[chisheng]

Hi, I'm new here, but have lurked around for awhile.

I'm doing AP Studio Art at my school this year, and I've been so fascinated by digital artwork (like I've seen here) that I decided to do my whole Area of Concentration in digital. The portfolio is due May 5th, and I still have 5 pieces left to do so I'm kind of rushing. Any C&C would help me greatly.

I'm going to submit it as a 2D portfolio because I think Collegeboard forces anyone doing digital art to submit it as that. My paintings however seems to fall better under the Drawing category. Does anyone know the answer to my dilemma?

Thank you.


Sunset


Cumulonimbus


Taxi


Rainy Day


Art Lesson

Heres a link if you want to see my progress pictures:
http://chisheng.bravehost.com/concentration/index.html
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PANDA GGNORE

[Mega Muffin]

Hey I'm submitting a portfolio, too! I did the drawing one and yeah, they don't let you use digital which sucks ass. But you're kind of right about the 2D one...I think it's called 2D design or something, and your stuff really would fit better into Drawing if it wasn't on the computer. I love painting on the computer, but painting was what I did so I just had to go traditional for the portfolio. I probably would have told you months ago to just do it off the computer if drawing is really what you're into, because I think there's a bigger difference between 2D design and Drawing than there is between digital and traditional media.

Good luck though, your work looks pretty good. I really like "Sunset." Here's a link to my webpage:
http://members.cox.net/birkdog/Art2.htm
in case you want to see some of my stuff. I know that I like seeing what other people are doing.

But yeah...since I'm not doing 2D design I'm not sure exactly what the criteria/tone of it all is. I thought it was more photography based or maybe vector type stuff than what you're doing. Oh well, it's due in like a few days anyway, so there's nothing to really be done at this point. If you have enough work to submit a drawing portfolio I'd say do that, but if not, then just keep going...maybe try and make your paintings more designish and try to go with the spirit of the design portfolio. Maybe outline some stuff, idk.

Well, good luck.

[chisheng]

That's awesome! I've thought since the beginning of the year that my portfolio was more drawing, but I really wanted to do digital. Collegeboard is just going to have to deal with it I guess. lol

I looked through your stuff. Great work. I really enjoyed the one with the chair juggling and the one with the transforming chair. It looks like you have enough self-portraits to do your concentration on that. Good luck also.
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PANDA GGNORE

[CwStone]

Im finishing up my concentration now as well. Is that true about the college board not accepting digital work in a drawing portfolio? cuz im doing drawing and I'm including about 4 digital paintings. In any case, if they DO accept digital paintings, id say mega muffin is right in saying that your stuff would fit into drawing a lot more than 2d (2d is mostly geared toward graphic design and shit like that).
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-Chase

[chisheng]

I know what you mean.. but it's hard to decide which one I should take the risk in doing. If I submit it as a drawing and they dont allow any digital paintings... then I'm wholly screwed. If I submit it as a 2D... they don't fit the criteria as well, but at least this way I'm sure they'll accept the medium.

I guess I have to decided either way soon. Good luck on your portfolios.

Edit:
Here's a new image I just finished. I'm going a little slow. But I want to make the pictures as close to my vision as possible.



I also edited my 5th picture.

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PANDA GGNORE

[Mega Muffin]

Hey, I like the new painting! And the edit is good too, though switching things like that usually helps you see things that look off. For me, it's that one eye--looks too high. In the new pic, it's the left eye (of the figure.)

And they don't accept digital. I know I read it, and if you want to double check, go to the collegeboard site and look up the criteria for drawing portfolios.

Good luck to all! I submitted all my stuff already, and I've got 2 more AP tests this week so I won't be in class til Friday to do my statement and stuff. I think I did pretty good on the English Language one though, and I'm pretty confident going into Calc. Anyway, yeah waay off topic, but yeah.

[CwStone]

well i read in ther pdf under the drawing section that photography, "digital imaging" and photocopying are not allowed. In my opinion, digital imaging and digital paintings are two diferent things. Hopefully that will be enough of a technicality to slip by cuz its too lte for me to redo the ones ive already done
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-Chase

[CwStone]

well i read in ther pdf under the drawing section that photography, "digital imaging" and photocopying are not allowed. In my opinion, digital imaging and digital paintings are two diferent things. Hopefully that will be enough of a technicality to slip by cuz its too lte for me to redo the ones ive already done
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-Chase

[Mega Muffin]

ohhhh, hmm, I never considered that. I figured digital imaging was any images made on a computer. But holy flipping cow, if we were allowed to submit digital paintings and I didn't then I totally did a whole lot of extra work/didn't include some of my best work/made a huge mess of charcoal for my concentration when I could have painted digitally.....

Wow, well come July or whenever you find out if you were allowed to do that or not, let me know so I can kick myself or not.

[chisheng]

Yea I noticed that recently too, one eyes looks higher than the other, which is very weird. Thanks for the C&C but it's too late to change and it doesn't look all too bad. The painting of the city looks more dynamic on a slant anyways. lol

I asked my art teacher again today about the digital painting issue. She called an experienced AP art teacher and the teacher said students can NOT submit digital art under drawing. Anything digital under drawing will not be considered. I don't have any evidence to back it up, so I'm a little incredulous. Still, I'm going to submit it as 2D design. Plus, I've looked at examples of 2D design portfolios. Some pieces are quite ambiguous. It looks like collegeboard isn't very stringent.

I have 8 pieces so far, two new ones which are below. I hope to rush one more in today, so I only end up doing 3 details.

Thanks for reading, enjoy!





It's always entertaining to see other people's progress on a piece. If you're ever curious about mine, visit my portfolio here...
http://chisheng.bravehost.com/concentration/
It's been updated to include the 8 paintings I've done.
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PANDA GGNORE