<p>Hi Everyone:
Since I was told that parsons prefer include live drawings and paitings in portfolio, so I prepared a potfolio including mainly about life drawing and paintings, actually i did not involve to much creativity things there. But as I was told again few days ago that you need still be caretive in a life drawing. So I am wondering what I need to improve my potfolio? I am applying for FALL 2010, and i have already abtained a bachelor degree from a university with my GPA of about 3.1.
My portfolio link is [url=<a href="http://www.lubingchen.com%5DLubingchen%5B/url">http://www.lubingchen.com]Lubingchen[/url</a>]</p>
<p>Asian power!!
Those are quite technical and well-done pieces if you ask anyone else but why oh why do you want to go to parsons with that?
Every painting look like post card from museum gift shop and I cannot see your face or feeling in it at all.
Chinese bit is nice but still looks like any trained artist in any nationality would have done that.
Challenge part is interesting though, do you have more of those?
What do you want to study? What have you been doing where for how long?</p>
<p>er… I want to major in fashion design. When I was preparing the portfolio in summer, I was told to draw what you exactly see onto your paper,creative drawings such as illustrations are not encouraged, so I did not put much creative stuff in it. That’s what I am worried since I was told days ago now parsons foucus on creativity stuff. So if in that case, I would probably draw some creative stuff during thanksgiving.
I started drawing since I was 11 years old.
curretly I am a business administration student in Michigan. I want to begin my new career as a fashion design since that has been my dream since I was quite young</p>
<p>Im applying to foundation year there.</p>
<p>WHAT foundation do you need?</p>
<p>Overall, I think your portfolio is excellent. Is the “portfolio” link all that you’re sending, or are you sending some of your fashion shots?</p>
<p>Ichen, don’t worry. Parson’s will very likely accept your portfolio as it is. I don’t see any reason why they would not. Have you done any 3-dimensional work with fabrics, or sculpture, or ceramics? My only advice would be to include some work that is tactile, if possible.</p>
<p>ummmm. for the drawing studio part, i actually dont need any foundation training. However, I learned to draw and paint with some painters or attend university training programs , both of which do not offer credits, so I can not skip those courses. However, I have never received and traning on 2-d or 3-d they require. It sounds very new to me, so the only thing I can do, based on my situation, is to apply as a freshman.
Thanks</p>
<p>Sirensong: I included one fashion design in my portfolio, please see the forth one. Since they don’t encourage foundation applicants to include fashion sketch in portfolio, so that’s the only thing I did. I also have some pieces of design in my website, so done by me, some participated by me. See the "fashion " below “lubing chen” on my website.
Thanks</p>
<p>RainningAgain: I can only paint with wacome pad and painter or photoshop. I lack of the skills of 3-d construction. But I have some very nice pieces of digital drawings that I would have put into my portfolio, however, for foundation students, I guess they mainly require drawings, especially life drawings, so I did not put it in at last.</p>
<p>I ‘m still not very clear. You are student here and will be getting BA or BS soon or have it already, studied art in China or made portfolio there during summer, you are Chinese applying as international or are you U.S. citizen?</p>
<p>Gosh we make toys I don’t know much about clothes except furry stuff but how we wish someone could scout new factories, open market goods, and mills in mainland China!
I mean which smallish mass manufacture doesn’t want that???<br>
We talk to people in Hong Kong (English), they talk to middleman (Cantonese?) middleman talk to sewers and mills (some other kind of Chinese?) like, playing telephone.
Are you sure there is no way you can get some entrance level job to some designer/ manufacture here instead of spending fortune to gain skills you might already have?
I can bet you $45K per year all you have to learn is to how to use inches and yards instead of metric. You can take certificate course or CE course wherever in the area you’d need while learning through job.
I would rather have someone who can draw with correct perspective and finish things properly (and able to decode mysterious markings on swatch card ??? etc. than Parsons intern whom quite lovely to look at but wearing outfit / shoes that seems impossible to do half dozen cups plus sack of snacks Starbucks run.</p>
<p>who cares really? I don’t care about money, cuase I have stable and not bad income. I am not spending money to abtain the skills already have. To be a fashion designer, I am lack of skills and knowledge, and also oppurtunity. I am very confident with my choice. Thanks</p>
<p>Ok, just going back through your pieces, you may want to consider:
- Cropping #5, it’s strange to have to scroll through tons of sky to see any drawing–and because the sky doesn’t add anything
- Put a more technical work at the end of your portfolio, just to really grab them.</p>
<p>I’m also not too crazy about #s 8 and 11…I would put in Drawings and paintings #2, 4, and 6 instead – those are fantastic, and really show your technical skill.</p>
<p>Ichen, I didn’t mean 3-d digital art, I meant 3-D works as in sculpture or ceramics. Don’t worry about your portfolio. You have enviable skills and talent, and will be accepted without any problems. Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>see that? noone here or in most US art schools including MFA doesn’t have your kind of skills because here you don’t need them to get into “art” schools.
you’ll find out soon enough. keep your head up.</p>