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The Best Grit, Grain & Grunge Textures (Free & Premium Packs)

Spoon Graphics

Gritty, grainy, grungy textures are my favourite type of design asset for roughing up your clean digital artwork to give it an old, worn, and distressed appearance. Because grungy textures are sourced from real dirty surfaces, there’s an infinite supply of resources, each one with its own unique style. 10 FREE Dirty Surface Textures.

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8 Best Animation Courses Online (Free & Paid) 2023

Just Creative

Animation has come a long way from the first animated cartoon in 1908, but thankfully as the technology of animation has moved forward, so have the opportunities that amateur animators have to not only learn their craft but to improve upon it as well. hours $12.99 hours $12.99 hours $12.99

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50 Free High-Resolution Texture Packs for Designers

SpeckyBoy

The number of options, directions, and aesthetic approaches you can take from simply adding a texture to your design is mind-boggling. Of course, not every design benefits from even the most subtle of textures, but you might be surprised at how a high-resolution texture can bring a design to life.

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Top 9 Best Animation Courses Online (Free & Paid)

Just Creative

Animation has come a long way from the first animated cartoon in 1908, but thankfully as the technology of animation has moved forward, so have the opportunities that amateur animators have to not only learn their craft but to improve upon it as well. What to look for in an online animation course.

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Fresh and Free Graphic Design Resources Every Designer Should Have

Graphic Design Junction

Wireframe Topo Elements Vectors – Free 7. Fashion Vector Logo Template – Free 13. Free Emotional Lottie Animation 17. Free Spray Scans Textures Pack 20. Glued Poster Paper Texture 21. The visual you see is captured through a camera lens, showcasing real-world elements and textures.

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James Olstein uses his love of screen printing to create stunning digital illustrations with an analogue feel

Creative Boom

Fizzing with grainy textures and overlapping vibrant colours, his work has the curious quality of looking like it came from the 1950s, even though it contains contemporary items and characters. So now all my work is vector-based with added textures to give it more of a screen printing feel." "I love to take my family camping.

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Erin Ruane explores the characters of the Zodiac in her beautifully designed illustrations

Creative Boom

After all the textures are together, I overlay light, expressive marks and grain which bring movement back into the works after mapping out lots of vector lines," she adds. Speed is something that really drives my energy when it comes to making work, as a lot of the textural process is quite instinctual," she explains.