Is it necessary to be artistic to be a web designer?
How necessary is it to be artistic to qualify for web design? I am creative but lack artistic skills such as drawing, painting etc. I have designed web sites before and they were very presentable. As an official full-time web designer, how important would it be to be artistic, or would i be able to get by?
I think being 'creative' helps, as well as knowing code and having a grasp of design. Drawing and painting are not necessary as much as design is. I am a fine artist that learned design and I'm a multimedia designer (including web). Knowing design software; Photoshop, Illustrator, ImageReady/fireworks and being able to create images; buttons, backgrounds, banner ads, etc. doesn't have much to do with painting per se.
Knowing artist tools and techniques -and- being able to code does put you in a unique position though and makes your skill set more attractive.
The less a 'job' (web design in this case) has to be piece milled out because you can only provide a portion of the required work, the better.
Having creative 'hand skills'; drawing and painting, goes a long way.
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