Graphic Design Ultimate Guide For Beginners. From Hunting To Earning. Complete Course.
What is Graphic Design?
The word Graphic applies to visual art, drawing, engraving, or lettering.
Whereas Design means an arrangement of parts in a structure or a work of art.
So Simply, Graphic Design is to put the visual art, drawing, engraving, or lettering into an arrangement of parts in a structure or a work of art.
Hope you understand it.
In this blog I will teach you all about making money by doing Graphic Design.
How To Do Graphic Design
To do graphic design you need the following skils
Learn graphic design principles, get yourself enroll in a graphic design course (Udemy Courses, Youtube). Learn key graphic design tools. (Photoshop, Illustrator), Experience.
You Don’t Need To Be A Pro To Do Graphic Design
When you think of Graphic Design you would think of designs like these:
Yeah for pros, but for us beginners we need something easy and appealing. Don’t get discourage by looking at these designs and think, Oh man! I can never compete but all you need is a little patience and assets and good thinking. In this blog I will teach you all about making money by doing Graphic Design.
The blog is divided into 4 parts.
1. The Hunt (What to make).
2. The Assets (Websites for content).
3. The Designing (Assets into design).
4. The Promotion (Sell and promote to earn money).
1. The Hunt
It can be frustrating every day or week to come up with new idea and then make designs. The hunt alone can be pretty time consuming. So for the hunt:
a) Google trends:
To know what’s going on in the world, Google Trends is the best option. It is also a good option to know what to make that is trending in the world.
Simply type in the word, like , bear shirts, it will show all the results, whether, it is a good topic to make design or not .
b) Bubble trends:
Bubble Trend offer you trends that are popular in RebBubble or in other Print or Demand Sites.
Simply visit the website, and it will show you all the topics people are makign designs on and which are popular. You have to pick the topic with the least number of topics, so that it would be easy for you to rank on Redbubble and generate some sales.
You can always Google to find more sites.
2. The Assets.
Now you may think , is it legal to use other designs for money . Won’t it be copyrighted. Yes, it is. These assets that I am talking about are known as stock footage that are free to use in commercial projects and with some modification, like removing the background or writing text on the footage, it can be sold. So these are the websites for Assets:
a) Pexels
Pexels is a website for unlimited free templates, 360 and 4K stock footage, videos, and more, download them for free.
b)Pixabay
Pixabay is another website for unlimited free templates, 360 and 4K stock footage, videos, and more, download them for free and use them in your designs. It also contains free music, use this free music in your youtube videos or other projects.
c) Vexels
Vexels is a free and premium website containing templates, 360 and 4K stock footage, videos, and more, download them for free or buy them and use them in your designs.
d) Unsplash
Unsplash is another website for unlimited free templates,360 and 4K stock footage, videos, and more for free.
e) i Stock
i Stock is solely for high quality premium templates, 360 and 4K, super high quality stock footage, videos, and more. One of the best website for premium stock footage.
f) Freepik
Freepik is another website for free and premium templates, 360 and 4K, high quality stock footage, vector effects, affordable stocks and more.
g) Artgid
Artgrid gives premium 360 and 4K, high quality professional stock footage, vector effects and more. One of the best website for premium stock footage.
h) Pngtree
Pngtree provides you also with free and premium templates, 360 and 4K, high quality stock footage, videos, and more, download them for free and use them in your designs. One of the best website for premium and free stock footage.
You can always Google to find more sites.
Note: “These stock footage are not meant to be sold, either you modify them, like removing the background or writing text on the footage or you ask the owner of the footage personally”,
3. The Design
Now you may wonder I have the assets now how to make designs , you can either try professional and use:
a) Photoshop
Photoshop is the best software for graphic designing even though you are a beginner.
Simply Download Photoshop. Place some photos, write some text, export it, and boom you are all set.
b) Illustrator
Illustrator is the best app for illustrattion developed by Adobe. It works just like Photoshop, but in a much more advanced way, and is perfect for graphic designing.
Or go online and visit
c) Canva
Canva is the best for free and premium vector icons, templates, logos etc.
Simply download the app or visit the website . Simply find the elements and put them together. And Wola! Ready to be sold.
d) Glorify
Glorify is an alternative of Canva with completely free vector icons, templates etc. The procedure to make designs is the same as Canva.
e) Vexels
Vexels is the best for premium vector icons, templates, logos etc. Simply visit the website . Just find and place the pictures and elements you want. And done.
f) Photopea
Photopea is the alternative of Photoshop. The procedure here is the same as Photoshop.
You can always Google to find more sites.
4. The Promotion
The designs are made now time to sell and earn money.
The following websites are print on demand (POD) sites and are perfect for selling designs.
a) Etsy
Etsy is a print on demand site. This website gets around 480 Million views per month. Yeah, its quite popular. To get started, Visit the website, or download the app make an account upload your designs, write a catchy title, add some tags and it’s done, now your designs can be viewed and bought by thousands of people. This method is almost the same in all the mentioned POD Sites.
b) Redbubble
Redbubble is a print on demand site. This website gets around 12 Million views per month. For people to view and buy your designs, you need to upload atleast 5 designs, then your shop will open, after that , it’s your designs and viewers. The great part of Redbubble is that you can not only sell t-shirts but also other products like mugs, phone covers and more.The startup procedure is the same like other POD Websites.
c) Teepublic
Teepublic is another print on demand site. This website gets around 12 Million views per month and is another good option to sell your stuff. The startup procedure is the same like other POD Websites.
d) Teespring
Teespring is another print on demand site. This website gets around 5.30 Million views per month and is also another good option to sell your stuff. The startup procedure is the same like other POD Websites.
It is a little time consuming to manage all these 4 POD sites at once, but a great way to meet more customers and to boost your sales.
You can always Google to find more sites.
By The Way, the data that I just showed you about these Print On Demand Websites are produced by this popular, genuine and useful extension, SimilarWeb.
Conclusion
Graphic Design is fun, You don’t have to be a professional to make quality designs, you just need to believe in yourself, and use every facility you have to make wonders from it.
This is just a short overview of how to earn money as graphic designer. It will give you a push to learn graphic designing and be a professional Graphic Designer.
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I hope this article helped you.
