· Make your own projects
· Work on your previous designs
Besides working on self-made projects, you can work on improving your previous designs. You can have it archived in your hard drive, DVD or CD. You can check them now and then and add some touches here and there to make them unique. You can also improve other people's design. Doing so will only make you practice more, thus, taking you to the path of perfection.
· Collect designs for getting inspired
As a designer, you surely collect designs from the internet and magazines. Try to keep them in an organized manner, so that you can refer to the collection during the bad days when you reach your creative dead end. Besides, good designs also inspire you to improve your work, taking it to a higher class.
· Read blogs
Reading expert designers' blogs can give you great ideas, help you know more about newer designing tricks and techniques, thus, helping your polish your own style. Reading experts' blogs will provide you with whole lot of information and inspiration for enhancing your own work.
· Connect with fellow designers
Connect with veteran designers as well as amateurs like you. While the former can advice and suggest you on designs, the latter is whom you can share your ideas with and get their friendly helpful feedback.
· Be an active part of online design communities
There are several online design communities out there for you to join. In fact, doing so is almost necessary, because it keeps you updated with all the recent trends in the world of graphic designing. Besides, you can also request for feedbacks from other designers in the communities. Their inputs can be used for enhancing your skills, which you can use for your projects.
· Take pictures
A good designer should have a knack for photography. It is not that the two are directly connected. But it is just that photography inspires designs. You can take pictures of anything that interests you like, art, buildings, places, etc. If you have the true designing streak in you, you can frame ideas from the photographs that you have taken.