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How to use Your Own Bedroom for your Art Portfolio!

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How to use Your Own Bedroom for your Art Portfolio!

Drawing a view of your bedroom is a great way to add an interesting observational work to your Art Portfolio, that also says a lot about who you are.  Observational Art Portfolio pieces, which are drawings, paintings, mixed media works or sculptures created from looking at real-life places, are considered by most schools to be the most important work to have in your art portfolio. This is because including observational pieces demonstrates a level of mastery of fundamental art skills.

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Top 5 Tips to make a Great Self-Portrait for your High School Art Portfolio

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Top 5 Tips to make a Great Self-Portrait for your High School Art Portfolio

There are several Specialized art and design high schools in New York City,Each of these schools require you to submit portfolios of you artwork. The first on the list of Art Portfolio requirements is: A self-portrait using a graphite drawing pencil and paper done from observation (from observation means you draw yourself by looking in a mirror).

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DIGITAL ARTS & GRAPHIC DESIGN HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAMS & HOW TO APPLY

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DIGITAL ARTS & GRAPHIC DESIGN HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAMS & HOW TO APPLY

The New York City Digital Arts and Graphic Design Programs are Art and Design High School which offers: Digital Arts, Graphic Design & Animation High School of Fashion Industries offers GraphicDesign and Queens Technical High School also offers a Graphic Arts Program All of Ashcans High school students were accepted into New York City's Digital Arts and Graphic Design High School programs, and these examples are from the Art Portfolios they used to get in.

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Exactly How to apply to an Architectural Design High School Program

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Exactly How to apply to an Architectural Design High School Program

If you plan to apply to the Art and Design High School: Architectural Design program you’ll need a competitive art portfolio. When Art and Design High School admissions look at your Art Portfolio, what they’re doing is looking for strong candidates for their program. They are looking at your artwork to understand your unique artistic abilities and talents. They are looking for potential, that means how your present skills will grow and develop over the four years you will be spending at their school.

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INTERVIEW WITH ACCEPTED LAGUARDIA!! HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT for VISUAL ARTS- PLUS HER PROCESS & HER ART PORTFOLIO

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INTERVIEW WITH ACCEPTED LAGUARDIA!! HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT for VISUAL ARTS- PLUS HER PROCESS & HER ART PORTFOLIO

Last year Chloe was accepted into the very competitive LaGuardia High Schools Visual Arts program! In this video she talks about the process of applying to the Art High Schools in NYC and the Art Portfolio that got her ACCEPTED to LaGuardia!