Is it necessary to be able to draw in order to become a web designer?

Question

Design

Is it necessary to be able to draw in order to become a web designer? What do you need to know? Where to start learning? HTML, CSS, JS?? Photoshop?

Answer 1

I'm not a web designer or an artist, but it seems to me that you don't need to be able to draw portraits.
But you need to understand proportions / sections, fonts, be able to select colors for backgrounds and objects / texts, you also need to have a sense of style / taste - this is the most difficult thing: no one knows for sure what is stylish and what is not stylish.
Well, read about design: what is now considered modern, and what is archaic.

Answer 2

I know quite a few artists who are terrible designers.
As well as excellent designers who do not know how to draw in the traditional sense - landscapes, people, etc.
Web design is still primarily the creation of a user-friendly interface, and only then drawing. Look at flat design - where are the skills of art schools needed? :)

Answer 3

Design is more about problem solving than drawing. Of course, you can learn how to draw beautiful pictures, but not the fact that they will solve specific problems. The only correct way here is to look, observe, understand where it is well done and where it is bad and why it is so, and of course, do something yourself.

Answer 4

The ability to draw is an indirect skill. But a sense of style, cool design, a sense of taste usually comes when you know how to draw.
You can be a designer. Good - hardly. Cool - no way.
You can start learning to draw in a regular art school. Pencils. Having Photoshop skills is certainly a plus, but the tool is an application, not a foundation.
The basis of the artist - the ability to determine the correct proportions.
Draw a figure in motion, "feeling" the correct proportions of the arms / legs / body and their position. Draw a cartoon figure, a real figure, a figure of a man or an "animate" object.

Answer 5

Drawing will be a plus, but it is more important to know the standards and "trends" of web design.
1. Photoshop for prototyping
2. Knowing CSS will come in handy for sure (view code in Chrome)

Answer 6

Yes, none of the above is important, one hell of a customer often order shit and demand)

Answer 7

you answered your own question - HTML, CSS, Photoshop. Look 5 years ahead, you will evolve from a web designer sooner or later, practice everything at once (later Corel and JavaScript).
Start in order, as in this text =)