Portfolio Layout?

So on Friday artist Rebecca Rendell came to guest lecture, and afterwards came around to speak to us individually about our work (which was great!), and I received some feedback from her about the pages I had produced previsouly for my portfolio (you can see these in my last post). She said she thought it looked very professional and she liked the consistency of layout on the pages, but she advised me to spend a little time cleaning up some of the images which had been scanned from my sketchbook, and that still had a distinct line between the image and the background so that it blended into the page as a whole. 

 

When looking at my customer profile page, she also suggested that I break down my text, and to only include very specific information, as having a large block of text as I currently have will more than likely be skimmed over or not read at all. So that was very informative, and made me realise that as I'm producing my portfolio pages to really consider it from the spectators point of view.

Does this communicate the ideas effectively? Does it make sense? Is that a page that will be skimmed past or will it make them want to stop and look? - Gotta be asking these questions constently!! 

 

Well I've been working on these new pages as part of my technical folder for uni, and I don't know about you, but I think these are looking visually more exciting than the layout for my portfolio I posted last week.... 

So I'm looking for some feedback, any suggestions, what do you think? 

Also ignore the text! The text is there for the purpose of me and my lecturers, but just layout and design wise, which looks best?

Oh also I guess this is showing you some of my toile development process too :)

D-Day

So Friday was DEADLINE DAY! And I am still feeling exhausted from the week leading up to it! *Yawn* This was our first deadline of our 3rd year, which means only 3 more to go, weheeey. I'm feeling pretty confident about it, I mean I know I worked as hard as I could and did the best I could, and at the end of the day that's all I can do right? But lets keep the fingers crossed until I get my grade back (If I don't get a 1st I will screeeeam! ahah)

Once I get my sketchbooks back, I'll do the post I promised about my design journey...it'll be a pretty long post so be prepared!

For the moment though (as I'm feeling brain dead right now!), I'd just like to share with you a few 'portfolio' pages I did quickly on Wednesday. These are certainly not finished or finalised boards which will actually be going into my portfolio, they're simply a starting point, of an ongoing process that I'll be working on from this point to be ready in time for when I finished. So any form of feedback is of course welcomed!

Because circles became such an integral part of my design process, I've tried to incorporate this into my layout, as you can clearly see! But like I said these are only a starting point, and like everything I do there is always room for improvements :)

And speaking of making changes, I have already started to make alterations to my 'final' collection that I got very excited about and posted last. In fact I think I started to make changes literally like 10 minutes after I posted it! Ahah. I've decided I want to play around a bit more with the colour combinations, working with colour isn't really my strongest point, so pushing myself to work with it this year was a bit of a challenge! But along with that I've just been making small changes, mainly in the details.

So other than that, I'm currently trying decide what to do with myself today, I want to work on my dissertation, however I don't think my poor overworked brain can handle big words and my complex subject matter.... in fact this has taken me over an hour to write! Whaaat! And even watching 90210 is proving difficult to concentrate on.....