Art and Design-High school, College Portfolio and AP Preparation
Admission into a university or art institute could be determined solely by your art portfolio!
The portfolio that highlights your artistic accomplishments show who you are and why you’re an outstanding candidate. So-distinguish yourself from your peers by building a portfolio that best represents your skills, interests and creativity!
We’ll help you with fundamental knowledge of art/design processes, and help develop your skills of visual communication. We’ll help you discover your potential for creativity, self-expression and visual awareness. We’ll help you properly arrange your artworks to demonstrate its relevance to the major which you are applying to.
A significant number of students have been admitted to U.S. top universities including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, UC's, RISD, U Penn, Pasadena Art Center, etc.
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High school Portfolio Preparation
For certain students we realize that some youths have a clear vision of their career path. There are several high schools dedicated to the Visual and Performing Arts located in or near California, and these institutes become options for students and parents.
Our program caters to a variety of tracks, particularly one where students choose an Art High School in the Visual or Performing Arts. Here they create a strong portfolio under guidance and mentorship that include: interview preparation, consultation, essay review and recommendation letters for those schools. This intensive goal-oriented curriculum, deepens their artistic development through exploration and strengths skills and range. With guided instruction students fulfill criteria set by chosen school and further, we see evidence after gaining admittance students continue their education with us for the pursuit of a college portfolio and AP assistance.
Our program caters to a variety of tracks, particularly one where students choose an Art High School in the Visual or Performing Arts. Here they create a strong portfolio under guidance and mentorship that include: interview preparation, consultation, essay review and recommendation letters for those schools. This intensive goal-oriented curriculum, deepens their artistic development through exploration and strengths skills and range. With guided instruction students fulfill criteria set by chosen school and further, we see evidence after gaining admittance students continue their education with us for the pursuit of a college portfolio and AP assistance.
These Portfolio Preparation classes are designed for some student who decide on entering art high school.
Students will be given the opportunity to review college application requirements, receive guidance on how to choose the right art high school, prepare admission portfolio requirements and learn about the variety of career options in the visual arts.
Final portfolio should represent your current skills and development as an artist.
- Evidence of Elements of Art and Design
- Individual style
- Personal voice
- Self-directed
- Creativity and decision making
- Artist Statement
College and Transfer Portfolio Preparation
Available Courses and concentrations:
Animation
Student: Ashley McGinn
Learn tools and the process to bring amazing new worlds and characters to life! The program will focus on basics, gaining experience with traditional arts, computer animation, and cinematic storytelling skills in a studio environment. Students will cover foundation, drawing painting, color theory, 2D, 3D computer graphics, auto desk Maya, 3D modeling, texturing, lighting, rendering, visual effects, life drawing. Portfolio prep will fulfill individual needs and school requirements for college and advanced education.
- Character Concept and Development
- Storyboards/Motion Graphics
- Stop Motion
- Animation Backgrounds and Layouts
Product Design
Students learn how to design, conceptualize and problem solve, various products for customer use. Product design incorporates fine art skills with technical understanding. Those who work in this field design just about any manufactured product that you see in any store, from the simplest household appliances and tools to the most complex computers and medical supplies. Our Product Design program helps students to develop skills in drawing, model making and use of computers while also learning about ergonomics, materials and manufacturing processes. There is often some overlap with basic 3D design, computer-aided design, drafting, industrial design and/or visual communication.
- Engineering
- Ideation Sketching
- Prototype
- Computer Modeling
Transportation Design
Learn Car Design & Styling Transportation Design! Students will learn innovative creative skills with transportation vehicle design and related components, and develop compelling, sustainable and valuable transportation and mobility solutions for a better future. Courses will cover merging gap between aerodynamics and efficiency, performance and safety including motor vehicle, highways, roads, bridges, bus, train, and aviation transportation. Our program encourages creativity and budding strategically thinking beyond but including sketchpad. Students will have discussions on impact of the vehicle manufacturing industries, creating better transportation solutions at a system and product level.
- Concept Design
- Marker Rendering
- Digital Rendering/3D Modeling
- Automotive Mechanics
Entertainment Design/Game Design
Entertainment Design is designing concept for characters, vehicles, props, and environments, for fictional worlds, and digitally render for: (films, video games, animation, and theme parks, etc.). Students learn to make their designs creative, innovative, visually appealing as well as functional.
Game Design: Using sophisticated graphic art and specialized design tools, students learn how to design, script, and develop various categories of electronic games. Additional skills include writing, communications skills, statistics, and probability, due the mathematical nature of programming. Curricula includes, Illustration, user interface, marketing and package design.
Learn: Concept sketch, form language, design theory, vehicle & mechanic design, 3D digital tools, painting/drawing, plein air, world building, color theory, life drawing, sculpting, model building, rendering, Photoshop and current digital software, programming, story pitch, etc.
Game Design: Using sophisticated graphic art and specialized design tools, students learn how to design, script, and develop various categories of electronic games. Additional skills include writing, communications skills, statistics, and probability, due the mathematical nature of programming. Curricula includes, Illustration, user interface, marketing and package design.
Learn: Concept sketch, form language, design theory, vehicle & mechanic design, 3D digital tools, painting/drawing, plein air, world building, color theory, life drawing, sculpting, model building, rendering, Photoshop and current digital software, programming, story pitch, etc.
- Concept Design
- World Building
- Game Design
- Environment Design
Illustration
Illustrators develop a strong personal portfolio and style in their images and use their image-making skills to support the communication needs of a variety of schools. Contemporary illustration ranges in application from client-led publications and merchandise to self directed projects and exhibitions. The courses will cover foundation, communication arts, book illustration, comic, book design, typography.
Graphic Design/Advertising
Graphic designers prepare visual designs for print, electronic, and film media. Their visual designs and images are often used to inform, persuade, and/or move specific audiences to act, and their work is seen in every kind of visual communication imaginable. Students will create projects ranging from 2D and print media to graphics used in web and animation. Specialized courses include typography and page layout, motion graphics, graphic web design, design and art theory, flash media, advanced computer graphics. Learn to use Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and Dreamweaver.
- Packaging /Graphics
- Graphic Design
- Corporate Brand/Logos
Fashion Design
Fashion designers design clothing and accessories, creating original clothes according to market demands. Because style and fashion trends change quickly, fashion designers must work hard to stay in tune and change with the market. Themes here include line, sketch, color, proportions, value and perspective for a better design production outcome. Emphasis will be on themes, basic textiles/patterning and historical and contemporary outlooks on fashion trends and projects for a better creative thinking.
- Pattern Making
- Fashion Design
- Fashion Illustration
- Costuming
Fine Art
Fine Art is the making and study of visual art, engaging individual artistic modes of thinking and develops unique expressive technical skills through experimental and controlled techniques. We educate and prepare students to become artists and to follow other practices that are aligned to the making of art. The curriculum is centered on the individual student’s potential and imagination, including foundation, drawing, life drawing, observational, 3D, sculpture (traditional/contemporary), conceptual art/experimental, art appreciation theory and history, mixed media and materials, film, photography, architecture, etc.
- Conceptual/Experimental
- Installation/New Genre
- Visual Art & Cultural Perspective
- Art & Critical Theory
Architecture/Urban/Environmental/Interior Design
Learn the process of planning, designing and constructing buildings and other constructs. Not only will students learn the fundamentals but build models as well as installations. Our school aims to approach architecture as cultural and technological as well as hands on, and strike a balance between mastering design skills and creativity that will lead to innovative thinking about the inner and outer environment. Students will associate surrounding environments and knowledge into the process, working on the topical problems and resolution of furniture, furnishings, interiors, buildings, landscape, and urbanism.
- Conceptual Structure Exploration, Sculptures, Models and Illustrations
- Designing
- Modeling
- Technical Drawings/Drafting
Figure Drawing
The reason to take a life drawing class is to improve your ability to draw not just people, but overall. Even if you are going to a field like animation or architecture, life drawing is still a key component in filling your art portfolio. Many US colleges consider life drawings from a model /observational, among the first and most important components in students’ portfolios. The reason why, is that, essentially, they see how well you understand: forms, proportions, perspective, shading, weight, balance, tension, perceptive, and all the fundamentals. Our school offers students, instructed life drawing classes including, anatomy, working with various material, and techniques on a weekly basis. Students will learn from a live model and include learning from mix media.
Dynamic Poses
Anatomy
Mixed Media
Character/Costume
UI/UX Design
In a realm where humans, computer science, engineering and design come together, the primarily concern is how human beings can interact with computers, and how they, as creators, can evolve and make that process more seamless, efficient, and productive to impact daily lives! This integrated design, bridges fields such as graphic design, industrial design, entertainment design, and media.
Our students learn to create, innovate, and become leaders! Our courses include methods, tools and processes to help them combine thinking, feeling and behavioral strategies when they use any products, environment or systems, utilizing human factors, cognitive sciences and psychology.
Our students learn to create, innovate, and become leaders! Our courses include methods, tools and processes to help them combine thinking, feeling and behavioral strategies when they use any products, environment or systems, utilizing human factors, cognitive sciences and psychology.
- Research and Strategies
- User Interface and User Experience
- Web Design and Mobile Apps Wire Framing
- Prototype and Design Concepts
