Design for the Job You Want: Personal Projects to Build Your Portfolio

In this class, you’ll learn how to create an effective portfolio project that helps you get to the next level in your career!

You have the tools to follow your dreams, right now! We’ll focus on creating a personal portfolio project that connects you from your point A, where you currently are, to your point B, where you want to go. This class is designed to take you step by step through the process!

Get ready for the road trip of a lifetime as you learn:

• Why the problem, process, and passion should be at the center of all of your work
• To concretely define your vision for your future
• Recognize which parts of you make your perspective unique and valuable
• How to make mockups work more effectively to tell your story
• To write about your work to capture the attention of potential employers and clients
• How to present your work professionally
  
  

This class is for any creative that can see where they want to be far off in the distance but has no idea how to get there, any artist who no longer sees themselves reflected in their work and anyone who is starting over in a new field and feels like a fish out of water. If you’re any kind of visual artist, and you have a vision, this is the class for you.

By the end of the class, you’ll not only have a new portfolio project that you’re proud of but a way to assess where you’re at and how to get to where you want to be whenever you feel stuck, bored, or discouraged with where you are in your career!

So let’s get started - see you in class!

• Introduction
• Your Class Project
• Your Resources: Class Worksheets
• Qualities of Good Portfolio Projects
• Setting Intentions: Your Destination
• Checking In With Yourself: You Are Here
• Making Connections: Choose a Path
• Work Agreement: Your World, Your Brief
• Choosing Deliverables
• The Audit: Finding Inspiration
• REST STOP: Let’s Check In
• Make the Dang Work: Thumbnailing
• Make It Real: The Big Idea
• Project Design: Your Elements
• Level Up Your Mockups
• Level 1: Make It Real
• Level 2: Customizing Photos
• Level 3: Messing Up Photoshop Mockups
• Tell Me How to Feel
• Creating Your Case Study
• Bonus: The Trailer
• Wrap Up