For this last blog, I’ll briefly talk about three
useful websites where you can get inspiration from when you’re creating your
projects and designs. Of course there are many others out there, but I feel
like these three are ones you should definitely check out.
Number One: Behance
You probably have heard of Behance from your professors or
whatnot. For one thing, I think it has a good interface that’s not hard to navigate,
so that’s a plus. You can create an account and submit your designs there as
well, and if you’re lucky someone browsing through may see your work and ‘appreciate’
it. This ‘appreciate’ thing to me is equivalent of a Facebook ‘like.’ But if
you don’t want to create an account you can always just do what most people do and
browse through other designers and artists’ works to get inspiration from. It’s
not just general graphic design or typography work either, you can find other things like UX stuff too.
Number Two: DeviantART
This is my favorite website to look through awesome artwork
and get inspiration from. DeviantART has a huuuge amount of artwork in their
gallery, and they’re distributed into many different categories from
photograph, to digital art, traditional art, etc. Although some ‘junk’ or
wrongly categorized artwork can be found in there, it doesn’t take from the really
amazing ones. You can create an account and share your artwork there as well,
and you can also join Groups created by other members; they have groups for
almost anything you can imagine so you may find a couple that fit your
interests. You can also find tutorials that other deviant members have kindly
posted, to help you practice something like ‘lineart,’ shading illustrations,
and such. I’m a proud member of this community, and I highly recommend it to
others.
Another cool thing about having an account here is that, if
you’re browsing through art and find some great ones, you can ‘favorite’ it and
it’ll go into your ‘favorites’ gallery that you can go back to and reference
later.
Number Three: Abduzeedo
I’m still exploring this website, but from what I’ve already
seen it’s a great website to view artwork. Abduzeedo
offers a collection of different art styles, just as the other two do, from
photographs to illustrations, logos and so on and you can also create an
account if you’d like. They also have tutorials and tips for photoshop, illustrator
and some other softwares you might be interested in checking out. If you don’t have anything in particular that you’re
looking for as inspiration, I suggest a shortcut: hover your cursor on the ‘collections’
and go to the daily inspiration section; you’ll see the works and designs that the
writers and users from the website have chosen.
These are just 3 of many that I find to be very solid
websites to go to if you’re in need of some inspiration or motivation,
especially when you feel stuck or have that ‘artist/designer block’ that I’m
sure all of us get from time to time. So if you have time check these websites,
and you know just do a quick browse of what they have, I’m sure you’ll find
something that catches your eye. Hope you found this blog useful!
