[Oshia]

Well im 20 now, and not getting any younger, so while im still at the "Not too young, not too old age" im going back to college for a 1 year Art and Design course to take me through to uni.
the course requres a shit amount of grades from college and school to get into, and... well i dont have them.
But it is said offers with an outstanding portfolio are considered, now i think my self taught drawing skills are enough to work up a quick portfolio, and if i can afford to get all my other pics printed im sure they will help.

But all i would like to know is, what are they looking for in my portfolio?
What areas should i concentrate on, what media?

Thx.

[Frog]

Well my guess is that what they will want is traditional media (forget digital for this sort of thing), with examples of drawing from life. Still life, portraits, that sort of thing.

you will want some pencil drawings, and maybe some pastels, watercolours or acrylics.

You digital portfolio on your website probably isn't what they will want to see, unfortunately. It might be worth you taking some A levels (including art), it's the slow route but probably the best one if you want to get into college.

Good luck with it

[egerie]

search around the forum a bit there's a shyteload of really good and enlightening threads. Some of them not so far away actually.

[convoyrider]

r u sayingthey won't consider you if you just do digital art? that's shame

[Asurfael]

probably they will consider you, but if there's another artist that's just as talented but has examples of different kinds of media (when you only have digital), guess who they choose?

[Frog]

I'm just saying that colleges will be more interested in traditional skills and subject matter.

[convoyrider]

What if you wanna get into industrial design and have maninly concept art type stuff. D'yu reckon they'll wanna see other type of media.

[eyewoo]

I don't recall any of the school names, but I've seen ads and commercials for digital art schools... e.g. for animation, 3d, etc. Probably some 2d courses as well...

[ceenda]

Oshia: What is it that you ultimately want to do? Like people have said already, the traditional art schools will be looking for a good quality portfolio containing a large array of subject matter from life drawings to still life and digital stuff will be purely secondary to them, or perhaps even of no interest at all (which is what I've found in the UK). When I first applied to art colleges in the UK, I hadn't done much digital art at all, and so my portfolio contains all traditional work. However, there are a large number of Universities and Colleges which are specialising in more areas. For instance, the Art College near me as signed a deal with Adobe and there's now a huge computer lab there with all the Adobe packages, so I assume there's a course geared to students who primarily want to work with digital mediums.

Variety is the spice of life, though traditional work is what the 'old-school' will be after.

Oh, and as far as portfolios are concerned, you can't go wrong with life drawing and still life.

[Rogelio Olguin]

From what I have seen in art colleges around here is that they expect a large vriaty of materials used.

Pencil,acyrlics,pastel,and ink... but you can have a lot more than that. I am pretty sure they will not just pass by computer art.... but do not expect them to be wowed at it either...


a good protfolio for a school admision consists of around 10 good works(your real art work), 20 of your best life drawings or more..., a very good and orginal sketch book.

that is usally the basics but never go with the basics... always atempt to do more than what is asked... 10 good works... better make it half awesome works and the other 5 good works etc. Really work hard on it.

I entered a community college... Becuase I did not have a portfolio prepared... I could have made a portfolio of my old high school work but bah!! that works is old and does not express my ideas very well... So my mission has been to build up my portfolio from nothing again and basically do the best I can and make most of my portfolio works as impressive and professinal as possible for me.

the best suggestion is to ask this question to some one who acually knows about this like a advisor of the school you want to go... they have a lot of copies of detailed info of what a good portfolio consists of...

One thing I have seen many good artist do in is paint from photos of movie stars and other stuff... and that work even if it is well done the value of it is low for portfolios and art...


edit/ it is a shame schools do not accept more computer work... but if you think about it art schools want to know if you trully have the skill enough to enter.

I just turned 20 a few days back so I am in the same postion as you atm... my suggestion is to do more traditonal art.

[ May 25, 2002: Message edited by: Rogelio Olguin ]

[DickCheese]

You need lot's of different pics in your portfolio.
Pics of feces and vomit will not cut it. I've tried. It didn't work.

Need to try different mediums in the future.
There is a very limited color palette to work from using feces and vomit.