#accepted art portfolio

[decadentrot]

2023 🎉🎉🎉

Ok new year and I thought since this blog is basically an archive of my fandom art, I'd also archive some "milestone" art and archive my reflection for the last year. Basically, I love art and I've always wanted to one day publish my own original comic/graphic novel and I've had this dream art school that I've always wanted to go to and then senior year rolled around and... I didnt submit my portfolio. Partially due to financial reasons, but mostly because I just hated my art (like most artist) and so I decided to take a "gap year" to take online courses and "fix" my art, but then I just didnt have enough money to even finish the courses so i just really gave up yk. I got very demoralized about school in general and thought art would just be a hobby and I should consider getting a "real job" as many of my family members would say, it didnt help that all of my friends were leaving for college and I was stuck at home. And so in my loneliness, I then created this blog because I still wanted someway to do art and be creative and share stupid ideas about my favorite characters and honestly I really really really enjoyed making fandom art. And after getting out of my slump and getting much encouragement from my friends/dad and lots of nights staying up with my anxiety as company, I decided I really should just do it and submit the portfolio and if I get in I get in and I should not be afraid to get loans and not let my financial problems get in the way of my happiness and wants. So I talked to the admission counselor and finally submitted my Illustration (Entertainment Arts Track) portfolio to ✨Art Center: College of Design✨ and a couple months later I actually got accepted woooo

So I'm sharing my accepted ACCD portfolio to by no means flex my art, I mean the anatomy and perspective still needs a lot of work and my traditional art in general isnt the cleanest, but when talking to the admission counselor, she definitely did see my faults but she also pointed out how even if my technical work isn't as polished, thats exactly what school is for: to learn and get better! And to be surrounded by likeminded people who also have a passion for art (and make those industry connections!) And something more eye opening I learned from her was that art isnt suppose to be perfect and "realistic," especially in the entertainment arts industry, what matters more is telling the story and making compelling characters. While knowing every muscle of the human anatomy is useful, as long as you get the message and purpose across, its good! (I mean look at the origins of one punch man).

Corny message aside, for as much as I was stressed during the beginning of this year, I ended up really enjoying it after all. I'm still improving my art and I still have to worry about my financial issues and college, but overall I spent these last couple days with family/friends and doing personal art projects and I'm relatively happy with my art and my OCs. My SumRec comic will probably be postponed by like a week maybe cause I've been busy with family and friends and obviously I haven't been posting a lot of my fandom art due to RL stuff, but when I actually have alone time to work on it and im satisfied, then it will be posted !! So for anyone who read through this post, I hope you maybe get some enjoyment from my art portfolio and also enjoyed last year and I hope this new year will be even better !! (And if your an artist, keep going and creating !!) 🎉

Bonus: Not part of my portfolio, but during my junior year of high school, I wanted to actually complete an animation instead of a bunch of animatics, so I did! Its incredibly rushed and my old art is cringe, but it was my first completed animation of some very old OCs and their potential intro sequence if they had a TV showヽ(✿ﾟ▽ﾟ)ノ:

[shkika]

aightbronormalyimakeajokebutifuckingcantcauseyourjustactualyreallygood You are very talented and creativeeeeeeeeeeeeeee thethings you draw is coollll uhmm!!!

stay gold Dogboy

Ahhh!! Wow thank you so much The dogboy will do his best o7

[knowoah]

some personal favourites of my sheridan portfolio

(click for better quality)

hand drawings: 10/10

character rotation: 15/15 (probably the one I'm most proud of)

layout drawings: 14/15

[heuffopla]

WIP! Using a Rise background to try and understand coloring digitally better, my brain hurts so that must mean I'm learning stuff, right?

[laomelettedufromage]

Have a frog!

[so-you-melted-22]

The people who say being utterly obsessed with something helps you become better at art because you can draw a bunch of fanart are so right btw.

[bardicious]

My levels of spite have always been hilarious.

[unianimationlife]

The Portfolio that got me accepted into UAL

https://unianimationlife.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-animation-portfolio-that-got-me.html

[cartoonus-maximus]

So the liar is still on the radar, I see.

In case anyone was wondering, this is an AI generated image. The OP doesn't say so, but that's what it is. The easiest tell is that the fabric from the scarf on her head swoops down and becomes one with her coat. There's also the way the books on the shelf merge together in places, and the way the colors from the magical orb in front of her also repeat behind her (because the program doesn't fully understand reflections).

It's a cool image, I won't lie. And I don't blame the poster for wanting to post it. I just hate how their tags imply that they painted it themselves when they did no such thing. And I definitely don't like Staff slapping posts on the radar without taking good looks at them.

Like, if you're going to post AI images, at least be honest about it.

[toastedstencils]

finally getting around to posting some of my college portfolio work! I made a portfolio tour on YouTube if you want to check it out😁😁♥️

[despairforme]

[knowoah]

sheridan juicebox short animation process

key frames

rough/sketch

final: 15/15

[michaels-reality]

I love when people draw my characters and designs and stuff but there is always that little negro worry of "their gonna whitewash my character in some way" when I give people the permission to do so when they ask

[5577v]

update

haii sorry for my sudden disappearance! i was making two portfolios for art uni and travelled across the country, so i didn't have much time to draw all the stuff i wanted to draw :( and on top of that i have unfortunate news... i am 3 years late and am now hyperfixating on good omens out of all things, so im just not rly interested in doing heta art rn. but i'll post the art i'm making for that instead if that's ok because these queers are living in my head rent free :] ty for reading

(also i already got accepted into one of the unis i applied for!!!!!!!!! am now only waiting for the second answer from the berlin uni of arts my beloved... i'll be studying visual communication!)

[robocops-a-christ-allegory]

One thing I definitely dont miss from Being In College And Trying To Get a Art Career is everybody even slightly older then me trying to turn everything into a learning experience. Im glad now when I dont get accepted for a job I dont get a email back telling me WhAt MakEs A StRong POrTfoliO

[blazenhearts]

HELP the first thing I draw after changing my major to graphic design is low res dnf 💀💀