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Graphic Designing is one of the most in-demand skill right now with an earning potential in lakhs every month and thanks to the creator economy The demand for this skill is going to increase in the coming 10 years and the earning potential will also continue to grow obviously. And this video is basically an end-to-end guide of how you can learn graphic designing and make more than 1 lakh rupees every month So first let's understand that what a Graphic Designer does exactly Well as the name suggest Basically, Graphic Designer creates Design. for any digital product, content or interface For example, All the websites and app designs you see which we call UI/UX graphic designers make them or if we talk about illustrations, Talk about designing logos now the thumbnails that are on YouTube all of them also make graphic designers.
Designing social media posts, creating vectors all this work is done by the graphic designer So, now let's talk about What are the different income sources for the graphic designer and how much money you can make As a graphic designer You have a lot of different ways to work you can do a professional job in any company as a graphic designer Or you can do freelance work you can create your own digital products and sell them online website like Etsy You can also create your own NFTs and finally, once you get at least 5-6 years of experience then you can sell your own courses as well on graphic designing And if I talk about earning potential then if you are doing a professional job as a UI/UX designer So, you can see that in India, the average base package in Bangalore is Rs 6 lakh rupees per year of a UI/UX designer Whereas, if I talk about Product Designer Role.
Then in India You can earn and average salary of rupees 10 to 12 lakhs per annum as a product designer if you are working in a company And if we talk about freelance graphic designer then it completely depends on your skill level. How much is your experience, and how big is your client and network but still if I give you an idea then if you do a decent graphic designing So as a beginner If you are a thumbnail designer then you can charge Rs 500 to Rs 2000 per thumbnail if you want to do logo designing S, you can charge anywhere between 800 rupees to 2000 rupees for one logo Talk about designing from Merchandise who designs T-shirts then you can charge 3000 to 5000 rupees Whereas if I talk about designing social media posts So, you can charge 500 to 2000 rupees but remember this is just an average range of graphic designers in India.
You can get less than this, you can get more than this will completely depend on your own skills and your experience Apart from this, you can also sell by creating your own digital templates on a website like Etsy you can create email templates, create resume templates. You can create business card templates there are many options I also showed in my previous video That How One Creator Earned More Than 1 Crore Rupees By Creating A Single Email Template Now Obviously This Is an Extreme Example It is not that everyone will earn 1 crore rupees But I think you get my point so overall if you are a beginner graphic designer You can expect making 30,000 rupees to 50,000 rupees per month If you have decent skill level And this earning can go over 1 lakh rupees every month if you do a job in a good place as a UI/UX designer or product designer and once you get a lot of experience If you become a good graphic designer and you start freelancing then you can also earn 10 lakh rupees per month.
Completely depends on your skill level and your experience And in this video, we are talking about graphic designing but other than this there are many more ways to make money in the creator economy and I have also made a dedicated video on it So, after that checkout this video definitely So, moving on, Let's talk about which software's you should use as a Beginner Graphic Designer. I will highly recommend that if you are a beginner graphic designer then you should not start with any Hi-fi software There is also no need to take any paid software in starting you should use Canva in the beginning Canva is an amazing website Where You Can Create Completely Free of Cost Graphic Design And You Can Also Learn Graphic Design by Slowly Canva is a very beginner friendly platform there are many different use cases templates are also available for doing graphic designing.
By using those, you will be able to start your graphic designing journey and it is not that Canva is only use for the basics. There are many people who are earning a lot of money every month by just doing graphic designing on Canva but Canva also has many limitations. Canva is not a perfect platform for graphic designing, and that's why we have a lot of software available. Which you can use for some specific graphic designing For example, if we people talk about OG graphic designing software. Adobe photoshop Here you can create many things you can do normal image editing, you can do thumbnail editing, you can create social media posts. It is very versatile software apart from that, you can also use Adobe Illustrator It has very similar tools and functions in Illustrator and Photoshop.
But Illustrator is primarily used to create vector images then you can also use Figma and Sketch if you need to do UI/UX designing To make web interfaces, to learn app designing, and apart from this there are many softwares available like Adobe Indesign Adobe XD there are many softwares Which is good for specialize use cases but in starting, I will highly recommend that you start with Canva and Adobe Photoshop Then find the specialized software for the thing you are interested in and start mastering it. So moving on, Now let's talk about how you will learn graphic designing How will you learn how to make amazing graphic designs The best and free platform to learn graphic design or infact any skill is YouTube there are many playlists available on YouTube Where you can learn graphic designing you simply first pick that which tool or software you have to use it for graphic designing. Then search for a good playlist on YouTube and complete that playlist end-to-end And to help you out I've listed some of their best playlists in the description: Canva, Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma and Sketch.
So, you can simply start them then once you have finished this playlist end-to-end then start creating your own designations. start learning new skills and create new designs for your own practice you can create your own YouTube thumbnails Or if you are interested in vector then you can create vectors you are getting interest in creating Instagram carousels So, make your own Instagram carousels designs the logo. Or if you have to do UI/UX designing then you can start practicing by creating the design yourself. basically in the starting And side-by-side you should also start learning graphic designing theory and conceptual learning. You should read about color theory, You should read Design Principles and guys here I also want to say that I keep posting making money related videos on this channel every week. So, if you haven't subscribed yet don't forget to press the subscribe button so, once you have chosen the software You have started learning Graphic Designing now let's talk about that how you will create your own Graphic Designing Portfolio. And this step is very important don't skip this part at all and basically, you have to showcase your graphic designing work in this portfolio Once you start getting clients then you can display that client work in the portfolio but not until you are getting clients.
Don't worry You can make a portfolio of whatever you are practicing, creating a design And you can also create your own personal website to create a portfolio. Or Dribble and Behance are great platforms where Graphic Designers showcase their portfolios. And if you want a very simplistic approach to build a portfolio then you can also create Simply Google Drive. You can build your portfolio in Google Drive folder And Please Please Please Don't wait for your first client to start making your portfolio don't think that I will start building my portfolio only when I have the first client When I get client work just do an imaginary client imagine and start creating designs for it It will also help you in building your portfolio and will also help you to practice For example, if you want to do thumbnail designing then simply create a thumbnail for your favorite creator Or if you want to do logo designing then anyone pick up your favorite company you pick up Paytm, pick up Flipkart. pick up NYKAA And redesign the logo of these according to you and add it to your portfolio or you can use your favorite apps, Swiggy, Zomato Or you can create new UI/UX design of a stock market trading app according to you and add it to your portfolio.
And it has 3 advantages one will be your portfolio will be made Secondly, you will get to practice And thirdly, You can actually send this work to the client you were thinking of making and if they liked it maybe he might start working with you Infact, one of my own thumbnail designers Sumit Kumar recreated one of my old video's thumbnails and posted about it on LinkedIn And I liked that thumbnail designing I saw a lot of potential in Sumit that's why i reached out to him and on boarded him in my team So, this approach definitely works So, once you have finally picked up the software you have learned graphic designing you have also started building your portfolio.
Let's talk about how will you find your first client and start making money You must have heard that Fiverr, Upwork, Freelancer, 99designs are many good websites for freelance graphic designers which is true But as a beginner, getting clients on these websites is very difficult. And that's why i do not recommend that beginners should try on these platforms instead, I will tell you 2 better ways to find your first paid client The first way is to simply find people who are looking for graphic designers o social media platforms and LinkedIn is a very good platform for this Simply go to LinkedIn and search Looking for a graphic designer you'll find posts from a lot of people who are looking for graphic designers. Or if you need a specific use case then do a search, Let's say, looking for a logo designer you will find many people who are looking for a logo designer. instead of LinkedIn Facebook, Reddit and Twitter are also very good platform to find such people Then you have nothing to do simply reach out to those people tell them that you are interested in working for them share your portfolio understand their requirement.
And start creating amazing designs for them And the second way is to simply send cold emails to your favorite creators and brands And a lot of people feel that cold mailing doesn't work they have to apologize for unnecessary things but it is not so A lot of freelancers that i am working with they simply sent me a cold email. with their portfolio attached and now we are working together So, you also pick your favorite creator, make some design for them if there is an Instagram creator then you make covers of Instagram reels for them or make carousel posts If there is any YouTube creator then make thumbnails for them and send them And Please Please Please Don't use phrases like, Please give me work, I need money very much Because I understand your situation and i completely sympathize with you But if you use such words or phrases it doesn't sound professional at all and your chances will be very low.
To work with that creator And one more question comes to the mind of many beginners that is, how much should we charge as a beginner. And for this I am telling you a simple way that as a beginner you simply ask your client that how much their budget is and work within that budget and give Since you are just starting out you will also earn a little bit, that's fine and gradually you will understand that how much you should charge So, in the beginning simply ask to your client that how much budget do you have and work in that budget And with this we have come to the end of this video. Do let me know in the comment section that you need a complete end-to-end roadmap video on which other skill or career option I will make a dedicated video of the one who will be most in demand And if you liked this video then like on this video and don't forget to subscribe to this channel.
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