ikonka.ru's channel:

Nikolay Verin's channel:

Armanycat's channel:

Cuberto's channel:

Anoton Repponen's “Making of Sound Icon”:

Pedja doing milk icon

Not icons, but worth to watch:

Glenn Jones' channel:

Daarken's channel (enliighten.com):

Matt Kohr's channel (ctrlpaint.com):

Feng Zhu Design for Cinema:

Want more?

If you still need some more videos, then you probably should stop procastinating and go draw something, then you can try to search it on youtube and vimeo by yourself. If you'll find some more nice channels, don't forget to share it with me in comments ;)

Actions were always something that is very useful for me, but only in theory. I used only few of them from Bjango. But recently I decided to make something mine.

And I've made this: action that clones objects in a circle. Usually I did this in Adobe Illustrator, but now there's no need to switch to it. I have versions with 12 and 36 copies for shape layers and regual raster layers. To make clones with shapes you need to select them with Path Selecton Tool (A) first and then use 12 (shape) or 36 (shape) action. With regualar layer you just need select your layer select amount of copies.

Xmas example of using action:

And here you can download it: RotateMe Actions 1.0

Hope you'll like it. What actions do you use in your work? Share them in comments :)

Kurtis Beavers

Freelance illustrator from Bloomington, IN. Kurtis has a nice style of illustrations with really pleasant color combinations. Be sure to check his website for more of his works

Joaquim Marques Nielsen

That guy has really cool minimal style of illustrations. And I guess you already noticed, that I'm digging this style. I didn't found his website, but here's his Behance profile, where you can check few more of his works.

Sergio Ordonez

Mascot illustrator from Berlin, Germany. By the way, he has a blog, where he shows video of working process of his illustrations.

Pixel art

If you never tried to draw something in pixelart style, I would highly recommend you to give it a try. It'll teach you to love details and show you how every pixel is important in your works. To make your first steps in pixel-art, check gas13's tutorials, for inspiration I would recommed you to look at works of guys from Megapoint and pixelart community called Pixel Joint.

Traditional drawing

I practice drawing with simple pencil on paper and with hard round brush in Photoshop. For example, I've been drawing fruits and vegetables for few weeks already. I place photo reference to one half of a Photoshop document and try to redraw it on the other half of it. First, I draw a silhouette with the most dark color of the object, then I lock transparency and start adding a volume with bright colors. As a result, I get something like this. Usually it takes about 30-40 minutes for one image. Besides improving useful hand drawing skill, you start to understand how light and color works on different materials. There's nice resource with video tutorials for beginners in digital painting, called Ctrl Paint. Be sure to check it out.

Photography

You don't have to become a professional photographer, but shooting sometimes things around you can be very helpful. Photography will train your feel of composition, help you see the beauty in ordinary things and it'll give your friends another reason to call you a hipster :D

Notebook

Write down every idea that comes into your mind. No matter how trite or bad it is. Just add it to the special notebook. And do it every time, when you have some idea. This great tip was given to me by russian designer and coach Vadim Pajasu. He calls these notebooks “A Personal Bank of Ideas”. It'll help you with your creative blocks (aka “I don't know what to design”). Keep your notebook with you everywhere. It's not necessary to use a paper moleskine or something, you can use your iPhone or iPad or any other device for it too.

Inspirational images

In addition to your “Bank of Ideas” you'll need a bank of visual inspiration. Create a folder on your computer and save to it every image you've liked. Illustrations, web-designs, icons — everything that inspires you. You can also use special services for it, like Image Spark, Piccsy, Pinterest, or (my recommendation) mac app called LittleSnapper, which helps you keep your library organized by tags and collections.

Join the community

It's really important to be in the community. Surely some of your colleagues are better than you in some area, and in some you better than them. Be a mentor for each other and share your experience with each other. It's really useful. Show your works to your mates, ask for tips, discuss other works, consult and communicate. It's fun at least :) Even if you're a freelancer and there is no co-workers near you — use the internet. There's a big amount of nice communities that you can join.

Just do it

I guess it's the most important advice in this article. Don't keep a big library of theoretical knowledge in your head. Use it right away, keep going, do not sit still. Don't procrastinate. If you stuck with a project — switch to something else. When I have some creative blocks in my current work I just create a new Photoshop document and start making something for myself. Usually after 15 minutes or so, some idea comes to my head and I switch back to my work. People suffering insomnia are advised not to think about sleeping while they are in bed and then sleep will come to them. I guess this tip works in design field too.

Have something to add?

I know you have! Don't be shy, tell your thoughts in comments. Let's talk! :)

Anne Brogdon

Daniel Kent

Dusan Stanojevic aka Plexform

Aand that's it for this week!

First of all, I want to warn you, that everything written bellow is only my opinion. It's not a strict rules or *dribbble etiquette*. Follow these tips or not—it's up to you.

First shot is important

Focus on New York and San Francisco timezones

Promote your work on Twitter with adding “@dribbble”

Use english language

Weekends are not good time for the new shots

Use your 24 shots per month wisely

Love your dribbble-mates

So, that's it for now

1. Mc Baldassari

2. Nick Visser

3. Michael Miroshnikov (aka ma11k)

That's all for this time!

My name is Kamil (reads like [Kamil'], but friends call me just Kam), I'm a graphic designer from Russia, Kazan. And this is my first post in my brand new blog :)

So, I'm planing to write here about what I like, care and worry about. Generally there will be posts about design, dribbble, macs and sexy girls in jacuzzi :D

Blog has two languages: Russian and English. But not all posts will have translation. Just keep it in mind ;)

I'm releasing this blog with couple of posts, so you can taste what this blog is about right now. Please feel free to leave your feedback and/or ideas for future posts.
Thanks.