Design & Illustration Courses

What if you could become a better designer by learning directly from the experts, having them show you what to do via comprehensive, well-structured video courses? Well, you can!

Whether you want to learn photo manipulation or text effects, magazine design or 3d design, you’ll find a course here to teach you the design skills you need. You can also take courses that take you through the major graphic design software, like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects, from start to finish. Each course is structured with a particular learning goal in mind, so you’ll end up with valuable new skills after each one. What will you learn today?

All Design & Illustration courses:

  1. Surreal Digital Painting

    Surreal Digital Painting

    Course Intermediate

    What story would you like to tell the world? Surrealism is a style that allows you to express your feelings and thoughts on the world through your art. In...

  2. How to Create a Surreal Scene With Photo Manipulation

    How to Create a Surreal Scene With Photo Manipulation

    Course Advanced

    Photo manipulation is the art of transforming ordinary photos into something alluring, unexpected and totally out of the box. In this course, we'll be taking...

  3. Affinity Photo Live Filters and Inpainting

    Affinity Photo Live Filters and Inpainting

    Course Beginner

    Two fantastic features in Affinity Photo are "Live Filter Layers" and the Inpainting tool. With "Live Filter Layers" you can apply any of several filters to...

  4. Custom Textures in Adobe Illustrator

    Custom Textures in Adobe Illustrator

    Course Intermediate

    As designers, we often find ourselves having to create a little design, a super cool icon or even a custom text effect. But somehow it just looks a bit flat,...

  5. Creating Compelling Environments for Concept Art

    Creating Compelling Environments for Concept Art

    Course Intermediate

    In this course, you will learn how to develop a compelling environment for games or film. This course builds upon our other course, Thumbnail Sketching for...

  6. Advanced Manga Studio Techniques

    Advanced Manga Studio Techniques

    Course Advanced

    Manga Studio is a fantastic tool, with many features that can drastically speed up and improve any illustrator’s workflow. Instructor George Bletsis will...

  7. Advanced Photo Manipulation for Advertisements

    Advanced Photo Manipulation for Advertisements

    Course Advanced

    In this course you will learn how to create stunning photo manipulations using Photoshop, Illustrator and Lens Flare. You will be creating an advertising...

  8. Cartoon Creature Design

    Cartoon Creature Design

    Course Intermediate

    Character design is one of the most interesting fields of design and illustration. However, it can be tricky if you need to depict various characters of the...

  9. Working With Color in Adobe Photoshop

    Working With Color in Adobe Photoshop

    Course Beginner

    Any artist will tell you that the use of color is a major component of the design process, regardless of the medium. Digital art and photography are no...

  10. The Basics of Coloring and Shading Line Art in Adobe Photoshop

    The Basics of Coloring and Shading Line Art in Adobe Photoshop

    Course Beginner

    Adobe Photoshop is known as a great tool for artists, and not without reason. However, it doesn't work as magically as some people may think. It won't color...

  11. Advanced Techniques in CorelDRAW

    Advanced Techniques in CorelDRAW

    Course Advanced

    In this course you’ll learn advanced rendering and vector techniques, including creating and using custom sprayer brushes, using gradient meshes to render...

  12. The Art of Typography

    The Art of Typography

    Course Beginner

    In this course, you’ll dive head-first into the fascinating world of typography. Graphic designer Grace Fussell will discuss the key historical events that...