Any recommendations for skill share courses/ classes (or anywhere else)? I know there are a million out there so I thought coming here see if any particularly stood out to people would be easier than trying to comb through them clueless
I am a 2D motion designer looking to improve my craft by learning frame by frame and C4D to get into a nice studio, I don't have the time to deal with a full on course from school of motion (I did 2 and they are very time intensive, also pricey), do you all think skillshare could be a good alternative? I would just like more structure - I learnt most of what I know by YouTube and it was a bit overwhelming to begin with, and then when I took the school of motion and domestika courses they were more helpful as you were guided through. As I want to widen my horizons I thought getting a more versatile platform would be best.
Is it worth it in this case? I read there is a bit of a bad rep of skillshare online regarding pricing and customer service, so wanted to know what you all think or if you have any other suggestion! Thanks!
I’ve been wanting to try it to try and improve my writing after going so long w/o honing my craft. Has anyone on this sub used it? Did it help, and if so, what classes do you recommend?
Has anyone ever tried using skillshare as a beginner drawer, just signed up for a free trial and looking for class recommendations
I started taking Jake Bartlett's "The Beginner's Guide to Adobe After Effects" course on Skillshare and I honestly have been blown away by the amount of value I've received from it in such a short amount of time. Most probably already know Jake Bartlett (he seems like an industry star per my research), but for those who don't, his beginner is really thorough and will take you through the basics of After Effects. If you're like me, After Effects has so much going on in it's UI (like most Adobe products), it can seem daunting. But, Jake really takes you through deep details of using AE. So far, the course has been really great and making me feel less inadequate about learning how to animate. This is not an affiliate post for his course, but I do want to leave a link for those who want to find it and I hope it blesses you like it's been blessing me. https://www.skillshare.com/en/classes/The-Beginners-Guide-to-Adobe-After-Effects/1758053045/projects?via=custom-lists
I do, however have a link for a 30-day free trial link for Skillshare, and just so that I don't come across as spammy or affiliate-markety (lol), comment below and I'll pass you the link. I just want as many people that are learning just like me, to be able to experience the course as possible.
Maybe there's some good project management courses on there, or a course that'll help me tighten up my writing skills?
In the past I've ignored these guys, because the advertisements for their service focused on things like watercolor techniques, or courses that teach hand-lettering. Those are cool skills, but not something I'll ever use in my career. That changed the other day when a Youtuber that was auto-suggested to me gave two free months of Skill Share to a bunch of people as part of a promotion. They had courses on Illustrator (an Adobe program that I've been meaning to add to my repertoire) so I figured, why not?
Here are some of the things I've signed up for already:
Intro to Illustrator
Improving Photoshop Workflow
Literally every Storyline course they have (unless I'm missing something, there appears to be ~3 of them which amounts to a total of 9 hours of video content)
Responsive Custom Quiz Questions for Captivate
What kinds of classes would you take if you had this service for free?
I see ads on Facebook all the time for Domestika and other procreate classes. Has anybody done these? Were they worth the money?
I enjoy watching Keinan Lafferty on YouTube but he does photoshop mostly and I’d love to see what more I can do in procreate.
Recently re-subscribed to Skillshare for something else, any good courses regarding Maya (or Ue) that you can recommend by any chance?
I have wanted to take classes with them but I never finish before my trial ends.
I was fortunate enough to get a year scholarship, and I would really like to take the best classes tailored for beginners for graphic design?
I know they have tons on there, just hoping some of you guys can help me kind of narrow down because I don’t want to waste hours on courses that either aren’t good enough or are too advanced for me as a very new beginner.
I appreciate any help in advance! ♡
If you’re having trouble finishing stuff get a Lynda.com account. The classes are short so you can just bang them out. Reading books will help you get started, here’s my copypasta list:
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Acquaint yourself with the material you’ll be getting in your early courses. Read Lupton’s Graphic Design: The New Basics. There’s a good chance this will be your first textbook.
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Read some books about typography so you’ll be ahead of the curve and not wasting your critiques with the professor picking at your type. Read Middendorp’s Shaping Text and Samara’s Making and Breaking the Grid. Lupton’s Thinking With Type will probably be one of your textbooks so it can’t hurt to read it, but Shaping Text is a better book.
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Learn some design history so you know where all this is coming from. Cramsie’s The Story of Graphic Design is a quick take on the subject.
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Kenya Hara’s ideas will open your mind to the possibilities of good design, read his book Designing Design. The same goes for George Nelson’s How to See.
Additional stuff you should read when you have time over the next couple of years:
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Hische, In Progress
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Unger, While You’re Reading
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House Industries, The Process is the Inspiration
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Fletcher, The Art of Looking Sideways
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Remington American Modernism: Graphic Design, 1920 to 1960.
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Lawson, Anatomy of a Typeface
Barber, House Industries Lettering Manual.
I would suggest making some kind of a studying plan. I'm also pretty new into graphic design and making a plan really helped me. As a newbie you should first focus on graphic design theory and start from there. After that you should start studying the basics of the software you'll need, if you are familiar with the software already start playing around. Make posters, logos, flyers... whatever you want, applying the stuff you learned in graphic design theory.
I have never had somebody to teach me art in a professional way. Now i have decided that i really want to learn and i was wondering if subscribing to Skillshare would be a good idea. I would like to hear the experiences of those who have/have had this app, did you actually see improvement? Are there enough lessons? Are the teachers better than the typical teachers on youtube? After a year or so, do you still use the app?
Thank you in advance for your help!
I found it lacking. A lot of it was lesser quality than what you can find for free on Youtube and the UI was a mess. If there's a specific artist that you like that is offering courses it might be worth it, but I paid for a year, and ended up regretting it.
I enjoyed it, but I did forget to cancel and paid for 2 months that I didn't use very much. It's worth a look, for sure. I recommend the Andy J. Pizza modules!
I really love skillshare and I am looking for recommendations of your favorite classes.
I got a free 1 month membership to skill share and ended up liking the courses that I'm taking. Is there anywhere to find these courses after my membership expires?
was featured as a sponsor in the latest Kurgesatz video and I checked it out. Looks really promising, but it's around ten dollars per month. There's a free month period but you still have to put in your credit card number, which I don't feel comfortable.
There seems to be a lot of very different courses (photography, discipline in the morning, even how to do perfect gift wraps), I checked out a few and it looks great but I'm worried on the overall quality since they're not "really" teachers.
Anyway what do you think about the service?
I am desperately trying to find any actually beneficial material for learning how to draw and paint digitally, but I can only seem to find cookie crumbs of advice. A lot of times videos even seem to fast forward through various steps and end on some other random type of info. If just becomes hard to absorb information. But maybe I’m just not finding the right videos? I don’t know.
What do you folks think?
Hi!! I’m new to watercolor and i’m looking for tutorials on skill share that are for complete beginners, preferably ones that break down everything simply and provide me with basic knowledge of strokes,mixing,techniques. youtube works too!
I've had an account with Skillshare for years, sometimes paying, sometimes not using it. Currently, I know that if I pay I won't have time to actually do the classes so I'm waiting for a better time to start again.
However, occasionally I see a specific Skillshare class recommended online and I'd like to just log into my account and save it to a list in order to watch it later, once I pay for premium again.
I can't seem to do that though. Once I'm logged in, the only page it keeps sending me to is the "pay for premium" one. I basically can't see the content of Skillshare and what options there are in the individual categories. I'm obviously not trying to watch the actual lectures without paying but it'd be nice to at least see which ones there are and which might be worth it later down the road.
Am I missing something or is literally all content blocked from just perusing, like in a store, unless you cough up?