My Early Design Work
Design | February 28th, 2012
Growing up I really enjoyed landscaping, so I thought that’s what I would do when I grew up. But then a girlfriend in high school introduced me to writing HTML to build websites. From then on I was hooked and started writing some of the worst markup ever seen on the internet. It wasn’t long until I realized my websites needed graphics, so I got my parents to give me a copy of Photoshop Elements for my birthday.
If you don’t cringe when looking at something you made six months ago you aren’t learning fast enough. So, below is a collection of some of my early work.
This is the very first thing I made in Photoshop. The original photo is of two horses, each looking different directions. I just combined them.
The first website I was paid to design ($100 for the logo, $200 for the site). Still active today.
An early, unfinished attempt at painting in Photoshop. Unfortunately it isn't a skill I continued to practice.
Something I made while learning to use the pen tool in Photoshop.
I always really liked the quote from Braveheart.
I've always been fascinated by objects created entirely in Photoshop. This watch was one of my attempts.
This is a collage of about 50 different images. I learned so many more Photoshop techniques while creating this.
This is the website for Sparrowhawk Creative Studios, a small design company I started with a couple high school friends.
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Do you have any early work to share?
