You have to make bad stuff before you can make good stuff. Everyone who has ever made anything (written, designed, built, recorded, filmed, whatever) went through a period where what they were making was genuinely not good. Not just a little rough around the edges or “almost there.” Bad. Like stinking, awful bad. That period of being bad wasn't a little detour from the path of progression… it was the path. I learned how to use Photoshop — and learned graphic design in general