Hi, Can someone let me know what my portfolio says about me and my work? Could I get work based on it?
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- Thank you John Vine for taking time out to look at my portfolio and your critique is very wellcomed. Thanks for the encouragment and your words on how I can improve.I will work on more of the Dragonfly and do some more insects to sit alongside. I enjoyed drawing this one and it's most definitely my forte compared to digital, but I LOVE digital, I just need to practice a hell of a lot more! I'm actually working on a completely digital piece at them moment and I've learnt heaps from working on it, but still sooooo much more to learn!I see what you mean re: seahorse. I started with the Octopus and them moved onto the jellyfish and then the seahorse. I think as I went on, I became more obsessed with the detail. It doesn't make it quite a cohesive set like you said. Hmmm...I love this series, so I will most defintely rectify that! It's got more to come with it too, so that's a definite!Fleek is quite old and you're right regarding the E's lining up. I need to do a lot more studying and research with regards to grids and graphics. We only briefly touched on it at Uni and it's something I enjoyed and would love to work more on.Thank you and ALL of this feedback is invaluable to me. I so desperately want to improve and it's hard when you have no one to fall back on and give you honest advice, so even if it's critisicing my work...It's absolutely invaluable to me!Thank you for taking your time, most appreciated!
- Hi AngieI really enjoyed your portfolio, you clearly have a fundamental grasp of color balancing and design intent as well as a rich mine of concepts that you can draw on: the mine that is also known as the brain :-)Personally I really enjoyed some of your work such Lost in a mad world and Jesus Christ!!My one suggestion to you would be to work on expansion and attention to detail.What I mean by that is, for instance, the third entry in your Playing with Dragonflies series leaps out at me as the most effective. How about rendering other insects and other small winged creatures in the same style of illustration with different colored spheres and placing 4 of them side by side and adding a few typographical interventions. You can then have, say, 3 unified pieces of 4 illustrations, it looks really cute and you can sell that kind of stuff!Similarly, you nailed the seahorse bang on but in comparison the jellyfish and octopus seem too detailed. Again, how about using illustrations with a common identity, rendering them in different but complementary colors and then placing 4 of them side by side....my feeling is that you're then really taking the concept somewhere.Also the Fleek logo is a good concept but for mateiral like this, leave it a couple of days and then come back to it and ask yourself is that quite finished? For example, the spacing between the 2 'E's in Fleek is not regular and I generally come away thinking, great concept but not quite taken as far as it could've beenAnd with a name like Angie Noon there's scope for a totally sublime logo and your current one maybe doesn't completely nail it?Keep at it with Illustrator and Photoshop, your efforts WILL be rewarded! There's only one rule here and it ain't sexy or glamorous: practice, practice, practice and if you think you're done with practice: practice some more!Although I must disagree with Ehimetalor, if you copy other people's work and post it into your own portfolio you're likely to get other unhappy designers getting in touch and this world is all about making friends!I hope you feel these comments are constructive.....good luck!
- Thank you so much Ehimetalor Unuabona for taking your time to look at my portfolio. Totally agree my design skills are not the best. I was a complete novice on a computer before and still struggle to grasp Photoshop and Illustrator, but I'm very slowly getting there! I will most definitely work on it.My 'I Sea Red' is still a work in progress and I love the suggestion of expanding on clothing, but love the idea of putting it on walls more. How do I know which walls are legal and which ones aren't? I guess I'll put a hoody and my fastest running trainers on and find out ;) lol!Thanks, your comments are invaluable and I will defintely take it all onboard...although let's hope it's not at the police station for pasting up my artwork on their walls ha,ha. Thanks and I really do appreciate you taking your time :)
- Hey Angie, I'll come at you from angles both as an Illustrator and Graphic Designer.Please don't take anything at heart or at offence, I can be rather blunt when giving crits - I just want to see other Artists excel at what they do!also I don't want to say if it can or cannot get you work as that's is extremely subjective based on what brands are looking for in their briefs/campaignsI won't make this too long, I hope!Firstly, Design:I would say you need to work more on your design skills; alot of the design related work you are showing feels basic - You have an idea of what you WANT to execute which is great but I think you haven't figured out HOW you want to excute it through the tools available to youIf it means studying and copying other peoples work to understand it. DO that and place that into your portfolio. If it means learning tutorials about techniques - Do that too! The Internet is truly your oyster.Illustration:Very much enjoy your work! what I would recommend is finding a way you can extend on your style specially your most recent posts with the sea life! amazing. Make a series out of it, put it on clothing perhaps or put them out in public with by making wheat paste posters on some legal walls in London - Southwark & Shorditch are no brainers!Also, your Typographic/Caligraphy skills are pretty good - maybe look into creating a typeface family that people could possibly use in their on designs?Hopefully this helps out in some form Angie, and all the best with your creative journey.
- Whoops...You can view my work here: www.behance.net/angieee33
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