Hello. Thank you so much for asking me questions! I would love to make a little guide just in case you want to, please refer to the text down below:

Honestly, experimenting is the most major way I could take as a visual designer myself. If you know the base of the design itself = you could do anything. It’s fundamental to know how the tools work before trying to commercialize anything. So, the first tip that I would tell people to do are:

1. Be familiar with the tools. This is mandatory in order to process to the next step, I spent almost eight years in designing stuff and five years in corporate design industry, and I still am currently learning new stuff from Photoshop everyday since it evolves, it keeps updating new feature each patch. So, the base are enough. Like how to copy things, importing, shortcuts. That would do just fine.

2. I don’t know about you but I don’t commercialize things at the very first place when I’m still learning. I would take a slow pace, no need to rush at all, in order to make my designs much more better. I personally learn by myself and Youtube tutorials as a starter. There are a lot of Playlist out there but since I do not have the attention span to do that, I would probably search for a quick crash course. A quick skim about the tools that you’re going to be using. On point and crystal clear.

3. Befriending designers! Say, you want to do specific things in Photoshop, but you can’t do it because no tutorials on that even the basic ones on Youtube. I struggled a lot with this at the first place but I decided to befriend people with the same train of thoughts, with the same capability as me. Environments are important as a graphic designer and I’m thankful that I’m surrounded by that kind of ecosystem. Hence, if there’s something that you cannot find or you don’t understand, your friend will be someone that you would ask. Simple!

I’ll mention some of the applications or website that I use for editing and also the functions so you won’t get lost in track:

1. I use Photoshop, the vanilla one, you could pirate it or you could subscribe it every month or every year. This genuinely holds a lot of mandatory things since I basically do everything here (cue nine days of opening the application).

2. I use After Effects, also I subscribe this every month so I won’t get lost on the updates. This guy works well with videos, animating graphic design surely isn’t a problem with this. The most versatile video editor if you want a detailed version of Capcut or Premiere Pro. Plugins required.

3. I use Adobe Illustrator, not that frequent but I only making/copy/pasting vector here and also logos before it will get animated. The rest of the applications would be Clip Studio Paint, Figma, Framer, and Adobe XD. I hope it helps!

Hello! That’s so sweet of you, seriously. I have a lot on my sleeves but I would introduce you to Jordan Peele and A24’s horror. Perhaps you’re familiar with NOPE, Hereditary, Get Out, Us, Midsommar, The VVITCH. All of that are pretty great for beginners and it is nice to recall to that movies once in a while. If you’re into Dark Fantasy, you should look at Guillermo Del Toro’s pieces of work. He locks in the scariest, most weirdest monsters ever.

If perhaps we keen into the same type of horror; the horror of divinity, the horror of the unknown, I suggest you watch Mandela Catalogue for a starter. There, you could adjust it to something much more unnerving such as Kairo, The Wailing, perhaps The Babadook (the horror that still remains in the back of my head), Skinamarink, and so much more that I could not type one by one. I have a keen in Cosmic Horror, so something that I don’t know fears send shivers down my spine.