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.

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

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

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

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

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.

An in-depth look at the work and processes of the design firm Pentagram and its designers.

Rob Garrott interviews storyboard artists, animators, VFX artists, and other film-industry pros in this series of creative conversations.

Learn how to understand and communicate your professional value and get what you want in a salary negotiation.

Learn how to take ownership of your professional growth by asking for and receiving meaningful feedback.

Learn how to ask sales questions that lead to high-quality interactions with customers and clients.

Learn how to authenticate users in ASP.NET Core. See how to set up the .NET Core Identity system, use external login providers, and implement a cookie-based authentication system.

Learn how to authorize varying levels of access and add layers of security to your ASP.NET Core applications.

Learn about all the helpful new features and functionality present in ASP.NET Core 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, and 2.1, and explore the benefits offered by each iteration of the web framework.

Discover how to integrate email services into your ASP.NET Core application. Learn how to use services such as SendGrid to send and track emails and help build your business.

Learn how to switch from synchronous programming to asynchronous programming—and vice versa—in ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core.

When things go bad, good programmers are ready. Exception handling allows you to ensure your applications respond to errors with grace. With the right exception handling, your user’s experience will never be disrupted. This course teaches the basics of handling exceptions in the ASP.NET Core framework. Instructor Ervis Trupja starts with an overview of exception handling and then works through the various techniques to catch exceptions in ASP.NET. Learn how to use try-catch-finally to identify and handle errors, using both built-in and custom exception types. Then discover how to handle errors more efficiently with global handlers, and add exception filters to your .NET Core applications to apply global policies to unhandled exceptions.

Logging and health checks in ASP.NET Core are vital for enterprise and commercial development. You need to understand what's happening on your site in order to find where problems have occurred, spot security issues, and discover optimization opportunities. In this course, instructor Christian Wenz shows you how to use the logging infrastructure that ASP.NET Core provides and then introduces you to the features that ASP.NET Core offers for health checks, including how to create, register, and customize them. Christian gives you a quick tour of the sample app that you will use in this course. Then he gets into the logging portion of the course, covering topics such as how to configure logging, log to files, log to Azure, use log scopes, and more. After a challenge to see how well you understand logging, Christian discusses ASP.NET Core health checks, including how to configure and add health checks, create a UI to work with health checks, and secure your health check endpoints.

Learn how to take your ASP.NET Core website worldwide. Discover how to configure your code for internationalization, and customize your site's content based on the local culture.

Logging frameworks like log4net can help standardize and streamline the process of event logging: helping developers control which events are output and where to output them. This course teaches a real-world, project-based approach to event logging for ASP.NET Core applications with log4net. Instructor Ervis Trupja explains the benefits of using a logging framework and the options available to you. He then shows how to set up the log4net framework for console, web API apps, and MVC apps, and how to log to different mediums: a regular log file, a rolling file, and a SQL database. Plus, earn how to create a custom exception handler and configure it in the middleware to log exceptions globally.