Graphic Designer : Defying The Boundaries

Have you ever dared yourself to go beyond what you can think off? Not by doing any insane stunt on the road or jump off on a 100-story building but doing something spectacular in terms of art. The insane art guru as what we talk about! Combined with the most powerful tools present today can make you as rich as your imagination can be.

GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Capital: $3,000 - $5,000
** Depending if you have a starting computer to work on including the necessary softwares. **

If you don't have, refer for this post for a sample of a great machine for business.
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Dell Inc. caters their computer service at the peaks of your need and just pay for what you really need. Prices of their PC are extremely flexible and affordable but with great support for their PCs.

Credit to Dell Inc.

Potential Earnings: $20,000+
Potential Earnings = Price per Work

or

Potential Earnings = Price per Hour

HOW THEY WILL KNOW YOU?

• Direct mail
• Find interested clients who are in need of advertisement job, redesigning of websites, layouts for websites, letterheads and the like, who wants to set their identity and in-need of logo/emblem.
• Website
• Use your own website to advertise your service if you have make sure you have poster the portfolios of your work (Web Designs, Posters, Logos and Other forms of Art).
• Make use of social networking sites and online portals for posting your service and works.
• You can also use other websites which gives an open-site for aspiring graphic artist to post their works.
• Referrals
• Let others talk for you. Make a good impression on the first and let your clients advertise for you.

WHAT YOU NEED?

• Computer
• For this job you may need a bit of a high end computer because you are dealing with large size of memory cache to work on. Another thing is the Graphics Card which is responsible for rendering your image or graphics. If you can purchase a MAC PC then it would be great but there are other alternatives to it and the PC on top of the article would be one of it. You can still customize it though based on what you want.
• Softwares
• Make sure you have the necessary softwares installed in your PC. (like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Flash, GIMP, Paintshop Pro and the like which depends on your forte and what type of graphics you'll deal with the most.)
• Graphic Tablet
• You may need a graphic tablet to be efficient in doing your work. A good entry level graphic tablet will do.

BAMBOO Create

Inspire. Create. Imagine. Bamboo Create opens up a new world for digital art and photo projects. With twice the workspace of other Bamboo tablets, Bamboo Create gives you plenty of space to express yourself, enabling broad brush strokes or arm movements.

Bamboo Create is perfect for art projects that require a larger digital canvas. Turn digital images into special mementos. Use the pen to add hand-drawn embellishments or journaling to your projects and photos. Create unique, personal invitations, greeting cards and photo books to print and share digitally with friends and family.

Product Price: $199.00

Photo and Information Credits to Wacom

SKILL REQUIREMENTS

• Technical Skills
• Technically speaking in terms of the software that you are using because you are still dealing with the deadline on when you should finish the artwork, so you should have mastered your tool first before jumping in. Another reason why you should master first the tool you are using is not just being efficient but also to know the boundaries and the power of your tool, to know what you can do with it and what you can't. It that way you can measure, up to what extent your service can offer.

YOUR JOB
It's a unique gift to have a touch of art in you. Only few persons do have this gift and some have refined it to perfection, with the state of the art tools plus the gift of creativity will result to one of a kind work that only the creator can posses. As a graphic designer your job is to create and conceptualize a design with regards to posters, logos, letterheads, document layouts, web designs, conceptual arts and the like. You can also sell icons, themes and brushes if you have certain knowledge inline with it.

YOUR SUCCESS
Uniqueness is one of the key to success, you should produce unique, appealing and with WOW-factor works to be successful. You don't need much of a advertisement once a few person view your works. It will be like a epidemic or viral which will spread across, as people share and share your works.

** values for capital and the earning may vary on your location and currency. **

Photo Credits to Dalai Karma