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Design & Illustration Learning Guides

Discover our selections of the best free design tutorials on a range of topics, all in one place. If you want to brush up your Photoshop skills or learn a new piece of software like Adobe XD, you’ll find learning guides here to help you do that. Or maybe you want something more specialised, like learning how to draw textures or how to paint hair. We’ve got guides to help you with that too.

Just browse through the list and click on a topic that interests you to discover more and to find links to our hand-picked selection of free tutorials, designed to teach you that new skill or software as easily and enjoyably as possible.

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    1. Create and Rig a Non-Deformable Wooden Character

      4 Posts
      This series covers the modelling and rigging of a non-deformable character in Maya. Based on 'The Nutcracker', this character features a number of challenges due to its inorganic nature and unique structure. Throughout the course of this series, author Soni Kumari will show you how to tackle each element and construct the model from start to finish using Maya's default toolset. Later lessons will include how to construct an intuitive, animation friendly rig for a hard surface character using Maya's proprietary rigging tools.
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    3. Comprehensive Guide to Working With Video in Photoshop

      5 Posts
      You may not realize it, but Photoshop includes some pretty powerful tools for editing and working with video. While these tools aren't nearly as powerful as the tools you might find in Adobe Premiere, they can be quite helpful if you need to make some quick edits, or if you don't have Premiere installed on your machine. In this series, we will explain everything you need to know about working with video in Photoshop.
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    4. Digital Publishing With Adobe InDesign

      16 Posts
      Martin Perhiniak, Adobe Certified Expert, guides us through digital publishing using Adobe InDesign CC. Each tutorial is a video lesson teaching us one of the aspects of the tools and tricks you'll encounter as you get into digital publishing. This session is ideal for beginners as it goes through each basic function.
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    5. Web and Interface Design With Vector

      27 Posts
      In this session, we'll look at creating a variety of web interface elements as well as looking at vector roles in web design. Join us with tutorials aimed at beginners all the way through to advanced users, we'll show you have to create some awesome multi purpose additions to your website design.
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    6. Christmas Illustration Content

      23 Posts
      It's coming up to Christmas! If you're looking for some joyful, festive, scalable content, this is the place to be. With a variety of tutorials and freebies, we've got you covered, regardless of your skill level.
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