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03-02-2008, 05:05 PM
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#16 | | Junior Member
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| my portfolio was weak for u of o as well. i did such a crappy job on the assigned self-portrait and my essay was orginal but not what they were looking for i don't think. oh well.. | 
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03-02-2008, 08:36 PM
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#17 | | Junior Member
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| you never know shorty | |
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03-02-2008, 10:32 PM
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#18 | | Member
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| i should have spent much more time on mine.
i really did everything within three weeks...
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03-02-2008, 11:22 PM
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#19 | | Junior Member
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| I dunno, 3 weeks should be long enough to do the whole thing. A kid at my school did a self portrait (for art school) in pencil that took a month working on it everyday. I bet she erased and re-drew every pencil line a hundred times. Is that a real example of her work?
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03-03-2008, 01:40 PM
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#20 | | Junior Member
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| 3 weeks is a really short amount of time. Probably the total amount of time I spent on my work was over 3 weeks if you count all the seconds that went into it. Personally, a real example of your work is the work that wasn't created with the idea 'I need to make this for my portfolio.' | |
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03-03-2008, 06:12 PM
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#21 | | Member
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| Yeah for sure. My self portrait took me one night to do, and I am satisfied with how it came out. Granted, I spent probably 7 straight hours doing it.
I had like a few pieces that I did beforehand. Those were pretty good.
But what I meant was that it took me like three weeks to put it all together, the essay, the questionnaire, some of the exercises, etc. | |
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03-03-2008, 07:30 PM
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#22 | | Junior Member
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| i'm not very good at starting peices and putting them away and then doing them again (with the exception of sculpture and painting). usually when i draw, i do it in one sitting (with breaks of course) because the emotion and thoughts are fresh in my head.
i'll admit, a lot of my portfolio peices were done FOR the portfolio, but i think they still all turned out great and represented my ability fairly well. | |
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03-03-2008, 07:38 PM
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#23 | | Junior Member
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| noops, I agree and a person who works with national portfolio day and is the portfolio reviewer for SU arch told me she'd rather see a few simple, timed (3-10 minutes) line sketches than yet another 'perfect' hand drawing that obviously was worked and reworked over and over. I remember her saying an important skill is being able to communicate an idea on a sketch in a few minutes with a few lines. Sooo, I put some simple line drawings (and noted the time spent sketching on each) in my portfolio. -Although I decided not to apply to SU- Guess I'll find out soon enough if I did the right thing.
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03-03-2008, 07:54 PM
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#24 | | Member
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| ahahah i agree completely with angie and sara. | |
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03-03-2008, 09:28 PM
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#25 | | Junior Member
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| Yeah, I do have those simple sketches in my portfolio too. I didn't feel it was necessary to put complete line weight sketches in my portfolio though, since Syracuse already knew I did a godzillion of them while I was at their summer program and they weren't really emphasizing anything in particular that wasn't elsewhere in the portfolio (example: I have 6 minute models instead of 6 minute sketches). A good exercise are quick gesture drawings, which are similar to the timed line sketches.
(This is my portfolio in case anyone was wondering (minus the last picture): here) | |
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03-03-2008, 10:42 PM
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#26 | | Member
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| yeah my aunt who is a visual arts teacher recommended that i do gesture drawings. i didn't submit any though, i probably should have... | |
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03-03-2008, 11:18 PM
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#27 | | Junior Member
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| yeah i think that i spent about three weeks on mine latogether. the main problem with mine is that i don't really have enough drawings, or at least i don't think that i do. i had lots of simple sketches but they really looked more like little scribbles so i put in better or rather more competed drawings instead and there are so many like other things that i wanted to include that were in other media and things that i did when i went to cornell this past summer that looked better than my drawings. i guess i should have out in more drawings after all. oh well. | |
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03-09-2008, 12:03 PM
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| i really wanted to put in a few sketchbook pages, but im very selfconcious about my personal doodles and scribbles so i decided against it even though i heard its pretty recommended. | |
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03-09-2008, 12:52 PM
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#29 | | Member
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| aaah! same here...
i agree | |
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03-09-2008, 06:03 PM
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#30 | | Junior Member
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| actually i dont let anybody see any artwork of mine...i guess that explains why i cant be an artist haha | |
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