Tag: failure

Do not be afraid of making mistakes a Graphic Designer

Making mistakes is a part of life.  If you are not making mistakes then you are not learning. Every mistake is a potential reason for you to protect yourself in the future. By protect yourself I mean use your experience to get further a long in life.

Mistakes can for one seem crazy. For example why on earth would I want to ever make a mistake. Well believe me you will make mistakes. You will make mistakes with under charging clients, Mistakes with file types, and etc. But you cannot let this hold you back and scare you. Learn to embrace them.

Embrace mistakes to learn quicker. Mistakes help you learn quicker and you will be able to make more progress faster. The situation is similar to a person who sits in their comfort zone and does nothing different to get out of it. This is what you call playing it safe and or going with what feels safe.

So do not ever be afraid of making mistakes. Making mistakes will allow you to move quicker in your chosen field. Whether you want to be a graphic designer, an interior designer, calligrapher, Hand lettering artist you have to fail often. I always want to be learning something knew and failing. Because if I am failing, making mistakes I know I am learning.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail – Edwin Land

Failing Publicly and learning from it

Well I want to be honest with you that  I completely failed with my etsy store. The idea that I had for my store was not good as I expected it to be. Of course I did the a good amount of promoting. But the thing was not having control.

Another thing was for example you all would visit here and then have to leave and go visit another site. In regards to not having control was more so that I could have my store closed for no reason. The plans are to regroup and come up with another game plan.

Possibly redesigning my site overall.  I have been wanting to revamp to a more professional looking site and something that is more navigable. I also want to say thank you all for following along with me and all of your support.

Because I have at the bottom of store/freebies section of this site more wallpapers will be updated soon. But I failed to do so. I am sorry for not updating more often. As I stated earlier I am going to regroup and relaunch my calligraphy work the correct way.

 

 

Failing to learn

I still have been applying to hopefully secure a graphic design position. But there was one thing that I did wrong. On my resume I had a careless mistake. The mistake was have just one single letter that was a mistype. I immediately caught the mistake compared to the first time.

But the thing I want you to realize that if I did not improve as a designer then I would not have seen the mistake immediately. This is something that I have noticed about myself. The other day  I was looking through my old schoolwork and I realized the changes that I would make and then what I did wrong.

Then the realization that I have improved skill-wise and I have improved the way I see design. The same thing can be done for you as well. The amount of discipline it takes to want to improve in every way possible is almost insane. Because you have to dedicate yourself to the grind of day after day. Failure after failure which then leads to success after success.

Remember this that failing is not a bad thing if you continue on the fact that you failed and do not take the time to realize what you could learn from it and what you did learn from it.

Striking Out is Not Bad

Striking out or failing as you may say is not a bad thing. The quote above is from Babe Ruth and Babe Struck out many times during his career. But what is he known for? Hitting home-runs. Because not many people pay attention to him striking out.

People remember things that are good. The more you are failing the quicker you will end up getting to your desired destination. Getting to the destination can seem impossible at times. More so we are impatient and wanting to get there in a hurry. I for one am learning this more and more each day.

Therefore while continuing to try things until they work and keeping the belief that sooner or later they will keeps me going. Also none of this matters unless you believe. If you believe in yourself and what you are doing sooner or later others will believe as well.

Make Mistakes It’s Vital

If you are not making mistakes with what you are doing stop playing it safe. I’m not saying that you have to do everything wrong everyday. When we make mistakes with what we do daily and or striving to do that is how we will learn. The other word to describe it would be experimentation.

There are times when I am working on a design project whether its a personal project, for a client or etc I know that I have a series of failing that I have to get through. So do your best to not be afraid of making mistakes or failing both are completely unavoidable. Just Keep going no matter what.