Last Update: 9/2021 Duration: 4h 19m | Video: .MP4, 1280x720 30 fps | Audio: AAC, 44.1 kHz, 2ch | Size: 1.65 GB Genre: eLearning | Language: English Create professional-looking digital paintings and illustrations even if you "can't draw."
What you'll learn: Create powerful custom illustrations in minutes using free or paid software (Illustrator, Photoshop, GIMP, etc) using simple techniques and basic principles. Understand image creation best practices regarding copyrights and using free stock images, original photos, and royalty-free images. Develop the ability to make illustrations that can be used online, in videos, or for print, even if you CAN'T DRAW. Make unique and inexpensive illustrated gifts for friends and family. Save and make money creating your own illustrations for yourself and others. Avoid headaches if and when you lose your work by learning the proper way to save your files. Learn ways to boost creativity using simple, proven creatvity recipes Gain an understanding of the most useful "art-school" design hacks so your images look more professional
Description: This quick and easy course for beginners will help you make original, custom digital paintings and illustrations using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and/or Gimp (or any similar program) in just a matter of minutes that look professional and can be used online, in videos and animations, or for print purposes such as on a poster, letterhead, even a T-shirt or other products. *Please note that free 7-day trial versions of Photoshop and Illustrator are available for download from Adobe's website. Gimp is a free program. Save money making your own unique digital images and illustrations (and stop paying others to do them for you) and develop skills that can help you start making money creating professional-looking images for others. You can also use these simple techniques to make unique images and illustrations as free gifts for friends and family. You also don't need to know how to draw. There are actually a HUGE number of graphic designers who CAN NOT draw... but they make up for it by using techniques like the ones in this course and naturally, learning more about layout design, composition, color, typography, and other fundamentals of visual literacy. You can decide how much time you will spend on each image which will then affect your end results. As you do more and more, you can be cranking these out in a matter of minutes and could actually make a little illustration/digital painting business creating these for others on websites like Fiverr, Upwork, and other freelancing websites. Are you ready to take charge and learn quick and easy methods for creating and editing powerful web images/social media graphics like a professional in just 1 hour? With this course as your guide, you'll learn how to confidentially and professionally create and manage your OWN unique images for your website, blog, eCourse, eBook, presentations, or social media pages using free online tools.
------What Students Are Saying: "A great course by a great instructor. It was amazing to see the making of an image, with all the techniques, attention to detail, and also to hear the thinking process behind each decision. I found it stimulating and inspiring." -Robin Scanlon ------ This course was created for: Complete beginners Art hobbyists and novices People who have all but given up on the idea that they might be creative People who think they can't draw at all People who used to draw but have forgotten how People who like easy tips and tricks that give impressive results fast (*like a super easy recipe that looks like you spent hours slaving in a kitchen when really you whipped up something quite easily in minutes) Traditional artists who'd like to get started also working digitally. Children who want to learn introductory digital painting and illustration techniques Art educators who want to learn tried and true techniques that build confidence in students and that will get them making beautiful and unique illustrations in just over an hour with big smiles on their faces. Any artist at any skill level who is open-minded and wants to learn a few cool new tips and techniques to add to their bag of tricks Anyone who wants to learn the most important tools that can be found in virtually ANY imaging program, not just Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. (layers, brushes, erasers, transparencies, colors, etc.) This course is not for: people who only want to focus on drawing from life or imagination. People who want to know every feature of Photoshop and Illustrator. In this course, I only focus on the most important tools you can start with right away that are also found in virtually every other decent imaging program and tools that will still be around 20 years from now.
