What is the most important tip you'll give a young new designer?

[n_benzbar]

Happy Thursday peops!

We were all there once, new to the design profession, new to this beautiful world of aesthetics, new ambition young designers.
What would be your number one #TIP for those newbies?

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[Guest emondasgupta]

upgrade design skill day by day and follow the design trend.😇

[imagination7413]

Absolute number one? 

Empathy.

Care about what you're doing and care about who you're doing it for. If you can't get fully behind your work, it WILL SHOW. That includes when you're practicing, because practice is caring about your future work and ability.

[argraphics444]

Creativity is the most important for the designer...

[n_benzbar]

On 3/10/2022 at 12:37 PM, emondasgupta said:

upgrade design skill day by day and follow the design trend.😇

Great advice!

On 3/10/2022 at 2:31 PM, imagination7413 said:

Absolute number one? 

Empathy.

Care about what you're doing and care about who you're doing it for. If you can't get fully behind your work, it WILL SHOW. That includes when you're practicing, because practice is caring about your future work and ability.

That's an interesting one, totally agree

On 3/10/2022 at 9:40 PM, argraphics444 said:

Creativity is the most important for the designer...

Absolutely, you cannot ace your work without it

[gayanchamira]

Unique and fresh ideas are the best, but designers have to adopt according to the trend of the industry

[jakrinhosneara]

Attention for design idea 

hard working

[n_benzbar]

On 4/8/2022 at 6:53 AM, gayanchamira said:

Unique and fresh ideas are the best, but designers have to adopt according to the trend of the industry

Couldn't agree more!

[sanjamicro]

I agree on everything said above..but let's not forget patience, it will be very hard if you're impatient.:)

[n_benzbar]

ohh patience is the key, it takes time to improve, to become a pro, to find your customers, to navigate this profession smoothly!

[ozan_erdi]

1 - Allways take some courses online, improve yourself. Its too easy to find classes and courses, and mostly cheap or free too.

2 - Dont stay in the same place if you are the best designer there. Go somewhere else(figuratively) where you are not the best, and climb on the top via learning from others.

3 - Try to get away from your comfort zone, try some new art styles, new brushes, new templates. You dont have to master them, but it will improve your overall design quality to see different things.

4 - Dont be afraid to do mistakes, remember the bob ross lectures.

5 - Show your works to people who you think will be honest with their opinions.

6 - And for the painters, take a look at what you are drawing with a mirror. Seeing your piece horizontally rotated helps to see the mistakes.

7 - Find some music to inspire yourself while working. In my case, depending what im drawing, i will listen to the music to live the ambiance of the concept of the drawing.

I guess what im tryng to say is; challange yourself, criticize yourself and improve yourself.

Edit: I just realized that you asked for one. Well 😃

Edited April 28, 2022 by ozan_erdi

[Guest abdelrahmankhal]

The most important tip for me is that you have to find an specialty that you like and improve your skills at.

I mean "Logo design" is a "category" but hand writing logo is a "specialty" 

That mean if you wanna be a hand writing logo designer, you need to have deeper understanding about typography and skills of calligraphy. 

then you will be a professional. 

designing softwares become easier year after year and anyone can use them now. so ask yourself what difference between beginner and pro. 

beginner always think that he can do any type of design once he know how to use tools. A pro has a specialty that he can do perfectly.    

[gayanchamira]

Graphic designing is a very demand field in fiverr and it is  also a competitive. Lot of buyers have clear idea about what is the size, what is the design he want like important factors. but some buyers haven't clear idea about sizes and what is he want. so it is very important to communicate with him about what is the size you want, what is the length and height, what is the color mode of PSD file. But some are don't know what is the size like things. so we can asked what is the objective of the design ( Social media, Standard Poster, Newspaper Ads), then we can inform him that is the size and im going to design it according to that standard size.

most of clients will send you a reference photo from internet and you can watch and ask him how to design it according the reference photo, if he will not send you can message a sample photo and ask how about it

It is very important to know color mode of the final file and you must know it before the initiate the designing 

Those factors are very important because some clients will inform this factors after the final product submission,  That mean you want to design it again and your time and client time waste.

i recommend to know those factors before start you job

[moossa788]

Find comfortable place to start working on it and get some new and creative ideas by just observing street advertisement design.

[chrispydesigns]

I would say it's pretty important to always be conscience of real world design. Observe and analyze design that you see in daily life. Almost everything is a visual communication. After awhile you will develop a sense of design that comes more naturally. 

[nuwanthimadhu]

Hard Work and Positive things be to Success 

[wp_tuts]

Follow someone who is good at the Design field. Overall creating a creative mind makes some different from others.

[dewa_logos]

Hello,

I am working since 2010 as a main career Graphic Designing and Motion Graphics. I like to tell newbies be always new, think new, reseach new,  update every day not only virus guards and software, Mostly you want to update your thinking pattern to the next level. if you miss a day you missed lot of updates in this field. try something new always. find way to give what they asked, what you want to create think out of the box. you will be the next master in creativity. I hope you all the newbies Important this way to grow your design experience. 

Thanks

Tharaka from dewa logos

[milanlockett]

Hello! I, myself, was asking the same question because I am a high schooler. I want to do graphic designing as a career. Is there anything that I need to be a professional graphic designer? Any advice is greatly appreciated because it is nearing the school year and I am starting to wonder on what I should do with my life. I don't want to work a normal 9 to 5 job as a cashier at my current job but I don't want to sit at home and do nothing. I am in desperate need of some advice. thank you!

 

[milanlockett]

Hello! My name is Milan Lockett. I am a high schooler (a senior) who is wanting to do graphic designing as a career. My question for all of you all is "What do I need to be a graphic designer? What should I do to become one?" Any and every advice is welcome. It is nearing the end of the school and I don't know what I need to do to since this is post-high school we are talking about here. I don't want to work my 9 to 5 job as a cashier nor sit at home doing nothing. All of my friends are going to college while I'm still deciding. What should I do?

Sincerely,

Milan Lockett

[imagination7413]

Have you taken any art electives? 

I'll caution you, you are entering the market at an extremely unstable era, due to the rapid advances in AI art. It's sad, but that's what you are competing with. A computer. That's not to say you can't succeed as a traditional artist, or even a graphic artist, but you have to be VERY good. 

I glanced at your profile, but as you have no Gigs yet, I cannot estimate your chances. Do you have an online profile? (Do NOT post a link here in the forums. If you really want a second opinion, you are welcome to DM me.) Have you ever done commission work before?

Concerning the 9-5 job, it's not a bad idea to work at least one year in a retail or food industry (especially through the holiday season). You'll gain extremely valuable customer service skills, as well as a valuable perspective of what it's like on the other side of the service counter. There's also (if you make an effort to learn in addition to the position) the basic lesson of logistics, scheduling and time management, business operation, and even some economics. 

[visualstudios]

Any technical aspect can be learned. But that's not what matters most.

The most important thing you can have, by far, is taste. And that can't really be taught effectively, imo. You either have the eye or not. Anyone can learn how software works. Anyone can learn and follow a set of rules. But good taste? That's priceless.

And that's what will be hard to replicate with just computers. AI can do anything, but how can it decide what thing to do, or what to pick from the infinity of things it has done? That's where the value is. 

If you can look at anything and know "this looks good" and "this looks bad", and be right, you're already ahead of most. You don't even need to know anything design wise.

Edited March 6, 2023 by visualstudios

[imagination7413]

30 minutes ago, visualstudios said:

If you can look at anything and know "this looks good" and "this looks bad", and be right, you're already ahead of most. You don't even need to know anything design wise.

I don't disagree, but I would argue an alternative phrasing is also correct:

"If you can look at anything and know "this looks good" and "this looks bad", and [know why], you're already ahead of most."

I've seen hundreds of aspiring artists who have amazing inking or coloring or shading skills, but don't understand underlying fundamentals like structure, proportions, perspective, vanishing points, and/or gravity. 

Picasso is a pretty well-known example of knowing the 'rules' first, before breaking them.

[visualstudios]

17 minutes ago, imagination7413 said:

"If you can look at anything and know "this looks good" and "this looks bad", and [know why], you're already ahead of most."

Then you'll be ahead of almost everybody. Just knowing if its good or bad is already enough for "most" lol

[visualstudios]

16 hours ago, imagination7413 said:

Picasso is a pretty well-known example of knowing the 'rules' first, before breaking them.

Yes, and Picasso is not just "better than most", Picasso is the go-to for "genius painter". You don't need to be Picasso to do very well for yourself. Hell, nobody can be Picasso, that's why he's Picasso lol