Re: Portfolio.<\/p>\n
First of all, I emailed the guy who wrote the\u00a0\u2018Forget Style\u2019 post to tell him how much you guys loved it. He wrote back and said he\u2019s glad to hear it. \ud83d\ude42 This is also the guy who is going to be critiquing my portfolio. I\u2019m stoked.<\/p>\n
Second, I researched a ton of paper last night, and then emailed my boss for his opinion. Dude knows his paper. I got into work today and he gave me his feedback and said that he put some leftover 12×18 100lb coverstock on my desk to look at. My boss is the best. I took home a sheet to play with and he was just like\u00a0\u201cokay!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Then tonight, I ordered two different reams of paper… a ream of 60lb and 80lb cover stock gloss paper (since cover tends to be thicker than text, and while I want this to be NICE, I have to be a little budget-conscious). I\u2019m having them shipped to work, and they should be there in a week or two. Boss has already okayed my printing after hours on our industrial laserjet, since I don\u2019t need that many prints for this project.<\/p>\n
The binder that I have is a 24 page 11×14 Itoya Art Profolio, which isn\u2019t as nice as some of the other books, but with my 40% off coupon at Michael\u2019s, it was a quarter of the price of the nicer books. And while I could try to make my own book, I\u2019m a little terrified of completely screwing up and ruining paper. Making a cover? Binding stuff? AAHH. Plus it needs to lay flat! How! At work we do these awesome booklets on 11×17 paper, but folded, they\u2019re only 11×8.5, which seems like a waste… .. …. but a heck of a lot easier…\u00a0<\/p>\n
ANYWAY…\u00a0<\/p>\n
This leaves the problem of\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m only allowed to have 15 pages\u201d of art in a 24 page book that does not permit the addition or removal of pages. I can include a cover page, TOC (so overkill omg), contact page, thanks page, and a bio page, but that still leaves four pages, and it always looks so tacky to have blank pages at the end of a book…<\/p>\n
It has been suggested that division pages could work, but part of me is not wanting to lump my art into specific sections… mostly because I would be worried that I was miscategorizing <\/i>things, and that would make me look like an idiot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I could use one of them to hold postcards, which I guess is a thing that illustrators give out as promotional material for their work along with business cards…\u00a0<\/p>\n
This is hard.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But at least I know how to use InDesign thanks to my job, so it will be fun to lay this sucker out.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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