• Photoshop Tutorial: Digital Brushes for Flat Illustration
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    Photoshop Tutorial: Digital Brushes for Flat Illustration

    Tools like Photoshop allow a wide variety of digital illustration processes, helping to simulate effects and textures that mimic traditional techniques. To do this, we use brushes that offer different ways to customize our strokes and painting effects in our designs. Illustrator and designer Willian Santiago (@williansantiagodg) teaches us how to use his favorite brushes, which simulate techniques such as chalk, watercolor, pencil, and a variety of other textures. Discover his tips in the video below:

  • Fashion Illustration Tutorial: How to Create a Mockup
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    Fashion Illustration Tutorial: How to Create a Mockup

    Learn to create a mockup in Adobe Photoshop with Robert Tirado When it comes to editorial design, it’s important that we test out our illustrations and photographs on the finished product. Will these two images go well together on the same page? Does this cover work? Design mockups help us to answer these questions before going to print. In the following video tutorial, illustrator, art director, and graphic designer Robert Tirado (@roberttirado) shows us how to use editorial design mockups to experiment with our illustrations and see how they work together with other design elements. Learn more below:

  • Character Design Tutorial: How to Draw Facial Expressions
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    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.

  • Essential Animation Shortcuts for Adobe Animate and Photoshop

    Essential Animation Shortcuts for Adobe Animate and Photoshop

    Designer Pablo Cuello shares the most popular shortcuts for animating with these two programs You don't need complicated tools to create impressive animations. By learning just a few tricks, you'll be able to simplify your design process and make frame-by-frame animations. In this blog post, designer and animator Pablo Cuello (@pablocuello) shares Adobe Animate and Adobe Photoshop’s most popular shortcuts, so you can save time when creating your next mesmerizing animation.

  • Photoshop Tutorial: Creating a Watercolor Brush
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    Photoshop Tutorial: Creating a Watercolor Brush

    Learn how to create a custom brush from your watercolors with Adobe Photoshop for digital illustration Working in digital format does not necessarily mean having to be content with the basic tools of design and illustration software; Just as in traditional painting, there are infinite possibilities, and the fusion between digital and analog elements allows us to obtain incredible and unexpected results. The creation of personalized brushes from your own watercolor stains is one of the favorite options of Ricard López, better known as Ricardilus (@ricardilus), to work on his illustrations and in this video he shows you, step by step, how make them. See the tutorial below:

  • Photopea: Tips for Beginners

    Photopea: Tips for Beginners

    Tips for using Photopea: a free online advanced photo editor Photopea is a free application for advanced photo editing. It works with both vector and raster graphics so that you can work with files in various formats. This software came from the mind of the young Czech programmer Ivan Kurtskir, who initially created it as a school project. Get to know some of its main functions, how they compare to other photo editors and how it can help you to your design process. How does it work? It is often called the “free alternative to Photoshop,” and that’s close to the truth. You’ll find an interface very similar to the Adobe editor, in terms of tools, menus, and usability. This is a big improvement on other free options like GIMP, whose interface isn’t so friendly. You don’t have to pay anything to use Photopea. Nor do you need to install anything. Simply enter the site and edit online (you can continue working on the program even if you lose connection). Just like Photoshop or Sketch, it works completely on your device and doesn’t publish your pictures on the internet. The disadvantage? Ads while you work.

  • 10 Free Photoshop Tutorials to Learn New Skills

    10 Free Photoshop Tutorials to Learn New Skills

    Discover how to make the most of the tools offered by Adobe's image editing software When it was first released in 1990, Adobe Photoshop started out as a basic image-editing program; thirty years on it's evolved to become the must-have tool used by millions of creative professionals to make their visions a reality. Featuring multiple possibilities for filters, effects, plug-ins, customizable tools, and endless creative resources, the program enables all kinds of creatives to edit their photopraphy or illustrations without limits.

  • 10 Free Online Classes for Learning How to Illustrate With Ink

    10 Free Online Classes for Learning How to Illustrate With Ink

    Explore this versatile medium and get inspired by free ink classes led by Domestika experts Used for writing and drawing for centuries, ink is probably the most ancient medium in the history of humankind. The Egyptians used ink to write and draw on papyrus from as early as the 26th century BC, and it's believed that the Chinese were already using ink as far back as 4,000 years ago. Fast-forward to today, there are still infinite ways in which artists use this medium. Whether you're into calligraphy, illustration, urban sketching, or you enjoy experimenting in your sketchbook, you are bound to use ink in your artwork. This is largely because ink is so versatile, adapting to as many styles as there are artists. There are several techniques for drawing with ink, with some of the more traditional being hatching, cross-hatching and stippling when using a pen or fineliner. You can also apply ink washes with a paintbrush and achieve various degrees of transparency like you would use watercolor.

  • 7 Online Courses for Learning How to Illustrate in Photoshop

    7 Online Courses for Learning How to Illustrate in Photoshop

    Unleash Adobe Photoshop’s full potential and start illustrating your ideas digitally Digital illustration gained popularity in the early 1980s, thanks to the birth of Adobe and its range of software. Since then, it has greatly evolved and built up a huge following, becoming one of the most widely used and most popular artistic mediums of our time. To ensure you don’t get left behind, we’ve curated a list of Domestika courses on digital illustration. Taught by top professionals, they will guide you as you master new techniques and get to grips with different programs so you can produce one-of-a-kind digital artworks.