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.
We're very excited to be partnering with Bryant Park Art Cart this Summer! Abstract Reusable Totes & Botanical Illustration classes on July 21st and 28th 11am to 12pm & 1-4 pm at Bryant Park!
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.
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!
Yoomin was just accepted into the very competitive Cooper Union Fine Art program! Here she talks about her process and the outstanding Art Portfolio that got her in.
Perspective in art refers to the representation of three-dimensional objects or spaces in two dimensional artworks. Artists use perspective techniques to create a realistic impression of depth, or they distort play perspective to present dramatic or disorientating images or spaces.
What’s the the ideal place for developing ideas, developing your life drawing and imaginative drawing skills, trying out different compositions, taking notes on what inspires you and trying out new techniques??
Art school admissions counselors request drawings and/or paintings of hands because it gives them an idea of the applicant’s ability to perceive and render functional structure, proportion and light on form in a realistic manner.
When we think of what you should put in your Art Portfolio we think of Still Lifes, Observational Drawings, Portraits, Landscapes/Cityscapes and Self Portraits. To include examples of each of those types of work is important, another type of work you can add to your portfolio is Language art or text-based art, which is art that incorporates language in some way such as spoken word, poetry, written statements or alphabetical or numerical symbols.
From Future Fine Artists to Future Fashion Designers to Future Architects & Illustrators- These Ashcan Art Portfolio Prep Students made artwork for their Art Portfolios that encapsulate the power of love
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