Portfolio for Carnegie Mellon

carneyvore
Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:18:07 +0000

Most of my portfolio work for the Design school will be drawing but I just realized that they said the drawings must be from life or imagination.
I have self-portraits and other portraits that I have done/want to do but I’ve never done a portrait from life and they are really inconvenient to do from life.

Are they understanding about this? Or is it a firm no that you cannot draw from photographs? My art teacher told me that they were worried about the composition being your own and thus a photograph would be fine if you set it up yourself. But I’m not sure anymore.

I don’t know what to do.