I've noticed the GFX community here isn't exactly active. I'll definitely look up those two.
How did I get started? That's a long story. I got started on Wiipals.com (now NintendoWorlds). It's a dead site now, but when I was active on it (2007~2009), it was one of the most active Nintendo Friend Code sites around. I believe it was second to friendcodes.com in popularity. That forum had SOTW competitions every week (Signature of the week) and it was very popular. There were maybe 7~10 participants every week and they were gruesome battles in who's signatures were better than others. The GFX competitions and the GFX shops that some of the staff had sparked my interest. The forum also had their own GFX team that were called the DSigners (Nintendo DS and designer mixed into one word). I desperately wanted to be apart of that team. I worked my ass off over the course of about 2 years to get into the team. Finally, around 2010, I did.
How did I get started? That's a long story. I got started on Wiipals.com (now NintendoWorlds). It's a dead site now, but when I was active on it (2007~2009), it was one of the most active Nintendo Friend Code sites around. I believe it was second to friendcodes.com in popularity. That forum had SOTW competitions every week (Signature of the week) and it was very popular. There were maybe 7~10 participants every week and they were gruesome battles in who's signatures were better than others. The GFX competitions and the GFX shops that some of the staff had sparked my interest. The forum also had their own GFX team that were called the DSigners (Nintendo DS and designer mixed into one word). I desperately wanted to be apart of that team. I worked my ass off over the course of about 2 years to get into the team. Finally, around 2010, I did.
