Graphic Design Contests

**foureyes** · 06:18 AM

What is the best way for me to learn graphic art?

Does anyone know of a good graphic art tutorial for me to look at?

**vangogh** · 06-29-2006, 04:26 PM

Practice. There are plenty of tutorials online and general design advice in books, but in the end it will mostly be the time you spend working at it that will help the most.

Some of it will come down to you own natural talents and tastes and then after it's your skill with pen and paper or image editing software. You can increase your understanding of what works and doesn't and why they do and don't work, but reading. To increase yoru skills you ultimately need to work modifying and creating graphics.

**albert_chu** · 06:18 AM

well getting a program so you can make a graphic art would be the first step, then youd wana do a lot of tutorials (u ca find a lot on the itnernet) and all you have to do is just keep doignthem and practice..the more u do, the more u understand.

what program are you using to make your graphics??

**sweetdesignz** · 07-06-2006, 10:15 PM

You can use The GIMP, its free, and IMO just as good as photoshop. There are tons of tutorials on it at www.gimptalk.com

**LadynRed** · 07-07-2006, 05:43 PM

Learning true graphic arts means REAL education - as in school, classes, practice etc. If you're just talking about making buttons and such, there are tutorials everywhere.

**sweetdesignz** · 07-07-2006, 10:09 PM

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Originally Posted by LadynRed

Learning true graphic arts means REAL education - as in school, classes, practice etc. If you're just talking about making buttons and such, there are tutorials everywhere.

Well the thread starter said graphic art, so I think web tutorials are all he needs

**HTMLDesigns** · 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by LadynRed

Learning true graphic arts means REAL education - as in school, classes, practice etc. If you're just talking about making buttons and such, there are tutorials everywhere.

HAHA. Real education? Any acquired knowledge is real education. Who in the world told you that learning true graphic arts means going to school or taking classes? Practice is really all it takes to learn anything, whether you pay some professor/school to teach you or learn it on your own. Practicing it is the only way to actually learn it and improve your skill. Again you can waste your money paying someone to teach you but it's not necessary to learn "TRUE" graphic arts. After all the schools aren't teaching you anything you can't learn from a book at your local library.

Google Results For...
Graphics Tutorial - click here.
PSP Tutorial - click here.
Freeware Graphics Sofware - click here.
Paid Graphics Software: I like PaintShop Pro and Photoshop.

If you learn the basics at minimum you can play around (experiment) with the tools of whichever software you use and come up with really nice graphics. The more graphics you come up with the better you get (similar to what vangogh and albert_chu said). However far your creativity takes you just flow with it.

**mgraphic** · 07-08-2006, 06:19 PM

Some of the best designers I know of never went to school for graphic design (same instance for me). I do think the most valuable thing to do is to find a mentor and also develop and excercise your creative mind's eye.