Natural Wonder

I think your design is very attractive. It certainly appeals to me. The request you've made is a little too far-reaching, though. No one can accurately predict a person's potential for success in any field based on one example of their work in it. I can tell you, though, that any graphic designer will always need to "work a bit harder." For one thing, the marketplace, and the tools we use to create media for it, are always changing! It's tough enough just to keep up with that, let alone to keep the creative juices flowing. Why not stick around here and pick up as many pointers as you can as you continue to learn?

I believe the white tree comes from a set of brushes available for free downloading online; I've used them myself, so I realize its outlines are set in stone if you use it only as it comes. If I were you, though, I'd take it through Illustrator to add more to the bottom so it bleeds out at the bottom of your layout. The "floating" look of it now is distracting.

The moon effect is interesting, but I'm not 100% sure it works -- maybe only 85% :-) I guess it looks a little too mechanical, and takes something away from the otherwise nice triangular composition of the rest of the layout. Notice how the bare branches with the crows on it points upward to the top of the white tree where there are splotches of black, as does the big crow in the foreground. The lower right fern frond provides the base of the triangle on that side. The little moon throws that off. You might consider pulling the whole design together by using a large circle in a subtle (70 or 80 percent) screen of the background brown color, slightly off-center to the left, and up a bit.

Good luck!

It's not an either-or. You still have to work hard if you pursue graphic design.

This looks like a set of brushes, as Mara already stated. Correct me if I'm wrong.

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Perfectly Lost Designs

You have a well-developed eye for a 9th grader, but this style and composition is a little generic, whereas your photo collage with the green leaves is dynamic and strong.

I started in with visual communications at your age as well, working on the layout of my school newspaper, but it took me until 20 to realize that "Graphic Design" was what I wanted to do.

Remember, that as Graphic Artists, we don't get to sit back and draw pictures all day. I noticed you indicated your specialty as "illustration." In today's day and age, you kind of have to be a jack-of all-trades. Remember that at your age, you may enjoy illustrating and composing, but there is a lot more to it once you get into the working world. We are first and foremost Problem Solvers. We find visual solutions based on our client's needs. I would highly recommend getting to know some designers in your area and seeing one on one, how the business works.

But bottom line: You do have a great eye. That is something many designers go their whole career without. You already have that, so look into the business of design and see if it is right for you.

I don't recognise the window in your screenshot.

:)