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  • Freelance Tutorial: Basic Tips for Creating a Digital Portfolio
    Design

    Freelance Tutorial: Basic Tips for Creating a Digital Portfolio

    Learn with Mark Brooks the dos and don'ts when creating a digital portfolio Your portfolio can make or break you if you want to become a successful artist. Beyond just showcasing your work, a good portfolio should communicate to potential clients what you're capable of. Mark Brooks is a New York-based graphic designer and art director who specializes in branding, graphic design, and art direction. He currently serves as Behance's brand director and creative director for 99, although he has also worked for major companies such as Nike, Adobe, Martini, and many more. Want to know what it takes to create a strong portfolio? In this tutorial, Mark Brooks gives you his top tips for making your portfolio stand out from your competitors.

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  • Sculpting Lifelike Lips: A Quick Tutorial with Jana Büttner
    Art Teacher

    Sculpting Lifelike Lips: A Quick Tutorial with Jana Büttner

    Welcome to a journey into the nuanced art of figurative sculpting with the talented Jana Büttner. In this tutorial, Jana, a seasoned figurative sculptor, will guide you through the intricacies of sculpting lips for your clay portrait. Let's delve into the creative process and explore the subtle details that bring your sculptures to life.

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  • 8 Free Tutorials to Get Started in Watercolor
    Illustration

    8 Free Tutorials to Get Started in Watercolor

    Learn the basics of this technique and digitize your creations with watercolor with these tutorials It doesn’t matter if you are starting or are already charting your path in watercolor painting, it is always good to receive advice and learn new tricks from the professionals who work it every day. These 5 tutorials to start, develop and improve your talent in watercolor are essential for you if you are one of those who enjoy the chance and unpredictability of watercolor:

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  • Instagram Tutorial: Photographic Composition for Beginners
    Photography Teacher

    Instagram Tutorial: Photographic Composition for Beginners

    Discover expert tips to start taking good Instagram pictures by learning the basic rules of composition Mina Barrio (@minabarrio) is a product photographer who specializes in phone photography to take striking images for Instagram. She knows how to create expressive compositions that convey meaning and enhance the value of products showcased in the image. In this tutorial, she teaches five fundamental steps to improve your photo compositions with Instagram in mind.

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  • Illustration Tutorial: How to Draw from Your Imagination
    Illustration Teacher

    Illustration Tutorial: How to Draw from Your Imagination

    Learn to draw flora and fauna using the imaginary as a reference to find your own style with Violeta Hernández The best way to learn to draw is to familiarize yourself with the technique through exercises that help us to experiment with different materials and visual references. Once you master the first phase, Violeta Hernández proposes that you go even further to find your own stamp: draw from your imagination. What does that mean? To create from what you remember and the sensations an animal or a bunch of flowers have made you feel, for example. In this process, memory, creativity and a desire to let yourself go, will be key. Below, designer and illustrator Violeta Hernández (@soyvioleta), will show you some key tips on how to draw from your memories and the results of her own adventures.

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  • Cinema 4D Tutorial: cloning methods in MoGraph
    3D & Animation Teacher

    Cinema 4D Tutorial: cloning methods in MoGraph

    Learn the best way to clone models using the Cinema 4D MoGraph module The MoGraph module is one of the most important tools that users of the Cinema 4D animation software have for animating objects and creating special effects. With MoGraph you can make models explode, control them using other objects, deform them or create infinite movements. Zigor Samaniego (@zigor), illustrator, modeler, and designer specialized in Photoshop, Cinema 4D and After Effects has a vast experience in this field. In this tutorial, he explains the different cloning modes and tools found within this module of Cinema 4D.

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  • Watercolor Tutorial: How to Paint with Watercolor Brushes and Pencils
    Illustration Teacher

    Watercolor Tutorial: How to Paint with Watercolor Brushes and Pencils

    Naranjalidad teaches us different techniques to mix colors with brushes or watercolor pencils, step by step Watercolor offers a wide array of creative possibilities. You only need a brush and a few pigments to get going. Choosing the right colors, brushes and techniques is crucial for bringing the final work to life.

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  • Mastering Geometric Beaded Jewelry: A Tutorial with Cora Carroll
    Art Teacher

    Mastering Geometric Beaded Jewelry: A Tutorial with Cora Carroll

    Welcome to the world of exquisite jewelry making inspired by nature's beauty! Cora Carroll, an accomplished jewelry designer, will be your guide in this enlightening tutorial. Delve into the art of creating stunning geometric shapes using beads and metal in this step-by-step journey.

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  • Fashion Design Tutorial: Tips to Customize Your Sneakers
    Craft Teacher

    Fashion Design Tutorial: Tips to Customize Your Sneakers

    Learn the secrets to customizing your shoe laces, applying stencils, and protecting your design to make it last with Juan Pablo Bello (MYSNKRS Customs) Sneakers can be an ideal canvas on which to express your creativity. However, working on fabric can be a challenge, both when painting and when keeping it clean and protected. That's why Juan Pablo Bello, Art Director and founder of MYSNKRS Customs (@mysneakerscl), teaches us how to customize the laces of our shoes, apply and paint details, and protect our design so that we can wear them for longer. You can watch his tutorial here:

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  • Botanical Design Tutorial: How to Design Frames with Succulents
    Craft Teacher

    Botanical Design Tutorial: How to Design Frames with Succulents

    Discover the best ideas to design and compose a painting with succulents of different shapes, colors and shades with Compañía Botánica. Botanical design uses nature as an artistic tool: the succulents and their forms are converted into drawings and pigments, whose great variety and versatility can contribute to our creations. In this tutorial, Ceci from Compañía Botánica (@ciabotanica) gives us some design and composition ideas to take advantage of the succulents in our botanical design projects. You can see the video here:

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  • V-Ray Tutorial: Introduction to Lighting Tools
    Architecture & Space Teacher

    V-Ray Tutorial: Introduction to Lighting Tools

    Learn the basic tools for natural and artificial lighting with V-Ray When it comes to making a successful 3D architectural model, it is not enough just to take care of the physical objects: you also have to work on the lighting so that the final effect is as close to reality as possible, giving us a sample of what the project would look like if it was ever carried out. To achieve precise and realistic lighting, one of the best options is to use the lighting tools of V-Ray Next, a rendering engine that completes the modeling capabilities of SketchUp. In the following video tutorial, architect María Alarcón (@mariaalarcon_) teaches us the basics of lighting an architectural model created in SketchUp using the V-Ray Next rendering tools. Discover it below:

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  • Illustration Tutorial: How to Draw Facial Details
    Illustration Teacher

    Illustration Tutorial: How to Draw Facial Details

    Learn these techniques to add detail and realism to your illustrated portraits with José Rosero Realistic portraiture is returned to time and again throughout art history. It may be intimidating at first but you can learn how to do it, little by little, starting with some basic concepts that will allow your drawings to become progressively more complex. José Rosero (@rosero), visual artist and teacher, is an expert in portraiture with techniques ranging from pencil to quill to Indian ink. He knows better than most how to draw all the accents of a face. In the following video tutorial, he reviews some of the most common facial features, so you can learn how to draw them from scratch:

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  • Tutorial Anatomical drawing: how to draw a hand
    Illustration Teacher

    Tutorial Anatomical drawing: how to draw a hand

    Learn how to draw hands and fingers in an anatomically correct way with Zursoif (Miguel Bustos Gómez). Drawing hands is one of the most recurrent difficulties faced by artists. The amount of bones, joints, muscles and tissues that compose them make them a challenge when it comes to capture them on paper. Luckily the artist Zursoif (@zursoif), an anatomical illustrator, explains step by step how to draw a hand starting with the bones and ending with the muscles and skin. Get pencil and paper ready, and let's go!

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  • Ceramic Tutorial: How to make a rock-shaped flower pot from clay
    Craft Teacher

    Ceramic Tutorial: How to make a rock-shaped flower pot from clay

    Learn this simple technique step by step to turn a ball of clay into a rocky shape, with Xènia Bas Xènia Bas (@xenia_bas) is a ceramic artist and co-founder of Bas, a ceramic workshop in Barcelona. She likes to think that a good flower pot not only houses and provides support to a plant, but also enhances its beauty. One of the simplest and most practical forms you can give to a flower pot with clay is a rock. As well as being easy to mould by hand, it gives a lovely finish and allows many variations, as Xènia will show us in this tutorial:

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  • Embroidery Tutorial: How to Create an Appliqué
    Craft Teacher

    Embroidery Tutorial: How to Create an Appliqué

    Learn to create appliqués from your embroidery with Ana María Restrepo and her textile design label Amarpo If you like to embroider, consider turning your pieces into appliqués. This process will give your pieces more uses by making it possible to transfer them to all kinds of surfaces and clothes. Ana María Restrepo (@anamaria_10), the brains behind the textile design brand Amarpo, shares her techniques and advice on opening up the possibilities for your embroidery pieces. Watch her tutorial here:

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  • How to Draw Flowers and Leaves Step by Step in 5 min (TUTORIAL)
    Illustration Teacher

    How to Draw Flowers and Leaves Step by Step in 5 min (TUTORIAL)

    Learn the steps to sketch well-proportioned, symmetrical leaves and flowers on white paper, with Maya Hanisch Floral illustration, with its wavy and lively forms and infinite colors, is present in disciplines from graphic design to fine art, always balancing the freedom of nature and the control of the illustrator, who's able to create attractive patterns based on floral elements. In the following tutorial, artist and graphic designer Maya Hanisch (@mayahanisch) shows us how to sketch symmetrical and well-proportioned leaves and flowers, as a starting point for our floral compositions.

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  • Procreate Tutorial: Inking Technique
    Illustration Teacher

    Procreate Tutorial: Inking Technique

    Learn the technique and tricks for inking your sketch in Procreate, as well as the best brushes to do it, with Óscar Lloréns. Full of resources, Procreate allows you to give a perfect finish to your creations through the use of simple and intuitive tools. Illustrator Óscar Lloréns (@ollorens), whose work includes creations for Coca-Cola, the United Nations and Cirque du Soleil, as well as artistic pieces exhibited in Spain, Mexico, France and China, is an expert in this versatile program and teaches us the inking technique. This is a classic drawing method that consists of inking your sketch and then coloring the inside of the line. This technique is often used in classic comics and manga. Find out more below:

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