let's get personal

Let's Get Personal - portfolio ideas

November is going to be a demanding month—yes, Praxis is demanding by default, but we’re approaching the portfolio project month. So, here’s my post about what skills I hope to basically advertise with my portfolio project (whichever one I end up choosing to move forward with).

The skill I’m most proud of is my creativity. I call myself an illustrator. I already have a pretty big portfolio, so I don’t quite need to prove that I can draw, but I’d like to continue to provide examples with my project. I’d also like to show that I’m organized, have good attention to detail, and I know how to market myself. And I’m not a one-trick pony, either. Yes, I prefer illustration, but I can also make video and animations.

With all this being said, here are the ideas I have as options for my portfolio project.

Let's Get Personal - the kinetic typography experiment

This week I took it upon myself to learn something new: kinetic typography. It’s something I’ve seen a lot, but I’ve never tried it before. One of the deliverables for Praxis this week was to make an elevator pitch video, so I figured it was as good a time as any to go out on a limb and see how creative I could get with a new form of media.

Bonus points to this format: I barely had to show my face (I’m camera shy, plus the difference between non-video audio and camera-facing audio was just different enough to bother me a lot). I still showed my face and tried my best to edit the audio to match it to the other recordings – there’s still a slight difference, however I think it’s something that bothers me more than others because I’m the one that’s been staring at it for over 10 hours.

Let's Get Personal - How I Work

Location: Washington, DC
Current gig: freelance designer & illustrator
Current mobile device: iPhone 8
Current computer: MacBook Pro (wish it had more ports on it)
One word that best describes how you work: reliable

What apps/software/tools can’t you live without?

Gmail + all the Drive apps, the whole Adobe Creative Suite, Spotify, YouTube. Y’know, the basics.

Let's Get Personal - Five Traits

There’s a mixture of things that influence the decisions I make, some of them good and some of them I’d honestly like to fix. I’ll go with the ones I want to gain and enhance in this list.

1: patience

2: forgiveness

3: independence

4: financial security

5: empathy

Sometimes I struggle to see the difference between anger and righteous fury in myself. I have faith in my morals and when I see injustice of any kind it really gets to me. This can be good or bad, because standing up for what’s right is noble, but being angry can deter rationality. This is why patience and forgiveness are so important for me to gain and enhance.