Stay tuned, the class will go live first week of December! One of my favorite programs to work on the go with is Affinity Designer on my iPad. The program is a powerhouse of an app that works wonders for those of us who create surface pattern designs.. Affinity Designer is a dream to work in and if you haven’t heard, there was an update and Serif officially released version 2 of all three apps on the desktop and iPad. This month, in this class we will be exploring the updated Affinity Designer version 2 on the iPad, it’s interface and I will be sharing some of my tips and tricks that I find make the design process more streamlined. We will also explore ways to create different templates that will work for different pattern types to help elevate your skills on more complex pattern types such as: rectangle half drop, diamond and stripes. Join me in November on Skillshare or find my classes on Gumroad and Udemy to take this newest course! For those of you who haven't joined Skillshare yet but are interested -- It’s our BIGGEST sale of the year 💚 Treat yourself to 1 month free + 50% off your first month or year of Skillshare. Use code BFCM2023 at checkout through Nov. 27 2023. https://www.skillshare.com/en/r/user/jennylezan?gr_tch_ref=on&gr_trp=on WANT TO CONNECT OR HIRE ME? VISIT ME ONLINE: http://www.bellasophiacreative.com Take my classes and try skillshare for 1 month free! https://www.skillshare.com/en/r/user/jennylezan?gr_tch_ref=on Want to teach on Skillshare? Apply here to Teach Lab https://skl.sh/3PJI3WE WANT TO TAKE BUY MY CLASSES INDIVIDUALLY? http://www.learn-create-design.com GUMROAD https://bellasophiacreative.gumroad.com UDEMY https://www.udemy.com/user/jenniferlezan/ Shop My Products: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BellaSophiaCreative Creative Market: https://creativemarket.com/JenniferLezan TeePublic: https://www.teepublic.com/user/bellasophiacreative 💌 Sign Up For My Newsletter & Get Some Freebies! http://bit.ly/2ucdWzG ☕ Donate a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/thefreelancelife Want to be Pen Pals? P.O. Box 9658 Naperville, IL 60567-9658 ABOUT ME Welcome to the Creative Studio! I'm Jen - A Latina mom of 3, based out of the Midwest. Despite hardships growing up, I attended art school as a first generation student. With a career journey in fashion, design, illustration & digital media, I've come to merge my creative passions into the work I do as a freelancer and teacher. I look to inspire others as much as I look to be inspired! Let's create something great together!

Watch the class — https://skl.sh/3OWS4hq Read about a giveaway after class description! Hello everyone! I am so excited to share that I have a new class that is going live VERY SOON!! I created a similar class like this a couple of years ago, but with the update to Affinity Photo 2, I wanted to showcase the process in thew new version of the app on the iPad! I hope you find it helpful, read on to learn more about it! What the class is about In this class, I will walk you through my process on how to create a repeating pattern from traditional art - in my case watercolor work - using the Affinity Photo versions 2 app. I will first walk you through preparing my art work for use in digital formats. We will go over 2 ways of how to get your work onto your iPad. We will walk through how to photograph using your iPad camera then go through tips for scanning your artwork to make it easier to isolate your design elements. We will go into detail on the scanning process keeping in mind artwork size and dpi and go through how to clean up your artwork and how to isolate your design elements. We will also review exploring color variations of your artwork. Then we will begin to build out the repeat pattern using the design elements in affinity photo version 2 iPad app. Finally, we will test and export the final for for use with print on demand sties like spoonflower. Make sure to check out the class resources for some helpful tools you can utilize while working on your class project. You can also check out inspiration over on my surface pattern design Pinterest board:  https://pin.it/2ZCvupW  🎉 GIVEAWAY ALERT. In celebration of my recent transition to top teacher and the publishing of my newest class, I’m giving away a free year of Skillshare Premium to one lucky person! Here’s how you can enter to win: — 1️⃣ Watch my new class, “Learn to Digitize traditional art work in Affinity Photo V2 for use in surface pattern designs”. — 2️⃣ Upload your final project to the Student Gallery. — 3️⃣ — Finally, leave a review for the class The best part is that you can still watch my class even without having a Skillshare membership. Use this special link to unlock a free trial month of skillshare, which means you can watch this class and ALL MY OTHERS for free for 30 days! — Enjoy: https://skl.sh/3OWS4hq — I’ll be choosing a winner next week on Tuesday, Sept 26th at 9PM CST! Purchase this class individually on Gumroad: https://bellasophiacreative.gumroad.com/l/zijry WANT TO CONNECT OR HIRE ME? VISIT ME ONLINE: http://www.bellasophiacreative.com Take my classes and try skillshare for free! https://skl.sh/2YMW7G3 WANT TO TAKE BUY MY CLASSES INDIVIDUALLY? http://www.learn-create-design.com GUMROAD https://bellasophiacreative.gumroad.com UDEMY https://www.udemy.com/user/jenniferlezan/ Shop My Products: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BellaSophiaCreative Creative Market: https://creativemarket.com/JenniferLezan TeePublic: https://www.teepublic.com/user/bellasophiacreative 💌 Sign Up For My Newsletter & Get Some Freebies! http://bit.ly/2ucdWzG ☕ Donate a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/thefreelancelife Want to be Pen Pals? P.O. Box 9658 Naperville, IL 60567-9658 ABOUT ME Welcome to the Creative Studio! I'm Jen - A Latina mom of 3, based out of the Midwest. Despite hardships growing up, I attended art school as a first generation student. With a career journey in fashion, design, illustration & digital media, I've come to merge my creative passions into the work I do as a freelancer and teacher. I look to inspire others as much as I look to be inspired! Let's create something great together!

Class is live here: https://skl.sh/3oOEPX8 Hello everyone! So excited to share a new course that is coming later this month. Affinity by Serif announced their version 2 apps toward the end of last year and I've been experimenting ever since I downloaded them! The newest addition is the long awaited Affinity Publisher for iPad app! As soon as I heard there was going to be an app version, I knew that I had to do a revamp of my popular course on making digital planners in Affinity Publisher on the desktop! Now you can streamline your design process if you prefer working on the iPad and design and link in one go in one app! You can find it on the following platforms: Skillshare: https://skl.sh/3oOEPX8 Udemy: https://www.udemy.com/user/jenniferlezan/ Looking forward to seeing you in class! Jen WANT TO CONNECT OR HIRE ME? VISIT ME ONLINE: http://www.bellasophiacreative.com WANT TO TAKE MY CLASSES http://www.learn-create-design.com Take my classes and try skillshare for free for 2 Weeks! https://skl.sh/2YMW7G3 Shop My Products: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BellaSophiaCreative Redbubble: https://rdbl.co/36lbNBH Creative Market: https://creativemarket.com/JenniferLezan Society 6: https://society6.com/bellasophiacreative 💌 Sign Up For My Newsletter & Get Some Freebies! http://bit.ly/2ucdWzG ☕ Donate a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/thefreelancelife Want to be Pen Pals? P.O. Box 9658 Naperville, IL 60567-9658 ABOUT ME Welcome to the Creative Studio! I'm Jen - A Latina mom of 3, based out of the Midwest. Despite hardships growing up, I attended art school as a first generation student. With a career journey in fashion, design, illustration & digital media, I've come to merge my creative passions into the work I do as a freelancer and teacher. I look to inspire others as much as I look to be inspired! Let's create something great together!

Hello everyone! This month I am coming back with another surface pattern design course inspired by the arts and crafts era and designers like William Morris and we will be illustrating and building our repeat pattern using the procreate app. This class is now live :)! You can take this class in the following ways My Learning Platform https://classes.learn-create-design.com/courses/Creating-Vintage-Arts-Crafts-Era-Inspired-Surface-Pattern-Designs-in-Procreate Skillshare https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Creating-Vintage-Arts-Crafts-Era-Inspired-Surface-Pattern-Designs-in-Procreate/86683380?via=user-profile Arbington https://arbington.com/courses/creating-vintage-arts-crafts-era-inspired-surface-pattern-designs/ WANT TO CONNECT OR HIRE ME? VISIT ME ONLINE: http://www.bellasophiacreative.com HIRE ME ON FIVERR https://www.fiverr.com/share/eYj1or WANT TO TAKE MY CLASSES OR JOIN MY MEMBERSHIP: http://www.learn-create-design.com Shop My Products: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BellaSophiaCreative 💌 Sign Up For My Newsletter & Get Some Freebies! http://bit.ly/2ucdWzG ☕ Donate a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/thefreelancelife Take my classes and try skillshare for free for 2 Weeks! https://skl.sh/2YMW7G3 Want to be Pen Pals? P.O. Box 9658 Naperville, IL 60567-9658 ABOUT ME Welcome to the Creative Studio! I'm Jen - A Latina mom of 3, based out of the Midwest. Despite hardships growing up, I attended art school as a first generation student. With a career journey in fashion, design, illustration & digital media, I've come to merge my creative passions into the work I do as a freelancer and teacher. I look to inspire others as much as I look to be inspired! Let's create something great together!

Hello everyone! Welcome back to another tutorial. This week I am sharing a teaser video from my latest course - Learn to create nostalgic 90s GIFs in Clip Studio Paint. In this teaser, I share a lesson from my full class and the lesson walks you through how to get your art work onto the GIPHY platform. I also walk you through how you can use your GIFs on social media like Instastories WITHOUT HAVING TO BE VERIFIED!! This is a question I see a lot, How do I use my GIFs without a verified account? Well, all you really need is a GIPHY account and you can STILL USE YOUR GIFs on social media! Watch the video to learn how. If you are interested in learning my whole process for creating and animating GIFs using the Clip Studio Paint Software - check out my class trailer here: https://youtu.be/61N_gzqzSKk And you can take the class here: Take the full course on my learning platform: https://bit.ly/3PMmUZX If you prefer Skillshare, you can find it here: https://skl.sh/3LlUORy Thanks for your support! Jen WANT TO CONNECT OR HIRE ME? VISIT ME ONLINE: http://www.bellasophiacreative.com WANT TO TAKE MY CLASSES OR JOIN MY MEMBERSHIP: http://www.learn-create-design.com Shop My Products: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BellaSophiaCreative 💌 Sign Up For My Newsletter & Get Some Freebies! http://bit.ly/2ucdWzG ☕ Donate a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/thefreelancelife Take my classes and try skillshare for free for 2 Weeks! https://skl.sh/2YMW7G3 Want to be Pen Pals? P.O. Box 9658 Naperville, IL 60567-9658 ABOUT ME Welcome to the Creative Studio! I'm Jen - A Latina mom of 3, based out of the Midwest. Despite hardships growing up, I attended art school as a first generation student. With a career journey in fashion, design, illustration & digital media, I've come to merge my creative passions into the work I do as a freelancer and teacher. I look to inspire others as much as I look to be inspired! Let's create something great together!

Take the class in my learning community: https://bit.ly/3aC8ADj Take the course on Skillshare: https://www.skillshare.com/r/user/jennylezan?gr_tch_ref=on&gr_trp=on Have you ever been texting a friend when you realize you need something extra to really emphasize your point —- you finish typing, select that app search, type in the word fabulous, scroll to find the perfect animated GIF and hit send. Your point has been made! You find you often do this on Facebook and even on your instagram stories and reels. GIFs have truly become a part of every day life. From regular folks to creatives and marketers alike, people have found ways to become extra playful and creative using GIFs. I personally enjoy creating my own GIFs that have that little extra something I am looking for as a designer and illustrator. With apps like procreate and clip studio paint, you can go beyond simple illustration and design work and take your work to the next level using basic 2D animation. In this months class, we are doing just that! Learning how to create our own 90s inspired GIFs in Clip Studio Paint! A few of the Skills Students Will Learn When it comes to the skills you will learn, I will be walking you through the basic animation concepts needed to create a GIF using your illustrations, then we will do a walk through of the Clip Studio Paint interface as we prepare to animate in the software. I will show you how to work with the tools, the layers, how to set up your timeline, and how to use things like the built in onion skinning effect to help you as you work through animating your illustrations flip book style. Check out the class in my learning community - you can join my membership ($22/mo) or purchase the course individually for $20 at: http://www.learn-create-design.com If you are on Skillshare - you can follow me and join the course when it is live right here: https://www.skillshare.com/user/jennylezan WANT TO CONNECT OR HIRE ME? VISIT ME ONLINE: http://www.bellasophiacreative.com WANT TO TAKE MY CLASSES OR JOIN MY MEMBERSHIP: http://www.learn-create-design.com Shop My Products: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BellaSophiaCreative 💌 Sign Up For My Newsletter & Get Some Freebies! http://bit.ly/2ucdWzG ☕ Donate a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/thefreelancelife Take my classes and try skillshare for free for 2 Weeks! https://skl.sh/2YMW7G3 Want to be Pen Pals? P.O. Box 9658 Naperville, IL 60567-9658 ABOUT ME Welcome to the Creative Studio! I'm Jen - A Latina mom of 3, based out of the Midwest. Despite hardships growing up, I attended art school as a first generation student. With a career journey in fashion, design, illustration & digital media, I've come to merge my creative passions into the work I do as a freelancer and teacher. I look to inspire others as much as I look to be inspired! Let's create something great together!

Please note - I no longer offer Membership to the Creative Studio, but I still offer all of my courses individually via Gumroad or Udemy starting at $30 USD - or you can access them all on skillshare - with the purchase of a course - you get access to my private community on facebook! Hi everyone! Hope this week is treating you beautifully. This week I am sharing more about my new education site launch: learn-create-design.com. I will still be posting FREE tutorials over here on YouTube, but I wanted to share more about what you can find on my new site. I made the decision to step back from higher ed and launch my own digital home for all those courses and more to come: http://www.learn-create-design.com and I also launched a membership program alongside the site dubbed: The Creative Studio. The Creative Studio is a new welcoming + supportive creative community where I house my digital creative courses and share resources with curious creatives. You can also purchase my individual courses for starting at $30 each or save some money with my bundle deals based on subject matter - see that here: https://jenniferlezan.wixsite.com/the-creative-studio/membership If you are new here and want to learn more about my classes visit me here: https://www.learn-create-design.com Thanks for all your support with my classes over the last 4 years. I am excited for this new adventure and hope that this new site will be another way I can directly connect with each of you on your creative journey! Take care - Jen WANT TO CONNECT OR HIRE ME? VISIT ME ONLINE: http://www.bellasophiacreative.com WANT TO TAKE MY CLASSES OR JOIN MY MEMBERSHIP: http://www.learn-create-design.com Shop My Products: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BellaSophiaCreative 💌 Sign Up For My Newsletter & Get Some Freebies! http://bit.ly/2ucdWzG ☕ Donate a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/thefreelancelife Take my classes and try skillshare for free for 2 Weeks! https://skl.sh/2YMW7G3 Want to be Pen Pals? P.O. Box 9658 Naperville, IL 60567-9658 ABOUT ME Welcome to the Creative Studio! I'm Jen - A Latina mom of 3, based out of the Midwest. Despite hardships growing up, I attended art school as a first generation student. With a career journey in fashion, design, illustration & digital media, I've come to merge my creative passions into the work I do as a freelancer and teacher. I look to inspire others as much as I look to be inspired! Let's create something great together!

I have a NEW CLASS LIVE! Take the class on skillshare here: https://skl.sh/3G4ztts OR check it out on my Learning platform here ($20 per class): https://classes.learn-create-design.com/courses/Design-a-Digital-Planner-in-Affinity-Designer-on-the-ipad OR join my membership to access ALL of my courses for $22/month. So, digital planning continues to be a popular organizational system and apps like Goodnotes have taken app stores by storm. This month, I wanted to do an update to my previous digital planning design courses. In the past, I walked you through designing digital planners on the Affinity desktop apps, but this time around, I wanted to share how you can create a linked digital planner completely on your iPad using the Affinity Designer app and keynote app. Often, people get iPads in order to digitally plan and I wanted to streamline the digital planning process, by keeping the design work all on your ipad. In this class, I will share some tips, my knowledge and help you build a digital planner that you can customize to your needs. Take this class on my learning platform: https://classes.learn-create-design.com/courses/Design-a-Digital-Planner-in-Affinity-Designer-on-the-ipad Take it on skillshare: https://skl.sh/3G4ztts WANT TO CONNECT OR HIRE ME? VISIT ME ONLINE: http://www.bellasophiacreative.com Shop My Products: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BellaSophiaCreative 💌 Sign Up For My Newsletter & Get Some Freebies! http://bit.ly/2ucdWzG ☕ Donate a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/thefreelancelife Take my classes and try skillshare for free for 2 Weeks! https://skl.sh/2YMW7G3 Want to be Pen Pals? P.O. Box 9658 Naperville, IL 60567-9658 ABOUT ME Welcome to the Freelance Life! I'm Jen - A Latinx mom of 2, based out of Chicago. Despite hardships growing up, I attended art school as a first generation student. With a career journey in fashion, design, illustration & digital media, I've come to merge my creative passions into the work I do as a freelancer and teacher . I've had to learn a lot over the years as a creative adding in video production to my arsenal during my time running Halfstack Magazine (you can see past videos on this channel still). I have a BA with a focus in Fashion, Design & Production. I graduated from Benedictine University's MBA graduate program focused in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management in 2011. When I am not freelancing or creating, I can be found teaching in the fashion departments at local universities and colleges in the Chicagoland area as well as on Skillshare! I look to inspire others as much as I look to be inspired! Let's create something great together

Take the class here: https://skl.sh/32GbCC9 Hi everyone! I have a new course going live soon. In this class, we are going to be learning about and designing social media templates in Affinity designer on our ipad that we can use over and over again to plan and organize our social media content. For this course in particular we will focus on designing instagram posts in square format, but you can update the size to fit your needs. For some of you, it may make sense to create several different social media templates for each type of post you publish. Before we jump into the technical aspects of working in the affinity designer ipad app, we will go over design tips that will help make your posts strong and keep your process streamlined. Then, we will get into the nitty gritty of creating in Affinity Designer. We will go over setting up our files, creating guidelines, the importance of working in layers, and the different tools available in the software. Take this class on my learning platform: https://classes.learn-create-design.com/courses/Design-a-Social-Media-Post-Template-Using-Affinity-Designer-on-the-iPad Follow along on skillshare here to keep up to date on when it goes live there: https://www.skillshare.com/r/user/jennylezan If you don't have skillshare and prefer to grab this course without a subscription you can do so on Arbington! Follow me here: bit.ly/3G381wu thanks for your support! WANT TO CONNECT OR HIRE ME? VISIT ME ONLINE: http://www.bellasophiacreative.com Shop My Products: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BellaSophiaCreative 💌 Sign Up For My Newsletter & Get Some Freebies! http://bit.ly/2ucdWzG ☕ Donate a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/thefreelancelife Take my classes and try skillshare for free for 2 Weeks! https://skl.sh/2YMW7G3 Want to be Pen Pals? P.O. Box 9658 Naperville, IL 60567-9658 ABOUT ME Welcome to the Freelance Life! I'm Jen - A Latinx mom of 2, based out of Chicago. Despite hardships growing up, I attended art school as a first generation student. With a career journey in fashion, design, illustration & digital media, I've come to merge my creative passions into the work I do as a freelancer and teacher . I've had to learn a lot over the years as a creative adding in video production to my arsenal during my time running Halfstack Magazine (you can see past videos on this channel still). I have a BA with a focus in Fashion, Design & Production. I graduated from Benedictine University's MBA graduate program focused in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management in 2011. When I am not freelancing or creating, I can be found teaching in the fashion departments at local universities and colleges in the Chicagoland area as well as on Skillshare! I look to inspire others as much as I look to be inspired! Let's create something great together!