Want to upskill in 2025? Try these 8 creative courses

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New Year’s resolutions can easily fall by the wayside, but with the range of courses on offer for creatives, booking onto one could be a resolution worth keeping. These courses are all aimed at adding to your knowledge and opening up opportunities in a business and creative sense. Our eight choices cover creative skills, social media and branding, and freelance or small business advice. We’ve included a range of free or affordable distance learning options so you can dip your toe in, and if you have the budget, there are also career courses to invest in.

Below you’ll find our range of reputable course providers, highly reviewed courses, and different styles of course – from video insights to tips, tricks and assignments. Perhaps you’ll choose one to help you upskill in 2025. For more on what’s happening in the creative world this year, see our 2025 typography trends, graphic design trends or digital art trends.

Take the dread out of mastering a new social media platform with a live (+ Q&A) or on-demand seminar as part of the Hobbycraft series aimed at supporting small crafty and creative businesses. We think a seminar is a great way to fit learning into your schedule and focus on one social media platform at a time. Learn how to go viral on TikTok, how to sell through a TikTok shop, the best time to post, and how best to make it work for your creative business. You’ll know you’re in good hands with expert insight from indie crafter and founder of Untld project Nerissa, whose agency specialises in supporting creative, crafty, independent brands.

By the end of the course, you can expect to have an understanding of your needs as a freelancer, where to get support when you need it, practical business issues, finding your audience and more. It seems like the ultimate checklist for a new freelancer, with plenty of resources to boot. One student commented on the way the course content helped her turn her broad ideas into a logical step-by-step plan going forward. For the price of time, you can’t say better than that.

If you need something bespoke for your brand or want to brush up on existing design knowledge, why not start with a logo design class on SkillShare? We love Skillshare because it gives you a try before you buy trial, and then options for individual or team memberships. During your membership you have unlimited access to courses, so it’s easy to follow a set learning path, or create your own to further upskill.

The logo design classic is run by brand and web designer Jeremy Mura, who has a 10-year background in the design industry working for brands such as Disneyland Paris and American Express and has taught over 80,000 students on this platform. If you want to take designing to the next level or start building a portfolio of design work, this class will teach you styles and types of brand logos, design processes, and how to work with Adobe Illustrator, there’s also a practical class project. Almost half of students say the class exceeded expectations (which is a bit of a funny measure, as it depends what those expectations were…), with clarity and helpful examples plus points in the feedback.

The pointers on how you can transfer your brand kit over to Canva and create something everyone can read and apply is a great example of how to use the software for business, although not so good if you’re already using another platform. Over 100,000 students have followed this free course, which could be great for new businesses, if you have a new position which needs an understanding of branding, or as a refresher for staff on the essentials.

We had to make a second visit to Skillshare for an illustration course as the site offers many ways to learn a new skill, expand your knowledge, or learn how to use software in a professional context. If you’ve already dabbled in digital art techniques and experimented with brushes, lettering and individual items, then maybe pattern design is the next logical step in your artist journey. It could lead you to create designs for fabric, wallpaper, homeware, in fact, anything that needs a repeat design.

This is an intermediate-level course that teaches you how to turn your existing artwork into neatly lined up pattern blocks that can be scaled up for a variety of products. The 3-step draw arrange, tile method is broken down into 13 self-paced learning modules with plenty of tips and tricks to help you bring your pattern design skills to life. We love the addition of free brushes and colour palettes that you can unlock with this course, which is available to Skill Share subscribers. One student commented that it “was a very professional and fun class that exceeded my expectations by also giving tips and recommendations about the product design industry.”

The modules are broken down to give you the theory behind good image taking, understanding light, exposure, colour, different lenses, and a whole host of technical and visual aspects of photography. There are weekly assignments and an end-of-module project so you’ll have plenty of opportunity to practise what you’ve learned, and find out how to take that forward professionally. This is one of the most comprehensive short courses we’ve seen.

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By Lauren John
January 5, 2025

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