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I am a beginning graphic designer. I have completed 2 semesters of computer graphics at my high school and have been editing for about 8 months. I have experience in Paint.NET, Photoshop CS5.1, and CINEMA 4D. Since I'm fairly new, I would very much appreciate some feedback from some of NGU's more hardened designers ^^

My work thus-far:

This piece was just be playing around with shapes, colors and filters. I thought it looked pretty good.
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Just messing around textures and colours.
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First introduction to the pen tool. (I know the red has a lot of noise, I could fix that, but there's no need
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Simple op-art made in Paint.NET.
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First 'edit' I did. A little anti-nationalism joke.
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A cool photo I did made for tiling. (Craftsmanship is weak on this one.)
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Another triangle based tile-able photo.
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Image I call "Four Seasons." One of my favorites. In retrospect, I would redo the green color scheme.
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An image for a girl. Her name started with an S
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What is supposed to be an impossible shape I made up
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Random image I made.
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Seal Team Six parody/tribute image.
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Tribute to V background made in Paint.NET
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A quick mash-up I made for my facebook timeline lol
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first SOTW ever made. It didn't get any votes
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Cover art for the song 'Not a Story' by Huey Mack
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Cover art for the song 'Rain' by KiD CuDi
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Rising sun Avatar. Symbols mean 'Peace' in Japanese
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Rising sun background
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Thanks in advance

These look good for you just beginning. Would you be willing to make me a sig?

hey man i got some questions. this august i will start college and i will be majoring in graphic design as well.. just wanna ask what i should expect? and some friendly advice and such. thanks

@above
its alot more free than high school
but there is alot higher expectations


oh wow 8 months?

i like the 'vector' work
the rest is really meh

I mean i would, but I can't promise you a masterpiece lol


I've only be through one course in high school and we did a bunch of stuff like the Iceland flag picture.



Any particular reason they are meh besides my lack of experience?

i dont know why you keep falling back on that


any way there all pretty generic
idk i kind of excepted abit better for 8 months

you've got the concepts but you lack the execution

Because I thought you had the impression I was being unrightfully cocky. The "Oh wow 8 months" had me confused. It's been a very unfocused 8 months to say the least plus for the first couple of months I only had photoshop at my school computer and Gimp at home lol

Okay, let me cut into this discussion right now.

Here is the first thing I made in GIMP, ever:
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And then here's about 4 months later:
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And after my first year:
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Now, almost 6 years after starting to use GIMP:
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Videobot, you can't ever judge someone on their work in relation to how long they've been working. I've seen people (like me) who take years for aesthetics to click and start making good art, and these people are exponentially better than I am and probably ever will be. On the same hand, I've seen people knock out tags like me newest after a month using Photoshop, but never get any better. Judge an artist by the canvas.


Now, onto you, Lahmanja. Just in general, I can see that you have some definite idea of what you're doing, but not all of your knowledge translates into your work. For instance, the tag in your signature has good use of lights and darks in the background, and good directionality. Unfortunately, the focal is too dark compared to the background and gets lost in it; the colors are monochrome, and end up being very boring to look at; the text is big, placed awkwardly and has no artistic meaning on the canvas.

I'm hard-pressed to believe your graphic design professor hasn't stressed typography as being one of - if not the - most important aspect in a piece of design.

But of course, with time comes practice, and with practice comes evolution. Build off what you have now. In your next tag try to incorporate more colors, and smartly - maybe try the old standby blue/orange (a simple introduction here: You must login or register to view this content.). The most important thing to do now, though, is just practice. Keep looking at tutorials (I have a ton of GIMP tutorials here: You must login or register to view this content.) and keep making tags. With every one you'll get better with your tools, you'll get feedback from your fellow artists (both constructive and otherwise) and you'll improve.


Welcome to NGU. =3

argh
you're so perfect...

Nowhere near. <3