CAS Creativity - Portfolio Preparation

At 6th of May, I started to prepare my portfolio for the industrial/product design course. I started to go to a course called Mahir Guven Design Academy. Mr. Guven is a famous artist in Turkey which helps students to prepare both national and international entry exams. I’ve been drawing for 7 years and I always loved art. My drawing journey started at primary school with the help of art courses in school. At 5^th grade, I prepared my end-of-the-year art exhibition in school. Until then, I always continued to draw by myself. As soon as I decide to go to a Design Undergraduate course in college, I realized that I need to prepare my portfolio. However, I wasn’t prepared enough to construct a well-prepared professional portfolio. Until then I always used pen and pencil to draw.

I had some challenges about drawing before I start the course. I was only using pen and pencil. I couldn’t draw a colorful sketch of any object in 3-D and I couldn’t draw any car sketches which is my only dream. This course taught me and developed me in terms of using markers, drawing new objects in 3-D, painting with oil paint and so forth. I really developed my vision and my skills with the help of tutors in this course.

I showed a high commitment and perseverance to this course. I started at May 2018, and finished at February 2019. In this process, I went to course every week except some exceptions. I made 30 pieces of work which can be put to portfolio. I involved regularly to this creativity experience and it taught me a lot.

In the course, we worked collaboratively with other students to do some projects. Also, with the assistant tutors of Mr. Guven, I worked collaboratively to create some projects. At the beginning, when I can’t draw that good, assistant tutors helped and showed me how to draw. They gave me lectures about the fundamentals of design and drawing process. Afterwards, with collaboration with them, we created some projects. I also collaborated with other students and created common projects, where I highly enjoyed it.

We know that art conveys knowledge and it can also harbor knowledge related with global issues. I not only sketched drawings about modern design, but also oil-paints and charcoal sketches relevant with global issues. I was well aware of current global issues and reflected them to my paintings. For instance, I draw basic hands and feet to practice my free-hand sketching, but I also tried to show problems related with body and health due to advancement in technology. Another painting of mine shows the global slum problem. I paint a grey city which consists of houses one after the other. These reflect current global problems.