Hi everyone, this is Anne with Graphic Design How To, and today I'm going to tell you the
best Skillshare classes for graphic design beginners.
I'm a member of Skillshare myself, and I also have classes that I've taught on Skillshare,
and I'm an affiliate with them.
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But if you do click the affiliate links, I get a little bit of money.
So that helps me to keep making videos, keep the lights on, all that stuff.
I'm going to be giving you four different Skillshare classes, and I think if you take
them all in their entirety, you'll pretty much have a pretty decent graphic design education.
So I'm going to give you an Illustrator class, a Photoshop class, and an InDesign class.
And then also just a general graphic design class with projects and that kind of thing.
And I also want to say that the classes I'm recommending, I was not asked by the teachers
to do this or anything, this is just based on my personal experience as a Skillshare
user and what classes I think would be best for a beginner.
Alright, so let's get started!
First is the Adobe Illustrator class.
And for this class, I chose Vector Illustration for Beginners by Jeremy Mira.
This class is 52 minutes long, so it is really just an introduction to Illustrator.
But I like the way it's structured, and I think you can learn a lot in that amount of
time.
First, he goes over illustration styles - flat, stylized and isometric - and what each of
those mean.
He helps you to set up your workspace in a way that would make sense for what you're
making in this class.
And then he goes over some of the tools and the ways you can actually create these vector
illustrations.
And like I said, it's just a beginner class.
I mean, you're not going to learn everything there
is to know about Illustrator in this class, but I do think is a great starting point.
It's got great reviews, and I thought it was a helpful class.
The second class is Learn Photoshop Fundamentals for Getting Started by Cat Coquillette.
And Cat is actually from my hometown, Kansas City, but right now she's a digital nomad.
So she spends all her time in other countries and creates art and sells it online.
So she has a really good understanding of what it takes to do that, and she knows Photoshop
really well because she has to scan in all her work and use Photoshop to manipulate it.
Her class is only an hour and 28 minutes, which is pretty short for learning Photoshop.
So you know, you're not going to get everything there is to know but it's a great starting
point.
So she kind of goes through the basics of what you need to know in Photoshop, like working
with layers, text, shapes and color, and then what to do at the very end when you're exporting.
So it is a really great little beginner course.
It also has great reviews and she's actually a top teacher on Skillshare.
She has 4000 students just on this class alone.
The third class is an InDesign class, and that one is taught by Daniel Scott, and it's
called Adobe InDesign CC Essential Training Course.
Now this InDesign class is super long.
So you're really going to get an in-depth understanding of InDesign.
This one is six hours and 20 minutes.
But this teacher, Daniel Scott, you can watch pretty much anything of his and come away
with a feeling that you know that subject matter.
He is a very good teacher.
So he really goes through everything step by step... what exactly in design is for...it's
really a beginner level kind of master class to get you started and then get more and more
advanced as you go.
And that's why it's six hours long.
I really think it's worth it absolutely to take the whole class.
Of course, like all the other teachers, he has a ton of positive reviews and he has
a ton of students out there.
So if you didn't really get enough out of the first two classes I recommended, Daniel
Scott also teaches more classes - he teaches Illustrator and Photoshop classes.
So definitely check his other classes out.
He is amazing.
The last Skillshare class which is the general graphic design class is taught by Lindsay
Marsh.
She's been a graphic designer for about 14 years, and she just switched over to full
time course creation on Skillshare because it has just taken off for her.
She is a great teacher, all her students love her, she even has like her own Facebook group
and stuff like that.
So this class is called Master Graphic Design and Software with Practical Projects.
So the idea is, she helps to teach you the design principles and theory while also learning
the programs, too.
So you're going to get a refresher on all the programs while you take this class and
her class is super long.
So get ready for it – it is 10 hours and 22 minutes!
So I get that it's a really, really long class.
So you'll want to break this one up into a few days to really kind of
absorb it all.
Some of the things she goes over in here are: badge creation, logo design, package design,
layout...she touches on Adobe Dimension, which is a way to
display your package designs.
And then she goes over book covers, and all of this is project based, which I think is
really important for graphic designers because it's one thing to learn the programs, but
it's another thing to really understand how it all goes together and the theory behind
everything.
Digital design, like how to create a YouTube thumbnail, and then she touches on things
like album art, magazine articles, front cover of a magazine, and it just goes on.
There are 61 lessons here, so you get a really deep dive into graphic design with this course.
And Lindsay also has a graphic design theory - specifically for theory - class that is
really great.
I really recommend that one too.
So those are the four classes that are best for beginners, in my opinion, on Skillshare.
If you take all the classes that I mentioned here, that is around 20 hours of graphic design
training.
So that's pretty cool and you can get it all for free if you just do a free trial of Skillshare
and then, you know, cancel after the first two months.
Anyway, that is my video for this week.
I hope you liked it.
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design video.
Thank you!!!