Posts tagged catcoq
How to Digitize Your Signature

In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through the step-by-step process to learn how to digitize your signature in Photoshop. If you plan to sell your artwork online or license it on products, I always recommend making sure that your signature is included somewhere in your artwork. Learn how in this Photoshop tutorial!

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New Collab with Evite: CatCoq Cards Now Available

I’m beyond excited to announce that my designs are now available as Evite cards! Thanks to Evite, my artwork gets to be used in a such a positive and celebratory way. Whether it’s a casual get-together with friends or celebrating a monumental birthday, my artwork can be part of someone’s big occasion. That alone makes me feel pretty good.

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How to Upload Your Designs to Print on Demand Sites - Society6, Redbubble, and Spoonflower

In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through my upload process for print on demand sites. My top print on demand sellers are Society6, Redbubble, and Spoonflower, so in this tutorial, I’ll walk through how you can upload your designs to those sites.

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How to Turn Analog Artwork Into a Digital File

In this art tutorial, I'm going to share how to turn your analog (hand-drawn or painted) artwork into a digital file. This is a key skill to learn if you want to sell your artwork online. There are two main ways to digitize your artwork - scanning and photographing. I’ll go over both in this tutorial.

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How to Draw a Mandala in Procreate

Drawing in Procreate has become one of my favorite ways to create artwork. In this Procreate tutorial, I'll share my top tip for making perfectly symmetrical illustrations in Procreate.

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How to Make a Color Palette in Photoshop

Want to learn how to make a custom color palette? In this tutorial, I'll walk you step-by-step through the process of creating a color palette in Photoshop. Color is something that I see beginner artists get stuck on when they start creating art. Color is a fundamental part of all illustrations, but it's not always easy to know where to start.

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How to Paint a Watercolor Monstera Leaf

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to paint a watercolor Monstera leaf step-by-step. Botanicals are some of my favorite things to paint with watercolor. Plus, they're great if you're a watercolor beginner!

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2021 Year in Review

I had some pretty incredible opportunities to give back to my creative community this year: Enrollment for my online classes soared up to 375,000 students and my curriculum made it into Skillshare’s “Top 20 Classes of 2021” list. I spoke on various panels, webinars and hosted digital workshops throughout the year. My main stage talk at Adobe Max brought in 50,000 live attendees.

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How to Remove a Background in Photoshop

By far one of the most googled questions about Photoshop is "how to remove a background in Photoshop." If you want to learn how to remove backgrounds in photoshop, this tutorial will cover everything you need to know. Even if you're a Photoshop beginner you'll be able to follow along easily. In this Photoshop tutorial, you'll learn my favorite and fastest technique for removing backgrounds.

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How to Fix Watercolor Mistakes

One of the biggest things that holds watercolor beginners back is that they are worried about what will happen if they make a mistake. And I get it! You've come up with watercolor painting ideas and are ready to get started, but what if one mistake ruins your masterpiece? In this short and sweet tutorial, we're going to learn how to fix mistakes while you're working with watercolor.

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How to Remove Objects in Photoshop

Ever wondered how to remove objects from a photo in Photoshop? Removing background objects in Photoshop is a great skill to have, and it will help you take your photos to the next level. There are so many reasons to learn how to remove objects in Photoshop, and I'll walk you through the technique step-by-step in this Photoshop tutorial.

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How to Add a Paper Texture Background to Digital Illustrations

Want to learn the easiest technique to elevate your digital art and make it look like it was illustrated by hand? Cue: Digitally adding a paper background. This technique works no matter what digital art medium you use, whether it's Procreate for the iPad, Adobe Illustrator, or Adobe Photoshop, this simple technique is a game-changer for digital art. It's subtle, but extremely impactful. And spoiler alert, it's actually really simple once you get the hang of it.

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Announcing My New Collaboration with Mixtiles

I am thrilled to announce that my artwork is now available with Mixtiles Art! I absolutely love Mixtiles because the artwork comes framed, and is super easy to hang on your walls. No nails required!

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Trend Forecasting for Visual Creatives

I've been licensing my artwork since 2014 and have sold over 1,000,000 products with my designs on them. The reason I've been able to sell so much of my artwork? Trend forecasting. I have learned how to forecast upcoming popular trends and capitalize on them to create profitable designs with mass appeal. Keying into motifs, colors, and patterns that are rising in popularity has been the key to my success as a surface designer.

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Procreate Tutorial - How to Create Perfectly Symmetrical Illustrations in Procreate

Drawing in Procreate has become one of my favorite ways to create artwork. In this Procreate tutorial, I'll share my top tip for making perfectly symmetrical illustrations in Procreate.

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How to Design Product Mockups

There is nothing like seeing your artwork hanging in a frame or printed on a product for the first time. Seeing my artwork displayed like this was such a pivotal part of feeling like I’d “made it” as a fine artist. But what if I told you that you could feel that feeling today without ordering any special products, frames, or prints of your artwork? Enter, product mockups.

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Watercolor Painting Techniques for Beginners

Are you wondering how to get started with watercolor painting as a beginner? In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through four basic watercolor techniques that are perfect for you to learn as a beginner. This tutorial is geared towards beginners, but if you’re an experienced artist, you’re also welcome to follow along and get some watercolor practice!

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The Beginner's Guide to Art Licensing with Print on Demand

What is print on demand and how can artists profit from it? Print on demand is a production model where products with custom printed designs are produced as customers order them. In this post I’ll share my top tips for selling your art on print on demand sites, and how print on demand became one of the biggest revenue streams in my business.

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