Portfolio Requirement for Art Schools

Graphic design is a course my daughter wants to pursue now. Initially, she wanted to be a chef but as the days go by, her passion for drawing and animation has taken over her like for cooking and baking.

As a parent, I can only be there to help her decide and support her in whatever decision she has to make. Eventually, it is going to be her call anyway. So, she finally decided to pursue her lifelong love of drawing, sketching and creating small animations.

It is very timely too that I saw this infographic which I want to share to others out there who wants to take up arts related field. I am glad I saw this because I didn't realize you have to start building your portfolio as early as now. My daughter is well ahead in her game. She actually pointed out that she does need a portfolio and she already has one which she started building up when she was in Grade 5!


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This is really a good information to share since I didn't know this myself. My daughter will also have another way of creating another set of portfolio to wow the prospective universities she will apply for.

It is a good thing that my daughter kept all her drawings and sketches so you can actually see how she transformed as an artist from her wee doodles to her more advanced manga character depictions.

If you are an artist, it is indeed vital to keep tab of your previous works including the ones when you are just starting. This infographic will surely be a good tool in directing you to create your artist's portfolio.

Anime Wednesday - Kaichou wa Maid-sama!

Here's a post from my anime-lover daughter about Kaichou wa Maid-sama. Read on!

This week, I’ll be introducing a new manga/ anime that’s perfect for people who enjoy a good light-hearted romance high school story.

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Kaichou wa Maid-sama/ Maid-sama (Alternate title: The Student council president is a Maid)

Kaichou wa Maid-sama is an on-going manga series by Hiro Fujiwara. It focuses on the female student council president, Misaki Ayuzawa , in a once all-boys school turned co-ed, with only having 5% of the school being female. Usui Takumi, the school’s heartthrob is just one of Misaki’s problems in school. Labeled as a ‘heart-breaker’ by girls, Misaki holds nothing but annoyance at him for treating girls like that. Besides him, her main problem is that…

She works part-time as a maid in a café! It’s a secret from the whole student body (even to her close friends). And to make matters worse, Usui find out her secret part time job!

How would it affect her reputation as the student council president, when everyone finds out about her secret?!

Basically, the whole thing screams out giant fluffy clouds of cuteness! Especially the main characters.

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Misaki Ayuzawa:

The black haired and amber eyed student council president of Seika high school (as of latest chapters, resigned from her position as a second year) who’s known by the male student body as ‘The Demon President’. Living with her mother and sister, Suzuna, she took a part time job to support her family after her father left them with a large debt, which is the root cause of her hatred for all men (except the gentlemanly type), with the sole exception of Usui.

Usui Takumi:

The handsome blonde and green eyed heart throb of the whole female body of Seika High (with the obvious exception of Misaki, which in later chapters become invalid). Coming from a Royal British heritage, despite being half Japanese, he’s quite exceptional at everything. Usui lives alone with his pet cat, Licht (German for ‘light’) in a high-rise condo, away from his somewhat estranged family back in Britain. His family seems to have complicated issues with him being an illegitimate child of the Walker family, being born of Patricia Walker and Yuu Hirose, one of the Walker family’s butlers.

So with two amazing characters like that, you’d wanna see how this all ends! So if I we’re you, go on and watch it. You’ll surely enjoy all the sensually adorable characters and humorous situations that Fujiwara made.

Shaun the Sheep

My daughter and I are big fans of clay arts as evident in my arts and craft posts in the past. That goes without saying that we are also a huge fan of clay art animations like Wallace and Gromit and the not-so-new Shaun the Sheep. Unfortunately, this short clay animation is not shown in this country but I do get to watch their video clips and those are enough to leave me in stitches. He is simply the cutest little sheep rascal I have ever seen. Don't be fooled with his beady eyes and serene appearance because he has a lot of mischief up his sleeves!

I do encourage you to see this short animation if it is available in your country. This could be a good source of inspiration for my next clay art project...hmmmm. I'll be needing tons of polymer clay then!