Digital Portfolio Instructions

Digital portfolios are essential in documenting not only your best works, but also your creative  process behind your major projects.  Portfolios are important to reflect on your learning and achievements.  Ideally, every art student at MCVI will create a digital portfolio in grade 9 or 10 and continue contributing to it over his/her high school career.  Ultimately, if a student is intending to apply to a post-secondary program in any of the creative fields, their admission portfolio is already made!

In preparation for part of your summative project, you will prepare a digital portfolio to showcase your work that you have completed over the semester.  Ideally you will continue to contribute to you portfolio throughout your high school arts courses in preparation for post secondary admission requirements, if needed.

Step One:  Create Your Portfolio

You will be using either weebly or wix to create your portfolio. 

https://www.weebly.com/ca

https://www.wix.com/

Create an account.

Find the theme that you like best.

Give the teacher the link to your website, plus your username and password.

Be sure that your portfolio follows all guidelines for MCVI.

Step Two:  Name Your Site

This is professional site showcasing your work.  Call it something that you would want a potential employer or university or college to see.

For example, "Theresa Wyatt Art", "Theresa Wyatt's Portfolio" or something more creative.

Step Three:  Create a Page

You will be posting all of your work on a single page.  Rename the first page "Grade 10 Urban Art".

Step Four:  Modify the Website Header

The websites use stock images that need to be changed because you don't own them.  Using online photo editors, you will create your own.  You may use images from google, but you need to make adjustments to them.

https://pixlr.com/

https://www.befunky.com/features/photo-editor/

https://www.pizap.com/pizap

https://ipiccy.com/

https://www.canva.com/  (you will have to create an account)

Step Five: Home Page Set Up

Feel free to be as creative as you want on your digital portfolio.  It is yours to showcase your interests and everything that you do creative inside and outside of class.  On your home page, write a short paragraph about yourself.  

Tips:  

Write in full sentences.  This is a professional space.  Spelling counts!  

Don't include the questions listed below.  Write in paragraph form.

For this assignment you are going to write an Artist Profile. So what is an “artist profile” exactly? Ever read an “about me” profile on a social media website like MySpace or Facebook? Well an artist profile is fairly similar except it is focused on you - as an artist. Think of it as a short biography of you and your artwork! 

Here's an example: 

Micha Smythe describes his style as “Brothers Grimm but with the Technicolour splendor of classic Disney cartoons”. He is known for his work in acrylic on canvas and multi-media art that focuses on themes related to the ephemeral quality of childhood, and imagery based on classic fairy tales. He lists his chief influences as Mark Ryden and Hayao Miyazaki. His most current works are based on Tim Burton's version of “Alice in Wonderland” where he features the Cheshire Cat as his primary subject matter. 

As you can see, your Artist Profile only needs to be about a paragraph in length but it gives people an idea of what type of artwork you create and some of your influences. This is useful information, even if they have never seen your artwork. 

In your artist profile you should answer the following questions: 

* Your name. 

* How would you describe your artwork or the art you want to or like to make? 

* Which kind of art materials do you like to use the most? 

* How would you describe the themes or images in your art that you like to make? 

* Who or what are your main influences in your art (musicians, particular artists, video game designers)? 

Your artist profile should focus on pertinent information that applies only to your work as an artist. It should also be written in third person.