What got you into Graphic Design?

[Martee]

What got you into the wonderful world of graphical design? Was it seeing something on a forum and thinking "Oh my, I would love to recreate that!" , maybe it was simply to learn a new skill that you thought you could never do.

What was your reason? Mine was because I saw a signature on a forum board a few years back and I just though, I need to learn how to make those and it went from there.

 

[Alex1]

I wanted to know how to create signatures so I could make one for myself.

From there I improved and eventually started creating my own forum graphics when I started creating my own forums.

 

[xpl0iter]

Yeah same here. Signatures inspired me!

 

[Martee]

Haha, seems alot of us got our roots from sigs eh. I wouldn't have expected that if I am honest!

 

[Sam1]

I was lazy, there was a promotion going on where if you joined a forum they'd design a graphic for you- you guessed it -I wanted a signature. I really do need to learn a lot more about graphics and design, it's on the list.

 

[Alex1]

Well if you're a forum whore like myself, you always want your profile to look good and sometimes other people won't help you out, so you gotta do what you gotta do!

 

[Martee]

Very true Alex, haha. Only way you'll get anywhere in life!

 

[Sam1]

Currently I have a pretty bad banner ad for this place, would love to spend some time and fix it up- make it look a little bit neater. That may increase people coming and looking at the forum......

 

[Southern Comfort]

I got into it like most of you did. I went to this one forum and this one guy ALWAYS made me signatures. (Kind of like how Gytix is to me now haha) He was always nice and a cool dude to talk to and always wanted to keep making bigger and better things. So yeah, that guy was a big inspiration to me. He is now a freelance designer and well, the guy influenced me in what I want to become today.

I then learned the basics from a terrible teacher about a year later then taught myself everything else. It's been a long journey, but I'm getting there.

 

[Gytix]

Nothing ever got me into it, I just sorta.. discovered my love for it.
It probably started once I joined a GFX forum, and became a moderator.

 

[lowrider.STi]

A moment of boredom, so I opened my freshly installed Photoshop to kill some time. And that's how it all began.

 

[xpl0iter]

A moment of boredom, so I opened my freshly installed Photoshop to kill some time. And that's how it all began.

Out of all those things, you had to choose photoshop to kill time!

 

[Xyphien]

I was tired of asking everyone to make me stuff, and bugging people to design different things for me so I decided to take it upon myself to learn. Once I became interested in it, it was a whole new thing, I could create things that were just amazing looking, the first thing I have ever learned to make was these:
and this

 

[Southern Comfort]

Out of all those things, you had to choose photoshop to kill time!

If you are an artistic person Photoshop can be FUN. It's fun for me anyways.

 

[Martee]

If you are an artistic person Photoshop can be FUN. It's fun for me anyways.

Its fun for me even I am just a complete noob and troll with bevels everywhere because its looks so hax0r. Kidding, I am crap though.

 

[Allan]

I was asked to make a proboards theme for a friends forum.

 

[HyperActive]

Many of my friends were into graphic designing, and I just fell in love after I had tried it. I took and still am currently taking a few classes.

 

[Martee]

Many of my friends were into graphic designing, and I just fell in love after I had tried it. I took and still am currently taking a few classes.

How are those classes going Hyper? Ready to share some of your work?