Of another quarter, time to sit around and tell myself I’m going to start being productive. All I have to do now is wait to see if they pick my project to be “explored further” and start working on my next portfolio which will hopefully be in PDF, web and print format. I’m going to go sleep a lot and then put the final touches on my 3D mouse render tomorrow.
So I randomly started work on my next portfolio this morning and am trying to think about how I will be presenting this in person during interviews, or if I’ll even be having that many in-person interviews. I had figured for a while that Kinko’s is too expensive to print my portfolio at but the printers at the school just can’t do anything of high enough quality to bother with. There are a few websites such as lulu and blurb where you can get nicely bound copies printed from and sent to you. Is it worth it to design my portfolio around the templates they have and then get a good version printed (I hear that for color blurb is preferable, a hardcover: $37, softcover: $23 )? or should I just worry about it’s web appearance since phone/video interviews are becoming more common and getting a hard copy just wouldn’t pay off? I’d be lying if I said part of the draw wasn’t wanting to hold my own hardbound portfolio in my hands.
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Just for fun and practice a few of us headed up to the air force museum in Dayton yesterday. By the time we had gotten there I think we had all turned into 8 year olds. It was hard to actually sit down and keep drawing with three hangars full of aviation history. Everything from rockets to early prop planes to UAVs and stealth bombers were there. Along with my favorite plane, the Goblin XF-85. I got a few drawings in but nothing I’m too proud of. I think we’ll be doing this again some time, it was just such a perfect brake from the stress of studio work.
These spaceships were just for the heck of it. I’m still playing around with my new markers and really don’t want to go buy expensive marker paper. Just good thumbnail practice.
This is my entry into core77’s 1 hour design challenge this month [emergency shelter]. So the drawing, from concept to finished, was done in an hour.
Alright, so it’s nice to see my domain actually functioning finally, I’ve just been sitting on this for way too long. I’ll be trying to update this space with all my school work and hopefully additional stuff just for fun. Kudos and thanks to Adam for getting this whole thing together for me! Check back soon.
