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Current Skillshare Classes
Drawing in Illustrator: How to Retain the Artist’s Hand
Discover the full potential of Adobe Illustrator’s drawing tools in this transformative class. You’ll learn how to give your art a hand-drawn feel, instead of the typical vector look, which can be sterile and impersonal. I’ll show you how to re-set the drawing tools so they’re more responsive, inspire you with lots of artist examples, and demonstrate workflows using the paintbrush and pencil tools to create digital art that better reflects your unique drawing style.
Learn How to Make Repeat Patterns in Adobe Illustrator
This isn’t your typical pattern tutorial. It’s a deep dive into creating repeat patterns in Illustrator, starting with the basics, then advancing to the best techniques for editing patterns and exporting files for production. Get hands-on experience with Illustrator’s pattern tool and discover how it will speed up your workflow, especially when creating brick and half-drop repeats. Plus you’ll learn a foolproof method for exporting and proofing patterns to avoid those troublesome hairline breaks that sometimes crop up between your pattern tiles.
Diagnose and Fix Repeat Patterns in Adobe Illustrator
Every pattern designer runs into technical problems now and then. In this short, but super informative class, you’ll learn how to troubleshoot common problems, including bounding box errors, hairline breaks, and motif misalignment. Once you learn to identify these problems, the fixes are simple and easy, so you can get back to the fun of creating repeat patterns in no time!
Mockup Academy
Product mockups are a great sales and marketing tool, helping your clients visualize your artwork on their products. In Mockup Academy, you’ll discover how simple and fun it is to create custom mockups from scratch instead of purchasing pre-made mockup templates. The Mockup Academy method is simple and straightforward, and once you learn the basics, you’ll be ready to create ultra-realistic mockups for a whole range of products thanks to the wide variety of classes in this comprehensive series.
Class 1. Mockup Basics As the title suggests, this class is all about the basic concepts, tools and distortion techniques you need for making Photoshop product mockups.
Class 2. Curved Mockups Learn how to use the distort and warp tools to create curved mockups like mugs, bowls, lampshades, bottles, etc.
Class 3. Smart Objects In this class you’ll gain a thorough understanding of Smart Objects, a special type of Photoshop layer that allows you to automatically apply artwork revisions whenever you add new art into the mockup file. They can be a huge timesaver.
Class 4. Shiny Objects Enhancing highlights and shadows makes mockups look ultra realistic. Learn a simple, effective technique to add 3-dimensionality to shiny object and almost every mockup. Basically it turns ho-hum mockups into absolute showstoppers.
Class 5. Lifestyle Images Create stunning wallpaper and wall decor mockups with the tips and techniques in this class. You’ll learn how to retouch your base photo, resize picture frame photos to fit your art and secrets for making your mockups blend seamlessly into photos of interior spaces.
Class 6. Fabric Mockups Explore tools and techniques for making your artwork look like fabric. You’ll learn how to use the puppet warp tool to bend your designs around elbows and knees plus other secrets for making realistic apparel and home textile mockups.
Class 7. Soft Focus Learn simple techniques to selectively blur your artwork to fit into soft focus photos. Download the free latte cup photo and follow along as I turn it into a cozy, inviting mockup.
