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How To Create Digital Designs
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items Digital art is a huge growing industry, literally everything is either an app or online. Digital art can be photography, business essentials such as logos and business cards, advertising, social media posts, flyers etc. I have a bachelors degree in a...
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Must Have Books
CMYK or RGB….They may seem like the same thing but when it comes to producing your digital art into a printed form there is a HUGE difference.
Color Index XL: 1,100+ Palettes for Designers
In advertising certain colors can make the consumer feel a certain emotion. Hues, saturation, opacity, these are all digital design color options.
Color, 2nd ed: A Workshop for Artists
If photography is your thing this book will help you with everything! Lighting, angles, colors, composition, all things that you need to consider instead of just snapping a pic.
Rick Sammon’s Creative Visualization for Photographers
Such a great overall design book! Helps with coming up with correct branding for yourself or your company, balance, fonts, everything.
Graphic Design For Everyone: DIY Basics
I personally use Canva and there are so many features that it can do, this book will help navigate through them all.
Canva for Beginners: A Complete Guide
Photoshop is mainly for what it says, photography. But do you know how to export the proper file for a web picture? How bout for printing onto a shirt? This book will help.
Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2024
You would think that finding the perfect font is easy but it is far from that. Creating a digital art piece with the perfect font to fit what you are trying to convey is literally what takes the longest when it comes to designing.
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide (3rd Ed.)
Classes
If you are serious about becoming a digital artist, this is a great book with classroom disc. Adobe InDesign is one of the more popular programs us artists use. It can do a lot so I would 100% suggest a class or book on it first before just diving in...
Adobe InDesign Classroom in a Book 2024 Release
Another great classroom book with lessons for a major digital art skill.
Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book 2024 Release
A great resource to learn more about digital designing! Best part its free!
Free Online Digital Art Courses | Alison
Social Media Marketing is the center of our world and will be for a very long time. I literally just added this book to my cart. It has instructional videos as well!
Social Media Marketing Workbook (2024)
If you are ready for a new career path I would suggest going full force and getting a certification.
Graphic Design Certification Online | Bryan University Online©
Another great website full of useful classes!
Best Graphic Design Courses Online with Certificates [2024] | Coursera
Supplies
I know this is expensive but you are investing in your future. This is the laptop I have for designing. You want a strong enough laptop to handle having multiple windows or programs to be open without crashing. Plus the programs are very large in mem...
HP 17.3" Touchscreen Laptop, Intel i7, 64GB RAM
A nice tablet with a pen for drawing digitally. This product has a lot of great reviews.
XPPen Artist Pro 14 Gen2 Drawing Tablet
The iPad Pro is a great digital drawing device. Procreate program is something I have been wanting to get my hands on for a while now. This is a budget friendly option of a renewed but great condition. Mind you the stylist is sold separately. Gotta l...
2022 Apple iPad Pro 12.9" Wi-Fi 256GB Renewed
If you are not fully committed and want to just dabble or have a fun hobby, this is a great budget friendly option.
PicassoTab X 10" Drawing Tablet - No PC Needed
I suggest getting this for when you are getting started. Also opt for the subscription, you get a lot more options.
Canva: Visual Suite for Everyone
Great option if you want to make sure your touch screen doesn't get confused with drawing.
Digital Drawing Glove 2 Pack for Tablets
Inspiration
A great example of playing around with typography successfully.
CUSTOM MATCHBOOK ART | Personalized Digital Matchbox Gift | Large Matches Print | Customized Retro Wall Poster | Unique Anniversary Gift
A really fun website with a lot of different styles of digital design.
479+ Digital Painting Art Ideas 2024 - Custom Digital Painting Artwork & Inspiration | 99designs
A great example of all that branding yourself or your company entails.
1000 Branding Package Templates, DIY Branding Kit, Social Media Branding Bundle, Branding Logo Kit, Instagram Bundle, Business Marketing
I truly feel like a logo could really make or break a company. These are really creative examples of some awesome logos.
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Fonts, clipart and more! Available for purchase which usually means you can use for commercial use (selling it) read all fine print though!
Creative Fabrica - Your number #1 source for premium design elements
FREE stock photos…FREE!
20,000+ Best Painting Images · 100% Free Download · Pexels Stock Photos