🚀 Exciting new updates in AG Charts 12.1! From smoother axis zooming to cleaner visual control with alternating band shading and floating legends, this release brings even more flexibility and polish to your data visualisation. If you're already using AG Grid, now’s a great time to explore what AG Charts can add to your UI.

Good maps don’t just show you where to go. They make it easy to experience 🗺 When designing maps, simplicity is everything. The challenge is to strip away clutter while keeping just enough detail to orient, guide and engage. Here’s a peek into our process: exploring references, illustration styles and visual languages to develop map designs that are not only clear and functional, but also feel like a natural extension of the place they belong to.

Lighting can make or break your talking head videos. 💡 In construction, presentation matters. Just like you wouldn’t leave rough edges on a glass install, you don’t want shadows or bad lighting on your videos. Here’s how different lighting setups look—and why it’s worth spending a few minutes to get it right. Here’s the full video 👉 https://lnkd.in/g9qyKYAJ

Midjourney style explore is like exploring worlds with style codes • Each thumbnail represents prompts rendered with a different SREF code, sampling random styles from the latent space. • Press ‘like’ to save a style. • Hover and click ‘Try Style’ to apply it to your current prompt. • Use the search box to fuzzy search styles by keywords like “photographic” or “anime.”

Charcoal Drawing: The Perfect Starting Point for Artists When you’re just beginning your art journey, few mediums are as powerful and approachable as charcoal. Why? Because charcoal offers:  • Simplicity — easy to use and beginner-friendly  • Expression — bold strokes, deep contrasts, raw emotions  • Learning value — helps train the eye to see light, shadow, and form Charcoal drawing is more than practice — it’s the foundation of great art. It gives beginners the confidence to explore, experiment, and express without hesitation. At Art Concept, we believe that mastering charcoal is the first step toward unlocking your full creative potential. Discover why every aspiring artist should start with charcoal → https://lnkd.in/gyhp3izC #ArtConcept #CharcoalDrawing #CreativeJourney #ArtWithSoul #InspiredByArt

https://lnkd.in/gTCADbxY Shape Theory Fundamentals: To draw anything, master the basic shapes—triangle, circle, and square—and their variations. This method is used by artists, illustrators, and architects to simplify and represent the world around them. Problem with Shape Arrangement: A viewer struggled to draw a bus using shape theory, recognizing circles and rectangles but misarranging them, leading to an incorrect representation. Correcting the Bus Drawing: Start by drawing the wheels first, then position the body of the bus so that it joins the wheels about halfway down. This arrangement ensures the bus looks correct. Adding Details Efficiently: Add windows, a bus driver, and passengers quickly and simply to create a recognizable and effective visual narrative without needing high realism—10% realism is enough for our brains to understand. #SimonBanks #drawingbus #howtodrawabus #busdrawingtutorial #beginnerdrawing #drawingtutorial #drawingtechniques #drawingforbeginners #arttutorial #InnovationIdea #perspective #ideas #KeynoteSpeaker #Innovation #InternationalKeynoteSpeaker #Creativity #Interviews #Keynote #Author #Podcaster #hirekeynotespeaker #creativitydevelopment

Adding background mountains is a classic matte painting task—common in production, but challenging to get right. This new tutorial from MattePaint Academy covers the techniques professionals use to integrate mountains into a plate with proper scale, color, and atmosphere. Ideal for matte painters, compositors, and environment artists building their production skills. 🔗 Watch the full tutorial at MattePaint Academy https://buff.ly/uNhIrVL

🎨 Ever felt lost about what to make — not knowing where to start your drawing? That’s where a simple viewfinder comes in. In this short, I have shared how you can make your own view-finder, so that you can frame scenes with clarity and capture great compositions every time. It further opens up new questions around how to create best art compositions. That's why in the full video I have shared: ✏️ How to make your own view finder in minutes 🎨 How to position it to capture great compositions indoors or outdoors 👩🎨 3 fail-proof composition techniques Watch it when you have time. You would be surprised how easily you grasped the concept of composition in art. The link to the full video is in the first comment. 💛 #RestartART #LinkedInArtist #Creativity #ParulQuirk #ArtEducation

Today’s practice = panel layout + character design. I’m testing manga panel flow—how to guide the reader’s eye and match the beat of the scene. Action beats need movement (diagonals, overlaps, speed lines); story beats need breathing room and negative space so the dialogue lands. Warm-ups were quick just to keep the brain in 3D: straight/curved lines, ellipses, boxes, cylinders. Then I pushed perspective—bottom-up three-quarters and a couple top-down angles—to get more foreshortening into the poses. I wrapped by building a character from the same base pose so the layout choices and the design language stay consistent. I’m leaving construction lines on purpose. Readability > pretty lines. The goal is a clean eye-trace from panel to panel and poses that sell the moment without overworking the render. If you’ve got a go-to trick for eye flow or pacing, drop it—I’m soaking up everything. #thaniabear #dfw #producer #mangaka #artist

We're working on adding "themes" to Feature Upvote. The idea is, even people with no design skills (like me!) can pick from a list of themes to make the board design match the tone of your game or product. Here's the "cozy" theme I created as a proof of concept while we work on the technical details.