greenfreak_27
manda the worm
greenfreak_27
Well my mom wants me to make a portfolio for college. I mean I want to go but I don't do still life at all that much.
ugh that mirrors my situation exactly, but i KNOW that i need to put together a portfolio. i'm applying for the Emily Carr next january, and i need to have EVERYTHING put together for then. it's basically going to change my life, including me moving to the province beside me. all i want to draw though are little doodles and illustrate kids books, as opposed to actual still life. there's an art gallary/studio in the city called the Harcourt House, and they offer live nude models, and going really helps me improve and is a lot of fun. i always leave pumped. if there's anything like that near you, especially if it's drop-in sessions, i highly reccomend it. universities eat it up, you get a lot better, and it's not as boring is drawing some plant for nine or ten hours (which i couldn't do, it would drive me crazy.)
Yeah! XD But at my school we did that modeling thing too (but obviously with our clothes on). And our teacher also recomended it. I was planning on going to Bulter Tech but I think I failed. My portfolio was too short and just anime drawings. Only ONE still life had more but my mom said no (idk why though).
You guys really dislike still life that much? It may not be the most exciting subject ever, but light it nicely and put in some cool objects, like fancy wine glasses, and they're very fun and simple to paint.
...Or maybe I just had an awesome teacher who made it fun. Either way, I really liked the effects I got with reflected lighting and texture and the like. I say it's worth a shot.
And how does your mom decide what goes in your portfolio or not? It's yours, and it's your life in the end, am I right?
To be honest, though, if all you want to do is doodles and some illustration, are you sure you really want to be a professional artist? When you have a job like that, you can't be that picky about what you want to do and what you don't want to do unless you're already established and quite well-known. Coming into the field, you have to take what you can get and make the best of it.
