So, the people that know me well enough will know that I've been designing for a little over three years now. I started out end of July/beginning of August, having little to no experience in the matter except studied proper fine art in year 7 and 8; that was literally all the experience I had in terms of art. I was in Year 12 at this point, doing fine art for my A-Levels. I'm not a good artist, honestly, but I tried my best.

Anyway, I was attracted to the idea of bringing text and image together in a form; of course, that used to be my idea of graphic design. I was only 15, soon to be 16, and knew only so little about the world. But, this lead me to experiment, and do a bit of designing here and there; nothing too big but I did do a poster for a friend of mine then, and I made my own story posters because I have too much pride thought it would be fun to make my own.

One thing lead to another, and I soon learned about poster shops and other graphics services designers offered on this website. Tempted, wanting to share my art with the AFF community, I started up a poster shop with someone, who had the same interests as me. We did 'hire' more designers, but as we all got older, we had less and less time, until we couldn't really give it much attention anymore and well... that didn't have the longest runs like other graphic shops on AFF.•However, it was a fruitful experience, and only allowed me to improve my designing skills. 

Flash foward to end of school, summer holidays. I had done terribly in my A-Levels, again, which really angered my parents and they never let me be after that. I was really upset, and people kept putting it in my head that I wasn't going to get into uni. The thought kept nagging at me, as I had a painful two-day wait for UCAS to update my results. I looked at other unis I could apply to, e-mailed the head of year at Falmouth Uni, it was a bit of a storm at home, and we were all so panicked. 

And the next day, I got in. 

And it made me think, perhaps there was more to me than even I could so. It felt good, because that would mean I got in with a majority of the decision was influenced by my portfolio. So, I'm not a talentless . It felt so good. 

Since then, I have learned that graphic design is actually, the art in which information is conveyed through a combinaton of image and text; graphic design can also have illustrated work? And I can draw and letter, stick washi tape in different shapes and sizes, and it can still be called graphic design? :o

(This might be leaning towards mixed media a little too but the general idea is that graphic design does not necessary limit itself to a digital medium. That's something very important I learned in my time at Falmouth).

But yeah... this is basically me right now. I think I've come a long way. Three years is a lot, but my designing has improved, and after much blood, sweat and tears (lmao) shed, I've finally gotten to a place where I can say I am confident with my designing. I've had many insecurities with my art, to the point of doubting whether I was made for this, whether I was going to make it somewhere in the design field. But, now, I know that I love graphic design as much as I love Bangtan, if not more, so that's saying a lot. Despite the self doubts, which I've sat down and wondered about a lot, I know I am made for this, it's within me and something that will never die. 

Here are some posters I'm going to show off because why not; a comparison of my few firsts, and my few recents but not lasts :3

2013

2016

And that's all for today, thank you for reading this <3 Leave a comment if you want to share your thoughts, PM me as well if you want to talk about designing stuff and any advice I can offer >.<