Today, I was looking through a section on PMC forums. "Shops & Services", to be precise.

The first thing that caught my eye was an enormous amount of GFX and signature services threads. Okay, I'm fine with that. But almost every single one of the creators of these threads advertised themselves as "professionals". And I am not okay with that.

First of all, a professional designer is someone who:
1) Has learned GFX in school.
2) Preferably works full-time as a GFX designer.
3) Has at least 2 years of experience with making graphics.
4) Is at least 20 years old. No, really.

I looked through a massive amount of threads. And I didn't see a SINGLE person to meet these requirements.
The signatures were horrible, childish and took a maximum of 10 minutes to create.
Most of them were just stock pictures with an ugly text on it.

An example:


Is THIS what you call a professional design? Really?

Now, let's look at another piece of artwork.


See the difference?

Now, don't tell me that "every person starts out as a newbie, let them improve" because if you are a newbie, DON'T make a thread offering your "professional" services.

Just, stop making those threads. It makes my eyes bleed and brain smoke.