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Artist at Work: Color as Shape

Break an image down into its basic shapes and learn how to effectively compose a drawing or painting.

Artist at Work: Complementary Colors

An award-winning illustrator sits down at the drawing board to explain how complementary colors can make your artwork and designs more compelling and vibrant.

Artist at Work: Creating a Visual Hierarchy

Learn to use tone, color, and glazing to establish a visual hierarchy in your artwork and designs.

Artist at Work: Creating Depth of Field

Learn to add the illusion of depth to your artwork with the effective use of color and contrast.

Artist at Work: From Sketch to Finished Vector Illustration

Watch Von take a simple, scanned sketch and turn it into colorful, vector-based artwork with Adobe Illustrator.

Artist at Work: Tertiary Colors

Explore tertiary color, the neutral browns and greys that make vibrant colors pop and subtle paintings possible.

Artist at Work: Textures

Add visual texture to your artwork with color, pattern, and a variety of brush strokes. Break up repetitive strokes and static blocks of color for more dynamic images.

Before & After: Less is More

In design, simplicity is best. introduces another Before & After project to show how "less is more" works in practice.

Branding for Designers

Learn about the history of branding and the key elements involved in designing a brand, from conducting market research to creating logos and identity systems.

Color for Design and Art

Learn about the practical application of color theory: how to create color palettes, manipulate colors in Adobe tools like Photoshop and Illustrator, fix color problems, and more.

Creating Gradient Meshes with Illustrator

Learn how to create custom gradient meshes with these Illustrator tutorials.

Graphic Design Foundations: Color

Learn the properties of color, and how to use it to tell stories, create moods, draw attention, and add new possibilities to your creative toolbox.

Graphic Design Tips & Tricks Weekly

John McWade presents a series that touches on all areas of design, helping designers new and old sharpen their skills and create more powerful work.

InDesign: Color

Get just the color you want, for print and for screen, with Adobe InDesign and these InDesign insider tips.

InDesign: Color Management

Explains the fundamentals of managing color in Adobe InDesign—in a way any designer can understand.

James White's Character Illustrations: Start to Finish

Join the one-man powerhouse behind Signalnoise design studio to explore one of his projects: illustrating wrestlers of the WWE in its heyday in the eighties and early nineties.

Learning Color Management

Learn the basics of color management for photography, design, and the web, from calibrating your monitor to choosing the best printer and paper for your artwork.

Learning Graphic Design History

Focuses on the hows and whys of graphic design history, from Art Nouveau to new wave, detailing the development and evolution of specific styles, techniques, and genres.

Learning Graphic Design: Techniques

Simple techniques to improve your layouts and refresh your creative vision, from the founder of Before & After magazine.

Painting Foundations: Creating Palettes for the Landscape

Recreate the color palettes of nature and paint more evocative landscapes with this painting class from artist and art instructor Will Kemp.