Well, I am a designer already but i am not that great of a designer. I have designed many peoples website, but still i lack somewhere. I have tried learning from tutorials lynda.com etc etc. but each time i start i think its too basic or its too advanced. I want to be an advanced designer but getting the right spot hasnt been there for me.
I have been busy for more than a year and now i want to actually learn designing. I never read any tuts or anything, designed as the flow came.
Here is some of the stuff i made till date, others are lost, lol.:
Code:
http://s846.photobucket.com/albums/ab29/XuryaX/Portfolio/
http://www.xhtmlvalid.com/cssdemo/Mystefied/
http://yuvi100.host22.com/wordpress/
http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/185/iftkhostinghe6.png
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/8136/iftkhostingsubpagedt4.png
http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/3218/interactivehealthky9.png
http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/5776/interactivehealth1qz9.png
I made all the designs, no coding has been done for me.
As everyone over here is a pro and many people over here actually design for a livelihood, i think i can get good advice.
I want to learn
- Logo Designing
- Website Designing
- Photo Enhancing
- Photo Manipulation
- Digital Painting
- Basic XHTML/CSS
- Basic PHP
- Character/Mascot Deigning
- T-Shirt Designing
- Basic Flash Animation
- Basic Action Script
My Priority is mainly designing and not animation but i think learning animation may help sometime in the future.
The Tutorials I Have are:-
Gary Simon's How To Design Your Website
Gary Simon's Logo Design Tutorials
Devotion Graphics' Photorealism
Photorealism i think will be pretty tough for me at this moment. Have seen some of Gary Simon's Tutorials but i dont feel any difference in designing. Maybe just a little. I cant just follow his few advices in every design. And mostly the problem i face when making a design is the header. I dont know how to make it, how to make te heading banner, place for a logo, cant just put it together.
I started Designing by making logos and made pretty well of those - 10$ logos, lol. But after entering website design, i cant even make those.
So, i would like if someone can list out some tutorials those which i have and also from those which i dont have, tutorials which i should follow. And would be good if it is in a step-by step mode. Because if i dnt learn in basic-moderate-advanced way then it wont prolly result good. Please tell what should i learn first and then what should i learn and stuff :P
Hope I am not asking too much
hehe
-Ray Lead