You are NOT a graphic designer.
Fer serious. SO here's the thing. For some reason, EVERYONE and their mom thinks "I have PhotoShop, I'm going to make posters and brochures for a living!"
What they don't seem to realize is that it isn't just something that you DO. It's a learned, honed skill. If you want to make a fucking 'zine, be my guest. At least you understand that it doesn't follow the principals of design on purpose. PLEASE, however, don't sell your "talents" to people, proclaiming you're a designer. A DEGREE, or a great amount of education/skill is required, you don't just get to throw it around.
Now, critiquing works on DA by people who know nothing about Graphic Design has gotten me TWO completely different sorts of response.
The first, and most preferable one is this!
http://kudukudu.deviantart.com/art/commission-brochure-134320690
Understanding, appreciative of a the critique and the admittance that the artist isn't skilled in it.
The second, and more surprising one is this:
http://used-bandaid.deviantart.com/art/BlizzCon-09-P-P-POSTERRRRR-134259951
Where you can't actually see any critique I left about the body copy being much too long and that a poster ought to give just the basics, time date, etc. and this made for a better brochure because instead of graciously receiving a critique, she deleted the ENTIRE piece and re-uploaded it.
Afterwards, a journal about not starting an internet war was posted and I was blocked from commenting (make that two journals.)
I'm still trying to figure out how a critique was viewed as a net war, or as a threat.
I guess there are always just primadonnas out there who only want people to tell them how great they are and how everything they do is better than anything ANYONE HAS EVAR MADE.
But srsly. I don't understand people who are supposed to be respectable artists and say "I post my art here for fun, to share and for useful crits. I dont post it here for useless nagging over things that I don't care about."
I wasn't ever aware that useful crits were actually considered useless nagging. And when you claim to have gone to school for "computer graphics and design" how can you consider things like typography, lack of gird, distracting folds, etc "things that (you) don't care about?"
Anyone offer any explanation here?
What they don't seem to realize is that it isn't just something that you DO. It's a learned, honed skill. If you want to make a fucking 'zine, be my guest. At least you understand that it doesn't follow the principals of design on purpose. PLEASE, however, don't sell your "talents" to people, proclaiming you're a designer. A DEGREE, or a great amount of education/skill is required, you don't just get to throw it around.
Now, critiquing works on DA by people who know nothing about Graphic Design has gotten me TWO completely different sorts of response.
The first, and most preferable one is this!
http://kudukudu.deviantart.com/art/commission-brochure-134320690
Understanding, appreciative of a the critique and the admittance that the artist isn't skilled in it.
The second, and more surprising one is this:
http://used-bandaid.deviantart.com/art/BlizzCon-09-P-P-POSTERRRRR-134259951
Where you can't actually see any critique I left about the body copy being much too long and that a poster ought to give just the basics, time date, etc. and this made for a better brochure because instead of graciously receiving a critique, she deleted the ENTIRE piece and re-uploaded it.
Afterwards, a journal about not starting an internet war was posted and I was blocked from commenting (make that two journals.)
I'm still trying to figure out how a critique was viewed as a net war, or as a threat.
I guess there are always just primadonnas out there who only want people to tell them how great they are and how everything they do is better than anything ANYONE HAS EVAR MADE.
But srsly. I don't understand people who are supposed to be respectable artists and say "I post my art here for fun, to share and for useful crits. I dont post it here for useless nagging over things that I don't care about."
I wasn't ever aware that useful crits were actually considered useless nagging. And when you claim to have gone to school for "computer graphics and design" how can you consider things like typography, lack of gird, distracting folds, etc "things that (you) don't care about?"
Anyone offer any explanation here?