#Skillshare class

[alessandra-estrella]

Piece done for this Skillshare class by Iva Mikles (Art Side of Life) to make stylized, simple characters in various positions with Procreate, then placing them in the windows of the building template she made!

Of course, I ended up doing Buffy characters lol I plan on making my own building when I have time. The video is a collection of short timelapses of me making the characters.

-My Instagram

[peachynm]

I have exciting news! I’m now teaching on Skillshare and just uploaded my class How to Write Extraordinary Poetry. If you want to learn with me, this link will give you one month free to the entire site. I’ll talk to you on Skillshare!

[jaydove-writes]

I forgot to cancel my annual subscription to skillshare and I've been charged another $100... What classes should I take so I can take full advantage of the annual subscription before it runs out on February 8th 2026? I want to get better at writing and art and game development and music composition. Can I do all that in a year?

[deepfriedseagullfeet]

the career path of this week has changed from "artist" to "electronic music producer"

[guide-makemoney]

Skillshare Review 2024: Is It The Platform For Grow Your Skills?

Skillshare is an online learning organization that offers thousands of classes to enhance the skills of creative and curious individuals. This company covers various topics including illustration, design, photography, video, and freelancing. This platform provides knowledge and experience to passionate students from the world’s leading teachers.

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[ashesbijoux]

Title: Day at the beach

Another drawing prompt from "Always Drawing"

https://www.skillshare.com/en/classes/always-drawing-7-creative-exercises-to-jumpstart-your-sketchbook/277788556

Instructor: Mike Lowery

Experience:

So I drew a blank here, I must admit I am not much of a beach person. I decided I would challenge myself to do the same character from my class with Gabriel but in markers. I feel I still havnt gotten my marker confidence up and this project did not help. I was cringing the entire time lol. Oh well, practice, practice, practice. Here I also included a gif. With all 3 versions. It is kinda fun seeing them together.

[defiantbird]

I'm being so good I'm being so good you guys.

[kotori-mochi]

Can't afford art school?

After seeing post like this 👇

And this gem 👇

As well as countless of others from the AI generator community. Just talking about how "inaccessible art" is, I decided why not show how wrong these guys are while also helping anyone who actually wants to learn.

Here is the first one ART TEACHERS! There are plenty online and in places like youtube.

📺Here is my list:

Proko (Free, mostly teaches anatomy and how to draw people. But does have art talks and teaches the basics.)

Marc Brunet (Free but he does have other classes for a cheap price. Use to work for Blizzard and teaches you everything)

Aaron Rutten (free, tips about art, talks about art programs and the best products for digital art)

BoroCG (free, teaches a verity of art mediums from 3D modeling to digital painting. As well as some tips that can be used across styles)

Jesse J. Jones (free, talks about animating)

Jesus Conde (free, teaches digital painting and has classes in Spanish)

Mohammed Agbadi (free, he gives some advice in some videos and talks about art)

Ross Draws (free, he does have other classes for a good price. Mostly teaching character designs and simple backgrounds.)

SamDoesArts (free, gives good advice and critiques)

Drawfee Show (free, they do give some good advice and great inspiration)

The Art of Aaron Blaise ( useful tips for digital art and animation. Was an animator for Disney. Mostly nature art)

Bobby Chiu ( useful tips and interviews with artist who are in the industry or making a living as artist)

Sinix Design (has some tips on drawing people)

Winged canvas (art school for free on a verity of mediums)

Bob Ross (just a good time, learn how to paint, as well as how too relax when doing art. "there are no mistakes only happy accidents", this channel also provides tips from another artist)

Scott Christian Sava (Inspiration and provides tips and advice)

Pikat (art advice and critiques)

Drawbox (a suggested cheap online art school, made of a community of artist)

Skillshare (A cheap learning site that has art classes ranging from traditional to digital. As well as Animation and tutorials on art programs. All under one price, in the USA it's around $34 a month)

Human anatomy for artist (not a video or teacher but the site is full of awesome refs to practice and get better at anatomy)

Second part BOOKS, I have collected some books that have helped me and might help others.

📚Here is my list:

The "how to draw manga" series produced by Graphic-sha. These are for manga artist but they give great advice and information.

"Creating characters with personality" by Tom Bancroft. A great book that can help not just people who draw cartoons but also realistic ones. As it helps you with facial ques and how to make a character interesting.

"Albinus on anatomy" by Robert Beverly Hale and Terence Coyle. Great book to help someone learn basic anatomy.

"Artistic Anatomy" by Dr. Paul Richer and Robert Beverly Hale. A good book if you want to go further in-depth with anatomy.

"Directing the story" by Francis Glebas. A good book if you want to Story board or make comics.

"Animal Anatomy for Artists" by Eliot Goldfinger. A good book for if you want to draw animals or creatures.

"Constructive Anatomy: with almost 500 illustrations" by George B. Bridgman. A great book to help you block out shadows in your figures and see them in a more 3 diamantine way.

"Dynamic Anatomy: Revised and expand" by Burne Hogarth. A book that shows how to block out shapes and easily understand what you are looking out. When it comes to human subjects.

"An Atlas of animal anatomy for artist" by W. Ellenberger and H. Dittrich and H. Baum. This is another good one for people who want to draw animals or creatures.

Etherington Brothers, they make books and have a free blog with art tips.

📝As for Supplies, I recommend starting out cheap, buying Pencils and art paper at dollar tree or 5 below. If you want to go fancy Michaels is always a good place for traditional supplies. They also get in some good sales and discounts. For digital art, I recommend not starting with a screen art drawing tablet as they are usually more expensive.

For the Best art Tablet I recommend either Xp-pen, Bamboo or Huion. Some can range from about 40$ to the thousands.

💻As for art programs here is a list of Free to pay.

Clip Studio paint ( you can choose to pay once or sub and get updates. Galaxy, Windows, macOS, iPad, iPhone, Android, or Chromebook device. )

Procreate ( pay once for $9.99 usd, IPAD & IPHONE ONLY)

Blender (for 3D modules/sculpting, animation and more. Free)

PaintTool SAI (pay but has a 31 day free trail)

Krita (Free)

mypaint (free)

FireAlpaca (free)

Aseprite ($19.99 usd but has a free trail, for pixel art Windows & macOS)

Drawpile (free and for if you want to draw with others)

IbisPaint (free, phone app ONLY)

Medibang (free, IPAD, Android and PC)

NOTE: Some of these can work on almost any computer like Clip and Sai but others will require a bit stronger computer like Blender. Please check their sites for if your computer is compatible.

So do with this information as you will but as you can tell there are ways to learn how to become an artist, without breaking the bank. The only thing that might be stopping YOU from using any of these things, is YOU.

I have made time to learn to draw and many artist have too. Either in-between working two jobs or taking care of your family and a job or regular school and chores. YOU just have to take the time or use some time management, it really doesn't take long to practice for like an hour or less. YOU also don't have to do it every day, just once or three times a week is fine.

Hope this was helpful and have a great day.

"also apologies for any spelling or grammar errors, I have Dyslexia and it makes my brain go XP when it comes to speech or writing"

[kupcakekitty]

Great #news for me. I'm super excited.

My first art class is TBA on SkillShare. Don't worry I will still make videos for YouTube, but on SkillShare I will go into steps on how to make your own one-of-kind toy and other crafts. Beginner level & up.

[alessandra-estrella]

Piece done for this Skillshare class by Iva Mikles (Art side of Life) to make a stylized simple character, then make a pattern in another file to put on her clothes.

ngl, I was thinking of Eliza Dushku (specifically as Faith from Buffy) for this one.

-My Instagram

[positivelyghastly]

No longer letting myself use the blend tool until I get better at digital painting because I’m a masochist apparently

[wingedcreaturecomics]

[peachynm]

https://skl.sh/3JDuMv4

[deepfriedseagullfeet]

thinking about getting into electronic music production again......then remembers im incredibly bad at it

[ashesbijoux]

Title: character illustration: drawing faces, figures and clothing

Skillshare class link:

https://www.skillshare.com/en/classes/character-illustration-drawing-faces-figures-and-clothing/1906734506

Instructor: Gabriel Picolo

Experience:

This class was a good revisit to basic life drawing and character design. It took me several small seasions to complete this class. I used 8 of my sketchbook pages. The instructor is a skilled artist but it was very difficult for me to work with the camera views he had. That being said I do recommend this class to anyone getting started or looking for a simple refresher.I really like that he covers all the bases from start to finish. Here you can see my warm ups, figure drawings, character concepts, emotion and expressions. Then of my final project. I am happy with the process I got to experience and the end result.

[cranberrymoons]

well okay so i do think buck is good at sex. probably. and my evidence for this is that i don’t think taylor would have tolerated him being bad at it. but i also think it is very funny to imagine that he’s bad at it and has always been bad at it but makes up for it in enthusiasm and well. by looking Like That. to the point where when he and eddie finally get together and eddie knows that buck has all this experience so he’s a little nervous. not like Nervous nervous because at the end of the day it is literally just buck. but nervous in the sense that eddie has only been with like maybe three people, four if you count that time he did handjobs with a guy in the barracks in 2012. and meanwhile buck has been with bazillions of people and knows what he’s doing on like a level where he could probably teach a master class on it or something. skillshare. and anyway so eddie is 🤏 just this much nervous about it before they have sex. and then they have sex and eddie is like well. okay. so we have some things to work on (lovesick eddie voice) but it was the best i’ve ever had because it was you (best friend eddie voice) but man, respectfully, what the hell was that. is that what you’ve been doing all these years?? (lovesick eddie voice) it was amazing and i can’t wait to do it again (best friend eddie voice) because Holy Shit do you have room for improvement (lovesick best friend eddie voice) and i can’t wait for us to improve together 🥰