A comment in the flashback thread gave me this idea. Everyone post the history of you becoming a designer, from start to finish. This should be a fun thread to read to see how far you’ve came, and help inspire the new people to the industry.
POST AWAY!
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quakerninja said 2 months ago
Quakerninja started in highchool as a comic, then I found emptees 9 months ago, did some zazzle, and redbubble, that sucked, printed a few shirts and I have my first show this weekend.
heroes said 2 months ago
womb
cervix
pool of ouze
doctors arms
skip 15 years
makes sweet love to a frigid girl
skip 1 year
put on my own gigs no myspace in them days had to do it old school with flyers face to face got photoshop to make the flyers
skip 3 years
had gotten sick of work and study made some tees and sold them
been working hard since then ( only just got into it big since emptees id never used a pencil and paper to dsign a tee till i came to emptees )
present day :]************
**** every step from the frigid girl includes whiskey and tits
image620 said 2 months ago
Grew a love for art at a very young age and wanted to be a comic book artist. Got commissioned to do a tee design for my high school baseball team. That sprouted an interest for graphic design. Was inspired by Mike Giant (Rebel 8 clothing) to draw more tee graphics. Now it has become somewhat of an obsession, Good or bad, I don’t know. I just love seeing other people wearing my designs.
beth said 2 months ago
Birthed as an adult (I respect my mother for being pregnant for 18 years!)
A few years of useless college
Designed some epic designs
Moved to raccoon city
saved the human race from the zombie infestation
erased the memory of all civilians of that GRAVE (heheh get it) situation
A slight sideeffect of the memory wiping was all of my designs were forgotten too but I stopped designing out of fear of shell shock
Joined emptees
moved to LA
now unemployed and the government is denying all of the help I gave it during operation umbrella so I must fend for myself
DECOYTMX said 2 months ago
that is epic
Simply Complicated said 2 months ago
i liked art...
my 6th grade art teacher was the biggest pothead and best and most amazing artist i have ever met... she taught me sooo much
moved to texas...
got into advanced art in 8th grade...
moved again...
met my best friend monray when we worked at kroger..
he went to art school in washington so we had similiar likes and dislikes...
started 32..
failed miserably...
started freelance.. got a couple jobs from big-ish people...
started sc.. AND SUCCEEDED W00000T
and im still 17 so... i gotta jumpstart haha
Jon Kruse said 2 months ago
4 years ago I didn’t know what graphic design was
3 years ago I went to Cal State Northridge to study Animation
(I worked on mlb2k7 modeling the players faces and it sucked so I wanted to do something that was more creative)
2 years ago I started getting serious about design
1 year ago I realized that I loved ideas more than design and I needed more school to get into advertising
Now
Doing Web and t-shirts while I continue to go to school for another year of advertising training.
basil said 2 months ago
my sister made a geocities site, and i was like, cool, then she taught me how to make sites from that
then atleast 4 years ago i played a lot of rpg games, and our clan needed a website and i was like, i can make one.
back at that time i used ms paint and my friend was like, hey man dont use paint try out photoshop
got photoshop and i’ve read many tutorials on how to work photoshop, then got the hang of it after atleast half a year of having it.
then my brother said i could actually make some money doing this shit, which i had no idea. i started out doing stuff for fun, websites with yahoo site builder, then a good friend of mine really helped me out with websites, and having a solid grasp of photoshop it was easy for me to learn how to build websites. along with myspaces.
i met a band who didnt know what was good and what was band so i designed for them still till this day. looking back, i really improved. thanks to them i decided i wanted to work freelance for bands, wether its for websites, myspaces, graphic design, etc.
then 2 years ago and i’ve only made really shitty money, then i realized, I needed a portfolio (yeah JUST realizing), failed badly on all of my portfolio attempts going through atleast... 5 of them each diff names. i hated how they all looked.
joined emptees this year, and it had really kicked me off my ass to start up a good portfolio, learn more things that i hadnt known, got a huge wacom at a really kickass price (thanks so much davee!), and inspired me thanks to the many artists in this site. Gameyy, Collision theory, frenden, jimiyo, jimmyheartcore, kyle(ez), matihole.
yupp.
MadeByMAS said 2 months ago
5 years ago I was really into video games. I mixed my addiction to War Games like Socom and the internet and really got into the gaming Clan thing. I downloaded the GIMP and started doing graphics for my teams and making sigs for forums.
Soon after I started doing some basic site stuff. When I was 16 I started a small web design thing and did about 3 sites over the course of a year outsourcing most of the coding.
The next year I got really addicted into business and started doing more sites and outsourcing more work. I started my first clothing line called MASapparel (mas stand for make a scene). I also started MAS Booking, booking shows for bands and what not. I then started doing designs for those bands.
2 years later I am still mostly business, run a print shop. Will soon relaunch my full studio offering basically every service needed in this industry.
Boycott Christian HC said 2 months ago
Started doing artwork. Got pissed off at a client. Got pissed off at a client again. Started thinking about quitting. Got fucking pissed off at a stupid client. Thought about quitting some more. Got pissed off at another fucking dumb client some more. 5 years into this, joined Emptees.
Ameeee said 2 months ago
Mine is starting on the 5th of August! Extremely long story about it here!
hunty said 2 months ago
- Art school
- Fashion Illustration Degree
- Drop out!
- Web Design - for gangsters who threatened to break my legs and shoot my wife after me stealing a database of contact from them.
- Legitimate web design
- Head of design for sports clothing company
- Some more cool web jobs
- Kids (x 2 girls)
- Burnout
- (empty)
- Pick-up
- MySoti
Not exciting as some I know :/