Unit 1, Lesson 4 - Knowledge Base   

Let's discuss your professional/artistic development in terms of what you know, rather than in terms of talent. To be a graphic designer, you will need a good eye for design, but you will be much more successful if you also know how to take your creations from rough sketches to the finished product. Let's say you have a brochure to design, and your client wants you to create a hand drawn image for it. The steps you might go through in this project are shown below:



Did you notice how little you were using pen or paint and paper? There is a whole world of technology out there, and it will help if you are familiar with it.