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10 Best Chalk Brushes for Procreate

Just Creative

As we all know, chalk-art is one of the oldest forms of drawing that uses a dark surface as its base to draw on it with a powdery white or off-white material in crayon form. Chalk is an inorganic material composed of calcium carbonate which can be creatively used for art! In real life, drawing with chalks is an exciting pursuit as one can create a lot of varieties by trying out different patterns of shades, fillings, and smudges.

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Avoiding Wasted Space on Your Website

Speckyboy Design Magazine

Technically, there’s no limit to the amount of design and content elements you can place onto a website. But the reality is that the space for getting a user’s attention is finite. That’s because a visitor typically reacts to what they see in the first few seconds after page load. Anything not visible within that timeframe will likely be missed. Designers and content creators alike have to carefully consider what is included.

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The Best Graphic Design Competitions, Contests & Awards

Shillington

Graphic design competitions, awards and website features are a great opportunity to gain recognition for your design work within the creative community and get noticed by potential clients and future employers. Plus, a list of features looks impressive on your CV and helps you stand out from other job applicants. Showcasing your work online in a consistent way should be part of your overall strategy in getting your work noticed.

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Video Tutorial: How to Make It Rain in Photoshop

Spoon Graphics

In today’s video tutorial we’re going to use the power of Photoshop to change the weather by making it rain within a photograph. We’ll incorporate various tools and filters to not only create a downpour of raindrops, but also make adjustments to the image to give the appearance of a wet surface with reflections of the surrounding environment.

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Let's Talk Trends: Designing for Maximum Impact

Speaker: Amber Asay, Creative Director and Founder of award-winning design studio Nice People

Understanding what trends are happening and how they’re impacting the competitive landscape is crucial to providing top dollar design strategy to your clients. With so many trends coming and going, it can be overwhelming to determine which ones you should capitalize on and which ones might not be worth the trouble. In this exclusive webinar with Amber Asay, we’ll explore graphic design trends that need to die, trends that are starting to pick up and why, trends that have come and gone, and how t

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Top 15 Best Halftones Brushes for Procreate

Just Creative

Halftone refers to a photo or other image that has been reproduced, and dots of ink produce the gray or color tones of the image. Famously, Andy Warhol would use halftones on his photographic prints. Seeing his work and the other creations that artists can come up with using their Procreate app, we thought it was about time we put the focus on the best Halftone Brushes for Procreate.

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For World Cancer Day, Coppafeel! and Animade launch a campaign reminding young people to check their chests

Its Nice That

A series of illustrations and animations highlight the importance of examining yourself regularly – a response to the drop in doctors attendance caused by the pandemic.

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How to get Media Coverage without a Budget

Noupe

International real estate broker Tranio ’s Executive Director Mikhail Bulanov explains how you can gain free online traction for your business by undertaking partner research, surveys, and analysis. In just the last couple of years, our company Tranio has been featured over a thousand times by some of the largest media organisations in the world, including those that do not offer coverage in exchange for a fee.

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Top 10 Best YouTube Cameras for 2021

Just Creative

In 2019, it was reported by Tubefilter that every minute worldwide, 500 hours of videos are uploaded to YouTube. Yes, you read that right. 500 hours. YouTube is one of the biggest marketing platforms there is and if you own a business or are trying to bring in new clients to your design business and aren’t putting videos on YouTube, then you’re leaving money on the table.

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Illustrator Spotlight: Richard A. Chance

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Richard A. Chance. Richard A. Chance’s Website. Richard A. Chance on Instagram.

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The Democratization of Design: Giving Creators & Marketers the Tools to Succeed

Brands must create and share impactful content to thrive, but they have less people, tighter budgets, and fewer resources to do so. Learn how to publish and market digital content with the same professionalism as organizations with million-dollar budgets.

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How to Create a Mascot

Tuts Plus

What You'll Be Creating. When you mention M&Ms or Pringles, everyone remembers the colorful button-shaped chocolate characters and the mustachioed man, which naturally drive us to remember the brands they're associated with. Professionally designed mascots are a great way of keeping businesses in the minds of customers. . Mascots are fun, useful brand/service and event ambassadors.

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Bold Animal Portraits Emerge from Ornamental Backdrops in YoAz’s Digital Illustrations

Colossal

All images © YoAz, shared with permission. In YoAz ’s Ornamental Animals , vibrant portraits of lions, gorillas, and other large mammals pop out of an expanse of decorative flourishes. The new series utilizes an ornate motif that’s consistent throughout each piece, with the faces of each creature delineated by saturated tones that contrast the otherwise pastel backdrop.

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The Best Ring Lights in 2021 for Vlogging, Video Calls, Selfies

Just Creative

Nowadays, nearly everyone has filming equipment. Whether a top-notch smartphone, an amateur video camera, or a professional vlogging kit, the modern professionals and creatives aren’t shying away from being in front of others, albeit only on screen. . Additionally, platforms like Youtube, Instagram, and TikTok are only encouraging more people to start capturing snippets of their daily lives, with the number of streamers increasing by the day. .

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Freebie: Cute Valentine’s Day Cards and Backgrounds (AI & EPS)

SpeckyBoy

If you’re looking for a last-minute Valentine’s Day card that doesn’t quite look like it’s last-minute, then you’ve come to the right place! We have a small collection of creative and fun Valentine’s Day card templates you can quickly customize, print out and deliver to your Valentine in a matter of moments. Within the free download package, you will find six cute, and creative Valentine’s Day vector card templates.

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Rethinking Creative Workflows: Increasing Efficiency in the Design Process

As the design industry evolves, teams are facing new challenges and a need to produce more outstanding creative work than ever. Leaders must learn how to adapt their processes to solve today’s—and tomorrow’s—unique design challenges. In this e-book, you’ll learn how to establish your creative workflow and leverage the power of CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite to streamline the entire design process, from start to finish.

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Gordon Kaye: A Piercing Moment of Clarity

Graphic Design USA

Gordon Kaye, editor and publisher, with thoughts on the 2021 GDUSA People To Watch and Students To Watch special edition.

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Architype Alphabet Poster

Abduzeedo

Architype Alphabet Poster. abduzeedo 02.05.21 Johann Lucchini shared a really awesome project mixing architecture, illustration and typography. Titled Architype Alphabet Poster, this project explores a simple concept, combine typography and architecture to create a custom typeface. For each letter of the alphabet, Johann was inspired by a famous architect and one of its buildings.

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Top 15 Best Halftones Brushes for Procreate

Just Creative

Halftone refers to a photo or other image that has been reproduced, and dots of ink produce the gray or color tones of the image. Famously, Andy Warhol would use halftones on his photographic prints. Seeing his work and the other creations that artists can come up with using their Procreate app, we thought it was about time we put the focus on the best Halftone Brushes for Procreate.

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Illustrator Eve Liu “doesn’t do shadows’’, and we love her for it

Its Nice That

The New York-based illustrator declared her shadow-free practice back in grad school. Stylistically bold, we find out more about this digital artist and her love of flat graphics below.

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Creative Insights: Data-Backed Trends to Help You Design Successful Content

In today’s competitive markets, how do you make sure that your content not only stands out but performs well? How can you predict whether certain design choices will result in clicks, engagement, downloads, and other drivers of ROI? Shutterstock’s Creative Insights Report (Q3) is your window into the hottest trends that are transforming the creative world.

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Eli Mock on Designing Michael Leviton's To Be Honest

Spine Magazine

Eli Mock is a designer at Abrams Books. Here he talks us through his process for designing the cover of Michael Leviton’s To Be Honest. Michael Leviton’s memoir, To Be Honest, was one of the last covers I completed pre-pandemic. The book is an extraordinary account of being raised in a family the author calls a “little honesty cult.” He loved “just being honest.

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A3 Magazine is dedicated to celebrating Black and brown creativity

Creative Review

Andre D Wagner photographed by Ike Edeani Azia Javier’s freshly launched publication A3 Magazine was born out of her desire to create a platform that could educate, empower and celebrate Black and brown communities through the lens of creativity. The inaugural publication, The Dreamers Issue, launched on Martin Luther King Day, with its theme drawing inspiration from his landmark speech.

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10 Best Chalk Brushes for Procreate

Just Creative

As we all know, chalk-art is one of the oldest forms of drawing that uses a dark surface as its base to draw on it with a powdery white or off-white material in crayon form. Chalk is an inorganic material composed of calcium carbonate which can be creatively used for art! In real life, drawing with chalks is an exciting pursuit as one can create a lot of varieties by trying out different patterns of shades, fillings, and smudges.

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MakingIt21: 21 posters by 21 creatives sharing positive messages and insights from the industry

Its Nice That

Sharing inspiring words for those who need it most, David Moloney has enlisted a group of motivational creatives to create motivational calls to action.

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From Visualization to Execution: Exploring Our Strengths as Designers

Speaker: Sean Adams, ArtCenter College of Design

Thomas Edison once said “Vision without execution is hallucination.” This statement applies not just to invention, but to graphic design. One of the greatest strengths of graphic designers is the ability to first develop a concept and then execute it to make it real. From visualization and ideation all the way through to actuation and execution, each step of this process takes skill and expertise.

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A Remarkable Short Film Dives into a Vancouver Lake to Document Tadpoles’ Evolution

Colossal

?. During the course of four years, Maxwel Hohn submerged himself in a remote lake on Vancouver Island to record the otherwise unseen life cycles of western toads. The hours of stunning footage culminate in the award-winning short film, “ Tadpoles: The Big Little Migration ,” which chronicles the tiny amphibians’ evolution from bulbous swimmers—Hohn notes how the critters look like they’re smiling constantly at this stage—to fully formed toads.

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Beat lockdown boredom with these walking guides to London neighbourhoods

Creative Review

For many of us, our daily allotted walk is one of the only things getting us through lockdown right now. It was during one of her rambles in the early days of the pandemic that Stefi Orazi came up with the idea for a walking guide to help people beat the sheer boredom of lockdown. Orazi’s background is rooted in the aesthetics of the built environment.

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The Best Ring Lights in 2021 for Vlogging, Video Calls, Selfies

Just Creative

Nowadays, nearly everyone has filming equipment. Whether a top-notch smartphone, an amateur video camera, or a professional vlogging kit, the modern professionals and creatives aren’t shying away from being in front of others, albeit only on screen. . Additionally, platforms like Youtube, Instagram, and TikTok are only encouraging more people to start capturing snippets of their daily lives, with the number of streamers increasing by the day. .

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Intersecting fashion and photography, Miftha Bahardeen puts human emotion first

Its Nice That

A cinephile from an early age, the Hamburg-based photographer is prone to analysing the details of an image. Here, he discusses his inspirations, processes and values.

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Web Design for All: Accessibility, Inclusivity and Beyond

Speaker: Eden Spivak, Design Expert and Editor at Wix & Nir Horesh, Accessibility Lead and Senior Product Manager at Wix

When we design products or websites for people like ourselves, there are many others who are, as a result, left out. From visually impaired users who rely on assistive technology, to people with a temporary injury such as a broken arm, tech users are forever diverse and beautifully unique. The products we design can, and should, reflect the extremely wide range of human experiences and needs.