THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO ART PORTFOLIOS | How To Make An Art Portfolio for Art School Applications

I explain everything you need to know about making the perfect art portfolio for applying to art school! I discuss format and structure, photos, choosing the art and what interviewers look out for in a strong art portfolio.

It's hard finding the specific details on how to make a portfolio especially if you are new to portfolios in general, so I made this beginner-friendly guide to tell you everything you need to know. From knowing which art to include in the portfolio to fonts and formatting, this video will ensure you are prepared to submit your portfolio and ace your interview!

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• art school
• art portfolio
• art school applications
• college applications
• art school south africa
• fine art
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[theecoolest]

I'm a self taught artist, I don't know anything about art and I wanna pursue it. I'm from small town and my school doesn't have art subject so I need to know more about it before I go to University and I don't know where to start

[undyla-chan]

Wow, this is very helpful. I find the portfolio making process so stressful because there are so many mixed messages everywhere. Some people's portfolios are full of writing and don't have titles for the artworks and some are like yours where it's the exact opposite. As someone who never had any formal training in art it's so hard to try and understand what these admissions people want ;")

[oobgems]

I was discouraged at first because theirs so many vids on creating a website, once you said pdf I felt comfortable listening to your advice. Shoutout to you thank you for helping me. I aspire to paint murals in the city of Seattle and share my canvas work with the community gallery s 📯📯 :))))

[mk-aka-morgan]

This is all great advice!!! I still haven't made any portfolios but I've been wanting to do it soon- I mainly do character designs and comic art, so if I brought my art to someone looking for concept art, fine art, etc I wouldn't get it because obviously thats not where I focus on. So if you want a job with character design- include character references and character art, if you want a job for fine art, probably only keep fine art in your portfolio.

[rkivery]

i am applying for architecture, ive been looking for a good portfolio/ example to look to, thank u sm. i got so happy to see that you're a fellow south african :)

[Alice-pcqc]

Thank you so much, this explains literally everything I wasn’t sure about ❤

[DelroyArt]

Thank you for this video my sister …one love 🇯🇲😊🙏🏾

[gharamghalib]

Thank you so much. I am a self taught artist and i really don’t know what to do and how to do it. Thank you dear ❤

[sakuramochi_art]

Thank you so much for this video! I was so confused on how to make my portfolio and your information is so clear.

[The.now.matters]

Thanks for the amazing video ❤, I'm also from SA looking to get in he mural business & imma try to find all he things you said in my own portfolio💯. Much love🌹

[tebogokhalostudios]

It really was helpful thank you very much Rumbo!😇😇😇😇

[charitysimmons]

hey im 13 and hopeing to go into St. Stephens Alberta for art therapy is it too early to start makeing a portfolio and what are some tip like what classis should i do in high school (im in grade 8 ) Thanks :)

[Elizabeth_JOY]

This is a very helpful video!!

but I have a lot of questions and I am very confused about how the process works. especially in my case, I am a self-taught traditional artist and I come from a homeschooling background so I have no high school art club/class experience.

I'm not a painter but I love to draw and have improved greatly over the years. I would love to get my hands on any information that I can to make my future in the art career easier and improve on any skills I can.

[mizubiart]

I love technical studies. Most my art are studies. I just like the act of drawing itself and making things too conceptual takes me out of it. I get my meditation from that path itself. It’s not in the nose, it’s in the artwork, in the rendering of the metal it’s in the thought of the line. The path of design and render. Art is in itself my all and end all. Why reduce it to “concept”?

[saintpurge]

so how does the interview thingie work? do you get accepted before the interview? do they do it virtually (the interview)?

[ShaheerX]

Can I use dark colors for the background (such as a dark purple) and bright colors for the text descriptions (such as a bright orangish red) ??

[acytubez]

@Rumbo Mercy, I need ur help, if u can help, See I just Started my First year at University of Botswana, I Wanted to do Fine Arts, I literally think I have mistake. Does Fine arts Fall Under Art and Design, cause I have not seen Fine Arts in my first Semester

[Basiieee_Artist]

I want to ask though, what about drawing from observations videos, such as you watch as you draw things that are in colour, does black and white apply on drawing objects which could be a colourful display before you? Thanks buddy.

[Alic_]

can you help me select my art work gor

[acecodez]

I’m applying for a summer art program in Paris to see if I want to study there in college, but I’m not that knowledgeable about art. This video helped me with making a portfolio but I was wondering, if I had a piece of art I was extremely happy with, but I drew it in a paperback sketchbook, how would I submit that on a pdf portfolio? And is it okay if a piece of art is something I drew from a show because I love the how the character was written and how much I relate to him and his mindset?