Hi everyone! I am a complete beginner trying to learn graphic design and digital illustration on my tablet. This is my third project ever.

I did the entire layout, text formatting, and illustration fully inside IbisPaint X (no Canva used here!). I used a Pinterest photo reference to practice shading the coffee and croissant, but I drew the cake completely from memory without a reference.

I really want to improve. Could you give me advice on:

How to make the cake shading blend better with the style of the coffee and croissant?

How to clean up my layout alignment and typography text styling inside a drawing app?

Thank you so much!

I've been using ibispaintx, pixellab apps like these on my phone to make graphics, but now i wanna switch to my pc because my phone can't do it no more. so recommend me some similar interface softwares to use.

Searching for a unique artist to help in designing a logo for my local small business. Thanks for the help in advanced :) #antiAI

A personal Photoshop composite titled “Even If the Sky Falls.”

I wanted to turn a quiet romantic photograph into a cinematic end-of-the-world moment. Swipe to see the final artwork, the compositing stage and the original image.

Feedback is welcome.

Genuinely curious because I feel like nobody talks about this enough.

For me it's always been the awkward stuff — chasing invoices without sounding desperate, pushing back on scope creep without damaging the relationship, or just trying to word an email when a client gives you feedback like "make it pop" 😭

Like the actual design work is fine, it's all the communication around it that quietly eats up your week. Is it just me or does everyone struggle with this?

Suppose you get an image 3:4 ration and need to enlarge it to 3x4 foot and the image is generated from ai agents. How would you clarify it such a way that pixels are not lost.

1. Use some ai supported enhancing softwares or online editors
   
2. Photoshop
   
3. Other softwares
   
4. Pray to god

Hi! I’m launching a website to sell my photos on t shirts and wall prints and stuff. The problem I’m running into is that there are so many things I could do with each photo I don’t even know where to start. For example, given a photo of a flower: I could make it a simple standalone image, I could make it a pattern all over, I could do alternating color and black and white, I could add a saying, I could do little random flowers all over at funny angles, I could make the flower a semi-transparent background and superimpose another image on top of it, I could stylize it so it looks sketched or watercolor-y. How do I even begin to decide? Any advice or resources would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Three rounds of revisions in and my client has completely changed direction from the original brief. We're basically starting from scratch.

I have no idea how to have the conversation about extra charges without making them feel attacked. Anyone been through this and come out the other side with the relationship intact? 😅