Question for designers: how do you develop artistic skills?

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Design

Hello everyone

Actually, I've been in design for over a year. I read a lot of books, but they are mostly on usability and typography. I went to the Dribble site today (I hadn’t been there before) and realized that I was generally ... Although it’s my own fault: I launch Photoshop once a week, but I know it at the hotkey level.

Please tell me how you have developed and are developing skills in drawing (including freehand), design and the creative itself. I would be grateful for advice with examples of books.

There is also a big problem with color matching (I take either a monotonous, or complementary, or similar model). So far, I have subscribed to a feed with examples of interior designs in Vkontakte, and I often take color schemes from these photos, but it’s difficult to create it myself. Bought Color. Encyclopedia" Anna Starmer. But there is no theory there, but more a catalog of very bright and contrasting schemes (nowadays more harmonious in design are held in high esteem).

P.S. In the city, courses are tight (they themselves are looking for teachers), and from the only IT university, a design teacher was fired due to professional unsuitability (so they said)

P.P.S. Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Just learn from the works of others and copy, copy. Then it will turn into quality.

Answer 2

Actually, I set out to learn how to draw.
I acted stupidly: I went to the store and bought two textbooks on drawing with a pencil (it's like a schedule is called) - one for preschool age, the other is more serious.
Examples from the first began to turn out in about a month. From the second - a quarter. Then it began to turn out to draw real objects that I see. After a year, I still can’t draw something out of my head, I can’t assess the perspective in my head.
I think if I did all this more densely than once a week, the result would be better. IMHO, purely muscle memory starts to work, and it is only achieved by repetitions.

Answer 3

You need to determine for yourself in which direction you want to develop. If you've read books on usability and typography, this applies to web design. If you want to learn how to draw by hand - this is an illustration. In principle, one does not interfere with the other, but it would be more expedient to start with one thing. I agree with the comment above, you need to learn from others.
For colors, I advise you to torture Adobe Kuler , there are also a lot of other online color mixers, Google will tell you.

Answer 4

Create an account on DA (http://www.deviantart.com/), find interesting authors and groups, subscribe to them. Then look through the materials you receive and select interesting ones for yourself. If you are really an artist, then after a while the skill to evaluate the work will appear, and this is the key to success and progress.

Answer 5

Thanks everyone for the advice.
I found the original way. I went to the employment center and looked at retraining courses - graphic design. Actually, I get registered and they should send me to a 3-month inpatient course at a college where I studied to be a programmer.
The only embarrassing thing is that 6 years ago there were "oak" teachers there (there was no design). For example, I wrote a website for my diploma, and my curator (I was the only one she had) did not even know how to work in Word, but I only heard about programming in general. At the defense, the commission asked: “Where is the site’s executable?” :)

Answer 6

An example of a design that you should strive for in terms of the level of graphic skills:

Answer 7

I think it makes no sense to look for books on design, basically it's all water. In our business, inspiration from other works and the development of a sense of style are more important. The designer thinks figuratively, and the subtracted rules will not help here. You need to go to behance more often, look at other people's work and try to do something of your own.

Inspiration + practice = result

Answer 8

Pelipas31 , yes, you are right. Now the designer only needs to know HTML + CSS + JQUERY (ideally, JS), and then develop taste: look at UI concepts, portfolios of other designers, follow a little fashion in page design ... and ... that's it! Done, another designer, you are amazing!