Hello Artists and welcome back to the channel
Today we're going to be going over how to create a beautiful
portfoio that you can use to either present your artwork
in a professional manner
or apply to institutions whether that be a degree or an MA course
and I'm going to be going through some of the templates/techniques and tactics I use
well that I'm using at the moment for my own portfolio that I will be submitting to the RCA come Janurary
So the first thing that I need to mention to you guys is first of all you need to understand the context
in which you are kinda presenting your portfolio to. So take degree and MA
obviously there are many different educational institutions that will do degree courses BA courses and
and also masters courses. But sometimes these institutions have different requirements
and different formats. So make sure that you are understanding the context you are applying to
even the professional workplace if they're expecting a certain kind of work or a certain kind of thing from a portfolio
you're kind of expected to play into the style of what they expect at first because
especially if you're early on usually you don't have complete artistic freedom unless you're building an audience online that are specfically interested in you as a person
and are going to buy that work from you because they are interested in you
if you're applying somewhere usually you have to look into that context and say ok how am I going to format my work and portfolio for that specific context
so what actually makes a good portfolio? The portfolio I'm making myself is a clean, well-organised, high quality
image quality is very important as well. How you take photographs of your work or if they're digital that makes your life easy.
But how do you present this - I literally researched lots of different art books, catalogues, gallery books, whatever you can find
that you can look into the format of - I'm going to be doing some additional text beside my work to explain context and historical context to some
of the work. So that's specifically for the RCA but you don't have to do text if you don't want to.
A good tactic is find an artist that has a similar aesthetic to yours or their process is somewhat similar to yours
or the direction that they've done in is something you enjoy. Look up to see if that artist has any catalogues or art books
see how they've presented their artwork in that book format or professional format. And all you have to do is steal the format.
There's no copyright on how you organise a page. So in terms of presenting your own artwork you can make small adjustments
but to get an idea of how to present GOOGLE IS THERE. Go and look at the books that already look good and copy the format for yourself.
Bare in mind as well that a lot of these formats are simple and it's just about how to organise images on a page whether that be 1 2 3 4 images
where to put the border and place the text they're actually very very simple so it's not like you're steal an intricate design
I think sometimes we tend to overthink how much work you need to put into presenting and doing something simple can be quite difficult but just look.
Now for my big technical secret for how I'm putting my portfolio together for thr Royal College of Art
That is a website called Canva. Canva is a free website that has all these templates for graphic designs and has free elements you can use
For me it's an easy place to have all of the templates for the pages I'm going to use for my RCA portfolio these are still in development
and I'm showing you on the screen right now. You can see that I've looked at the format of art books and taken elements
and played around to come up with pages that look smart, simple and would be effective for a masters degree portfolio for Art
I can present my process my drawings, digital work, painting - the work that you're seeing is just for demonstration purposes
But you can see I'm just demonstrating the different formats I will use, feel free to use these formats yourself
The template I was using for this is called pink and cream simple graphic design portfolio presentation but the only thing I kept was the dimensions of the page
The template you choose doesn't really matter because you can edit every single element of it.
What you're going for is a simple clean design so at the end of the day you're not going to be using many intricate elements unless
say unless you're doing Illustration or a design portfolio this might be a slightly different format
Have a look at artists who are already doing it well and see the interesting ways they present their work.
So just a quick summary. Research, have a look at those artists and those artbooks whatever you can get
take note of the formats and realise you can use several different formats
Second point would be use photoshop, canva, you don't need an advanced editing software to put together portfolio pages
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I hope this video has been beneficial I guess here is my awkward goodbye