Shameless Self Promotion MKII

[Sou1Co11ector]

Well seeing as axon1988 started a thread for shameless self promotion, I decided to just get some feedback from you guys as well, since high jacking his thread will be kind of rude and a dick move.

De Wet Design
Logo done for myself for a future portfolio website/company. Taken from my second name.



Just Sparky
Logo done in about 10 minutes for a buddy in New Zealand for his electrical contracting company.



Seda Platinum Incubator
Probably the biggest web design project I have done EVER. Custom coded and designed website, with matching blog and forum. This took a while.



Mizore Shirayuki
A character from Rosario + Vampire. I did not draw this pic but I did edit it since it had only a plain white background so decided to add something more to it.



I have no formal training and no qualification in web or graphic design. So let me know what you think. Be gentle, but constructive criticism will be appreciated.

[Wenzdayz]

Well for someone who has no formal training i have to say Big up dude!

[Sou1Co11ector]

Thanks dude. Lots and lots and lots of practice with Photoshop and Dreamweaver.

[axon1988]

I would have been fine with your highjacking it. I don't mind at all. Some nice designs there. I also have no real formal training. Africa lacks affordable training in our department. I mean affordable worth it training.

Some real talent you got mate!

[wheunis]

Thumbs down for doing logos in raster applications and formats (Photoshop).

Vector is the only way to do graphics design.

[Sou1Co11ector]

@axon1988 thanks a lot mate. I got shoved into the deep end at my previous job one day when the boss told me make me a website and I was like "uhm... okay". So been playing around with the stuff ever since and I really like it.

@wheunis - no formal training and I have worked with Coreldraw X3, X4, X5 as well as Inkscape and Adobe Illustrator, but I mostly work in Photoshop because I'm a lot better with Photoshop than the other programs.

Since most of my work entails designing websites I use Photoshop, because vectors have only recently (HTML5 & CSS3) became something viable to use with websites, but still can't be fully implemented as most of my clients and their customers use Internet Explorer and that backward excuse for a browser can't even handle CSS correctly, let alone the awesomeness that is vector based images and logos.

Even IE9 isn't a standards compliant browser and it can't handle most of the new tech from HTML5 & CSS3. I design my sites for Chrome and Firefox and then add backward compatibility so they look good in IE browsers as well and this takes a lot of work and testing.

[axon1988]

@axon1988 thanks a lot mate. I got shoved into the deep end at my previous job one day when the boss told me make me a website and I was like "uhm... okay". So been playing around with the stuff ever since and I really like it.

@wheunis - no formal training and I have worked with Coreldraw X3, X4, X5 as well as Inkscape and Adobe Illustrator, but I mostly work in Photoshop because I'm a lot better with Photoshop than the other programs.

Since most of my work entails designing websites I use Photoshop, because vectors have only recently (HTML5 & CSS3) became something viable to use with websites, but still can't be fully implemented as most of my clients and their customers use Internet Explorer and that backward excuse for a browser can't even handle CSS correctly, let alone the awesomeness that is vector based images and logos.

Even IE9 isn't a standards compliant browser and it can't handle most of the new tech from HTML5 & CSS3. I design my sites for Chrome and Firefox and then add backward compatibility so they look good in IE browsers as well and this takes a lot of work and testing.

The life and times of designers. If I had a penny for every time a client thought he knew more about designing then I did. Or when a client said this to me: "Put something cool on the design like: I"M COOL, or something like that."

OR

Why the hell am I paying you for this design if I am telling you what to do?

OR

I prefer my design more, it looks more sleek (Did it in MS paint)

[Maplassie]

Looking VERY good dude. Loving "de wet design"

Well done

[Sou1Co11ector]

Thanks plassie.

[wheunis]

The life and times of designers. If I had a penny for every time a client thought he knew more about designing then I did. Or when a client said this to me: "Put something cool on the design like: I"M COOL, or something like that."

OR

Why the hell am I paying you for this design if I am telling you what to do?

OR

I prefer my design more, it looks more sleek (Did it in MS paint)

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell