Art Porfolio Submission To NCAD/DIT/IADT

charmedmad

Hey
I want to submit my porfolio to these art colleges next year and was wondering how much to keep into the final edit of my work

My tutor is telling me not to listen to the ncad/dit/iadt portfolio guidelines and include my best work which will be more than ten pieces and will have a few notebooks two. I submited last year and had well more than ten pieces and a huge combined notebook the size of 3 full ones and everything was fine (well i didnt get in!) and everyone else had the samey

So do i listen to my tutor or go by the guidelines this time???

And any tips for my portfolio in general like what to include, what not to include ect would also be helpful

Thanks!

Fajitas!

Tbh, keep within the guidelines.

You don't want to pee off the people that are gonna be looking through it by straining their backs etc.

Keep your 10 best finished pieces, and your note book. If your over the weight limit, take out finished pieces in exhange for your notebook.

The college wants to see you can think, they'll teach you the skills to do the finished pieces.

That's coming from someone that applied to the three colleges above and got accepted to all three.

Best of luck!

charmedmad

thanks for the help, i have all my ideas/research/sketchs from the start to the end of my projects in my notebooks so i should be ok for that

which one did ya pick in the end? i want to do visual communications but would love to do core year in ncad then do it there in second year

Fajitas!

I picked NCAD, really enjoying it. Specialising in Fine Art Media.

Vis Com is a great course too, hard, but worth it!

charmedmad

Sounds good, im interested in going onto do media in my second year if i get ncad, glad you like it

Fajitas!

Come over on the open day. People usually never find the Media Dept, we're kinda hidden away from the rest.

MacSuibhne

I'm trying to put a portfolio together for NCAD, as well. A fun thing to try from overseas, yeesh.

-Oisín

Fajitas!

Lol, I'm sure....!

Best of luck with it!

We do have quite a few students from abroad.

MacSuibhne

Well, that's a damned good thing -- means it must be easier than it's seeming at the moment.

ZenforHead

Dun Laoghaire only weigh your portfolio if it feels REALLY heavy, so you can go a pound or two over.

o1s1n

Good way to cut down on the weight is to take the spines and covers off of your notebooks.

I got into NCAD the year before all this weight crap started, lucky enough. But i know the woman who teaches the portfolio course in bray. shes using little tricks like that.

My portfolio consisted of;

Introductory page
A1 sized page made up of studies of gas masks and respirators
A1 sized drawing of one particular mask. (a world war 2 gas mask)
4 a4 textural studies of said mask
4a4 detailed close up paint studies.
a1 abstract painting of such masks.
8 a4 time lapse/abstract type photos of someone wearing the mask over two a1 sheets
Photographs of a 3d sculpture head thingy

that what..eight pages. i think it was 11 or 12 big A1 portfolio sheets in total. i went on to link the gasmask to the face and then to self portraits.

then there was my main notebook which i worked on 4 pages every night for 5 months. so you can probably imagine how thick this thing was by the time i finished!

a2 life drawing sketchpad
a4 mask studies sketchpad
a4 texture sketchpad
a5 gasmask drawing sketchpad
a4 meat sketchpad
a5 natural history museum skethpad

There were a couple more but i cant remember.

all in all took me from september to december..finished up some stuff in january just before the submissions.

Full marks for viscom and fine art in DIADT and DIT. NCAD 678 points. Went with NCAD. now in 3rd year painting and loving it

Kabuto

I'm actually doing the course in Bray this year. It's kind of odd to see a past student describing their portfolio and how similar it is to what's getting done by students this year. But anyway, don't worry about keeping it down to 10 finished pieces in your portfolio, a lot of people come out with twelve. But do keep the weight down if you want to apply to NCAD, they're quite strict about that.

o1s1n

Oh you're a student of Annette too are you? Great portfolio teacher. Works the arse off of you and then works you some more. I've never produced so much work in my life. Every year i meet a fresh batch of people from her course in core year. You can tell who they are by the tired look on their face

Kabuto

Nice to hear the workload isn't the same in NCAD, there's no way I could get through four more years of this (If I get in that is).

o1s1n

In a way the workload in her course causes problems in core year. I basically messed up core as I was so tired and worn out from her course. Most of us were. Had to repeat the year. Not fun!

Kabuto

In what way were there problems? Just curious.

Tiriel

cfsam this thread dates back to 2006.. just so you are aware.

muselover

i got 400 in my portfolio score from ncad, failed DIT and failed limerick.
honestly, do you think i stand a chance for ncad?

spinandscribble

I know of a good few who were accepted to ncad and are turning it down but most of the peopke i hear of being in the waiting list are in the 500s. Would you consider any other art collegrs like gmit? Or doing a portfolio prep course?

bliss02

o1s1n wrote: »

In a way the workload in her course causes problems in core year. I basically messed up core as I was so tired and worn out from her course. Most of us were. Had to repeat the year. Not fun!

That's really strange you actually failed core year in ncad because of working on your portfolio to get into college. Especially if the the portfolio was finished in jan as you said and you failed the year, over 1 year 4 months later with a 5 month summer holiday break in between! Weird!

BostonB

Whats weird is digging up a 3yr old thread to post that.

Tiriel

Zombie thread, locked