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How can I do graphic design work for free?
😀 You hopefully realize you are asking many professionals, who make their living via design work, how you can charge nothing and essentially compete for the same clients. You gotta "read the ...
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How can I do graphic design work for free?
Offer to do volunteer graphic design for a non-profit.
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How can I do graphic design work for free?
If you say your work is free, you are saying that it is not worth it. You are not adding value to a potential client or company.
If you want to design "for free" design a strong portfolio ...
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How can I do graphic design work for free?
You're asking the wrong question. You're asking where to find work to do for free but your real issue is finding good clients.
Here's a key: Don't work for free. You're bound to get better and more ...
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How was this texture effect achieved?
To me, it looks like a few stacked layers.
A base greyscale or possibly minimal color layer. Then a diffusion layer on top of everything.
You can achieve the diffusion (stipple) effect easily by ...
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How can I do graphic design work for free?
Help open-source projects! There are uncountably many open-source applications used by thousands to even millions of people that look like absolute ass. Because while open-source is a very common ...
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How can I do graphic design work for free?
So, I'm not being harsh here—I'm a developer, and I've worked with and been involved with hiring graphic designers before for projects. Why would I hire you? Getting a not great design done for free, ...
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Identify gooey, wavy lava-lamp style illustration effect
I don't know specifically if there's a name for it. But it is exceptionally common and quite easy to replicate.
The gist...
Alternating colored round cap strokes of random/varying lengths, red used ...
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How can I do graphic design work for free?
It’s a bit counterintuitive that working for free does not yield more job opportunities. It fights against conventional wisdom of how money works. But what you’re seeing is consistent with actual ...
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How to copy rough 'illustrated' lines?
The example image has a kind of hand made woodcut/linocut print look, as if the shading was carved out with chisels.
To achieve a similar effect, I would draw it manually with the Pen tool (Bézier ...
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How can I do graphic design work for free?
Unfortunatelly the field is by now overcrowded with many people getting a laptop, some fonts & templates, watching some tutorials, joining marketplaces. So you'll be competing against other people ...
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Where do I find free SVG Illustrations?
Free illustrations for personal and commercial uses:
illustAC
Openclipart
Highlights
Scale by Flexiple
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How can I do graphic design work for free?
Don't work for free. I've had some success on UpWork.com. Apply for freelance jobs, and try to build relationships with those clients.
Other alternatives are creating stock vectors/photography for ...
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Identify gooey, wavy lava-lamp style illustration effect
Not sure about the word for this specific effect. The normal word for this design style is Corporate Memphis: a mixture of bright colors and flat design. Not an illustrator but I'd expect it to be ...
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How can I do graphic design work for free?
You aren't offering free services, you are asking for free training. And it sounds like you need the training.
Designing a strong portfolio is what i want to do. The problem is that I dont know what ...
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Identify gooey, wavy lava-lamp style illustration effect
The Kurzgesagt founder calls it 'flat design' - there are tutorials, and an explanation from Kurzgesagt themselves.
See:
https://www.reddit.com/r/kurzgesagt/comments/38lsjm/...
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How can I do graphic design work for free?
What you may want to do is contribute to free cultural works.
Other answers already gave some examples of this: Graphics design for open source software, or contributing graphics to Wikimedia projects....
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How can I do graphic design work for free?
Indie video game developers are always in need of good art. You could participate in some indie game jam, for this, itch.io is a good place. Though, from my personal experience working with beginner ...
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How I can make physical exercise illustrations?
To be honest, I don't know why anyone would want an image that appears to be so prevalent everywhere. It doesn't help any brand stand out as unique if they simply use what everyone else is using.
I ...
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How I can make physical exercise illustrations?
It's likely a 3D model adapted/posed using 3D modelling software such as Blender, or similar. There's a Blender Stack Exchange for specific Blender questions. Also there are lots of Blender tutorials ...
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Expand Appearance in Adobe Illustrator
Rather than expanding via the Expand menu items, try using Object > Flatten Transparency and move the slider all the way to the right (vector).
Dashed strokes, at times, don't "expand" ...
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