While it’s a one-stop-shop for many different artistic paths, Skillshare and the app fumble their two main objectives: skills and sharing. Rather than sharing the skills and methodology to create something, the service heavily favours classes that are this-is-how-I-created-that videos using very specific tools (and in the realm of web art, with specific tools/brush sets/whatever made for just that class’ project). The project galleries are full of creations where people either copied the project exactly, or struggled to make it their own. And when it comes to the sharing — this is a web-focused service with a mediocre at best app that frequently pushes you to the full website version to get all functions and features. Which doesn’t at all mesh with the follow-along approach of the teachers, especially when the projects are digital.
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