Discover your hidden talent with Skillshare

As a creative, you should always be evaluating how you can bring your career to the next level, and an important part of that is expanding your knowledge base. There are always new techniques to pick up and upskilling can help you get a leg-up to the next level.

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There's no correct answer to what you should learn. The skillsets of those in the creative industries vary massively, and the majority will have knowledge gaps in some areas. What you choose to learn is therefore largely a matter of choice, but whether you're a freelancer looking to secure better commissions or an agency-based designer looking for the next step up, mastering another skill will help take your design career to the next level.

Skillshare is a great place to start. A ready-made learning platform for creators, with around 7,000 classes in various categories, Skillshare offers the chance for you to learn something new at your own pace, with bite-size classes you can take on-the-go through the Skillshare app (iPhone and Android).

The myriad categories offered by Skillshare include illustration, web design and development, graphic design, and typography, along with crafts, business, and much more. A quick scout around the Skillshare site will demonstrate the sheer number of courses available in these categories, covering novice and intermediate level training of diverse topics from niche areas to the rudiments.

Skillshare has some of the biggest design industry influencers on board, including illustrator Jon Contino, NY Times bestseller and TED Talk legend Simon Sinek, and lettering legend Jessica Hische – yes, that’s right: Jessica Hische can be your personal typography tutor!

You truly become part of a learning community with Skillshare's project-based classes. Each student can complete a project for a class, post it to the project gallery and get feedback from other students that have taken the class. Skillshare students can also contact the course teacher for the full one-to-one experience.

Best of all, Skillshare students pay one, low monthly fee to access every single class – and currently Creative Bloq readers are being offered their first 3 months of Skillshare Premium for just $0.99.

The regular subscription to Skillshare Premium starts at $8/month, which is an incredible value when you consider that students have access to all classes on the platform instead of paying for each one one at a time. This all-you-can-eat style of subscription means that it’s super easy to learn a new skill that you may be curious about but don’t want to invest too much time in.

So if you want to discover something new about yourself and add a new tool to your creative armoury – and only pay once a month to learn about it – why not sign up for 3 months of access to Skillshare Premium today for only $0.99?