers, craft experts, and more. So, for a creative who wants to get noticed, mastering Instagram's tools to reach as many people as possible offers extraordinary opportunities. In the following video tutorial, illustrator Alex de Marcos (@alex_de_marcos) gives us some essential tips on how to position our illustrations on Instagram, taking advantage of the different functionalities the app offers. Discover them below:

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  • Design Tutorial: Prop Design for Filmmaking with Annie Atkins
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    Design Tutorial: Prop Design for Filmmaking with Annie Atkins

    Dive into an immersive tutorial and discover the art behind crafting authentic vintage telegrams and aged documents. Ideal for aspiring designers and film aficionados alike Lights, camera, action! Filmmaking is a captivating blend of artistry and meticulous craftsmanship, where every detail contributes to the magic of storytelling. Among these essential elements are the graphic props that adorn film sets, transporting audiences to different eras and enriching the narrative tapestry. Ever wondered about the wizardry behind creating these mesmerizing props? Look no further, as Annie Atkins, the acclaimed graphic designer renowned for her work in film, unveils her secrets her course Designing and Making Graphic Props for Filmmaking. Let's embark on an enchanting journey into the world of prop design and discover the wonders that await.

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  • Watercolor Tutorial: color palettes in botanical illustration
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    Watercolor Tutorial: color palettes in botanical illustration

    Botanical illustration techniques to create and apply color palettes to different types of illustrations with Ana Victoria Calderon When creating color palettes with watercolor, one of the best options is to be inspired by nature itself. If we start from images taken from botanical photographs, we will find color palettes that perhaps we would not use on our own initiative in our illustrations. In this way, we can practice with different colors and discover new chromatic combinations. Ana Victoria Calderon (@anavictoriana) teaches us how to extract the color palette from a floral photograph and replicate it using those same colors. Do you want to learn how to use the colors of nature? Pick a photo and let's get to it.

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  • Pinterest tutorial: the keys to succeed as a brand
    Marketing Teacher

    Pinterest tutorial: the keys to succeed as a brand

    Know the reasons why Pinterest is so important for your brand and learn how to read the success of your pins with Pinterest Analytics Natalia Escaño (@nataliaescano) is a designer and illustrator and is also one of the biggest Pinterest influencersin Spain, with more than one million followers on this platform, experience that has led her to work with brands such as L'Oréal Paris, Disney, True Religion and Daniel Wellington, among many others. As a great connoisseur and professional of this platform, not only at user level but also at business level, she has the keys to know how to stand out with a brand and reach the public through Pinterest. Below she explains the 5 reasons why you should trust your brand to Pinterest.

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  • Illustration tutorial: how to draw wrinkles on clothes
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    Illustration tutorial: how to draw wrinkles on clothes

    4 keys to give detail to your illustrations and drawings through wrinkles in clothes, with illustrator José Luis Ágreda Knowing how to draw wrinkles is one of the first challenges of any illustrator: if we place them incorrectly, without taking into account a series of rules that provide realism and coherence, anyone who sees our drawings will unconsciously notice that something is wrong.

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  • Davinci Tutorial: Color Grading for Beginners in 8 min
    Film & Video Teacher

    Davinci Tutorial: Color Grading for Beginners in 8 min

    Learn how to color-coordinate your projects and adjust their colors with Sonia Abellán's primary grading technique. Color grading is one of the most important jobs in the production process of an audiovisual project. It allows us to explore the expressive possibilities of color to provoke sensations in the viewer. In this tutorial, colorist Sonia Abellán Avilés (@soniabellan) gives us a series of tips to start a digital color grading process and adjust primary colors and lighting using DaVinci Resolve.

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  • Ceramics Tutorial: Painting Your Final Piece
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    Ceramics Tutorial: Painting Your Final Piece

    Learn how to design and paint directly onto your ceramic pieces, with Chichinabo A useful way of making sure you design fits your ceramic pieces is to design directly onto the piece. It is ideal for use on 3D pieces as it gives a very real vision of the finish our work will have and allows us to design to scale straight onto complicated pieces. Patricia, creator of the brand CHICHINABO INC (@chichinabo_inc) teaches us step by step how to design onto our ceramic pieces and how to transfer that design to paper to be able to digitize it later. Watch the tutorial here:

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  • Embroidery Tutorial: Basic Techniques for Beginners
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    Embroidery Tutorial: Basic Techniques for Beginners

    Learn how to use a hoop, thread, and needle to begin embroidering, with Kseniia Guseva Embroidery can make everything from your empty wall to the hole in your sneakers that bit more beautiful. While it may seem intimidating at first, learning the basic steps of this ancient craft will open up a world of upcycling and patchwork possibilities. Kseniia Guseva (@faimyxstitch) has been embroidering every day since 2016, creating stitchwork cityscapes—an interest shaped by the architecture of her hometown St Petersburg—as well as feeding her other passion: upcycling. Here she shares a few basic embroidery steps to help you get started, from how to set up your hoop to the various ways you thread the needle, that will help you start your embroidery journey right. Learn more in the video below:

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  • Illustrator Tutorial: Tips for Vectoring Sketches
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    Illustrator Tutorial: Tips for Vectoring Sketches

    Learn how to use your sketches and draw them with vectors to give the final touch to each element with Mauro Martins, graphic designer and bespoke illustrator Sketching helps us to organize ideas on paper, letting the line flow freely to give life to abstract figures that will later gain detail. It is at this stage that we can give free rein to our creativity. The next step is digitization, which requires more attention to detail and can be quite laborious, but it is essential to define your style and identity. To help you in this process, Mauro Martins (@mauromartins), graphic designer and illustrator, shares some tips to transform your sketches into a vector and give the final touch to each element. You can watch the tutorial here.

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  • Design Tutorial: basic tips for wine bottle printing
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    Design Tutorial: basic tips for wine bottle printing

    Discover different techniques and graphic arts resources for printing wine bottles with Moruba. Moruba (@moruba) are Daniel Morales and Javier Euba, designers specialized in wine packaging. Two passionate about design that take each project with a characteristic intensity and illusion. In this tutorial, they are going to talk about different techniques and papers for labeling bottles. Don't miss the video tutorial:

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  • Illustration Tutorial: watercolor lettering
    Typography, Calligraphy and Lettering Teacher

    Illustration Tutorial: watercolor lettering

    5 practical exercises with brushes to learn how to write comfortably and find your personal style of lettering to apply to your watercolor projects Handmade lettering made with watercolors has a personal and natural quality that no other technique can imitate. By creating letters with our brush and some ink, we give them a unique texture that reveals how you are as an artist and contributes to boosting the customer's confidence in our personal style. If you want to get started in the world of watercolor lettering, painter and illustrator Ana Victoria Calderon (@anavictoriana) offers below 5 tips and practical exercises with brushes, to lose the fear of ink and get excited about one of the world's most beautiful techniques.

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  • Freelance Tutorial: practical exercises to discover your strengths
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    Freelance Tutorial: practical exercises to discover your strengths

    Learn to find your strengths and build your trajectory with these exercises proposed by Mònica Rodríguez Limia Mònica Rodríguez (@rodriguezmon) is a business mentor for creators and creatives. She considers herself passionate about her work and believes that everyone has a great capacity to improve. For Mònica, education is the key and she believes that through it we still have time to change the world. For this reason, Mònica proposes in this tutorial several keys to get to know yourself better before starting an entrepreneurial project, through some simple exercises that will allow you to discover your strengths. You can see them below in the video:

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