NPD Portfolio Art Dump

This is the portfolio I brought to NPD to show to the CalArts representative. It's been about 2 weeks since I went to NPD but I've just been too busy, and lazy when I'm not busy, to post this whole thing. It was at Emily Carr where I had to wait 4 hours in line to see CalArts. There was only one rep there, and Samantha and I were the last people in to see him:D! Let's just hope that luck can carry over to my actual portfolio I send into CalArts in 3 days! I'll try commenting on what the rep said about whichever pieces I remember. I went kind of overboard and brough 70 drawings, but I figured there was no harm in bringing a bunch for the review. I don't like some of these very much but I decided to bring to NPD them anyways to have the widest variety I could show to see what THEY liked most. These are in reverse order, so scroll down to the bottom to see it in the order they were in when I showed them. I'm gonna cut this waaaaay down for my final portfolio (probably around 20 drawings).

57) Really liked. There are actually 70 but I forgot to count a couple pages as having multiple drawings.

56) Really liked.
55) Liked

54) I don't remember. I don't like it much though.50, 51, 52, 53) Don't remember. I'm gonna stop commenting on the gestures though because he seemed to really like most of them.
48, 49, 50) Don't remember.
47) Really liked
43, 44, 45, 46) AHHHH IT'S SIDEWAYS D:40, 41, 42) Liked
37, 38, 39) Liked (Sorry for the crappy picture quality)
36) Really liked
34, 35) Liked
31, 32, 33) Liked
30) Liked a lot.
29) Liked
28) Disliked for the same reason as 1 and 15. It's also a crappy drawing/painting lol.
27) Quote: " Now that's a woman!" Hahaha
26) Really liked
25) Really liked
24) Quote: " Haha that's weird!" What does that mean :S ?
23a, b) Liked
22) Didn't like.
21) I don't remember.
20) Ditto
19) No comment, I'm taking them out.
18) Liked very much
17)Liked very much
16) Liked
15) He didn't like it for the same reason as the 1st drawing.
12, 13, 14) I don't remember.
9, 10, 11) Like
9) Like
8) Like
7) He liked this one, I think, but I don't.
4, 5 ,6) He really liked these
3) He didn't like this one, nor did I but I brought it for variety:P.
2) He liked this one a lot, but I still want to crop it to fix the lean.
1) He didn't like this drawing (which kinda sucked since I chose it as my first drawing haha) because he thinks my more dynamic poses put these boring ones to shame.
Overall the CalArts rep seemed really positive about my stuff and he said I had a very competitive portfolio:D! It was a bit of a confidence booster, but at the same time I didn't know how strongly to take his opinion because he was the theatre school admissions advisor. He told me to just keep drawing though because I may come up with some really great stuff in the last month. So that's what I've been doing.

THE PRESSURE!!!!

I ONLY HAVE ONE WEEK LEFT BEFORE I MAIL AWAY MY PORTFOLIO!!! :'(

Last Life Drawings Before NPD :|

Here are my drawings from this week, I've been trying to push my gestures in different directions than I usually do for portfolio. Portfolio Day's on Saturday!

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7I promised I'd post something non-life drawing oriented so here's my sculpture project. I got 98% this term:).
As you can see it's 3-dimensional:O! It's still hard to see in a photo but it has multiple layers.

Weekend Life Drawings

Here's my best stuff from the 3 sessions I went to this weekend. Let me know what you think.

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5) Everyone seemed to like my first cutout, so I made a second one. It's a lot more intricate and I don't like it as much haha.

New Stuff

Here are my drawings from this week. They all have tons of problems but they're the best ones I got all week:(. Portfolio Day is next Saturday and I have almost nothing I'm happy enough to put in a portfolio yet.
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8) His closest leg disappears on this on so I'm going to add it in.

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My Poor Kitty :(

I had a terrible day today:(. I got up for school and was exhausted because I couldn't sleep last night. I got to school and slept during English class and then my French teacher was being a...meanie(trying to keep it clean:) ) like she usually is because she hates me since I always speak English in her class. That afternoon my friend and I started working on our art project of painting our history teacher's door. I was being a clutz and splattered black paint all over my favourite yellow sweatshirt:(. It's ruined now. Last block I had Physics class and the quiz was kind of hard but I worked my ass off on it because I was determined to do well (I got my first B of the year in Physics on the last quiz so I was mad>:( ). Anyways that's nothing compared to the news I got when I got home:(.

Lately my cat, Luke Skywalker :P, has been sneezing. So on Saturday my mom and I took him to the vet to get him checked out. The vet took a blood sample, gave him a shot and prescribed him some antibiotics to get rid of his cold. He told us he'd do some blood tests and he'd have the results in a couple days. So today when I got home my mom said she got the results back. She told me my cat has feline leukemia:(. Apparently it's like AIDS for cats, so his immune system is shot for the rest of his life basically. That means that if he gets sick at all, and we don't catch it right away, he could die:(. So now Luke's not aloud outside anymore so that he doesn't infect other cats and so he doesn't catch any illnesses. I feel bad for him because he loves being outside and he's been an outdoors cat for his whole life (he's 11). I was really upset after hearing this because although I know he's not in any immediate danger, he's one step closer to the thing I've feared for so long. :(

I don't know why I wrote this but I wanted to rant.