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Jan. 17th, 2008 08:06 pmOkay.
Question for any art-types reading this.
WHAT makes a good portfolio?
I know that one of the main things I have to do if I am EVER to get out of this rut I'm in is get one together. However. I have NO CLUE WHATSOEVER what it is supposed to contain. Where a good place to start would be. All that kind of stuff.
I want to get my life together. I want to get a Real Job... but I just don't know where to start, what I should do ... who the hell would take me. I guess that's what a lot of it is, sometimes. This crippling fear that I'm Just Not Good Enough. Or that I've missed my chance somehow.
Quite a lot of the time, I feel like the guy in this comic, only replace the video game with real life. Stop drowning! How do you do that? Just drown less! (Speaking of that game, I'm getting slowly hooked. And that is going to put another great big dent in me getting things together...)
What I'm looking into at the moment, though, are jobs for summer in the likes of summer camps - or even Disneyland/world. (Yes, the park, not the film company.) But again, I have no idea what to say in applications or anything like that. Something to get me away from home, that's the key, get some world experience, and more than that - stop Mum protecting and pushing and generally Bennet-ing at me.
...sheesh. That went places I hadn't wanted it to go. I'll blame exam stress. But yeah. Advice?
Question for any art-types reading this.
WHAT makes a good portfolio?
I know that one of the main things I have to do if I am EVER to get out of this rut I'm in is get one together. However. I have NO CLUE WHATSOEVER what it is supposed to contain. Where a good place to start would be. All that kind of stuff.
I want to get my life together. I want to get a Real Job... but I just don't know where to start, what I should do ... who the hell would take me. I guess that's what a lot of it is, sometimes. This crippling fear that I'm Just Not Good Enough. Or that I've missed my chance somehow.
Quite a lot of the time, I feel like the guy in this comic, only replace the video game with real life. Stop drowning! How do you do that? Just drown less! (Speaking of that game, I'm getting slowly hooked. And that is going to put another great big dent in me getting things together...)
What I'm looking into at the moment, though, are jobs for summer in the likes of summer camps - or even Disneyland/world. (Yes, the park, not the film company.) But again, I have no idea what to say in applications or anything like that. Something to get me away from home, that's the key, get some world experience, and more than that - stop Mum protecting and pushing and generally Bennet-ing at me.
...sheesh. That went places I hadn't wanted it to go. I'll blame exam stress. But yeah. Advice?
