Skillshare has more than 30,000 creative classes to help you get started on your creative journey.
You can get started with a trial subscription to its online education website. The website has classes, workshops, student projects, and live sessions.
Skillshare Class Topics
You can take courses in animation, creative writing, film and video, fine art, graphic design, illustration, music, photography, UI/UX design, web development. There are also courses in business analytics, freelance and entrepreneurship, leadership and management, marketing, lifestyle and productivity.
Under each topic, you’ll be able to some related skills, featured classes (original and staff picks), popular classes, trending classes, or search by keywords.
You can filter courses by class type, class level (beginner, intermediate, advanced), created within a timeframe, and class length.
Each course has sections for about, reviews, discussion, projects and resources, and transcripts. You can click on the bookmark to save the course and add it to your calendar, or share it with your friends.
Skillshare Features
Skillshare features:
- Get unlimited access to thousands of inspiring classes
- Taught by industry leaders and working professionals
- Topics include illustration, design, photography, and more
- Badges to mark progress and celebrate accomplishments
- Class Certificates to recognize their creative achievements and share with others
- Learning paths provide a curated series of sequential classes
Workshops are a curated set of classes designed to keep you engaged. There is a sense of community as you learn with other like-minded students and exchange feedback to improve your work. You can follow along using a set calendar and receive prompts to help you stay on track.
For example, you could take a portrait every day for 28 days as a community photography challenge. Or master Instagram for your business or personal brand over three weeks. Skillshare’s vast catalog also includes recently published classes from Joy Cho, Jacob Collier, Morgan Harper Nichols, Joe Ando, and more.
You may find a recommended list, like learning the fundamentals of social media marketing, leadership 101, establish your writing practice, logo design essentials, explore hand lettering and calligraphy, introduction to branding, freelance essentials and more.
“A large number of Skillshare members come to the platform for continued professional learning to master new skills and make themselves more marketable in an increasingly challenging job market,” said Matt Cooper, CEO, Skillshare. “We are constantly adding value for our users by offering tangible tools they can utilize in their real lives – and these new products are part of that continued mission to foster meaningful outcomes across the platform.”
You can get started for free, but then you’ll need to pay for a subscription. You can pay the annual membership with PayPal, a Credit card, or Google Play.
SkillShare is a lovely creative space devoted to online learning, ideal for anyone who has an interest in illustration, design, photography, video, freelancing, and more.
About Skillshare
Skillshare is the world’s largest online learning community for creativity. With more than 742,000 subscribers and over 30,000 video-based classes exploring a wide range of creative disciplines from graphic design to photography to painting and illustration to interior design. Skillshare is both a publisher of original content, and an open platform, where anyone who meets our standards and guidelines can upload a class and earn income. Skillshare’s mission is to inspire discovery and growth through creativity. To learn more, go to: www.skillshare.com.